Company Description
At Save A Warrior UK our work is guided by five uncompromising values.
* Service means everything we do starts with the people we serve — Veterans and Emergency Services — and the promise to put their needs first.
* Ruthless Compassion is our commitment to give wholehearted, practical care even when it’s difficult, because lives depend on it.
* Audacious describes our willingness to try bold, creative approaches to healing and fundraising.
* Sacrifice reminds us that we will put mission before comfort.
* Urgency keeps us moving fast — because when someone is at risk, every day counts.
Together, these values shape how we build partnerships: we ask corporate friends to join us not just as funders, but as active co-builders who act with compassion, courage and speed to turn commercial support into life-saving seats on our 72-hour retreats and 500-day programmes
Role Description
We are seeking a Corporate Partnerships Manager to join our mission at Save A Warrior UK CIC. Based in Fareham, this hybrid role will allow for a combination of on-site presence and remote work flexibility. Responsibilities include developing and managing corporate partnerships, securing corporate funding, fostering relationships with stakeholders, and creating strategies to improve fundraising efforts. The successful candidate will support the organisation's goals by expanding our network of partnerships and ensuring mutually beneficial collaborations with corporate allies.
Qualifications
* Willing to step into the arena and drive SAWUK forward with a clear alignment to our Core Values
* Strong experience in Corporate Fundraising and Corporate Partnerships
* Proven expertise in Account Management and managing relationships with corporate stakeholders
* Exceptional Communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively across varying levels
* Proficiency in developing and managing Strategic Partnerships to align with organisational goals
* Capability to balance on-site and remote responsibilities as part of a hybrid work model
* Passion for mental health advocacy and supporting veterans and first responders
* Experience in non-profit or charity sectors is a plus
Products & commercial approach
As Head of Corporate Partnerships, you will own four core income-generating products and be responsible for packaging them into sellable propositions that directly fund our mission. Each product is both a revenue stream and a workplace engagement vehicle — together they become the levers you’ll use to convert corporate relationships into individual seats (£2,500), cohorts of 10 seats (£25,000) and multiple cohorts per year.
Major Stokes Blend (coffee product)
What it is : a white-label premium roast created with Stokes Tea & Coffee. A share of each bag or subscription sale funds our programme — it’s a retail and subscription product that translates everyday purchases into mission funding. The product also provides a compelling, visible way for partner staff to see impact.
How to sell it : wholesale and office bean-to-cup contracts, corporate subscription gifting, staff subscriptions, event sampling, and client gift packs. Use office placements and subscription volumes to create predictable annual income.
Conversion metric to use : 360 kg of coffee funds one seat. Use this as the conversion when sizing office subscriptions or wholesale deals.
Corporate Partnership
What it is : a tiered sponsorship and CSR programme for organisations aligned with our values (e.g., military messes, SMEs 50–500 staff, veteran-owned businesses). Corporate Partners can sponsor individual seats, full cohorts or provide recurring funding and in-kind support.
How to sell it : multi-year sponsorships, cohort naming, employee engagement bundles, matched giving, volunteering days, and cause marketing collaborations.
The Giving Lottery
What it is : a low-friction, recurring giving product designed to sit inside partner organisations’ internal communications or payroll giving. It aggregates small donations across staff and creates repeated touchpoints with the social enterprise.
How it raises funds & engagement : recurring micro-donations scale over time, and monthly/weekly draws create PR moments inside companies — a staff winner is an internal story that keeps SAWUK visible and talked about.
Community Coworking Space (Fareham)
What it is : a physical hub providing coworking memberships, meeting space, podcast & content services and wellbeing events. Corporate purchases of memberships, day-passes or event hire underwrite seats and provide high-value employee engagement.
How to sell it : block booking packages, corporate memberships, wellbeing day experiences for staff, and co-branded content (podcasts, case-studies and events).
How the products could be interwoven
Your role is to create bundle propositions that combine sponsorship, product volume and employee participation so that corporate spend maps cleanly to seats:
* Office coffee activation → predictable seats: structure a bean-to-cup or subscription contract where required coffee volume is measured against 360 kg = 1 seat. For example, an office subscription sized at 3,600 kg/year funds ~10 seats (a cohort).
* Cohort packages: combine a cohort sponsorship (e.g., £25,000 for 10 seats) with office coffee commitments, coworking credits (wellbeing days) and a block of Giving Lottery allocations for staff engagement.
* Mixed revenue path: hit cohort targets by blending a partial cash sponsorship with coffee subscription revenue, coworking income and lottery uplift — this reduces friction for companies while diversifying income.
* Comms & virality: integrate the Giving Lottery into internal communications so wins become news inside the partner organisation; pair this with a monthly “coffee meter” dashboard (kg → seats) to give staff visible evidence of impact.
* Stewardship & renewal: use alumni stories, coworking events and impact reporting to create renewal paths and upgrade journeys (single cohort → multi-cohort sponsor).
Interview requirement — prepare to present these products back at the first meeting
To ensure a strong cultural and commercial fit, your first meeting with us will be a working interview. Come prepared to present these four products back to the panel and demonstrate how you would sell them as packages:
* Format: 20 minute presentation + 8–10 minutes Q&A.
We will treat this first interaction as both a conversation and a demonstration of commercial thinking. If you prefer, bring a single slide deck or a one-page sell sheet — we will ask you to share it at the start of the meeting.