As a Senior Corporate Partnership Manager, you will lead and project manage a number of activations across a portfolio of partnerships. You will be responsible for developing and implementing the partnership strategy, ensuring alignment with both organisations’ goals.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead on innovative corporate fundraising initiatives, manage key stakeholder relationships, and inspire a high-performing team to deliver sector-leading results.
You’ll be the primary contact for one or more flagship partnerships, responsible for strategic planning, income growth, and cross-functional collaboration. Your role will be instrumental in delivering exceptional partnerships and unlocking new opportunities to contribute to Macmillan’s mission.
Key responsibilities:
* Drive forward 2–3 strategic partnerships, ensuring growth, renewal, and long-term success
* Develop and execute comprehensive partnership plans aligned with Macmillan’s strategic goals
* Lead on proposals, programme development, and stakeholder engagement to grow partnership value
* Act as the primary contact for partners, building strong relationships with senior stakeholders
* Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver partnership activity, including service-related and influencing activity
* Manage partnership budgets, ensuring financial targets are met
* Provide inspirational line management to a Partnership Officer, supporting their development and performance
* Work closely with Business Development to maximise fundraising and profile potential of corporate partners
About you
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:
* Proven experience managing corporate fundraising partnerships worth £500K+
* Strong leadership skills, with experience of line managing or matrix managing
* Excellent presentation, negotiation and influencing skills, with experience of creating compelling proposals
* Strategic mindset, with the ability to step back and shape partnership plans that align with organisational goals
* Excellent organisational and project management skills, with the ability to work across a number of conflicting deadlines and priorities
* Evidence of delivering income performance against targets
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 Wednesday 21st January
Interviews: Virtual interviews will be held on w/c 2nd February and 9th 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 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 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.
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