Strategic Partnerships & Growth Lead

The Forge; Norwich; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Forge in Norwich is seeking a commercially minded partnerships professional to drive revenue across workshops, campaigns, and programmes. You will identify growth partners, shape propositions, and lead negotiations to close strategic deals in a fast-moving build-stage environment.

This role offers exposure to a broad network of brands and operators, with a clear path into senior partnerships leadership as the business scales.

Responsibilities

• Identify, develop, and implement new revenue streams across workshops, partnerships, campaigns, and programmes
• Translate opportunities into clearly structured, market-ready propositions with defined pricing and delivery models
• Evaluate and optimise performance of revenue lines, scaling those with strongest commercial return
• Identify and secure growth partners to integrate into Forge programmes and ecosystems
• Build partnerships that deliver revenue, credibility, and distribution
• Structure commercially sound agreements, including cash partnerships and longer-term strategic relationships
• Lead the commercial development of new programme concepts from idea through to revenue-generating propositions
• Own the end-to-end commercialisation process, including pitching, negotiation, and deal closure
• Balance short-term revenue delivery with longer-term, higher-value partnerships
• Feed market insight back into the business, including partner demand and pricing expectations

Job description

The Forge in Norwich is seeking a commercially minded partnerships professional to drive revenue across workshops, campaigns, and programmes. You will identify growth partners, shape propositions, and lead negotiations to close strategic deals in a fast-moving build-stage environment.

This role offers exposure to a broad network of brands and operators, with a clear path into senior partnerships leadership as the business scales.