Sales and Account Manager (Apprenticeships)
Ref: 2526/104
Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: £44,918 per annum. Plus generous benefits, including:
• 50 days annual leave per year (including bank holidays and efficiency closures)
• Generous Occupational Pension Scheme
Are you a driven, commercially minded professional with a passion for building partnerships and shaping workforce development?
York College is looking for a Sales & Account Manager (Apprenticeships) to lead our apprenticeship growth strategy and strengthen relationships with employers across the region.
What you’ll do:
• Drive apprenticeship sales growth through strategic employer engagement and innovative sales strategies.
• Manage key employer accounts, ensuring exceptional service and long-term partnerships.
• Develop and implement a robust sales pipeline using CRM tools to meet and exceed targets.
• Collaborate with curriculum teams to align apprenticeship offerings with industry needs.
• Represent York College at events and forums to raise the profile of our apprenticeship provision.
What we’re looking for:
• Proven experience in sales and meeting targets, ideally within apprenticeships or education.
• Strong relationship-building skills and the ability to influence at all levels.
• Commercial awareness and a proactive approach to identifying new opportunities.
• Excellent communication, organisational, and IT skills.
• Knowledge of the FE sector and apprenticeship funding would be desirable.
If you would like to apply for this post please submit your application as soon as possible, as applications will be reviewed as they are received.
About the College
We are a deeply ambitious organisation that is committed to delivering the highest quality of provision to the communities we serve. Our 2025-2030 Strategic Plan is clear, we want to be the best 16-to-18 college in the country.
York College & University Centre is the largest further education college in the region, offering a comprehensive range of courses from Entry Level to degree level. We are committed to upholding our values of ambition, care, respect and success, and are dedicated to providing the highest standards of education and support to all our students and apprentices.
We have approximately 4,200 school leavers, 1,200 apprentices, 2,000 adult students, and 400 higher-level students studying with us.
With a vibrant working environment, excellent transport links to the city centre and surrounding area, plus on-site parking, you will find York College to be fulfilling and supportive place to work. As a member of College staff you will have full use of the College facilities including free gym membership at the Athletic Suite, our brand new state of the art gym.
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Want to know more?
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Jackson Armstrong, Director of Curriculum: Apprenticeships, Higher and Technical, at or .
Staff benefits & Important notices
You can find full details on our job vacancies page, just below the current vacancies: Be sure to explore the range of additional benefits and perks that make York College a brilliant place to work.
Please note that we do not accept CV applications. If you are viewing this vacancy through any job board then please go to our website and apply using our application form.
Most correspondence regarding vacancies will be sent via email, so please check your emails regularly for updates on your application. We would also advise checking your junk/spam folder, as some emails may end up here depending on your mail provider settings.
Interview process
We want to be transparent about our interview process and timescales. Shortlisted candidates will first be invited to a 30 minute informal Microsoft Teams call on Friday 22nd May. Following this, successful candidates will be asked to submit a short video response on a specific topic (to be confirmed) by 26th May. Videos will be reviewed and, from this, a final shortlist will be selected and invited to a formal interview on 4th June. As we will be progressing candidates at each stage, feedback and decisions will be made promptly to meet our tight timelines and we will not be able to consider requests for changes to these dates.
Closing date: 18 May 2026, 9.00am
Interview date: See above (interview process section)
