Head Of Business Development

Lillyhall, United Kingdom

October 2021 - Present

Gen2 are an Ofsted Outstanding Grade 1 training organisation, based in the North West of England. The company was originally established in June 2000 by 5 partner companies, Amec, Sellafield Ltd , TATA Steel, Iggesund Paperboard and Innovia Films. In May 2017 Gen2 joined the City & Guilds Group. Our ethos focuses on providing high quality employer and learner responsive training and educational programmes. We work with over 350 employers at any one time and in the last seventeen years, over 3,500 apprentices have been trained by Gen2, with 92.5% of them progressing into full-time employment with their employer once training has been completed. We currently have in learning over 13,50 Apprentices, 300 Adult learners, 350 Higher Education learners and deliver in excess of 10,000 delegate days on short courses at fice training centres across Cumbria at; Energus, Lillyhall, Sellafield, Carlisle and Furness. We are committed to increasing skills levels and reducing skills gaps in the population from level 2 to 6 through apprenticeships and adult training and higher education routes. Gen2 offers a wide range of learning and development opportunities, which respond to socio-economic, employer, sector and regeneration needs. Gen2 actively supports the creation of sustainable employment through high quality apprentice, adult and higher education training.