Employer Relationship Manager - Burnley

Employer Relationship Consultant

Turn employer conversations into real opportunities

You will build relationships with employers and turn them into vacancies and sustainable jobs for Get Set UK participants.

This is a commercially focused role for someone from recruitment, employer engagement or B2B sales who knows how to start conversations, understand business needs and convert relationships into measurable results. You will own an employer pipeline, follow opportunities through to job starts and be accountable for outcomes. The role includes a sales bonus of up to 800 per quarter based on job starts and outcomes.

Before you apply: the essentials

To be considered, your CV and application must clearly demonstrate:

• Experience in recruitment, employer engagement or B2B sales, with evidence of relationships that led to vacancies, placements, sales or other measurable outcomes.

• Evidence of developing and managing multiple employer, client or business relationships, including consistent follow-up and progressing opportunities.

• Evidence of understanding customer needs, influencing decisions and managing expectations professionally.

• Evidence of commitment, reliability and consistently delivering high standards of work.

• Evidence of delivering outcomes, targets, tasks, projects or agreed objectives.

• Ability to present your recent employment history clearly, including explaining gaps or short-term roles during the previous five years.

• Confident working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, with the ability to learn and adapt to other software and digital systems.

Your CV should show what you personally achieved, not simply what you were responsible for. Tell us about relationships you developed, opportunities you created, targets you achieved and measurable results you delivered.

Useful, but not essential

• Experience in employability, skills or a related sector.

• Knowledge of employability programmes or employment support.

The real job

Your job is to develop employer relationships that create genuine employment opportunities.

You will identify and engage employers, understand their recruitment needs and build a credible vacancy pipeline. You represent Get Set UK externally, so employers need to trust that you understand their business and will put forward people with a realistic chance of succeeding.

Working with colleagues and participants, you will make sensible matches between vacancies and the skills, circumstances and readiness of the people we support.

You will follow opportunities beyond the introduction, tracking job starts and whether employment is sustained. Alongside employer prospecting and meetings, you will maintain accurate CRM records, coordinate with colleagues and follow up consistently.

Not every employer conversation will convert. Vacancies will change or disappear, and some opportunities will not be suitable. You need the commercial judgement and persistence to recognise worthwhile opportunities and keep relationships moving.

What success looks like

You build an active employer network that generates genuine vacancies and employment outcomes, rather than activity that goes nowhere.

Your pipeline is current and credible. Employers receive responsive, professional support, participants are matched thoughtfully and your CRM records are accurate and up to date.

Ultimately, you can demonstrate job starts and sustained employment resulting from relationships you developed. The sales bonus of up to 800 per quarter directly rewards job starts and outcomes.

The working reality

This is a target-driven role where impact matters more than the number of conversations you have.

You will balance employer prospecting, meetings, candidate discussions, CRM administration, internal coordination and outcome tracking. Employers will say no, plans will change and opportunities will fall through.

You need to be comfortable developing new business relationships, following up persistently and being accountable for measurable employment outcomes.

What you get

• Sales bonus of up to 800 per quarter, based on job starts and outcomes.

• 25 days' annual leave, increasing with service.

• Vitality health and wellbeing support, including GP services, mental health support and physiotherapy.

• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, including up to six counselling sessions a year and legal, financial and debt guidance.

• Workplace pension, with salary sacrifice available subject to eligibility and scheme rules.

• Share buy scheme.

• Up to 360 a year through IncentFit for eligible activities.

• Wellbeing, retail, fitness, travel and mobile discounts, including 20% off eligible EE mobile plans.

About Get Set UK

Get Set UK delivers employment, skills, apprenticeships, health and justice services, helping people overcome barriers and progress towards meaningful, sustainable employment. We are part of Palladium, a global impact organisation with more than 60 years' experience delivering programmes and solutions internationally.

Our values are Be Ambitious, Be Proud, Be Considerate, Be Inspiring and Own It, and they shape how we work with colleagues, participants and partners.

Recruitment process

Apply through our recruitment platform and complete the short initial questionnaire. If you start your application through Indeed or LinkedIn, you will still need to complete this step before we can review your application.

We assess your CV and application against the minimum essential criteria for the role and the evidence you provide. Keep your CV clear and concise and focus on what you personally did, owned, improved or delivered. One to two pages will suit many applicants, although up to three may be appropriate where your relevant experience requires it.

If shortlisted, the process may include a recruitment call or Teams conversation, role-related questionnaire, assessment or testing, and a hiring-manager interview with a task, presentation or practical exercise where relevant.

Get Set UK is committed to safer recruitment practices to help protect our colleagues and the people we support.

As part of our recruitment process, you will be required to provide a complete and accurate history of your employment and other relevant activity for the previous five years, including explanations for any gaps, together with referee details covering the previous three years.

Please ensure the information you provide is complete and accurate, as we may be unable to progress your application until our safer recruitment requirements have been completed.

Depending on the role, further pre-employment checks may include references, right-to-work checks, DBS checks and/or other appropriate vetting.

Any offer is conditional on satisfactory applicable checks. Preparation, responsiveness and attention to detail matter throughout the process.

Eligibility and checks

You must have the full right to work in the UK. Sponsorship is not available for this role.

Get Set UK is a Disability Confident and Equal Opportunity Employer. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout recruitment.

If you can build business relationships, create opportunities and turn them into employment outcomes, apply today.

Additional information

We reserve the right to close applications early, so we encourage early applications. Get Set UK is a Disability Confident and Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals and are committed to supporting physical and mental wellbeing at work. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the recruitment process. This role is subject to satisfactory recruitment checks and a commitment to safeguarding learners and clients. Get Set UK does not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies.