Corporate Partnerships Lead
Based: Woodstock, Oxfordshire
Hours: Full-time
Contract: Permanent
Salary band: £30,000 - £47,395 gross per annum. The employer operates broad salary bands that accommodate roles at different levels of experience and responsibility. Starting salary will be determined according to the successful candidate's skills, experience and fit for the role.
About The Employer
Our client is a national charity supporting people in rural areas to set up and run successful community-owned businesses. These businesses, from shops and pubs to woodlands and farms, provide vital services, create local jobs, strengthen rural economies and bring people together. The organisation has championed community ownership for over 100 years because it delivers thriving, inclusive and resilient places.
About the Role
The employer is looking for a Corporate Partnerships Lead to grow thier corporate partnerships programme and secure new income that supports resilient, thriving and inclusive rural communities across the UK.
In this strategic and commercially focused role, you'll build relationships with senior decision-makers, develop compelling partnership propositions and secure support through values-led partnerships, commercial collaborations and sponsorship opportunities. You'll create opportunities that deliver mutual benefit for corporate partners, the organisation and their network of community-owned businesses.
You'll lead a small partnerships team, manage a pipeline of prospects and work across the organisation to maximise partnership opportunities. Representing the organisation at a senior level, you'll be confident building relationships, negotiating agreements and securing long-term support.
This role is ideal for an experienced partnerships, fundraising or business development professional with a strong track record of generating income, developing strategic relationships and achieving ambitious targets.
The successful candidate should have the following experience:
- A strong track record in corporate partnerships, B2B sales, sponsorship, business development, commercial account management or a related field.
- Experience developing high-quality proposals, pitches or tender responses.
- Experience managing a sales, fundraising or partnership pipeline through a CRM system.
- Ability to analyse financial and commercial information.
- Demonstrable success in generating new business and securing significant income against financial targets.
- Experience engaging, influencing and negotiating with senior corporate decision-makers, supported by excellent relationship-building and presentation skills.
- Strong commercial judgement and the ability to understand business needs and develop propositions that create mutual value.
- An entrepreneurial and proactive approach, with the ability to identify opportunities and progress them from initial conversation through to agreement and delivery.
- A disciplined approach to pipeline management, prioritisation and financial forecasting.
- Ability to lead and support a colleague while working collaboratively across a wider organisation.
Join this employer and help create partnerships that strengthen community-owned businesses and deliver positive impact for rural communities.
Closing date for applications: 9am Monday 12 October
Interview date: w/c 19 October at the organisation's offices in Woodstock
Interested?
To apply, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form where you can find out more information and complete your application by following the instructions.
The employer is committed to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and their approach goes beyond ‘protected characteristics’ to thinking more broadly about inclusion. Every individual will think and feel differently and they believe that these differences should be embraced, and individual needs taken into account. Additionally, the makeup of the rural communities the organisation works with leads to their own particular diversity and exclusion challenges and opportunities compared to urban areas. The employer's commitment to EDI, both internally and externally, has been tailored to the organisation and the communities they serve.
No agencies please.
