Placement Manager Location:Dublin / Hybrid Salary: €41,308 - €44,679 The Role This role offers a hands-on experience in recruitment and relationship management, providing a valuable opportunity to gain deep insight into organisations across Ireland. Your primary focus will be to support our learners in securing employmenteither through vacancies sourced by our clients or through self-directed applications. This involves understanding the specific needs of our employer partners and aligning those requirements with the right talent from our learner cohorts. In doing so, you'll collaborate closely with our Senior Strategic Account Manager to cultivate strong, lasting relationships with employers, positioning the client as their go-to partner for talent sourcing. Additionally, you'll play a key role in empowering individuals to achieve transformative career outcomes by helping them engage with self-sourced employers, prepare for interviews, and successfully transition into new roles. Main Areas of Responsibility Graduate management Provide high-quality career advice, 1-2-1 and via workshops. Managing and maintaining high levels of Engagement of the bench Understand the skill set and job preferences of graduates to successfully match them to available opportunities Support Strategic Account Managers in running events which connect employers to our grads Prepare learners for the opportunities that have been matched to by ensuring Learners have the relevant information and support. At times deliver mock interviews and feedback for development and growth Promote job opportunities via Microsoft Teams Track job retainment and capturing success stories Offer pastoral support for graduates Account Management & growth Upon graduation of each cohort, manage employers to ensure there is a robust interview and feedback mechanism in place. Support with funding requirements by tracking Interviews, placements and securing evidence from grads and employers. Be the point of escalation for any issues the employer raises, or any issues the cohorts are experiencing with regards to interviews / placements. Organise and collect employer feedback, case studies and interviews. Secure ongoing commitment from existing employers by successfully converting vacancies to hires, in line with targets. Track job placements against targets and implement process improvements to enhance placement outcomes. Attend key events and represent clients Interests when dealing with Key Stakeholders Contribute to the ongoing development and account management processes. Help develop clients understanding of the needs and attributes of Employers you work with and feed this back to internal teams as appropriate. Contribute to the development of ROI frameworks, tools and data collection processes for existing and new job roles and oversee any necessary data collection process involving employers. Safeguarding Respond to all safeguarding concerns per the Safeguarding Policy, Involving other professionals as necessary. Record all concerns in the Safeguarding log as per Safeguarding Policy Experience Required Recruitment background- in particular experience screening and evaluating candidates is essential. Experience with a recruitment agency is desirable, though not essential. The ability to communicate to a broad mix of stakeholders. If you have had some experience in building relationships with clients in a recruitment setting, its an advantage. Managing senior stakeholder relationships. You will be connecting regularly with heads of departments. The ability to connect with and inspire young people. You will regularly connect with young jobseekers and support them to achieve their career goals. Experience of Safeguarding and knowing when to report a concern. Exposure to working in a fast-paced start-up or entrepreneurial environment, as well as some evidence of having worked independently. Benefits Work alongside some of the best minds to tackle one of the most pressing issues of our time - youth unemployment. Opportunity to make your mark - you'll have a lot of autonomy to bring the clients blueprint to life in a way that makes sense for your region. Opportunity to get involved with a range of activities and varied projects - we're a small team, so there's lots of opportunities to get involved in projects across the whole organisation. Flexible and remote working - we try to accommodate everyone's preferred working pattern / preferences. Performance bonus. For more information, please apply through the link provided for the attention of Emma Wilde or call Osborne Recruitment on. If you are interested in finding out more about the above role and would like to be considered for this or other suitable roles that we may have available for your skill set please attach your CV via the link provided. Please submit your updated CV in Word Format. If you are living in Ireland and hold a VALID WORK PERMIT, we would love to hear from you, if however, you do not hold a valid work permit unfortunately we will not be in a position to assist you with your job search. Osborne are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. #INDOSB1 #INDWILDE