Growth-Driven Sustainability Partnerships Leader

UL Solutions; Northbrook (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

UL Solutions is seeking a growth-minded partnership leader to build, scale, and operationalize demand generation through associations, industry bodies, and other external demand drivers focused on Sustainability. You will source, evaluate, and close partnership opportunities and integrate offerings into association programs while coordinating with internal teams to ensure impact and compliance.

You’ll own the full lifecycle from strategy and pipeline to execution and measurement, turning

Qualifications

• 6–10+ years in partnerships, business development, channel/alliances, or B2B demand generation (association experience strongly preferred).
• Proven ability to activate sustainability or ESG-aligned partnerships that generate business demand.
• Background in sustainability and related programs and regulations.
• Demonstrated success closing and scaling association or ecosystem partnerships that generate qualified pipeline and revenue.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate sustainability requirements into compelling partner offerings.
• Excellent stakeholder management across Government Affairs, Legal, Marketing, and Sales.

Responsibilities

• Strategy & Planning: Develop the association & external demand strategy aligned to priorities; build a partnership roadmap; establish market coverage models.
• Partner Sourcing & Deal Execution: Identify, source, and negotiate with associations and other demand drivers; secure program placements; manage co-marketing calendars.
• Internal Collaboration & Governance: Partner with Government Affairs and Associations/Alliances to ensure compliant, on-message communications and avoid overlap.
• Program Operations & Enablement: Stand up repeatable partner onboarding; build toolkits; drive field enablement.
• Measurement & Optimization: Define KPIs, run quarterly business reviews, track pipeline velocity and partner-influenced revenue, test offers.

Skills

Partnerships

Sustainability

Stakeholder management

Communication

Business development

Ecosystem partnerships

Job description

UL Solutions is seeking a growth-minded partnership leader to build, scale, and operationalize demand generation through associations, industry bodies, and other external demand drivers focused on Sustainability. You will source, evaluate, and close partnership opportunities and integrate offerings into association programs while coordinating with internal teams to ensure impact and compliance.

You’ll own the full lifecycle from strategy and pipeline to execution and measurement, turning