Global Partnerships Activation Lead

Accorcorpo; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Bank holidays

Pension

Life insurance

Health cash plan

Hotel experience opportunity

Volunteer time off

Cycle to work

Nursery Salary Sacrifice

Enhanced Family Leave

Employee discounts

Job summary

Accorcorpo is seeking a partnerships/events professional in Greater London to plan and deliver partner activations within a lifestyle hospitality context. You will coordinate calendars, manage budgets and work with a cross-functional team across brand, marketing and operations.

The role requires strong project management, excellent communication, and a proactive approach to turning events into marketing moments across UK and Europe.

Qualifications

• Around five years' experience in events, marketing, partnerships or a related role, ideally within hospitality, travel or a lifestyle brand.
• Hands-on experience planning and delivering events or brand activations.
• Strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to balance different priorities and keep work moving.
• Confidence managing budgets, tracking expenditure and monitoring spend against agreed commitments.
• Clear and thoughtful verbal and written communication skills.
• The ability to build trusted relationships with partners, property teams and colleagues at different levels and across different markets.
• Confidence using PowerPoint and Excel to create clear, polished presentations, trackers and performance summaries.
• A collaborative and practical approach, with a willingness to contribute wherever needed.
• Curiosity, openness to different ideas and a genuine interest in what we can achieve together.
• French language skills would be a bonus, but they aren't essential.
• Most importantly, you'll want to be part of a team that works hard, supports one another and has fun along the way.

Responsibilities

• Support the EVP of Global Partnerships with the planning and delivery of annual partner activation programmes, including reviewing contracts, maintaining activation trackers and coordinating deliverables.
• Develop and manage the annual partner activation calendar, keeping internal teams and property stakeholders informed of key timelines, milestones and deadlines.
• Coordinate partner activations from initial planning through to delivery and evaluation with clear project plans, timelines and deliverables.
• Coordinating communication between partners, properties and internal teams.
• Delivering agreed marketing activity across relevant channels and touchpoints.
• Managing on-site partner activity where needed.
• Creating post-activation recap decks and performance summaries.
• Manage and track activation budgets, monitor expenditure and align activity with financial guidelines.
• Work with brand, marketing, operations and property teams to deliver activations consistently and to a high standard.
• Help turn partner events and activations into meaningful marketing moments and extend their reach.
• Support partnership compliance across UK and European properties, reviewing delivery against contracts and brand standards.
• Build strong relationships with local operations teams to identify gaps and propose solutions.
• Collect and analyse property consumption data to understand performance and identify improvement opportunities.
• Support the smooth run of the Partnerships team, including travel coordination and expense reconciliation.
• Travel to properties and partner events as needed, including quarterly UK travel and occasional international trips.

Skills

Event planning

Project management

Budget management

Stakeholder management

Communication

PowerPoint

Excel

Travel coordination

Collaboration

Curiosity

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

Accorcorpo is seeking a partnerships/events professional in Greater London to plan and deliver partner activations within a lifestyle hospitality context. You will coordinate calendars, manage budgets and work with a cross-functional team across brand, marketing and operations.

The role requires strong project management, excellent communication, and a proactive approach to turning events into marketing moments across UK and Europe.