Job Description

Business Manager for Business Improvement District

45kpa pro-rata, 3 days/22.5hrs per week

Based in Billericay, Essex

Billericay Business Improvement District (

Your Billericay

) is about embracing all parts of the town's economy and is run by businesses, for businesses. A BID Business Manager is now being sought to deliver the business plan.

About Billericay BID

The Billericay business community voted in favour of a 5 year BID, which will deliver benefits to all the town's businesses. Crucially, it's about giving businesses of all sizes a uniformed voice. Your Billericay plan to use the levies paid to support a number of projects, and aims to deliver improvement through four main pillars:

B for Billericay - celebrating strengths. Promoting and showcasing the area A for Activity - more things to do. Community events and family-focussed activities N for Navigation - getting around easily. Parking, transport, wayfinding, green travel options and signage G for Growth - developing the local economy. Improving the trading environment, networking, creating opportunity and promoting collaboration.

The Role

Your Billericay are looking for a self-starting, motivated individual with the ability to manage the delivery of the Billericay BID. Working closely with the Board (made up of volunteer business owners and representatives based within the BID area), the successful candidate will need to manage the day-to-day delivery of BID activities, while also working strategically to drive the business plan forward.

This exciting role will require the successful candidate to effectively manage relationships with many different stakeholders, from private sector business owners to local organisations and public agencies.

The role involves

providing day-to-day leadership and management of the BID, ensuring the implementation of the BID Business Plan and the delivery of BID projects managing the development, planning, monitoring and financial elements of projects, events and activities acting as the first point of contact for levy payers, stakeholders and the media co-ordinating marketing and events, developing a calendar of activities to support levy payers and drive footfall to the town procuring the assistance of consultants and agencies where necessary to ensure efficiency and maximise outcomes providing support and leadership to delivery staff and contractors to ensure that services and projects are delivered efficiently and to a high standard working with the BID Board as well as businesses and key stakeholders, agencies and service providers, to deliver the strategic vision and development plan of the BID within the wider economic context for the area ensuring services and projects meet the changing needs of levy payers through the 5 year term, placing the BID Board in a strong position for successful renewal ballots

Our ideal candidate

Our ideal candidate will have experience in project management, with a flare for organisation and communication. Excellent networking and relationship management skills are needed to work with a diverse set of partners.

Knowledge about both the private and public sector is helpful, and an awareness of local authority economic development policy would be beneficial. The candidate must be willing to work in Billericay (office based in High Street) and local knowledge/heritage is desirable. The hours are equivalent to 3 full days per week, with flexibility on how this is split.

Above all, we are looking for someone with passion and commitment to understanding and helping to solve issues facing the business community in Billericay. The Business Improvement District (BID) Manager will provide leadership and management, to deliver the BID vision and business plan, ensuring that the BID is promoted positively and that the reputation of both the BID and Billericay are maintained to the highest quality.

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent

Pay: From 45,000.00 per year

Expected hours: 22.5 per week

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Essex CM12 9AJ

Reference ID: BID1001