Employer Engagement Advisor - Apprenticeships

KM Recruitment is a specialist UK wide recruiter for the Skills & Employability sectors. Job Title: Employer Engagement Advisor - Apprenticeships Location: Home/Field based Salary: £32,000 + £6k OTE Type: Full Time, Permanent

Duties

Are you a confident, driven relationship builder with a passion for winning new apprenticeship business and helping employers develop their workforce? We're looking for a proactive Employer Engagement professional to promote our client's specialist Apprenticeship programmes, build strong employer partnerships and generate exciting new apprentice opportunities. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who thrives on developing relationships, spotting opportunities and turning conversations into commercial success. What will you be doing?

• Proactively identify, approach and engage with employers to showcase the benefits of sector-specialist Apprenticeship programmes and convert opportunities into learner starts.
• Develop new business through referrals, incoming enquiries, networking, events and local partnerships, while identifying and pursuing your own opportunities.
• Build lasting partnerships with new and existing clients, maximising opportunities to introduce Apprenticeships across their workforce.
• Understanding business needs, conduct organisational needs analysis to identify employer requirements and recommend suitable Apprenticeship solutions.
• Take ownership of your sales pipeline, manage your activity through the CRM system and work towards ambitious revenue and learner start targets.
• Workcollaboratively with internal teams to ensure a smooth, accurate and compliant learner enrolment process.
• Raising the profile of the organisation at employer meetings, networking opportunities and industry events, positioning the provider as a trusted Apprenticeship partner.
• Monitor sales performance, share business insights and keep up to date with changes to Apprenticeship policy, funding and sector expectations. Essential Criteria:
• Must have experience of working within an employer engagement / business development role, promoting Apprenticeship programmes.
• Ability to overcome objections.
• Experience of working towards and achieving targets.
• Excellent communication, administrative and organisational skills.
• Confident, friendly and professional manner, who is willing to learn.
• Full, clean UK driving licence and access to own vehicle.
• Must be flexible with travel. Please note: KM Recruitment receive a high number of applications for each role advertised and although we would like to we are not always able to deliver feedback to unsuccessful candidates. If you have not been contacted within 4 days then unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful. Thank you for your interest and keep an eye on our website for future opportunities