PiXL
Business Development Manager
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Business Development Manager | PiXL | £45,000 | Remote, Flexible, Full-Time, Permanent
Are you passionate about building relationships that change education? Do you enjoy opening doors, earning trust, and helping schools solve real challenges? Can you confidently create new opportunities while delivering an exceptional customer experience?
PiXL is the UK's largest education leadership network. For over 25 years, we've worked alongside school leaders to provide evidence-informed strategies, professional development, and collaborative networks that drive sustainable improvement across thousands of schools and colleges. This role is about growing that community further — bringing more schools into the PiXL family and helping more young people benefit from what we do.
The Role: Win New Schools and Grow Partnerships
- Generate new business through proactive outreach and relationship building
- Manage enquiries from first conversation through to successful membership
- Become a trusted adviser on the full breadth of the PiXL proposition
- Maintain an accurate sales pipeline and consistently achieve commercial targets
- Represent PiXL professionally across meetings, events and presentations
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- New business development — identifying and engaging new schools through thoughtful outreach, building relationships that lead to long-term membership
- Prospect engagement — delivering engaging meetings, demos and presentations that help school leaders understand the value of PiXL
- Sales management — guiding prospects through every stage of the sales journey, with excellent communication and follow-through
- Product expertise — developing a deep understanding of PiXL's services, case studies and impact, becoming a trusted adviser to prospective members
- CRM excellence — maintaining accurate pipelines, forecasts and customer records to ensure data drives effective decision-making
- Team collaboration — working closely with colleagues across Marketing, Education and Operations to continually strengthen the sales experience
What You'll Bring
You will likely have:
- Experience in business development, account management or educational sales
- Knowledge of the UK education sector
- Confidence building relationships with school leaders
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Strong self-motivation and resilience
- Experience managing CRM systems and sales pipelines
- Ability to balance proactive prospecting with inbound enquiries
- A genuine curiosity to understand educational improvement
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Bonus, but not essential:
- Experience working within schools or MATs
- Experience selling membership or subscription services
- Experience using Microsoft Dynamics or a similar CRM
- Understanding of school improvement strategies
The Character We're Looking For
Beyond skill, we're looking for someone who is:
- Energetic and proactive
- Naturally curious
- Commercially driven
- Resilient and optimistic
- Organised and disciplined
- Passionate about improving education
What We Offer
- Market-competitive salary of £45,000
- Remote, flexible, full-time and permanent role
- 13% employer pension contribution
- Medical health plan
- 32 holiday days plus 8 bank holidays per year
If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.
PiXL is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcomes applications from candidates of all backgrounds, identities and experiences. We are an equal opportunities employer, and all recruitment decisions are based solely on merit, skills and potential.
Find out more at pixl.org.uk
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