Job Title: Sales & Commercial Operations Lead

Hours: Full-time (36 hours per week)

Job Status: Fixed term for 12 months

Location: Home based with the expectation of some travel within England

Salary: £58,308.29 per annum

Closing Date: 1 February 2026, 11.59pm.

Interview Date(s): Expected to be 11 and 12 February 2026

Skills for Care the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care in England. We work with employers, Government and partners to ensure social care has the right people, skills and support required to deliver the highest quality care and support now and in the future.

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We have an ambitious strategy and are entering a crucial phase of testing and refining how we reach and engage employers with our products and services. The Sales & Commercial Operations Lead will play a central role in shaping how we design, deliver, and continuously improve our commercial activity – from sales testing and customer engagement to reporting and performance management.

This is a hands-on role, suited to someone who’s as comfortable designing strategy as they are rolling up their sleeves to deliver, test, and refine it in practice. You will plan and execute sales trials, analyse results, and translate insight into a practical sales playbook and recommendations for future processes. You’ll also help to shape and improve the commercial operations underpinning our approach – from data capture and CRM use to sales materials, reporting, and performance monitoring.

Working closely with colleagues across engagement, marketing, and L&D, you’ll bring curiosity, commercial thinking, and creativity to design approaches that are evidence-based and scalable. You’ll move fluidly between strategy and delivery – from identifying opportunities and shaping hypotheses about potential customer segments, to testing and refining approaches in real time and embedding what works.

This role presents an exciting opportunity for someone with both sales and commercial operations experience to make a real impact – helping to define how we grow our reach, strengthen our commercial performance, and build the foundation for sustainable growth.

If you are interested in this role, please access the full job description for further information and we look forward to receiving your application.

At Skills for Care, we are committed to creating a culture of Belonging, where all of our People are able to contribute to their full potential. All our People are expected to contribute towards the achievement of our aspirations for equality, equity, diversity and inclusion. To find out more please check our (https://(url removed)/About-us/Equality-diversity-and-inclusion/Equality-diversity-and-inclusion.aspx).

At Skills for Care, we want our People to be representative of the society we support, this includes all equality characteristics such as age, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This lived experience from a diverse group of people helps us with all the work that we do and ultimately supports the social care sector to provide the best quality care. We encourage applications from, but not limited to, people from minoritised ethnic backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQ+ and people with disabilities.

Candidates will always be selected based on experience and potential.

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Information about reasonable adjustments

We want all applicants to be able to fully participate in our selection processes. We welcome requests for adjustments to our recruitment and selection processes from applicants with disabilities, impairments, or health conditions, and will always consider support available in the recruitment process.

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