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Account Management

Learn about our dedicated account management service, which supports businesses with the potential to transform Scotland's economy. Find out if your business is eligible.

Find out if our dedicated account management service is right for your business. 

What is our account management service?

Our experienced account managers support Scottish-based businesses to build resilience and scale through personalised guidance, expert advice, and strategic connections.

Whether you're an entrepreneur with a high growth start up, a growing small and medium enterprise (SME) or you already have global operations, our account management service could support your business

Account managed companies should be should focused on achieving growth, retaining or creating quality jobs in Scotland that pay at least the Real Living Wage and are committed to achieving net zero emission. 

What is account management?

Account management can help your business make a significant contribution to achieving a fairer, greener economy in Scotland. It can help you to:

  • Develop your business strategy
  • Build strong and effective leadership and management practices
  • Develop a plan to invest and increase productivity
  • Identify available funding from business support partners in Scotland and beyond
  • Work with specialist advisors who can help you plan and implement changes
  • Increase innovation within the business (in products, processes, business models and workplaces)
  • Achieve international growth
  • Connect with industry networks relevant to your future ambitions

Which service is right for you?

We have three different account management services.

Early stage/high growth

This is suitable for your business, if you're:

  • Developing an innovation-driven, high-growth start-up or a university spin-out with innovative products and services which have an international market
  • An early stage business, less than five years old with ambition to scale at pace to raise significant external growth 

Business growth

This is suitable if you're an established small or medium-sized (SME) with 10 to 250 employees and a plan to:

  • Transform turnover and productivity 
  • Invest in your assets and people 
  • Innovate and develop your products and services

Large companies

This is suitable for your business, if you're:

  • A large, strategically important company (with more than 250 employees) or a company with significant global operations

Find out more

Learn more about the details of our account management service and to find out how to apply.

This is a free service.

Businesses in Scotland, except those based in the Highlands and Islands and South of Scotland regions. If your company is based in these regions you can get support from Highlands and Islands Enterpriseopens in a new window or South of Scotland Enterprise.opens in a new window 

If your business isn't eligible, you can contact Business Gatewayopens in a new window for further advice.

Our account management service isn't open to all businesses, but we work closely with a number of partners, including Business Gateway, innovation centres and regional incubators and accelerators. We may direct you to one of these partners, if appropriate.

Please note that we don't work with locally traded services, companies in restricted sectors such as sub-prime lending, gambling, adult entertainment and tobacco.

In line with advice from the Scottish Government, we will not knowingly work with, support or advise any individual or business that has links to Russia or Belarus. And we will not support projects that provide munitions and services to countries linked to genocide or support activities with adverse impact on human rights.

Typically, businesses will be account managed for around 12 to 36 months. This is reviewed on an annual basis.

If your business meets our eligibility criteria, please get in touch.

Please include the following information: 

  • The number of employees your business has
  • Your turnover
  • The date when your business was established
  • And let us know if you have an existing Scottish Enterprise contact

Also let us know what support you think you need. For example, this could include one or more of the following:

  • Becoming more financially resilient and increase your productivity through capital investment
  • Increasing innovation, research and development 
  • Developing new market opportunities including overseas 

Get in touch

If this sounds like your business, submit an enquiry letting us know what support you think you need and one of our advisers will respond.

Submit an enquiry