The ideal candidate will be
- A confident and experienced public affairs professional with a strong record of effective lobbying
- Experienced at growing and managing a pipeline of clients lobbying the UK
- Government, Devolved Administrations and the EU
- Well connected, with an existing client network and the ability to build personal and company networks
- Commercially and politically knowledgeable and comfortable working with senior politicians and business leaders
- Digital, social media and technology savvy
- Self-motivated, self-driven, confident, reputationally sound
- An excellent communicator
- Confident in selling substantial value campaigns and lobbying services
- Strongly analytical, with financial acumen and proven ability to manage to targets and budgets
- Experienced at writing pitches, creating proposals and understanding and meeting/exceeding client objectives
Primary duties and capabilities
- Cross-selling and up-selling products and/or services to existing clients, including cold calling, email marketing, creating strong presentations, and responding to RFPs
- Creating and delivering integrated public affairs campaigns
- Networking, with a view to building the College Green Group brand, reputation and relational reach to politicians and other key stakeholders, such as prospective clients and referrers of business
- Delivering results against sales targets
Any other duties as reasonably required by a member of the SMT
Primary characteristics and behaviours
- High level of attention to detail
- High level of commercial awareness
- Enthusiasm to learn and develop new skills, competencies and capabilities
- Proactivity in helping other team members to succeed, generating new business leads, originating revenue-generative ideas and in creating opportunities for College Green Group to grow and develop
- Demonstrating a desire to be a team player, and to help other colleagues achieve success
- Commitment to values of integrity and individualism, and to being innovative, inspirational and informative
- Willingness to go beyond contracted hours in relevant situations
Core knowledge
- Good understanding of the British political landscape, including the
- UK Parliament and media landscape
- Strong working knowledge of Google Docs and other systems and platforms used by CGG
- Substantial experience in similar role
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to 30 days
- Working from abroad policy
- Unpaid leave policy
- Personal and professional development budgets
- Quarterly team training days
- Additional personal development budget of £1,000 for ad hoc independent learning unrelated to the requirements of the role
- Cycle to work scheme
- Travel loan scheme
- Health insurance
- Enhanced employer pension contributions (matched up to 7%)
- Employee referral bonus
- Regular team socials including team trip abroad
- Sponsorships (for applicants not from UK)
- Flexible working hours/hybrid working (in agreement with line manager)
- CIPR membership
- Central London location with cooking facilities
- Showering facilities and off street bike storage
Salary range £80 – 95K.
Application details
Please send your CV and a Cover Letter to
lara.doha@collegegreengroup.com