Employment Growth Manager

Reed; North East; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave pro-rata

Professional & Personal Development

Bi-annual pay reviews

Reed in Partnership benefits

Job summary

Reed in Partnership in the UK seeks a Lead Recruitment Manager to drive employer engagement strategy, partnership development, and bulk vacancies across multiple offices. You will lead senior stakeholders and coordinate with the Curriculum Team to shape Sector Routeways aligned to employer needs.

You will manage large employer accounts, set personal targets, and guide end-to-end recruitment with Operations Teams. This role includes travel to Durham, Gateshead, Spennymoor and Peterlee.

Qualifications

• Experience in sales-focused roles within B2B sales, recruitment, welfare-to-work or similar sector.
• Experience of sales management including supervision of a team’s delivery and/or output (minimum 6 months).
• Experience of people management including mentoring and coaching and developing an individual.

Responsibilities

• Employer Engagement Strategy: create, implement, and develop an engagement strategy for the area.
• People motivation, coaching and development to ensure productive dynamics across the customer journey.
• Business Development: identify growth opportunities, run events, and support new work initiatives for participant access.
• Account Management: manage large employer accounts across Reed and supply chain, coordinating multi-location campaigns.
• Performance Management: track and improve employer engagement effectiveness with Operations Managers.

Skills

Sales experience

People management

Account management

Stakeholder engagement

Target driven

Recruitment

IT skills

Education

A-Levels

Level 3 Diploma

GCSE English

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Jul 21, 2026

Reed in Partnership has been delivering public services since 1998. We are a British, family-owned company, whose mission has always been to positively transform people and their communities. This is reflected in our services, which we deliver to help people from all backgrounds and circumstances to change their lives for the better.

Pay Range

Working Hours/Pattern:

Full-time, although we would be happy to consider applicants who are looking to work on a part time basis. If you would like to explore this further please discuss this with the talent partner for this role. Please note our ability to accommodate flexible working arrangements will vary from role to role, dependent on business requirements.

Job Description

Have you got experience of working in a sales focused role?

Have you got at least 6 months management experience including the supervision of an individuals'/teams’ delivery and/or output?

Consider the role of a Employment Growth Manager (Lead Recruitment Manager) at Reed in Partnership!

Please note you would also be expected to travel to the following offices to support business needs: Durham, Gateshead, Spennymoor & Peterlee.

What is the role about?

The Lead Recruitment Manager reports to the Head of Delivery Support and plays a crucial role in managing strategic partnerships with key sector bodies. Their focus is on local growth sectors within the contract or region they operate in.

In addition to overseeing employer engagement strategy, the Lead Recruitment Manager works closely with large regional employers to secure bulk vacancies. They collaborate with sector bodies, our Curriculum Team, and employers to develop Sector Routeways that align with employer and sector needs. These routeways are coordinated to take place over the course of a month.

Building and maintaining excellent local relationships is a priority for the Lead Recruitment Manager. This ensures they can understand and influence local employment initiatives, seamlessly integrating our services with existing offerings.

The Lead Recruitment Manager will, in addition to these duties, be expected to manage their own large employer accounts and will have personal targets to achieve linked these accounts, this will include pre- screening candidates and managing the whole recruitment process in support with Operations Teams.

Just some of your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Employer Engagement Strategy - you will be responsible for the creation, implementation, and continuous development of an employer engagement strategy for their area of responsibility.
• People motivation, coaching and development - you ensure the smooth running and productive dynamics of the team by acting as a lynchpin between all key roles involved in the customer journey towards sustained employment.
• Business Development Activity - you will be responsible for identifying employment growth opportunities both short-term and longer-term, devising, running and attending appropriate events to promote our services and proactively supporting the development of new skills and/or work initiatives to ensure our participants can access such opportunities
• Account Management - you will be responsible for managing large employer accounts across both Reed and our supply chain acting as their single point of contact. Co-ordinates multi-location campaigns ensure there is both a consistent and joined up approach to delivery on the employers’ needs.
• Performance Management - you will be responsible for tracking and managing the effectiveness of employer engagement activity across the region. Working collaboratively with Operations Managers they will support, coach and guide Recruitment Managers to effectively find, promote and fill vacancies.

What’s in it for you?

• A generous base salary (pro-rata for part time), and great flexibility with your working schedule, we offer training, development and progression opportunities. You will have access to the range of Reed in Partnership benefits, which include:
• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time) plus statutory bank holidays
• Professional & Personal Development Funds
• Bi-annual pay reviews
• Plus much more that can be foundon our website
• With the chance to dramatically make a difference to the local community, this role offers immense job satisfaction.

At Reed in Partnership, we live and breathe our values in every decision and action taken, resulting in a collaborative and enjoyable culture within our offices. Our company values – we are fair open and honest; we take ownership, and we work together.

Where possible we consider applications from candidates that require part-time hours, please discuss with your Talent Partner if this is something you require.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone with:

• Experience of working in sales focused roles within a business-to-business sales environment, recruitment, welfare-to-work or similar sector.
• Experience of sales management including the supervision of an individuals'/teams’ delivery and/or output (minimum 6 months experience).
• Experience of people management including supporting, mentoring and coaching and developing an individual.
• Experience of the administration or delivery of recruitment or assessment processes.
• A personal track record of working towards and achieving targets (minimum 2 years’ experience).
• A minimum of 2 A-Levels or an equivalent Level 3 Diploma.
• GCSE English Language at a minimum of a Grade B (or equivalent Level 2 qualification) OR achievement of a Level 2 in Literacy Assessment at interview stage.
• Experience of working as part of a multi-function service delivery team.
• Demonstrable proficiency in IT and a good grasp of Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint specifically.

We aim to ensure that no candidate or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria.

Reed

Transforming people and their communities.

Reed in Partnership is dedicated to transforming lives and communities by helping individuals enhance skills, improve health, and secure employment across the UK.

Individual and Family Services Hospitals and Health Care

Company size 1,001–5,000 employees

Company type Privately held Founded 1998

Total funding 0

Team growth

Momentum

Team growth

4% in 12 mo

What it’s like inside

3.8

636 reviews

69% would recommend

Culture & values

Culture & values 3.7

Work-life balance

Work-life balance 4.0

Career opportunities

Career opportunities 3.6

Compensation & benefits

Compensation & benefits 3.5

Capital

Funding history

Where they work

Academy Court, 94 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1DT, GB