Support Executive

We’relooking for an ambitious

High Growth Support Executive to join theWest Midlands Growth Company and make a real impact from day one.

If you’redriven, curious, and hungry for growth, this could be your perfect next step.

The West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC) is the region’s economic development delivery organisation.

From April 2026, we will lead the delivery of regionally commissioned economic development activity aligned to the West Midlands Growth Plan, working in partnership with the West Midlands Combined Authority and local authorities.

We are building a sharper, business-focused organisation that attracts investment, supports high-growth companies and drives measurable economic impact.

If you want your work to shape how growth is delivered across one of the UK’s most important regions, this is your opportunity.

As our newHigh Growth Support Executive,you’lljoin a forward thinking, collaborative team that values fresh ideas and innovation. This is a genuine opportunity to take ownership of meaningful projects, influence decision making, and help shape the future direction of the business. Thinking, collaborative team that values fresh ideas and innovation. This is a genuine opportunity to take ownership of meaningful projects, influence decision making, and help shape the future direction of the business

• Support high potential businesses
  by assisting
  
  High Growth Account Managers in delivering insight, challenge, and tailored growth plans to scale ambitious companies across the West Midlands.
• Drive regional economic impact
  by gathering business intelligence, shaping growth programmes, and strengthening collaboration across the ecosystem including local authorities, universities, and industry partners.
• Represent the WM Growth Hub
  to ensure a seamless business support journey, helping translate public investment into productivity, innovation, and high-value job creation for the region.

• Develop strong relationships with SMEsandidentifysolutions to their growth challenges by understanding the regional business support landscape.
• Assess SME growth potentialby reviewing business ideas, supporting businessplansand advising on finance options
• Proactivelyidentifyhigh growth potential SMEsand refer them to a High Growth Account Manager.
• Liaise with Local Authoritiesto deliver seamless Information
• Support the High Growth Account Manager sin delivering high-quality, impactful services to ambitious businesses.
• Ensure accurate
  
  CRM data management, tracking all client interactions,progress and outputs ina timelyand compliant manner.
• Work collaboratively with delivery partners and ecosystem stakeholders to ensure programmes are relevant, impactful, and informed by business feedback.
• Provide a consistent, high quality service on behalf of the Growth Hub, ensuring SMEs receive proactive,professional and effective supportalways.

Essential:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage, influence and build credibility with senior executives.
• Proven relationship-building and networking ability, with experience working collaboratively with partners, suppliers,businesses and your colleagues.
• Commercial awareness and good working knowledge of business management, with sound judgement in complex situations.
• High levelof IT literacy, confident using MS Office to produce high-quality documents,report sand presentations.

Desirable:

• Experience using a CRM system, ideally Zoho or a similar platform.
• Understanding of business investment processes and public sector decision making, especially within advanced engineering, professional services, lowcarbonor life scienceenvironments.