Strategic Accounts Manager

Generation, Inc; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Generation UK is seeking a Strategic Accounts Manager to lead new partner acquisition and growth. Based in Liverpool with hybrid working, you will travel across England to meet employers and deliver events, building a pipeline of opportunities and closing deals.

You will manage partnerships that fund social value packages and hiring agreements, earning a salary of £35,700–£36,771 plus up to 10% performance bonus.

Job description

Role: Strategic Accounts Manager

Location: Hybrid working within our Liverpool office at least once a month, plus regular travel across England to meet employers and run events.

Expect to be out meeting people most weeks.

Salary: £35,700 to £36,771 p.a., depending on experience, plus up to 10% performance bonus tied to income, new partner and placement targets

Contract: Permanent, Full time (40 hours per week)

Standard working hours are 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (with 1 hour unpaid lunch break). We offer flexibility to employees to balance their commitments, including medical appointments, parental or caregiving responsibilities, and personal goals.

Team: Partnerships, reporting to Head of Strategic Accounts

For informal enquiries for this position can be sent to Jess Barber, Head of Strategic Accounts, at [e-mail]

Closing date: 2 November 2026

ABOUT THE ROLE

This is a new business role. Your job is to win employers who will hire Generation graduates and invest in our work, and to keep winning them. Most of your time will go on finding, pitching and closing new partners; the rest on making sure those partners hire and come back.

Employers hire our graduates free of charge. We generate income through social value packages, and you will sell these alongside our hiring partnerships:

• Social value packages (how we generate income). Employers invest in a package that funds training for people from disadvantaged backgrounds and gives them measurable, reportable social impact, supporting their ESG, CSR and procurement commitments.
• Hiring partnerships. Employers recruit graduates from our bootcamps into open roles, at no cost to them. As well as working with direct employers, this can involve working with delivery partners, and channel partners.
• Employer-embedded cohorts. A single employer partners with us on a whole cohort, shapes it around their roles, and commits to hiring at least 50% of the graduates. These are bigger, more complex deals with longer sales cycles, several decision-makers and real commitment from the employer. You will help us build this model as you sell it.

You will work nationally across England, with a particular focus on building our employer base in Liverpool, a new region for us.

We will be honest: this role involves a lot of outreach and a lot of "no". It suits someone who is energised by targets, picks up the phone without being asked, and believes in what Generation does enough to make other people believe in it too.

What success looks like

In your first year, success means a healthy, self-generated pipeline and signed partners who actually hire. Your bonus is tied to these measures.

Measure of success:

• New employer partners signed
• Employer-embedded cohort deals signed (employer commits to hire ≥50% of cohort)
• Graduates placed into jobs through your partners
• Income from social value packages
• Repeat commitment from existing partners
• Secured new employers in Liverpool

By the end of your first 90 days, we would expect you to have built a pipeline of qualified employer conversations, held multiple first meetings, and have employers lined up to hired from planned cohorts running in Liverpool and nationally.

ABOUT GENERATION

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