Senior Partnership Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Lead the growth of the Work Experience Finder by recruiting, onboarding, and managing strategic partners throughout the UK.

• Cultivate and maintain strategic partnerships with both regional and national entities.

• Develop, oversee, and convert a pipeline of partnerships to meet established targets.

• Discover and secure new partnership opportunities.

• Negotiate partnership contracts, agreements, and funding arrangements.

• Represent Futures For All at various events, conferences, and stakeholder meetings.

• Create regional employer engagement strategies in collaboration with partners.

• Present proposals, demonstrations, and presentations to senior stakeholders and decision-makers.

• Work closely with Development, Marketing, Programme, Delivery, and Technology teams.

• Enhance employer engagement through established partner networks.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to partners, identifying opportunities for relationship growth.

• Oversee the onboarding process of new partners until operational delivery.

• Track partnership performance against KPIs and report on potential risks and opportunities.

• Maintain precise CRM records, partnership forecasts, and pipeline reports.

• Ensure that safeguarding best practices are integrated into all organizational activities.

• Manage ongoing operational relationships, ensuring that contractual obligations, service standards, and outcomes are met.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in partnership development, business development, account management, or stakeholder engagement.

• Proven ability to develop and manage strategic partnerships with public sector organizations, education providers, employers, or membership entities.

• Clear track record of generating income, developing commercial opportunities, and meeting partnership or sales targets.

• Exceptional presentation, communication, and influencing abilities, with comfort in presenting to senior leaders and external stakeholders.

• Experience in negotiating contracts, partnership agreements, or funding arrangements.

• Skilled in building, managing, and reporting on a sales or partnership pipeline using a CRM.

• Strong organizational skills, with the capacity to manage multiple priorities and projects concurrently.

• Willingness to travel across the UK regularly, often weekly, and represent the organization at external meetings and events.

• Excellent relationship management skills, with the ability to influence and establish credibility at all levels.

• Experience in the education, employability, careers, or charity sectors.

• Familiarity with Careers Hubs, Combined Authorities, Local Authorities, Employer Representative Bodies, and business networks.

• Background in employer engagement, workforce development, or partnership programs.

• Understanding of grant-funded programs and partnership delivery.

• Knowledge of work experience, careers education, or social mobility initiatives.

• Right to work in the UK.

• Candidates will be subject to a DBS check.

🏝️ Benefits

• 25 days of annual leave in addition to bank holidays.

• A morning off on your birthday.

• £500 annual professional development fund.

• Option to buy extra annual leave each year.

• A 'Winter shutdown' period, allowing you to take time off between Christmas and New Year's Eve without using annual leave.

• Early finish at 3:30 PM on the Friday before all bank holidays.

• 22.2 hours of volunteering days annually.

• Support for home office setup.

• Enhanced sick pay.

• Enhanced family-friendly leave.

• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme.