Employer Engagement / Business Development Executive

Period: Full time, Fixed term contract  (9 months)

Location: Remote, with monthly travel to London office

Reporting to: Senior Employer Engagement Manager

Salary: £28,000 - £34,000 base salary + uncapped bonus

Start Date: March 2026

 Closing date for applications is midnight 1st March 2026

The Role 

As an EE Executive, your role will be to support the promotion of Mindful Education’s professional courses and apprenticeships to employers. Your focus will be lead generation - contacting and arranging meetings with employers across the UK. You will be responsible for managing your own pipeline, dialling schedule and database management. Your role will involve working closely with – and reporting to – our Senior Employer Engagement Management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contacting and arranging meetings with employers across the UK, you will be expected to make approximately 50-70 phone calls per day as part of telemarketing campaigns


• Explaining the benefits of Mindful Education’s professional courses and apprenticeships for employers and their apprentices


• Maintaining an accurate CRM system, ensuring all employer data is entered onto the CRM after every telephone call and all details regarding the employer are populated fully


• Building a pipeline of new contacts and meetings, which will be passed to senior team members for onward action


• Managing and responding to inbound sales opportunities generated from website and other marketing activity


• Achieving monthly and quarterly targets


• Working closely with and supporting colleagues in the Marketing, Operations and Partnerships teams at Mindful Education

Skills and Experience

The candidate must possess the following skills, experience and attributes:

• Minimum of 1 year experience in a sales or customer service role


• Minimum of 1 year working within the apprenticeship, education, or training industry


• Excellent telephone communication skills


• Proven track record of B2B sales over the phone


• Demonstrable success on past projects and meeting targets


• Excellent organisational and database management skills


• An inherent dedication for quality, high standards and detail


• Must be self-motivated and able to work autonomously

The following skills, experience and attributes would be an advantage to applicants:

• More than 2 years of experience in a sales or customer service role


• Experience building employer relationships in the apprenticeship industry


• Experience selling technology products


• Experience working with private, fast-growing companies


• Experience of working with collaborative software such as Google docs, Monday.com, Hubspot, etc

The Company

At Mindful Education we create award-winning online courses and apprenticeships which set a new standard in the digital delivery of education. We are specialists in blended learning, delivering flexible courses and apprenticeships with our partner colleges across the UK in accounting, management, business, law and human resources.

Our specialist in-house creative, digital and academic teams, including filmmakers, motion graphic designers and web developers, collaborate with subject experts to create learning solutions that are compelling, intuitive and engaging.

Our courses are media-rich, containing high quality video lectures and using motion graphics to bring concepts to life, alongside exercises, interactive case studies and analytical tools to further enhance the learning experience.

We are a friendly, innovative, hard-working education technology company, where people are valued and encouraged to contribute their ideas.

In 2021 Mindful Education was named Edtech Company of the Year at the Global Business Technology Awards.

To Apply

To apply or to find out more please go to our website www.mindful-education.co.uk where you can find current vacancies and where you can upload your CV and a cover letter detailing why you are suitable for the role, highlighting key skills and competencies that are relevant to the role. 

We will be reviewing applications regularly and inviting suitable applicants to interview on a rolling basis. We reserve the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the closing date if a strong candidate is found. We reserve the right to close adverts early due to the volume of applications we receive. Therefore, please do not delay in making your application.

Interviews 

Two stage interview process involving an online interview, an in person interview and a sales skills assessment.