Strategic Accounts & Partnerships Lead – Liverpool/UK

Generation UK & Ireland; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Generation UK & Ireland is seeking a Strategic Accounts Manager to drive partnerships with employers across England, with a focus on Liverpool. The role is hybrid with monthly office presence and regular travel, and involves selling social value packages and hiring partnerships to generate income.

In year one you will build a healthy pipeline, secure signed partners, and help graduates achieve placements while meeting income targets and contributing to social impact goals.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of winning new business.
• Experience prospecting from cold start to close.
• Ability to manage multiple deals and stakeholders.
• Strong CRM and forecasting discipline.

Responsibilities

• Own your pipeline end to end: research, prospect, cold call, email and network your way to new employers across England, with a focus on Liverpool.
• Run full sales cycles yourself, from first contact through discovery, proposal, negotiation and signed agreement.
• Sell social value packages, including ESG/CSR impacts and hiring partnerships.
• Hit monthly and quarterly activity and income targets.
• Secure enough vacancies to place every bootcamp cohort at course completion.
• Build a network of channel partners (e.g. apprenticeship providers, recruitment agencies, CSR groups).
• Organise and run events, meetings and presentations that turn interest into signed partners.

Skills

Proven record of winning new business

Real prospecting experience

Complex, consultative selling

Organised pipeline management

Job description

Generation UK & Ireland is seeking a Strategic Accounts Manager to drive partnerships with employers across England, with a focus on Liverpool. The role is hybrid with monthly office presence and regular travel, and involves selling social value packages and hiring partnerships to generate income.

In year one you will build a healthy pipeline, secure signed partners, and help graduates achieve placements while meeting income targets and contributing to social impact goals.