Industry Connections Manager

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Ownership:

• Employer adoption and successful use of EnterpriseKC's full digital architecture and customized talent supply chains.
• Employer relationships, business development, and strategic talent partnerships.
• Workforce-demand intelligence and industry trend analysis.
• Employer data, insights, and reporting.
• Employer participation in regional workforce initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Recruit, onboard, and grow employer use of EnterpriseKC's full digital architecture, including TalentSphere, DataSphere, the Heartland Cyber Range, and related tools, to build and activate customized talent supply chains.
• Build, manage, and grow strategic relationships with regional employers through proactive outreach and consultative engagement.
• Capture hiring demand, priority roles, skills requirements, and emerging workforce trends.
• Produce employer intelligence reports and recommendations for EnterpriseKC leadership.
• Maintain accurate employer data and integrate insights, activities, and outcomes into DataSphere.
• Connect employers to Pillar 3 internships, apprenticeships, mentoring, and experiential learning.
• Provide Pillar 8 with reliable employer data, trend analysis, and performance insights.
• Represent the voice of industry across EnterpriseKC strategy and regional initiatives.

General Responsibilities

• Maintain timely employer records, reports, dashboards, and follow-up.
• Analyze employer feedback and identify patterns, gaps, and opportunities for relationship growth.
• Collaborate across EnterpriseKC Pillars and external partners.
• Support strategic initiatives, grants, presentations, and special projects.

Expected Outcomes:

• Employers adopt and consistently use EnterpriseKC's full digital architecture for workforce planning, talent access, and engagement.
• Employer intelligence directly informs regional workforce strategy.
• EnterpriseKC becomes a trusted source of industry insight and workforce demand.
• DataSphere provides timely, accurate employer intelligence and performance visibility.
• Employer relationships produce measurable talent, partnership, placement, and business-development outcomes.
• Customized talent supply chains are activated for priority roles, producing measurable progress from validated demand to talent matches and placements.

Key Metrics:

• Employer adoption and utilization across EnterpriseKC's full digital architecture.
• Active and new strategic employer partnerships, including pipeline growth and conversion.
• Employer intelligence reports and demand trends identified.
• DataSphere data quality, completeness, and reporting accuracy.
• Customized talent supply chains activated, priority roles and specifications defined, and resulting talent matches, interviews, and placements.
• Employer satisfaction, prospect-to-partner conversion, and employer-to-placement conversion.

Attributes:

• Strategic, curious, and naturally analytical.
• Trusted relationship builder, executive and persuasive communicator
• Consultative business developer.
• Data-driven, organized, results oriented, and comfortable with measurable growth goals.
• Collaborative and comfortable working across systems and sectors.
• Passionate about shaping the future workforce of the Region.

Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to build, manage, and grow high-value employer relationships.
• Ability to translate discovery conversations and data into clear workforce insights and partnership opportunities.
• Strong research, analysis, reporting, and presentation skills.
• Proficiency with EnterpriseKC's digital architecture, including DataSphere, TalentSphere, the Heartland Cyber Range, and data-visualization tools.
• Ability to influence strategy, communicate value, and coordinate work across multiple Pillars.
• Clear, persuasive, and concise verbal and written communication skills.