Senior School Account Manager - InvestIN

At Invest IN Education, we're on a mission to help shape the futures of young people across the globe.

If you're driven, passionate about education, and want to build lasting relationships and teams that make a real difference, we want to hear from you.

• Location: Dukes House, 58 Buckingham Gate, London – Hybrid with travel
• Contract: Permanent, full-time | 6-month probationary period
• Hours: 9am – 5pm (flexi), Mon–Fri. Some weekend work with TOIL
• Salary: From £35,000 + performance-related bonus
• Start Date: Immediately (August 2026)

As a Senior Account Manager, you will sit at a central point within our school partnerships team.

You will personally own the highest-value accounts across the UK and beyond, plus support the execution of team strategy to drive retention and revenue growth across the team.

Your main focus will be growing The Career School across our network, plus any uptick in Summer Experience revenue will be an added bonus.

You’ll work closely with the Head of Schools to report on school performance, identify gaps and opportunities and ensure the team is working efficiently to hit targets.

• What You’ll Be Doing
• Above & Beyond Account Management
• Own and manage a portfolio of Invest IN’s highest-value and most complex partner schools – identify needs and go the extra mile to maintain and grow relationships.
• Conduct regular check‑in calls and in‑person visits with partners to maintain engagement and understanding of Invest IN.
• Be an active face for your relationships – attending school events, careers fairs and delivering engaging presentations to students, parents and teachers across the globe.
• Revenue Growth: Purchase, Renewal & Upsell
• Drive high‑stakes purchase, renewal or upsell conversations for The Career School, preparing tailored proposals that reflect the school's progress, outcomes, and future goals.
• Support the team with revenue conversations – help them identify opportunities to expand breadth and awareness of Invest IN within existing school accounts (e. g. increasing summer experiences or the number of workshops purchased).
• Performance Reporting
• Own and report on the team’s account pipeline, maintaining an accurate, up‑to‑date view of portfolio health.

Communicate key data, including upsell opportunities and at‑risk accounts, with the Head of Schools.

• Use CRM platforms to manage data across your own portfolio – tracking engagement quality, identifying schools that need additional support and taking action early to protect relationships.
• Commercial Strategy
• Work closely with the Head of Schools to develop and refine the AM strategy. This will include improving portfolio pipelining, engagement strategy and renewal roadmaps.
• Feed into wider business planning by working with Business Development, Marketing & Product teams to provide the school partnerships perspective on product development, marketing campaigns and pricing decisions.
• Team Mentoring
• Help coach the Junior Account Managers develop their skills – providing regular performance support and day‑to‑day guidance to help their growth.
• Work with the Head of Schools to develop your mentoring abilities, with the aim to transition into line management in the future.
• Summer Season Support
• Showcase your adaptability by supporting one of our career experience programmes during the summer season.

About You

• What we’re looking for
• Experience: Proven experience in account management or partnerships, ideally in education, Ed Tech or a customer‑facing environment.
• Relationship Skills: Warm, proactive and genuinely invested in the success of schools and students you work with. You navigate complex relationships with ease.
• Communication: Exceptional communication skills – written, verbal, with a strong ability to present to and engage a room of any audience.
• Leadership: Experience, or confident in stepping into, a leadership position, taking accountability over the performance and development of direct reports.
• Passion & Drive: A self‑motivated approach, with a desire to achieve. A genuine passion for education and an ability to disseminate this to your team.
• Commercial Instinct: Ability to think strategically, translating data & business priorities into action to support revenue growth.
• Organisation: Highly organised, efficient and able to juggle a high workload of your own, whilst supporting your team and their development.
• Data & CRM: Data driven, comfortable using CRM tools to track performance and confident clearly reporting analytics to senior leaders.
• Adaptability & Creativity: thrive in a fast‑moving environment and are flexible to finding solutions that work for your schools and team.
• Our Values: Alignment with Invest IN’s cultural values.

About Us

About Invest IN

Invest IN Education is a dynamic, fast‑paced education organisation that helps students choose their future career and prepare for their next steps with confidence.

Since our foundation in 2012, we’ve provided over 70,000 students from 100+ countries with the ‘ultimate work experience’.

Our immersive programmes are all led by industry professionals and guide students in their next steps through simulations, site visits and networking opportunities.

We also worked with 1,400+ schools across the globe.

Last academic year, we launched The Career School, a paid‑in‑school product to help students explore careers and develop skills.

This has been extremely well received and continues to grow from strength to strength.

• Why you’ll love working with us
• A competitive salary plus a performance bonus tied to renewal and upsell targets.
• 25 days paid holiday per year (plus bank holidays).
• The chance to see the direct impact of your work – in the schools you support and the students whose futures you help shape.
• Cultural initiatives, including 2 hours to take off at your choosing every week (‘Unplugged’).
• Volunteer days and a strong focus on social impact.
• Access to private healthcare and a pension scheme.
• Sabbatical of three months unpaid leave after three years’ service.
• Dedicated learning and development support, termly appraisals and wider growth opportunities.
• Travel – visit your partner schools and represent Invest IN at events around the world.
• Invest IN’s Cultural Values
• Perform with purpose
• Take pride in the high quality of your work
• Act with urgency, efficiency and determination
• Own and grow
• Take accountability for your work and professional development
• Strive for more to strategically grow our impact
• Adapt and innovate
• Demonstrate agility to business needs
• Approach problem‑solving with a creative and entrepreneurial mindset
• Care and collaborate
• Show up for your colleagues
• Actively contribute to an inclusive, empowering and collaborative culture across the business

Please note that offers will be subject to successful completion of Enhanced DBS checks and Right to Work checks.

We are also unable to sponsor visas.

Invest IN reserves the right to terminate contracts in the event of non‑completion.

Safer Recruitment, Safeguarding and EDI statement

Invest IN is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, seasonal workers and external professionals to share this commitment.

Invest IN are committed to making our recruitment processes as inclusive as possible for everyone.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values difference, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to Invest IN’s culture.

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to work with Invest IN will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of Police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

The Disclosure and barring Service helps employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable candidates gaining access to minors or vulnerable adults.

Open Source Searching Guidance

Invest IN are committed to ensuring that we follow and implement legislation and advisories as set out in the KCSIE 2025 framework.

Please see the below statement extracted from Harrison Clark Rickerbys Solicitors (HCR Law – https://www. hcrlaw. com/blog/kcsie-2022-safer-recruitment-the-use-of-online-searches-an-update/ ) regarding the updates within the KCSIE 2025 framework relating to open source searching as part of the safer recruitment process.

KCSIE 2025 States

In addition, as part of the shortlisting process schools and colleges should consider carrying out an online search as part of due diligence on the shortlisted candidates.

This may help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school or college might want to explore with the applicant at interview.

Schools and colleges should inform shortlisted candidates that online searches may be done as part of due diligence checks.

See Part two – Legislation and the Law for information on data protection and UK GDPR, the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Equality Act 2010.” Keeping children safe in education 2025

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