Job Introduction
Are you looking for a career that makes a real difference? A role with Achieve together might be the perfect opportunity for a long-lasting, rewarding career in the social care sector.
We are looking for team members who are passionate about supporting people, helping our Operations teams deliver excellent care and support, and celebrating achievements.
Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Head of Growth and Partnerships to join our community hub team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in supporting the organisation's core operations and ensuring the efficient and effective delivery of services.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide senior commercial leadership for a designated area, shaping and delivering a forward-looking growth strategy that aligns operational provision with customer need, market opportunity and organisational priorities. The role will act as a strategic partner to Operations, leading and developing the commercial sales team to generate new referrals, improve conversion and occupancy performance, and embed commercial excellence across the allocated area. A key focus will be refining home identities, specialisms and market positioning so the offer is clear, compelling and responsive to commissioners, families and partners.
Requirements:
• Significant senior commercial, sales leadership, business development or strategic partnership experience, ideally within health, social care, supported living, housing or a complex multi-site environment.
• Proven ability to develop and execute growth strategies that deliver measurable improvements in referrals, occupancy, conversion, revenue and customer engagement.
• Strong experience of leading and developing sales, business relationship or commercial teams, with the ability to set clear priorities, build capability and embed a high-performance culture.
• Excellent business partnering skills, with the credibility to work alongside senior operational leaders and translate operational priorities into commercial action.
• Strong understanding of commissioner, local authority, Integrated Care Board and wider referral pathways, with the ability to influence and build trusted strategic relationships.
• Commercially astute, data-led and strategically minded, with the ability to use insight to shape positioning, future planning and decision-making.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills, with confidence presenting recommendations to senior stakeholders.
Benefits:
At Achieve together we offer a range of exciting benefits, such as:
- Career progression and training opportunities
- Employee discount schemes across a range of retailers and services,
- Stream- a financial health app that gives you the ability to receive optional pay advances
- Life Assurance
For all our amazing benefits please visit here: Rewards and Benefits - Achieve together
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Passion for positively shaping lives is just as important to us as your experience. Building on your existing knowledge we will give you all the training and support that you need. You just need an appetite for learning and a real desire to make a difference to peoples’ lives. So, if you want to start, or continue your career journey in care with us, we want to hear from you!
We regularly review our job adverts to ensure they reflect current hiring needs. In some cases, adverts may close earlier than the stated deadline if we receive sufficient applications or the role is filled. Conversely, some adverts may remain open beyond the original closing date until the position is successfully filled. This approach helps us attract the best talent while maintaining flexibility in our recruitment process.
To ensure fair consideration and timely progression, internal applicants should submit their applications no later than the end of the first week after the role is advertised. Applications received after this point may not be guaranteed review.
