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The Growth Company’s (GC) Employment team help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond, by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment.
We have highly skilled advisers and keyworkers work with a range of individuals; from people who have found themselves recently out of work, to those with complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental ill-health, and debt. We also work with employers on their recruitment and skills needs to help place people into high quality sustainable jobs.
We are looking for an Employer Engagement Consultant to provide a quality recruitment service to The Work Company’s customers and employers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement a range of activity which produces leads and creates the opportunity to sell products and services to employers
- Work with those employers engaged to identify their recruitment and workforce development needs before selling appropriate services to them from the The Work Company and The Growth Company product range. In doing so, to maximise income through the sale of multiple Group services
- Develop ongoing relationships with employers, who have used services previously, ensuring that repeat business is generated and, where appropriate, that new services from the Group’s product range are taken up
- Source suitable vacancies for The Work Company’s customers
- Meet customers regularly to ensure a good knowledge of the customer base and vacancies needed
- Advertise all vacancies internally (and externally where appropriate) in a clear and concise manner
- Develop a thorough understanding of the Group’s product range and make referrals to product teams across the Group against monthly targets
- Ensure all MI is up to date and all relevant systems are updated daily
- Ensure all services and employment is undertaken within an appropriate equal opportunities framework
About You:
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to negotiate with employers
- Ability to work to challenging targets and KPIs.
- Ability to make contact with decision makers, identifying business opportunities and closing contracts
- Knowledge of recruitment and training services
- Well-developed IT skills
- Excellent stakeholder Management
Requirements:
- Recent experience of working to challenging targets within a sales environment
- Ideally experience of securing vacancies and subsequently securing job starts
- Excellent knowledge of the local labour market, methods of recruitment and growth industries
- Good knowledge of welfare to work and the customer base
- Must have previous sales experience
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check. This will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.
If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.
GC is committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from an ethnic community.
As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the recruiting manager and our Internal recruitment team.
We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.
GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.
Should you apply for any of our roles, we will be completing interviews virtually or face to face, dependent on the role. This will be explained further should you reach interview stage. We will be more than happy to explain the measures we have put in place, ahead of you attending any of our premises.
