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Business Adviser – 0
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About the role
This is an exciting time to join our Growth Hub Team!
We are seeking an enthusiastic and self motivated Business Adviser for the South Midlands Growth Hub, to give support and advise to businesses across the South Midlands region (Bedfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes, and Northamptonshire).
This will include supporting clients through advice, provision of information, diagnostics and brokerage, referrals and introductions to other support organisations as appropriate. At any given time, you could be supporting businesses with securing external funding, contingency planning, marketing and commercialisation support, action planning growth ambitions, ambitions towards net zero, and staff and skills retention.
The South Midlands Growth Hub provides free business support and advice, access to grant funding, and an extensive resource library to businesses across Bedfordshire and Luton, Milton Keynes and Northamptonshire.
This role is part of a job share opportunity for 22.2 hours per week.
Interviews will be held on: Monday 8 September 2025
About you
You will have excellent communication skills and experience of building strong working relationships with a wide range of partners and businesses across the region.
Be able to demonstrate specialist business knowledge including business life cycle, financial management, marketing and sales, pricing and product/service validation, change/transformation management. As well as a strong understanding of the issues and opportunities businesses face including resilience, growth, and investment.
You’ll use your professional expertise and knowledge to support the delivery of the Growth Hub programmes including 1-1 business support, grant support, workshops and events and potential future support programmes.
You will need to have a solutions driven and adaptable approach to working, thrive in a busy environment and have a positive approach to challenges.
You will be able to smoothly manage processes and discussions whilst being able use your own initiative to ‘think outside of the box’ with solutions to support businesses.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
