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August 2026

Lead the events and training programme thousands of Canterbury businesses turn up for, learn from, and come back to.

Business Canterbury sits at the heart of the region's business community. We hear what is keeping businesses up at night and what they are quietly excited about, often before anyone else does. This role turns that into something real: a highly trusted and visible learning and events programme.

You will lead our learning and events team and own the programme end to end, deciding what we run, for whom, and in what form. That means backing the ideas worth backing, letting go of what has run its course, and managing the commercial performance that keeps the whole thing sustainable.

Reporting to our Head of Advocacy and Strategy, you have a rare vantage point over the region's business landscape and a mandate to do something with it. The measure of success is a programme recognised as the best of its kind, and a Canterbury business community that is more capable and better connected because of it.

 September 2026

Reporting to the Sales Account Lead, the Business Development Manager brings new members and customers to Business Canterbury, and helps existing members get more from what we offer.

You will generate your own pipeline, have real conversations with business owners about what they are trying to achieve, and match them to the right membership, training, advice or connections. Success is measured on new business won and on the activity that gets you there.