Senior Partnership Development Manager - 12-Month FTC

Senior Partnership Development Manager
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract (12 months) 
Full time: 34.5 hours, we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
London office/hybrid - split between home and a minimum of 1 day a week in our London office
Travel to corporate partners, events, and meetings required, with occasional stays away from home. 
Salary Range: £48,000 - £53,000

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

In this role you will manage and develop a high performing team to deliver ambitious and innovative plans for your portfolio of partnerships. You will lead on strategy and proposition development, securing the maximum value for Macmillan in line with Macmillan’s agreed organisational strategy and objectives. You will lead on partnership growth opportunities across your team, influencing and stewarding key decision makers to enable long-term commitments across the portfolio.

You will be motivated to secure and drive incremental income for Macmillan and be responsible for a portfolio of brilliant partners worth between £3-4m. It is your duty to maintain that level of income with a focus on growing it and securing key renewals.

You will use your initiative to seek out new opportunities and will passionately represent the Macmillan brand to help create long term strategic partnerships. You will coach and lead your team to develop the best partnerships in the sector.

You will work cross-organisationally drawing on skills and knowledge across teams so it’s essential that you also demonstrate the leadership, team-working, communication and influencing skills that will extract the greatest value from the relationships you build both inside Macmillan and with partners.

About you
You are a passionate and driven individual with these skills, strengths and knowledge:

• Excellent relationship development skills
• Experience in public speaking, presenting and addressing large meetings, small groups or individual VIP’s
• Comfortable and proficient in writing proposals and presentations
• High attention to detail and consistent delivery on promises
• Self-motivated: able to work alone as well as in a team
• A good understanding of the principles of brand, marketing and comms (PR, Social etc.)
• Capable of telling a story to stakeholders of all levels – be it emotive, captivating etc.
• Experience in corporate fundraising or commercial sectors managing a portfolio of client relationships yielding significant value, i.e. £1 million plus
• Experience of creating innovative solutions to client needs
• Ability to deal with board level stakeholders in organisations
• Evidence of successful income performance against budgets

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

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.  

Recruitment Process

Application deadline: Friday 8th August

Interviews: Virtual Interviews will be held week commencing 11th and 18th of August

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.