Win the employer. Give a young person a start.
Most sales jobs end with a signed deal. In this one, the deal is where the result begins: a young person, aged 18 to 24, walking into a new job because you opened the door.
If you are comfortable calling someone who has never heard of us, and you know what to say next, you already have the skill. On the Youth Mentor Programme you aim it at employers across sectors, to create the jobs our young people can move into.
The opportunity
You will build a broad, active network of employers, find those with real vacancies, understand what they need and turn conversations into suitable roles. You will work closely with Employment Advisors, so the opportunities you win match what young people want and can do. Then you stay with each one through introductions, interviews and the job start.
This is a sales role, and it is visible. Targets are clear and they do not change, your results show in the pipeline for everyone to see, and nobody will do the prospecting for you. Not every employer will be receptive, so you will need resilience. You also need to want to understand the commercials: what the contract says and why we need the outputs. Wanting to help young people is a great start, but this is not a role to try and see how it goes. Colleagues and young people will be relying on what you bring.
What you’ll be doing
- Approaching employers who do not yet know us, by phone, online, face to face and through local Business Boards and Employer Networks.
- Understanding each employer’s workforce needs, then turning those conversations into quality vacancies across different sectors and locations.
- Keeping an accurate CRM pipeline, and using local labour-market information and young people’s demand to decide where to focus.
- Coordinating introductions, interviews and job starts with Employment Advisors, and keeping in touch after the start so concerns surface early.
- Delivering agreed employer engagement, opportunity and job start targets.
What you’ll need
Essential (you need all of these):
- Experience in B2B sales, account management, business development or a comparable employer-facing role, such as employer engagement or recruitment.
- Evidence of winning new business, customers or employer opportunities, and of converting conversations into measurable results.
- Experience of building a new prospect pipeline as well as managing established relationships.
- Confidence starting conversations with decision-makers, with a clear objective, good questions and something of value to offer.
- Willingness to handle the hard parts of sales, including negotiation, and to work autonomously and be assessed openly on what you deliver.
- Commercial awareness, balancing the number of opportunities with their quality and suitability for young people.
- Confident use of CRM systems and Microsoft 365, and the ability to read pipeline and conversion data.
- Being able to drive and cover the delivery area, including rural locations.
- No specific qualifications are required.
Desirable (welcome, not required): experience in employability, careers advice or publicly funded employment programmes; a sales, recruitment or business development qualification.
What good looks like in this role
These describe how we work. They are not extra requirements.
- Deliver results:You review your pipeline and conversion honestly, own it when a deal falls through, and change your approach.
- Business acumen:You understand how our contract works, how your results support it, and what is changing in your local employer market.
- People and Communication:You communicate clearly and respectfully with employers, colleagues and young people, and work closely with Employment Advisors.
- Get it right:You do what you say you will do, describe opportunities truthfully, and follow safeguarding and data requirements.
Why join Get Set UK?
Our work happens in UK communities. On the Youth Mentor Programme, the employers you win give young adults real jobs to apply for and start.
Get Set UK is part of Palladium, an international consulting and implementation business that operates in more than 50 countries. Palladium belongs to the Global Infrastructure Solutions Inc. (GISI) family of companies, which reported approximately $18 billion in annual revenue for 2025 and serves clients across more than 100 countries.
That scale gives our local work a stable footing and the ambition to keep growing. Own It and Be Ambitious shape how we work.
If you can open doors with employers who have never heard of us, and want the result to be a young person starting work, apply. Tell us what you personally won, built and converted, with the numbers.
What you get
- Annual leave: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service. For a full-time employee working five days per week in England, this normally equates to 33 days annually, five more than the statutory minimum. Entitlements are pro-rated where applicable.
- Healthcare and wellbeing: Vitality health and wellbeing support, including GP services, mental health support and physiotherapy.
- Employee assistance: A confidential 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, including up to six counselling sessions annually and legal, financial and debt guidance.
- Pension and shares:Workplace pension, with salary sacrifice available subject to eligibility and scheme rules. Access to a share buy scheme.
- Health and fitness:Up to 360 annually through IncentFit for eligible activities.
- Discounts:Wellbeing, retail, fitness, travel and mobile discounts, including 20% off eligible EE mobile plans.
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 applications against the essential criteria and the evidence provided. Keep your CV concise and show what you personally did, owned, improved or delivered.
Shortlisted applicants may complete a recruitment call, Teams conversation, role-related assessment or hiring-manager interview, potentially including a practical exercise.
Preparation, responsiveness and attention to detail matter. Any offer is conditional on satisfactory applicable pre-employment checks.
Safer recruitment
Get Set UK is committed to safer recruitment practices to help protect our colleagues and the people we support.
As part of our recruitment process, you will be required to provide a complete and accurate history of your employment and other relevant activity for the previous five years, including explanations for any gaps, together with referee details covering the previous three years.
Please ensure the information you provide is complete and accurate, as we may be unable to progress your application until our safer recruitment requirements have been completed.
Depending on the role, further pre-employment checks may include references, right-to-work checks, DBS checks and/or other appropriate vetting.
Eligibility and inclusion
You must have the full right to work in the UK. Sponsorship is not available for this role.
Get Set UK is a Disability Confident and Equal Opportunity Employer. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout recruitment.
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.
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