Strategic Partnerships & Delivery Lead

Apolitical; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Apolitical in London is seeking a Senior Partnerships Manager to own a portfolio of strategic partnerships from contract through delivery, evaluation and renewal. The role combines high‑level relationship management with hands‑on delivery across cross‑functional teams.

You will lead day‑to‑day account leadership with senior stakeholders, shape scope and value, drive renewals and upsells, and oversee evaluation to demonstrate impact.

Qualifications

• Experience running complex, multi-stakeholder work over time.
• Ability to manage partnerships with governments or large organisations is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic partnerships – own day-to-day account leadership for your portfolio, building trusted relationships with senior partner stakeholders and handling complex or sensitive conversations.
• Deliver complex contracts – turn contracts, partner needs and commercial commitments into clear plans, milestones, owners and decisions, and coordinate our teams to deliver them.
• Protect scope and value – reshape partner requests where needed, balancing what partners ask for with agreed scope, commercial terms and delivery capacity.
• Grow existing accounts – build account plans with the commercial partnerships lead and contribute to renewals, upsells and referrals, bringing in Product or senior leadership when a partner's needs outgrow the original agreement.
• Evidence impact – oversee evaluation and reporting for your partnerships, using qualitative and quantitative evidence to show partners what changed and what should happen next.
• Improve how we deliver – feed partner insight into Product and other teams, and help raise the standard of account management across Partnerships and Delivery.

Skills

Relationship management

Contract management

Stakeholder management

Job description

Apolitical in London is seeking a Senior Partnerships Manager to own a portfolio of strategic partnerships from contract through delivery, evaluation and renewal. The role combines high‑level relationship management with hands‑on delivery across cross‑functional teams.

You will lead day‑to‑day account leadership with senior stakeholders, shape scope and value, drive renewals and upsells, and oversee evaluation to demonstrate impact.