Head of Partnerships / Head of Sales / Head of Growth / Engagement Management

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Am impressive Head of Partnerships / Head of Sales / Head of Growth / Engagement Management / Community Management / Operations – Looking for £60k+ Permanent Full Time Hybrid/Remote Staffordshire based – available asap for interview with a view to starting a new role from Jan 2025

What opportunities do you have in your SLT for my impressive Partnerships and Relationships candidate, with a wealth of Sales, Senior management, and Account Relationship experience?

Currently managing a team of 21 heads, including Sales Managers, Sales Advisors and Relationship Managers, focused on client acquisition and business growth with a staffing budget of £700k

• Lead generation which resulted in £19m revenue in 2024.
• Developed and implemented data driven strategies resulting in year-on-year growth and sales targets consistently being achieved in line with commissioners’ expectations.
• Created a regional community engagement strategy to ensure all appropriate access for all service users within our priority areas.
• Standardised processes and strategies across sub regions to ensure we have consistency, are aligned with the central customer journey, meet commissioners’ objectives and measure the impact.
• Restructured our regional engagement strategy, aligning our vision to meet stakeholders needs whilst also ensuring we over perform against our priority area targets
• Led cross functional teams to integrate partner solutions, enhancing product offerings and improve customer satisfaction.
• Coordinated joint working marketing campaigns with partners, boosting brand visibility and sales.

Seasoned Sales and Partnerships Leader with over 20 years’ expertise in developing and nurturing strategic alliances, driving revenue growth across diverse stakeholders. Well-organised, confident, driven, and personable individual.  Their solution-focused ‘can do’ attitude enables them to manage projects, prioritise tasks and communicate effectively which, together with my drive to succeed, makes them a valuable team member and leader.

They have a passion for building relationships, engagement, and partnerships, coupled with an in-depth experience of motivating and empowering others and professionals alike to become agents of positive change.

Throughout their career, successfully managed partnerships across various industries including Welfare to work, Justice, Education Sector, Government departments and the Leisure Industry.  They have the ability to understand and align with partner goals which have consistently resulted in mutually beneficial outcomes of significant business growth.

Due to the recent government announcement regarding the new youth strategy they are actively seeking new opportunities to leverage their skills and experience in a dynamic and growth orientated environment.

Key Strengths and Achievements:

Relationship Building – Built and developed relationships with 10 Local authorities across Greater Manchester to enable a joined-up approach and referral sources for the Future You provision.

Project Management – A key member of the senior leadership team that achieved growth of a pilot project in 2009 as a local delivery partner, to achieve responsibility for the entirety of the UK in the away from home residential element, exceeding sales targets year on year.

Strategic Vision – Developed and implemented a sales strategy across the whole of the North (Northeast, Northwest, Yorkshire & Humber and East Midlands) accessing and account managing all secondary mainstream schools, colleges, non-mainstream and alternative provisions, driving performance growth to achieve sales targets over a 15-year period, equating in over 750,000 young people take part in the programme nationwide.

Negotiation and Influence – Delivered a response programme during Covid 19 that supported 66,000 participants overall with 33,000 going into sustainable employment.

Analytical Thinking – Onboarded a varied supply chain of 12 different local delivery organisations, who were well positioned to access and engage with young people from extremely low socio-economic backgrounds and not currently engaged with any educational institution, employed, or participating on any other training programmes.

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To arrange a chat with my candidate please give me a call on 0161 320 3793 / 07866625747 or email [email protected] asap