Sales Engagement Manager

As a Sales Engagement Manager, you'll lead the development and management of engagement strategies with employer partners, with a primary focus on promoting apprenticeships and generating a pipeline of new learner starts. You'll oversee a team, collaborate with various departments, and drive engagement campaigns to meet agreed targets. Success will be measured by lead generation, conversion rates, meeting service level agreements, and effective development activities.

What will you be doing? 

• Oversee direct line management of a team of Engagement Leads to ensure they are given the tools and leadership to thrive in their role.
• Supporting the Sales Enablement team to develop engagement strategies across our employer partners including objectives, channels of engagement, and resourcing requirements.
• Develop and manage the plan of engagement activity, ensuring regular reports are provided to management and employer partners.
• Work with the Head of Partnership Engagement and the Sales Enablement team to plan and oversee an annual schedule of engagement activity to deliver the agreed starts profile.
• Collaborate with the Partnership team to create and execute campaigns that engage employer partners and increase awareness and engagement with apprenticeships.
• Research and maintain knowledge of best practice in engaging a large, geographically dispersed workforce, with L&D offerings.
• Stay informed about trends and developments within the apprenticeships market, providing valuable insights for the Partnership team.
• Assist in the development of market-specific strategies to maintain a competitive edge and respond to evolving industry needs.
• Foster collaboration between partnership, operational, marketing, and product teams to ensure alignment on messaging, promotions, and product updates within the apprenticeships market.
• Act as a liaison between partnerships and other departments, facilitating communication and addressing challenges for seamless operations.

What will you bring to the role?

• Proven experience of operating successfully in a sales role including pitching proposals to internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to understand customer business goals and how to create strategies to achieve them.
• Experience of working in a customer focused environment to deliver high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Familiarity of working in a high demand environment delivering to targets and tight deadlines
• Excellent communication, presenting and listening skills.
• Understanding of the apprenticeships market with the ability to translate market insights into effective sales strategies.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.

Giving back to you – our Group Benefits

• 25 days' holiday rising with service and your birthday off.
• Holiday purchase scheme for those life changing trips and moments.
• Long service reward and recognition
• Enhanced Pension
• Group Life Assurance – 3 x Annual salary
• Unlimited access to six Smart Health services including a 24/7 virtual GP
• Health Cash Plan
• Access to curated wellbeing content and our Employee Assistance Programme
• Perkbox
• To support your work/life balance we give you the opportunity of flexibility within our core working hours (9.00 – 5.30).
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced Maternity/Shared Parental and Adoption packages leave
• A reward programme and recognition programme and annual awards event

Who are Lifetime Training: 

We are one of the UK’s leading Apprenticeship providers, we help individuals and businesses realise their potential by delivering training that builds a better future for the industries in which we deliver.

Most importantly, we’re all about a democracy of opportunity so we put quality first, we work collaboratively, and we embrace change.

This applies as much to our people as it does to our employer partners and learners.

Our people are passionate about what they do and dedicate themselves to life-changing opportunities for themselves, our learners and our partners

Lifetime Training is part of the Lifetime Training Group. As a Group we are passionate about learning and creating life changing opportunities for our learners.  We are made up of four unique businesses, two of which focus on apprentice training across a range of professions, one that focusses on awarding qualifications, and one which develops the awarding software.