Position: University Partnerships Manager
Location: Offices in Newbury (RG14) – remote role
Salary: up to £40,000 basic salary (+ bonus/commission structure)
Hours: Monday – Friday (09:00 – 17:30) with the requirement to attend events outside these hours
Experience: Business Development, Sales, Field Sales, Lead Generation, New Business, B2B, B2C, Education Sales, University Sales, Travel Sales, Charity, Purposeful Business, Volunteering 

Opportunity:   

Thompson & Terry Recruitment are working with a global business with their UK head offices based in Newbury who are looking to recruit a confident and enthusiastic University Partnerships Manager to build and maintain relationships with universities across the UK and recruit students for truly once-in-a-lifetime overseas volunteering trips.  

As a University Partnerships Manager, it will be your responsibility to manage relationships with universities, promote overseas volunteering programmes by engaging with students about the unique opportunities available, but also to mentor, support and coach the existing sales and marketing team. 

This University Partnerships Manager vacancy is well-suited to an energetic, outgoing and confident candidate who has previous experience within the sector and is looking to join a business that is truly purposeful in what they do. Whilst the role is largely sales-focused, the successful candidate will also be involved in the management, coaching and development of the wider commercial team.  

The Company:   

Thompson & Terry Recruitment are working with a purposeful business with their UK offices based in Newbury who work with schools, universities and students to create truly once-in-a-lifetime overseas volunteering opportunities.  

The whole business is socially driven and lives by a set of strong core values, with all of their trips supporting their charity, so it is important the successful candidate completely buys into this.  

Our client are looking to recruit a confident University Partnerships Manager to join their business with the opportunity to work remotely and manager own workload but with 1-2 days in the office per month.  

Requirements:   

• Highly ambitious and proactive with a drive to build and maintain existing relationships but also to make sales  
• A strong and engaging communicator with excellent written and verbal communication skills   
• A real team player with the ability and autonomy to manage a varied workload and multitask  
• Previous experience of working with young people to volunteer overseas and/or working closely with universities to engage with their students   

Thompson & Terry Ltd, trading as Thompson & Terry Recruitment (thompsonandterry.co.uk), are an Abingdon based recruitment agency specialising in placing candidates into jobs in Oxford and across Oxfordshire. We typically source candidates into Office Administration Jobs, Sales Jobs and Marketing Jobs. No terminology used in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of any of the protected characteristics.   

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a high volume of applications, if you have not heard from us within 5 working days, unfortunately, your application has been unsuccessful at this time.