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The Growth Company’s (GC) Employment team has an excellent opportunity for an Employer Engagement Consultant to provide quality recruitment service to GC’s employment programmes in order to support its customers and employers across the Greater Manchester area.

GC Employment help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond, by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment.

Our highly skilled advisers and keyworkers work with a range of individuals; from people who have found themselves recently out of work, to those with complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental ill-health and debt.

Key Responsibilities:

* Sell our products and services to employers.

* Identify clients’ recruitment and workforce development needs before selling appropriate services to them.

* Develop ongoing relationships with employers, who have used services previously, ensuring that repeat business is generated.

* Meet customers regularly.

* Develop a thorough understanding of GC’s product range and make referrals to product teams across the Group against monthly targets.

* Ensure all MI is up to date and all relevant systems are updated daily.

* Use your communication Skills and experience to build your network through, for example: generating mailshots, cold calling, attending employer events and developing rapport with GC colleagues.

About You:

* Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to negotiate with employers.

* Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.

* Well-developed IT skills.

* Excellent stakeholder Management.

Requirements:

* A full UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle is essential.

* Must have previous sales experience/Recruitment experience.

* Recent experience of working to challenging targets within a sales environment.

* Be an individual who is KPI driven and can work well under challenging targets.

* Have knowledge of recruitment and training services.

* Excellent knowledge of the local labour markets.

* Good knowledge of welfare to work and the employability customer base is desirable.

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.

All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy