Employer Relations & Insights Manager (UK)

About us:

The King’s community is dedicated to the service of society. King’s Strategy 2030 sets out our vision for the future, ‘in service of society through academic excellence’. Our commitment to student success in and beyond the university ensures consistently excellent, research-driven and future-focused education that enables every student to succeed with us and to build fulfilling futures beyond graduation.

King’s Careers & Employability (KC&E) empowers over 40,000 students, researchers, and alumni to succeed after university. As a dynamic, cross-institutional service, we deliver inclusive, innovative, and future-focused support through digital, campus-based, and global initiatives. By integrating employability across the student experience, and collaborating with internal and external partners, KC&E equips our community with the skills, confidence, and connections to shape meaningful futures and make a lasting impact.

We pride ourselves on being the trusted partner of choice in sourcing and developing diverse talent for organisations around the world. Our Employer Relations & Development unit develop, manage and build relationships with corporates, SMEs, business chambers, non-profit organisations, NGOs and government agencies across all sectors on a global scale developing partnerships to enhance opportunity development and labour market intelligence for our stakeholders.

We are part of the Students & Education Directorate, a collection of wide-ranging professional services in place to support King’s students and their education. As a directorate we manage the student lifecycle from application to graduation and beyond, to ensure a coherent and seamless student experience and effective administrative processes, working closely with King’s faculties to do so.

About the role:

Developing our account management model, aligned within ‘employment sector clusters’, the postholder will maximise the range of career development opportunities provided to students, researchers and recent alumni, constantly seeking new ways to engage employers and developing long-term partnerships aligned to our ambitious institutional Strategy 2030.

Alongside, they will drive our domestic labour market intelligence gathering and ensure this is shared within the department, across King’s to our faculty and leadership and to our service users.

The successful candidate will be a natural networker, who enjoys building and maintaining relationships with key internal stakeholders (faculty and professional services colleagues) and a wide range of contacts across the corporate, public and third sectors. They will also be drawing on significant management and relationship development experience to manage and motivate their team in their own relationship management and opportunity development. They will be enthusiastic and opportunity-facing regarding internal and external collaboration and partnership, and agile in engaging and innovating with others to the benefit of our stakeholders.

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates looking to cultivate meaningful relationships, drive our labour market intelligence, generate opportunities and engagement with a breadth of external partners alongside delivering directly to our audiences through an innovative range of annual activities. This is an opportunity to grow your skills in business development, data-informed practice and insights gathering, student delivery and graduate recruitment.

We encourage applications from candidates who have experience from both within and outside of the Higher Education sector where they can demonstrate the skills needed to succeed in this role

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week) requiring regular engagement on campus, but we welcome applications from candidates seeking a flexible working pattern within necessary service operating norms. You will be offered an indefinite contract.

Some evening and weekend working will be necessary throughout the year.