Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager (Business Development)

Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager (Business Development)
Reference: JUL20238422
Location: Flexible in UK
Salary: £36,577 - £39,267 Per Annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance and Annual Leave

About the job
The RSPB are expanding our HQ Corporate Partnerships team as we continue to build on recent successes and increased public awareness of our efforts to collaborate with businesses, enabling collective action in support of nature's recovery.

Your work with us will allow you to play a vital role in raising awareness of the crisis that nature is facing and to make a significant impact to restore habitats, saving species from extinction and providing opportunities for people of all ages to connect more closely to nature - protecting it for the future.

About the Role
The Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager will be responsible for driving significant income growth from corporate partnerships - working with brands and businesses to reach challenging targets. Your role will incorporate close involvement in the ongoing stewardship of partners and improvement of the RSPB's offer through engagement with stakeholders across the organisation.

What we need from you
The post-holder will be someone who thrives in relationship management and successfully securing new partnerships.

The successful candidate will have significant B2B new business and account management experience, as well as a proven track record of securing complex corporate partnerships with strategic communications packages and financial values of £100k+.

Flexible location with regular travel across the UK to visit partners and attend events alongside scheduled working at the HQ in Sandy, Bedfordshire with team members - currently monthly.

Essential skills, knowledge, and experience:

• Experience in securing high-value, multi-dimensional partnerships in the private or third sector
• Able to take a leading role in the partnership development strategy, generating ideas, bringing external insight, and delivering on agreed areas of work.
• Experience in developing and implementing ambitious sector strategies and producing tailored new partnership propositions that meet corporate and RSPB objectives.
• Able to proactively generate leads, build networks, and influence others, both internally and externally to secure multi-dimensional £1m+ value partnerships.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, effective proposal writing and correspondence to internal and external audiences.
• CRM system experience

Closing Date: 23:59, Tuesday 26th September 2023
We are looking to conduct interviews for this position from ASAP.

We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse RSPB, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need more people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. People of colour and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, we are particularly interested in receiving your application. Contact us to discuss any additional support you may need to complete your application.

The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

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