Overview
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 open conversations, understand business needs and turn relationships into results. Your performance has a direct reward: the role includes a sales bonus of up to £800 per quarter, based on job starts and outcomes. We can teach you the employability context. You need to bring the commercial confidence, organisation and persistence to create opportunities and follow them through.
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 explain recent employment history clearly, including gaps or short-term roles during the previous five years.
- Confident working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, with ability to learn other digital systems.
Your CV should show what you personally achieved, not simply what you were responsible for. Tell us about relationships developed, opportunities created, targets achieved and outcomes delivered.
Useful, but not essential
- Experience in employability, skills or a related sector.
- Knowledge of employability programmes and 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 maintain a realistic vacancy pipeline. You represent Get Set UK externally, so credibility matters. 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.
Not every employer conversation will convert, and not every vacancy will be suitable. You need the judgement to recognise worthwhile opportunities, manage expectations and keep developing relationships when plans change.
You will follow opportunities beyond the introduction, tracking job starts and whether employment is sustained. Alongside employer outreach and meetings, you will maintain accurate CRM records, coordinate with colleagues and follow up consistently.
What success looks like
You build an active employer network that produces genuine vacancies rather than conversations that go nowhere.
Your pipeline is current and credible. Employers receive responsive, professional support, participants are matched thoughtfully, and your records are accurate and compliant.
Ultimately, you can point to people starting and sustaining employment because of employer relationships you developed. The role includes a sales bonus of up to £800 per quarter, linked to job starts and outcomes, so there is a direct connection between the results you deliver and the bonus you can earn.
The working reality
You are operating between employer expectations, participant reality and performance pressure. You will juggle outreach, employer meetings, candidate conversations, CRM administration, internal coordination and outcome tracking.
Employers will change their plans. Opportunities will fall through. Priorities will compete. You need to be comfortable with targets, persistent follow-up and being accountable for impact rather than activity alone.
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 and the evidence you provide. Keep your application relevant and concise, focusing on what you personally did, achieved or delivered rather than listing duties alone.
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.
Before employment is confirmed, you must promptly provide the information and documents required for right-to-work checks, references, safeguarding, a DBS check at the appropriate level where required for the role and any role-specific vetting requirements. Any offer is conditional on the required checks being completed satisfactorily.
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.
Any appointment will be subject to satisfactory right-to-work checks, references and the pre-employment, safeguarding, DBS and security checks applicable to the role.
Get Set UK is a Disability Confident and Equal Opportunity Employer. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout recruitment.
If you know how to build business relationships, create opportunities and follow them through to results, 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.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
