Business & Partnerships Lead

TN United Kingdom; Blackburn; Hybrid; GBP 36,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a dynamic Business & Partnerships Lead to drive forward its strategy. This pivotal role involves collaborating with various teams to build strong partnerships and develop impactful opportunities. The successful candidate will lead a team, engage with local employers, and provide valuable insights to shape employment initiatives. You'll enjoy a flexible working environment with generous leave and development opportunities. If you are passionate about empowering communities and have a proven track record in strategic relationship building, this role is for you.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

Flexible working environment

Professional development training

Cycle to work scheme

Vehicle leasing

Financial advice

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams or managing staff.
• Proven ability to develop and implement strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of the business and partnerships strategy.
• Develop and manage influential relationships with employer networks.

Skills

Team Leadership

Strategic Relationship Building

Microsoft Office Tools

CRM Systems

Promoting Equality and Diversity

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Word

Job description

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We’re looking for a dynamic and strategic Business & Partnerships Lead to drive forward Newground Together’s Business & Partnership strategy. In this pivotal role, you’ll collaborate with teams across Employment, Skills, Youth, Community, and Great Outdoors to build strong partnerships and develop impactful opportunities.You’ll lead and manage our Business & Partnerships team, forging meaningful relationships with local employers to unlock job vacancies, apprenticeships, training, and work placements. By providing valuable local labour market insights, you’ll help shape our employment and skills initiatives to match evolving community needs.

Newground Together is an independent charity supporting people in their local community. It is part of the Together Housing Group. It’s aim is to empower people to create sustainable communities that are connected, resilient, healthy and prosperous. As a non-profit organisation, any money we make is invested back into the company for the benefit of the residents and local communities where we work. As an organisation we are committed to having a Diverse and Inclusive workforce. We would therefore welcome applications from candidates with any of the nine protected characteristics. We are also proud to be a Disability Confident employer.

Requirements

Outline of key responsibilities for the Business & Partnerships lead…

• To lead the delivery and implementation of the business and partnerships strategy for Newground Together.
• To lead the development of partnerships, relationships & opportunities for Newground Together, through line management of the Business & Partnerships Officer and wider team at Newground Together.
• To Lead the development of the employer engagement and utilise new and exciting ways of engaging with businesses and partners.
• Develop and manage influential relationships with Employer newtorks, events, networking and key local and regional stakeholders.
• Develop and manage effective delivery of employer Programmes and engagement activity and liaise with our Newground Together team to organise and manage appropriate training, induction and recruitment events to link vacancies with candidates, in partnership with businesses and working with the employment and Skills People Team.
• Engage and influence local businesses to leverage work experience, apprenticeships, traineeships and supported employment opportunities for Newground Together participants.
• Work effectively with the Newground Together team to ensure participants development routes are appropriate for the opportunities being brokered and aligned to labour market opportunities.
• To assist in the delivery of new and existing projects that progress the organisational objectives in relation to social value and procurement.
• Promote our Newground Together offer to THG, partners, stakeholders and local businesses.
• Build and maintain strong links and working relationships with relevant statutory and non-statutory organisations.
• To engage with local business and employers to understand business needs and promote our client base and services

We are looking for someone who has…

• A full UK driving license and access to a vehicle
• Able to promote equality and diversity
• Competent in use of Microsoft Office tools (including Excel, MS Teams, Outlook and word), CRM systems and databases.
• Experience leading teams or managing staff.
• Proven ability to develop and implement strategy.
• Experience of building strategic relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Track record of securing business and partnership agreements

In return, we are offering the successful candidate in the Business & Partnerships Lead role…

• Starting Salary of £35,884
• Hybrid Role
• 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 over 5 years’ service) + bank holidays
• A flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies
• You will be working 37 hours per week, Monday – Friday 8am-6pm with occasional evening and weekend work.
• Working arrangements are flexible in line with our Smart working culture
• Wide range of professional, and personal development training opportunities
• A range of financial, health and lifestyle benefits including cycle to work, vehicle leasing and financial advice
• To view the full range of our benefits click on the Employee Benefits Link

THG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient numbers of applicants are received. Therefore, please apply without delay!

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