Head of Partnerships

About the Company

KTS Ventures is growing. We are looking for a commercially sharp Head of New Partnerships to help us attract, assess, onboard and support the next generation of KTS Ventures franchise recruiters.

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About the Role

This is not a standard internal recruitment role. It is a blend of recruitment, business development, market mapping, partnership sales, onboarding and early franchisee success.

Responsibilities

• Proactively find experienced contract recruiters across the UK.
• Map the recruitment market and identify strong potential franchise partners.
• Track recruiters who are open to work, considering a move or showing signs they may want a different career path.
• Build long-term relationships with recruiters who may not be ready today but could be ready soon.
• Open conversations by phone, LinkedIn, email and face to face.
• Sell the KTS Ventures model clearly, honestly and professionally.
• Screen prospects for commercial ability, recruitment experience, resilience and franchise fit.
• Help prospective partners shape a focused niche using the KTS Triple-Lock approach.
• Prepare high-quality handovers to the CEO, Board and leadership team.
• Support new franchisees through contract signing, onboarding and their first few months on the KTS platform.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of recruitment, agency recruitment, internal recruitment, rec2rec, talent acquisition or recruitment sales experience.

Required Skills

• Strong new business confidence and a real appetite for outreach.
• Excellent phone manner and the ability to open career/business conversations with recruiters.
• Strong LinkedIn sourcing and market mapping skills.
• A good understanding of how recruiters think, what motivates them and why they may want a different route.
• The ability to spot commercial potential in people.
• Strong organisation and follow-up discipline.
• Confidence dealing with senior stakeholders.
• The maturity to explain a franchise/profit-share model without overpromising.

Preferred Skills

• You enjoy opening doors and creating conversations.
• You like selling an opportunity, not just filling a vacancy.
• You are confident speaking to recruiters about their career, earnings, lifestyle and ambition.
• You can build a pipeline and stay close to people over time.
• You are commercially minded and like being rewarded for outcomes.
• You want visibility with the CEO and Board and the chance to influence growth.

Pay range and compensation package

• GBP 30,000 to GBP 35,000 basic salary DOE.
• GBP 65,000 to GBP 75,000 OTE.
• Incentives for onboarding new franchise partners.
• Additional upside when onboarded partners make their first placement within 3 months.
• Override opportunity on initial gross profit generated by onboarded franchisees in their first 6 months.
• Remote-first working model with regular leadership access.

This is a chance to help build the franchise growth engine of KTS Ventures. You will not just be booking interviews. You will be identifying future business owners, shaping their first steps, supporting their launch and helping build a national network of high-performing contract recruitment partners. xwzovoh For the right person, this is a career-defining opportunity to sit close to leadership, influence growth and be rewarded for real commercial outcomes.