Employer Partnerships Executive in Portsmouth

Build your commercial career. Turn conversations into opportunities.

If you are confident talking to people, commercially minded and motivated by winning business, this could be your opportunity to build a career in employer partnerships.

You do not need previous employability experience or an existing employer network. You might already work in sales or recruitment, or you could be earlier in your career and looking for the opportunity to prove what you can do.

You will learn how to approach employers, speak with decision‑makers, understand recruitment needs, build a pipeline and turn relationships into vacancies and sustainable jobs for Get Set UK participants. This is a genuine target‑driven role, with 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:

• Evidence that you can confidently approach, engage and influence people, including people you do not already know.
• Evidence of building relationships and turning conversations into action, opportunities or measurable results. This could come from sales, recruitment, customer service, hospitality, retail, fundraising, account management, university activities or another people‑facing environment.
• Confidence communicating professionally by phone, online and face to face.
• 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 CRM and other digital systems.

Useful, but not Essential

• Previous sales, recruitment, business development or account management experience.
• Experience in employability, skills or employment support.
• Experience using a CRM or managing a sales pipeline.

The real job

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

You will research and approach employers, start conversations with decision‑makers and understand what they need when recruiting. You will learn how to develop those conversations into vacancies and build relationships employers want to continue.

This isn't just account management. You will need to create new relationships. That means picking up the phone, approaching people who do not know you, following up when they do not reply and hearing "no" without losing momentum.

You will also work with colleagues and participants to make sensible matches between vacancies and the people we support.

You will manage opportunities through a pipeline, maintain accurate CRM records and follow vacancies through to job starts and sustained employment.