Corporate Partnership Management Lead

Corporate Partnership Management Lead
Contract type: Permanent
Full time: 34.5 hours, we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Location: Hybrid between home and our London office (typically 1 day per week in office, plus travel for external meetings as required)
Salary range: £59,000 - £65,000 

Do you have a track record of leading high‑performing teams and developing strategic corporate partnerships? Are you a commercially minded relationship‑builder who thrives on unlocking growth and influencing senior stakeholders? Then this could be the role for you!

About us 

At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.

Our new organisational strategy sets out how we’ll fight even harder to make every pound raised count for even more. With your help, we’ll transform cancer care for good.

About the role

Join one of the UK’s most loved and trusted charities and lead the team responsible for inspiring major brands to support people living with cancer. As a Corporate Partnership Management Lead, you will shape and deliver a long‑term strategy that grows income, drives engagement and maximises the impact of Macmillan’s corporate partnerships.

You will oversee a high‑value portfolio of partners, strengthen relationships with key senior stakeholders and work closely with colleagues across Macmillan to unlock new opportunities. This is a strategic leadership role with significant influence and scope to drive meaningful change.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and deliver a bold and ambitious strategy to significantly grow income and impact.
• Lead, inspire and develop a high‑performing team, fostering collaboration and resilience.
• Prioritise opportunities with the greatest strategic fit, financial value and potential.
• Ensure each partnership has a clear, mutually beneficial strategic plan.
• Use data and insight to drive performance and support decision‑
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key senior stakeholders, driving engagement with Macmillan.
• Translate organisational priorities into compelling value propositions for corporate audiences.
• Keep abreast of the latest partnerships trends, market and competitor activity.

About you

You are an inspiring team leader with a strong track record of managing substantial partnerships or accounts and delivering significant income growth. You bring commercial awareness and strategic thinking capability, with experience of influencing at senior levels.

You will have:

• Experience in managing large teams to deliver high income within accounts and / or partnerships in either the charity or commercial sector.
• Strong leadership skills, with a focus on collaboration, empowerment and motivation to deliver high performance.
• Proven track record of delivering high‑value, strategic and multi‑layered partnerships.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to maximise financial value and impact from partnerships.
• Experience using insight and data to drive fundraising and manage partnerships.
• A track record of innovating and challenging the status quo to achieve growth.
• Experience in budget planning and forecasting.
• A passion for Macmillan’s mission and the impact corporate partnerships can make.

In return, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more

Recruitment process

Application deadline: 23:59 on Monday 2nd February
Interviews: Virtual Interviews will be held on the weeks commencing 9th February and 16^th February (exact dates TBC)

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

So we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan TA Team TATeam@macmillan.org.uk for advice and reasonable adjustments.

We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.