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Hours: 37.5 hours a week, hybrid working with expectation of 2 days in the office per week 

We are searching for a Business Support Executive who is enthusiastic to work within our small but driven team. The Business Support team plays a key role in the charity, as our work with employers, helping them improve their frameworks and cultures, also creates safer work environments for whistleblowers, and supports our whole operation financially.

The role is varied and will help you enhance your negotiation, persuasion, organisation and creative skills. The vacancy would suit individuals who have some sales experience, and want to develop and enhance this, applying this experience in an environment that has a societal impact.  Crucially, we are looking for self-starters who use their initiative to contribute great ideas and succeed with their sales. 

Purpose:

You will generate income for the charity by identifying and securing new business, and maintain strong relationships with existing members and clients in order to explore further business opportunities with them.

The role will be selling Protect’s training, consultancy and membership services to employers who want to strive towards positive speak-up cultures: being aware of whistleblowing in the news, and being an ambassador for the charity is very important.

Key responsibilities:

• Creating and converting a pipeline of potential members and other clients, in order to hit sales target and achieve KPIs

• Selling the charity’s services to inbound enquiries, resulting from marketing activity by the charity (eg webinars, SEO, social media and conferences)

• Enhancing the client relationship with existing clients through effective account management, and upselling services

• Being attentive to current legal affairs, whistleblowing cases and commercial market trends to accurately inform sector and client approaches

• Being a positive ambassador for the charity at national exhibitions, events and conferences

• Assist with business development projects and focuses including sector approaches, including round tables, breakfast briefings)

Required Experience & Skills

·       1 year’s experience working in a similar B2B role 

·       A record of success in B2B sales 

·       Passionate about excellent client service

·       Ability to manage a varied workload with competing demands 

·       Commercially aware with good business acumen and financial awareness 

·       Excellent communication and interpersonal skills 

Protect is happy to discuss flexible working and we currently offer hybrid working between our office in Bethnal Green, London and home.   Details of all the benefits of working at Protect are available on our website https://protect-advice.org.uk/vacancies/ 

About Protect

Protect is the UK’s whistleblowing charity. Our aim is to protect the public interest by helping workers to speak up to stop harm and wrongdoing. We support whistleblowers by providing free and confidential legal advice and we campaign for legal and policy reform.

The service we offer to organisations is unique and we work with a wide range of organisations in the public, private and charity sectors - and from FTSE to SMEs - to enhance their arrangements to protect employees throughout the UK. Whistleblowing has never been more important and the work we do encourages more employers to develop safe working cultures, where their staff are confident to speak up if they see wrongdoing.

Interviews planned w/b 05 May 2025