Employer Partnerships Executive

Get Set UK; Havant; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sales bonus up to £800/quarter

25 days' annual leave

Health & wellbeing support

Employee Assistance Programme

Workplace pension

Job summary

Get Set UK is recruiting for a role focused on building employer relationships and turning conversations into genuine employment opportunities. You will research employers, initiate discussions with decision-makers, and translate needs into vacancies while developing long-term relationships.

You will manage a pipeline, maintain CRM records, and help candidates secure starts and sustained employment. The position emphasises proactive outreach, resilience and a readiness to learn.

Qualifications

• Evidence you can confidently approach, engage and influence people.
• Evidence of building relationships and turning conversations into actions or outcomes.
• Confidence communicating professionally by phone, online and face to face.

Responsibilities

• Research and approach employers, start conversations with decision-makers and understand their recruitment needs.
• Develop conversations into vacancies and build relationships employers want to continue.
• Create new relationships by proactively contacting people who don’t know you and following up.

Skills

People skills

CRM experience

Communication skills

Microsoft Office

Prospecting

Tools

CRM software

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Build your commercial career. Turn conversations into opportunities.

If you are confident talking to people, commercially minded and motivated by winning business, this could be your opportunity to build a career in employer partnerships.

You do not need previous employability experience or an existing employer network. You might already work in sales or recruitment, or you could be earlier in your career and looking for the opportunity to prove what you can do.

You will learn how to approach employers, speak with decision-makers, understand recruitment needs, build a pipeline and turn relationships into vacancies and sustainable jobs for Get Set UK participants. This is a genuine target-driven role, with a sales bonus of up to £800 per quarter based on job starts and outcomes.

Before you apply: the essentials

• Evidence that you can confidently approach, engage and influence people, including people you do not already know.
• Evidence of building relationships and turning conversations into action, opportunities or measurable results. This could come from sales, recruitment, customer service, hospitality, retail, fundraising, account management, university activities or another people-facing environment.
• Confidence communicating professionally by phone, online and face to face.
• Evidence of commitment, reliability and consistently delivering high standards of work.
• Evidence of delivering outcomes, targets, tasks, projects or agreed objectives.
• Ability to present your recent employment history clearly, including explaining gaps or short-term roles during the previous five years.
• Confident working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, with the ability to learn and adapt to CRM and other digital systems.

We are interested in potential as well as experience. If you are early in your career, we do not expect you to have years of B2B sales experience. We do expect evidence that you are confident, organised, persistent, commercially curious and prepared to learn.

Useful, but not essential

• Previous sales, recruitment, business development or account management experience.
• Experience in employability, skills or employment support.
• Experience using a CRM or managing a sales pipeline.

The real job

Your job is to create employer relationships that lead to genuine employment opportunities.

You will research and approach employers, start conversations with decision-makers and understand what they need when recruiting. You will learn how to develop those conversations into vacancies and build relationships employers want to continue.

This isn't just account management. You will need to create new relationships. That means picking up the phone, approaching people who do not know you, following up when they do not reply and hearing "no" without losing momentum.

You will also work with colleagues and participants to make sensible matches between vacancies and the people we support.

You will manage opportunities through a pipeline, maintain accurate CRM records and follow vacancies through to job starts and sustained employment.

What success looks like

You develop an active network of employers and a credible pipeline of opportunities.

Employers trust you because you listen, understand their needs and follow through. Your colleagues know what opportunities are available and your records are accurate and current.

Most importantly, the relationships you develop result in people starting and sustaining employment.

You will be accountable for results, and those results are recognised through a sales bonus of up to £800 per quarter based on job starts and outcomes.

The working reality

This role will suit someone who enjoys people and enjoys achieving something from the conversation.

There will be rejection. Employers will change their plans. Vacancies will disappear. People will not always return your calls. You will need to prospect consistently, stay organised and keep going when an opportunity falls through.

You will balance employer outreach, meetings, candidate conversations, follow-up, CRM administration and outcome tracking. Activity matters, but ultimately you will be measured on the opportunities and employment outcomes you help create.

If you want a role where you can learn about business, develop your commercial skills, build a professional network and become increasingly confident dealing with employers, there is plenty here to develop.

What you get

• Sales bonus of up to £800 per quarter, based on job starts and outcomes.
• 25 days' annual leave, increasing with service.
• Vitality health and wellbeing support, including GP services, mental health support and physiotherapy.
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, including up to six counselling sessions a year and legal, financial and debt guidance.
• Workplace pension, with salary sacrifice available subject to eligibility and scheme rules.
• Share buy scheme.
• Up to £360 a year through IncentFit for eligible activities.
• Wellbeing, retail, fitness, travel and mobile discounts, including 20% off eligible EE mobile plans.

About Get Set UK

Get Set UK delivers employment, skills, apprenticeships, health and justice services, helping people overcome barriers and progress towards meaningful, sustainable employment. We are part of Palladium, a global impact organisation with more than 60 years' experience delivering programmes and solutions internationally.

Our values are Be Ambitious, Be Proud, Be Considerate, Be Inspiring and Own It, and they shape how we work with colleagues, participants and partners.

Recruitment process

We assess applications against the essential criteria and the evidence you provide. We are not looking for the longest CV - show us what you personally achieved, influenced, improved or delivered.

If shortlisted, the process may include a recruitment call or Teams conversation, questionnaire, work‑based assessment and hiring‑manager interview. We may use practical exercises to assess how you communicate, approach a commercial conversation and respond to realistic situations. Preparation and responsiveness matter throughout.

Get Set UK is committed to safer recruitment practices to help protect our colleagues and the people we support.

As part of our recruitment process, you will be required to provide a complete and accurate history of your employment and other relevant activity for the previous five years, including explanations for any gaps, together with referee details covering the previous three years.

Please ensure the information you provide is complete and accurate, as we may be unable to progress your application until our safer recruitment requirements have been completed.

Depending on the role, further pre-employment checks may include references, right-to-work checks, DBS checks and/or other appropriate vetting.

Any offer is conditional on satisfactory applicable checks.

Eligibility and checks

You must have the full right to work in the UK. Sponsorship is not available for this role.

Get Set UK is a Disability Confident and Equal Opportunity Employer. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout recruitment.

Additional information

You don't need to arrive knowing everything about employability. If you can start conversations, build trust, learn quickly and have the drive to turn opportunities into results, we want to hear from you.

We reserve the right to close applications early, so we encourage early applications. Get Set UK is a Disability Confident and Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals and are committed to supporting physical and mental wellbeing at work. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the recruitment process. This role is subject to satisfactory recruitment checks and a commitment to safeguarding learners and clients. Get Set UK does not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies.