Head of Partnerships
| Posting date: | 16 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive plus bonus |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 August 2025 |
| Location: | South West |
| Company: | Impact Futures |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 91 |
Summary
Job Advert
Are you a strategic thinking, goal-oriented and tenacious team leader that loves to win new business and support existing client
relationships?
Do you have a passion for the healthcare sector and making a real impact in the world of apprenticeships?
Impact Futures and The Childcare Company are looking for a talented Head of Partnerships to join our team!
The Role:
Strategically leading a Health & Social Care Partnership team function across a division on Impact Futures, implementing the sales
strategic plan to support business growth and expansion of provision within new and existing client relationships. A strategic
thinker who understands propositions and can transform them into long term solutions, all whilst leading, motivating, inspiring
and mentoring team members to ensure they deliver strategic plans.
The role will involve:
- Strategically lead, motivate, coach and inspire the business development team with full starts/revenue budget accountability.
Ensuring the team are working to their full potential to secure new client growth, existing client retention, whilst keeping our
Partnership team competitive and sales proposition innovative.
- Ensuring the BD strategy is implemented and delivered across the team, in-line with wider business and commercial strategies
- Working alongside the Director of Growth & Partnerships to develop and execute strategic business development plans to achieve
sales targets and grow revenue.
- Performance monitoring, objective setting and coaching of the team, with structured target/forecast reviews and monthly
performance measurement meetings.
- Leading on change management across the Partnership team, ensuring the team's structure, approached and processes are in in-line
with wider business growth and performance objectives.
The role will not involve: - Enrolment - Learner recruitment - Bid writing and tenders - Marketing - Account Management…
…we have teams for all of that!
The Benefits
- Uncapped yearly bonus scheme paid quarterly
- 25 days holiday plus public and bank holidays
- 3 additional days of paid leave for Christmas Shut down
- Buy an additional 5 days annual leave
- Birthday day off
- Volunteer day
- Enhanced Sick Pay
- BUPA Healthcare Cashback plan
- Enhanced Maternity paid leave
- Enhanced Paternity paid leave
- Grandparent paid leave
- Bereavement paid leave
- Life Assurance
- Refer a friend bonus
- Electric car vehicle scheme
- 3% pension contribution using pension provider NEST
- Shopping discount & cash back platform
- Refer a friend bonus
- Employee Financial Wellbeing support
- Employee Assistance Helpline
- Company events and social gatherings
- Appreciation gifts
About You:
* Significant and proven sales management background, with a history of meeting and exceeding high value targets within the
Healthcare sector.
* Demonstrable success in leading sales or account management teams to overachieve targets
* Proven in the creation and embedding of sales and/or account management strategies
* Knowledge and experience of the apprenticeships sector and the wider education and training market.
* Experience of developing and presenting solutions made bespoke to a client’s needs through a consultative approach.
* Experience of effectively planning and tracking a client onboarding process to achieve commercial success.
* A proven background in generating business via a variety of proactive, innovative methods inclusive of cold calling, networking
and leveraging and extending existing networks.
About Us
- Impact Futures and The Childcare Company are some of the UK’s largest independently owned training providers, delivering
apprenticeships and vocational qualifications.
- We have been awarded a prestigious 2-star accreditation for been an outstanding company to work for.
- Our expertise is underpinned by our Ofsted Grade 2 'Good’ accreditation, and learner-centric delivery is at the heart of our
continual operational evolution to ensure our learners receive an outstanding learning journey.
- Impact Futures and The Childcare Company are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitability
qualified persons regardless of their race, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An enhanced DBS check will be required
for this role.
Are you a strategic thinking, goal-oriented and tenacious team leader that loves to win new business and support existing client
relationships?
Do you have a passion for the healthcare sector and making a real impact in the world of apprenticeships?
Impact Futures and The Childcare Company are looking for a talented Head of Partnerships to join our team!
The Role:
Strategically leading a Health & Social Care Partnership team function across a division on Impact Futures, implementing the sales
strategic plan to support business growth and expansion of provision within new and existing client relationships. A strategic
thinker who understands propositions and can transform them into long term solutions, all whilst leading, motivating, inspiring
and mentoring team members to ensure they deliver strategic plans.
The role will involve:
- Strategically lead, motivate, coach and inspire the business development team with full starts/revenue budget accountability.
Ensuring the team are working to their full potential to secure new client growth, existing client retention, whilst keeping our
Partnership team competitive and sales proposition innovative.
- Ensuring the BD strategy is implemented and delivered across the team, in-line with wider business and commercial strategies
- Working alongside the Director of Growth & Partnerships to develop and execute strategic business development plans to achieve
sales targets and grow revenue.
- Performance monitoring, objective setting and coaching of the team, with structured target/forecast reviews and monthly
performance measurement meetings.
- Leading on change management across the Partnership team, ensuring the team's structure, approached and processes are in in-line
with wider business growth and performance objectives.
The role will not involve: - Enrolment - Learner recruitment - Bid writing and tenders - Marketing - Account Management…
…we have teams for all of that!
The Benefits
- Uncapped yearly bonus scheme paid quarterly
- 25 days holiday plus public and bank holidays
- 3 additional days of paid leave for Christmas Shut down
- Buy an additional 5 days annual leave
- Birthday day off
- Volunteer day
- Enhanced Sick Pay
- BUPA Healthcare Cashback plan
- Enhanced Maternity paid leave
- Enhanced Paternity paid leave
- Grandparent paid leave
- Bereavement paid leave
- Life Assurance
- Refer a friend bonus
- Electric car vehicle scheme
- 3% pension contribution using pension provider NEST
- Shopping discount & cash back platform
- Refer a friend bonus
- Employee Financial Wellbeing support
- Employee Assistance Helpline
- Company events and social gatherings
- Appreciation gifts
About You:
* Significant and proven sales management background, with a history of meeting and exceeding high value targets within the
Healthcare sector.
* Demonstrable success in leading sales or account management teams to overachieve targets
* Proven in the creation and embedding of sales and/or account management strategies
* Knowledge and experience of the apprenticeships sector and the wider education and training market.
* Experience of developing and presenting solutions made bespoke to a client’s needs through a consultative approach.
* Experience of effectively planning and tracking a client onboarding process to achieve commercial success.
* A proven background in generating business via a variety of proactive, innovative methods inclusive of cold calling, networking
and leveraging and extending existing networks.
About Us
- Impact Futures and The Childcare Company are some of the UK’s largest independently owned training providers, delivering
apprenticeships and vocational qualifications.
- We have been awarded a prestigious 2-star accreditation for been an outstanding company to work for.
- Our expertise is underpinned by our Ofsted Grade 2 'Good’ accreditation, and learner-centric delivery is at the heart of our
continual operational evolution to ensure our learners receive an outstanding learning journey.
- Impact Futures and The Childcare Company are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitability
qualified persons regardless of their race, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An enhanced DBS check will be required
for this role.
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