Strategic Growth & Sector Engagement Manager

Permanent, Full time: 35 hours per week 

Salary: up to £70,000 + Car Allowance + Benefits

Home based in England, Scotland or Wales with regular national travel and occasional international travel

About the role

We are looking for a Strategic Growth & Sector Engagement Manager to join the Enginuity Charity team, reporting to the Group Strategy and Transformation Director. This is a senior role responsible for developing and managing high-value strategic partnerships and employer engagement across the engineering and manufacturing sector. The role is central to delivering Enginuity’s strategy by driving engagement that increases the impact of its charitable projects, products, and services, while also generating sustainable income to support long-term organisational growth.

You will work closely with employers, sector bodies and wider stakeholders to improve skills supply, workforce capability and inclusion, particularly for small and medium sized employers and underserved groups. Alongside this, you will play an important role in securing funding through grants, tenders and partnerships, ensuring Enginuity can continue to grow and respond to sector needs in a sustainable way.

What you’ll be doing

You will lead the development and delivery of a strategic partnerships and employer engagement approach that responds to skills challenges across the engineering and manufacturing sector and supports Enginuity’s charitable objectives. This includes building and maintaining strong relationships with employers, funders, and industry organisations. Engagement with government bodies will be undertaken in collaboration with the Policy & Public Affairs team.

You will also use insight from these partnerships to shape and inform Enginuity’s charitable projects, products, and services, while growing and strengthening the Enginuity Alliance community.

A key part of the role involves identifying and securing funding opportunities, including grants, tenders, and commissioned work. You will work with partners to develop compelling proposals and create new income-generating opportunities for the organisation. You will also oversee projects and initiatives arising from these partnerships, which will be delivered by the Impact & Delivery and Project Management Team , ensuring they are effectively executed and deliver clear, meaningful, and measurable impact.

You will also play a visible role across the sector, representing Enginuity at events, roundtables and conferences, and helping to strengthen its reputation as a trusted voice in skills. This includes working with marketing to support external communications, contributing insight and helping to shape engagement activity across Enginuity networks and communities such as the Enginuity Alliance.

Alongside this, you will lead and develop a team of Sector Engagement Leads, supporting their performance and creating a collaborative, high performing environment. You will ensure clear direction, strong communication and a consistent focus on delivering impact across all activity.

What we’re looking for

First and foremost you will have experience in a similar role, with a strong track record of leading teams and delivering results. You will be confident communicating with senior stakeholders and able to present clearly and credibly about the sector, Enginuity’s work and its products and services.

You will be a strong relationship builder, with experience of developing partnerships and engaging a wide range of stakeholders. A good understanding of the engineering and manufacturing sector, along with the wider education and skills landscape, will be important.

Strategic thinking is key, along with the ability to spot opportunities, connect ideas and develop practical plans. You will also bring commercial awareness, with experience of identifying opportunities, developing proposals and securing funding that supports both impact and sustainability.

Other skills which would be desirable however not needed to apply for the role

Experience working directly within the engineering and manufacturing sector would be beneficial, particularly where this supports a deeper understanding of industry challenges and opportunities. Familiarity with emerging technologies and their impact on skills would also be useful.

Experience engaging with the media, building sector communities or networks, and using CRM systems to manage and analyse stakeholder relationships would also add value in this role

Working for EAL/Enginuity Group

We offer a supportive work environment and a comprehensive benefits package.

Equity, diversity and inclusion are integral to everything we do, and we are committed to being an inclusive workplace where all colleagues feel valued and able to be themselves. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences.

Many of our team work flexibly, and we would be happy to discuss how flexible working could work for you and the business. If you are shortlisted for interview, please let us know so we can explore this together.

We also welcome discussions about any reasonable adjustments that may support you throughout the recruitment process.

Remote/home based working at Enginuity

Your working hours will be 35 per week, working 9am until 5pm with a 1 hour lunch.

As a home-based employee you will fulfil your job responsibilities from home. Interactions with work and colleagues will be from a virtual environment. Depending on your role you will be required to either have some occasional travel or UK national travel. This travel will be required to allow you to fulfil different parts of your role and to meet colleagues on a quarterly basis. Other meetings that might require you to travel are events such as all colleague away days, training, and project work. Please review the advert to gain this insight to how much travel is expected. Also, ask at interview stage to confirm the frequency of travel and distance.

The company will provide you with the IT equipment required to carry out your role but it is a requirement that you provide all the necessary facilities for working from home; including broadband, home office, desk and chair.

Our benefits include:

• Competitive externally benchmarked salaries

• A defined contribution pension (4.5% employer/employee contribution).

• 25 days paid holiday (increasing after 1 years’ service to 26 days and 2 years to 27 days), plus bank holidays.

• 3 additional paid days for company shutdown over Christmas and New Year

• A holiday buy scheme - option to buy up 5 days extra days holiday per year

• Life assurance of 2x your salary

• A Healthcare Cash Plan so you can claim back the costs of everyday health care such as dental, optical and physiotherapy. Plus, a virtual 24 hour GP service.

• Paid membership of a Professional Body to support your continuous development.

• An Employee Assistance Programme offering free confidential advice and support

• Wellbeing programmes, access to a free wellbeing website and wellbeing app

• Paid time off to volunteer in your local community or to support wider charitable causes

• A comprehensive discounts and benefits scheme, with discounts at many high street and online retailers

• Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependant leave

• Access to training and development opportunities

About Us

The Enginuity Group exists to find new ways to close skills gaps in UK engineering and manufacturing in order to create a more productive sector at the forefront of designing, making and maintaining the solutions to society’s greatest challenges. Enginuity is a charity that has created a ‘common language’ for engineering and manufacturing occupation and skills data, to help employers have the right skills at the right time to adapt faster to change.

We use this unique approach to sector data, alongside our deep understanding of the skills needs of UK engineering and manufacturing businesses, to:

• support engineering and manufacturing employers in discovering new sources of skills;

• provide insights and recommendations on the skills that are increasingly in demand so businesses, sectors and government can plan ahead;

• and alongside EAL, the Enginuity Group's specialist Awarding Organisation, End Point Assessment Organisation and skills partner for industry, connect organisations to ensure technical education is fit for purpose and keeps pace with changing industry needs, new technologies and the net-zero transition.

Further Information

If you have any questions, a request for further information, or would like to request this information in an alternative format, our Recruitment Team will be happy to help. Email us at recruitment@enginuity.org.

As part of our commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion, you’ll receive our Equal Opportunities Survey. We’d greatly appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to complete it - it helps us monitor and improve our recruitment practices.

We’re unable support UK relocation or to sponsor a visa for this role.

Depending on the volume of applications, the closing date for this position may be extended or brought forward.