KEY REQUIREMENTS

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with employers through regular meetings, calls, and networking events, identifying recruitment and workforce development needs.
• Generate leads and create new business opportunities through a variety of methods including digital, telephone and in-person sales activity.
• Account manage employers by delivering excellent service, securing repeat business and promoting other Growth Company services where appropriate.
• Identify and engage employers in sectors with current or future growth to support customers in accessing job opportunities.
• Liaise with internal and external training providers to create tailored pre-employment training based on employer needs.
• Promote vacancies internally and externally, ensuring accurate and clear information is shared with operational teams to support suitable candidate referrals.
• Pre-screen candidates before submission, ensuring they are suitable and aligned to employer requirements, and manage interview scheduling and feedback processes.
• Maintain up-to-date and accurate records across relevant systems, ensuring full compliance with data security and organisational procedures.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Previous experience in sales or recruitment, ideally with experience securing job vacancies and supporting candidates into work.
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills, with the ability to influence employer decisions.
• Knowledge of the local labour market, recruitment trends, and growth industries.
• Excellent stakeholder Management with an ability to contact decision makers, identifying business opportunities and closing contracts.
• Recent experience of working to challenging targets within a sales environment.
• Proficient IT skills including use of management information systems, spreadsheets, and email.
  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.
  We are 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 a diverse 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 Hiring 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.
  If you require support with the recruitment process, please contact or Internal Recruitment Team at careers@growthco.uk or call us on 0161 237 4447.
  All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy