Regional Employer Manager - EOI

Reed; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Leadership training

Development funds

Bi-annual pay reviews

Company website

Job summary

Reed in Partnership is recruiting a Regional Employer Manager to source placement opportunities for Youth Jobs Guarantee across the Cambridge area, with paid placements for six months and full employer funding.

The role is office-based, requires B2B sales experience and strong relationship-building skills, and offers a generous base salary and flexible working arrangements where possible.

Qualifications

• Over one year in B2B sales within account management or business development.
• Experience delivering services as part of a delivery team rather than a solo effort.
• Minimum of 2 A-Levels or an equivalent Level 3 Diploma.
• GCSE English Language at Grade B or Level 2 literacy at interview.

Responsibilities

• Identify new business opportunities and convert across multiple sites, explaining the placement opportunity to participants and selling it to employers.
• Identify other employer-led opportunities when they arise (e.g., growth sectors).
• Maximise repeat business and develop existing accounts.
• Educate operations teams and programme participants about opportunities in key industry sectors.
• Ensure recruitment placement services are delivered in line with contract KPIs.
• Ensure employers’ requirements are met at all times via Reed in Partnership.
• Capture placement information accurately in Reed in Partnership’s database and communicate promptly to operations teams.
• Provide quality information to inform decisions on matching participants with employers, including updating trackers.
• Highlight outstanding employer opportunities to the operations teams.
• With Career Coaches, provide guidance to ensure employers understand and access in-work support (toolkits, training, etc.).
• Provide feedback to operations teams per management guidelines.
• Collate and report performance data to management as required.

Skills

Business development

Account management

Relationship management

Communication

Negotiation

Time management

Travel locally

Education

Two A-Levels

Level 3 Diploma

GCSE English (B)

Job description

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

£32,500 - £36,500

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 great people skills and a passion forbusiness development?

Would you like to work in a customer facing role and make a positive impact on people and their communities

Then consider the role of a Regional Employer Manager at Reed in Partnership!

This role is office based but will cover Cambridge, Peterbrough, Norfolk & the Suffolk region.

Internalapplications for this role close on 21/08/2028.

Who we are:

Reed’s Employability Division aims to positively transform lives by helping individuals who are unemployed, economically inactive, or facing challenges such as health conditions, disabilities, or caring responsibilities to find sustainable employment. Through a wide range of tailored support services including one-to-one careers guidance, CV writing, interview preparation, and skills training, we have supported over 250,000 people on their journey into work.

Youth Jobs Guarantee is a mandatory programme for18-21 year oldswho have been on Universal Credit for 18 months or more, providing a fully subsidised six month paid job of up to 25 hours per week at minimum wage.

What is the role about?

ARegional Employer Manageris responsible forthe sourcing ofplacementopportunities for programme participantson Youth Jobs Guarantee across multiple areaswithin the employer market, ensuring service levels exceed employers’ expectations.This involves securing placements for all participants referred to the programme 25 hours, paid for 6 months (fully funded to the employer).

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

Business Development

• Identifyingnew business opportunitiesand converts effectively across multiple sites, explainingfully the placement opportunity to participants and selling in theparticipant and opportunityto theemployer.
• Identifiesother employer-led business opportunities when opportunities arise e.g. growth sectors
• Maximises on repeating business and developing existing accounts.

Customer Service and Relationship Management

• Educates operations teams andprogramme participants across multiple sitesabout opportunities available in key industry sectors.
• Ensures all recruitmentplacementservices are delivered in accordancetoKey Performance Indicators (KPIs)identifiedwithincontract criteria.
• Ensures employers’ requirements and expectations aremet at all timesvia Reed in Partnership.

Service Delivery and Recovery

• Ensures information onplacementsarecapturedaccurateon Reed in Partnership’s database system and that they arecommunicated promptly to the operations teams
• Offers the operations teams sufficient quality information to inform decision making on matchingparticipantswith Employers, including updating joint trackers
• Ensures all outstanding employer opportunities are highlighted to the operations teams.

Post Placement Service and Support

• In conjunction with Career Coaches, providesadvice and guidance to ensure employers have sufficient understanding and access to support, tomanage any in-work adjustments that may need to be made to accommodate participants with health conditions e.g., employer toolkits, management training etc.
• Provides feedback to operations teams in a format agreed with management.
• Collates and reports performance data to management team as and whenrequired.

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,developmentand 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
• Reed Pension Scheme
• Award Winning Management & Leadership training
• Professional & Personal Development Funds
• Bi-annual pay reviews
• Plusmuch more that can be foundon our website

Therole is highly people-oriented, allowing you to work closely with employers, participants, and colleagues, making every day varied and rewarding. At Reed in Partnership, our values—Fair, Open & Honest, Take Ownership, and Work Together—guide everything we do. Join us in delivering services that make a real difference.

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

• More than a year’s experience of andtrack recordof success working in a business-to-business sales environment in an account management or business development role.
• Experience of working as part of a service delivery team, in which the delivery of services you have sold is carried out by other individuals/teams with whom you have had to work effectively.
• 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.

Essential Criteria:

• Regional Employer Managers’ attributes include Achievement Orientation, Challenge and Resilience, Flexibility and Adaptability, Honesty and Integrity, Impactful Communication, Planning and Decision Making, Selling, and Influencing and Team Orientation.
• Technical skills includinggood knowledge of local recruitment labour market, knowledge of employment legislation governing recruitment practices, analytical ability to use intelligence to maximise on business opportunities, very strong written and verbal communication skills, negotiation skills, accomplished networking skills, organisational and time management skills, ability to build professional relationships effectively.
• Personal interests including interest in people and willing to go the extra mile.
• Personal circumstances including willingness (and ability e.g., access to own car) to travel locally.

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience of working in a performance target driven environment. Examples of such experiencemayinclude recruitment consultants or sales representatives.
• Experience of working in business-to-business sales.
• Experience of working in recruitment, publicly funded services, or other similar sectors.
• Experience of the administration or delivery of recruitment or assessment processes.
• Experience of working with disadvantaged client groups in the delivery of customer services. These client groups include young people (NEETs), incapacity benefit claimants, and single parents, those with criminal records, mental and/or physical health conditions or disabilities, ex-services, specific ethnic minority, or faith groups.
• Directpreviousexperience of a similar role. Roles considered to be similar include the role of Regional Employer Manager on a publicly funded service.
• Personal interests including interest in career and personal development.
• Personal circumstances including willingness to work flexible hours.
• Other desirable criteria including pre-existing network of employer contacts in the Regional Employer Manager area; the ability to use qualitative mechanisms to deliver continuous improvement to service delivery; a pro-active ‘can-do’ attitude; a track record of driving positive change and the ability to work under own initiative and think outside the box.

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.