Corporate Partnerships Manager

E8surveys.com; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Regional Corporate Partnerships Manager to join their dynamic team. This part-time role offers flexibility while making a significant impact in the realm of corporate fundraising. You will be instrumental in securing high-value partnerships that drive essential funding for life-saving research. This position requires excellent communication and networking skills, as well as a proven track record in partnership development. If you are a strategic thinker with a results-driven mindset, this opportunity allows you to work autonomously while contributing to a mission that truly matters.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Travel expense reimbursement

Compensatory time off for extra hours

Potential for permanent position after contract

Qualifications

• Experience in corporate fundraising and securing high-value partnerships.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Win and create new partnerships for British Heart Foundation.
• Support community fundraising teams to maximize corporate partnerships.

Skills

Fundraising

Partnership Development

Sales Cycle Management

Communication Skills

Networking

Relationship Building

Proposal Writing

Presentation Skills

Strategic Thinking

Job description

Are you an experienced corporate fundraiser with a proven track record of winning significant partnerships of high value? Are you looking for a role with flexibility whilst making a real impact?

We are looking for a part-time (job share) Regional Corporate Partnerships Manager to help us inspire organisations to fund British Heart Foundation (BHF)’s life-saving research and support our vision of a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.

About the role

As a Regional Corporate Partnerships Manager, you'll make a mark on our Corporate Partnerships team, winning and creating exciting new partnerships for BHF. In this role, you’ll be an essential member of the Corporate Partnerships Team, playing an integral role in shaping the future of our partnerships, ensuring targets for new business acquisition and subsequent account management are achieved.

Additionally, you will support, empower, and enable the community fundraising teams to maximise their success in winning, retaining, and growing corporate partnerships.

Working arrangements

This part-time 17 hour per week role will join a job share with an existing employee. Your working days will be Wednesday (full day), Thursday (full day), and Friday (morning). This is initially a 6-month Fixed Term Contract with potential to be made permanent. We are ideally looking to start someone in the role in March 2025.

This is a field-based role with some travel (approximately 2-3 trips per month) to meet with partners, prospects, and Community Fundraising teams across Scotland, the North, and North West of England (from Cumbria to Nantwich, including Manchester, Liverpool, and Warrington). Additionally, there will be occasional travel to Northern Ireland and Wales. You’ll be reimbursed for all reasonable travel expenses.

As this is a regional role and given the current pipeline of opportunities, we are looking for candidates who live in the North West of England, Scotland, or Wales.

On occasion, you may also be required to work flexibly to support evening and weekend activity. Where this is the case, you will be compensated for this with time off in lieu.

About you

As our perfect candidate, you bring end-to-end experience of identifying a partnership opportunity, taking the prospect through the sales cycle, and securing the corporate partnership. You have demonstrable experience in thinking commercially and winning high-value opportunities.

With excellent communication, networking, influencing, and relationship-building skills, you have proven experience of working with others to secure significant bids, sharing skills and experiences with those around you.

A results-oriented go-getter, you are always willing to pick up the phone and reach out to cold prospects and have a demonstrable track record of building and writing partnership proposals and delivering presentations to board-level decision makers.

Integral to coming into this role is your experience in winning new business, whether it’s from working for a charity in corporate partnerships or in the private sector in a sales role.

A strategic thinker, you’ll be brimming with innovative and creative ways to win new business. You'll also be confident in presenting to internal and external stakeholders at all levels and have experience of developing CRM/product promotion and sponsorship partnerships.

You can work under your own initiative from a home base while still contributing positively to the regional teams.

It is desirable (although not essential) for you to have a full UK driving licence and access to a car.

Interview process

We plan to have a two-stage interview. The first stage is planned for 3rd Feb via MS Teams.