Job Description
Company & function Intro:
What if going green also meant saving thousands of pounds? We’ve made that possible!
We believe switching to an electric car should be simple, affordable, and accessible to everyone. That’s why we created The Electric Car Scheme - a game changing employee benefit that helps people save 20–50% on the cost of driving electric through salary sacrifice.
Since launching, we’ve helped thousands of drivers make the switch to electric, supported hundreds of forward-thinking employers, and unlocked millions of pounds in savings for employees across the UK.
Backed by leading investors and powered by a passionate, mission-led team, we’re growing fast - and we’re just getting started!
Our mission is to remove the barriers to electric driving through great service, operational excellence, and trusted partnerships. We make it easy for employees and employers to do the right thing for their wallets and for the planet.
We’re looking for people who want to build something that matters and help shape the future of transport
Who you are:
Essential:
* 3+ years experience identifying, winning and onboarding high value, commercial partnerships in either a partnerships or senior business development role
* Experience engaging with a wide variety of stakeholders, across all levels of the partnership ecosystem
* Willingness to work flexibly - sometimes partnerships requires working outside the ‘9-5’
* Experience contributing to and negotiating commercial contracts
* Experience writing winning responses to tenders/RfPs
* Strong communication and analytical skills, both verbal and written
* Ability to manage and report to senior stakeholders - you would be working closely with our Exec team
* Comfortable working in a fast paced, changing environment with an ability to manage multiple tasks to competing deadlines
Desirable:
* Ideally have experience in the employee benefits sector, energy sector or automotive industry
What the job involves:
We’re looking for a Partnerships Manager to help grow our partnerships team as we rapidly scale. You’ll be working to onboard a key list of new strategic partners as well as furthering the activation of our existing partner network. You’ll be a key member of the team responsible for making sure we deliver value for our partners, our mutual clients and their employees, joining the existing Head of Partnerships and another Partnerships Manager to make this happen!
Responsibilities:
* Work closely with the Head of Partnerships on inbound partnership enquiries and new partner pipeline development
* Take part in commercial and legal negotiations with prospective partners Nurture these partners into successful, active ‘in life’ partnerships
* Contribute significantly to the Partnerships strategy - we are relying on your experience, know-how and learnings.
* Establish The Electric Car Scheme as leader & “go to” brand in our category for partnerships
* Be a key representative for the company at events to drive awareness and partnership opportunities
* Provide commercial insights and input into the Tech roadmap, to make sure our partners are benefitting from a competitive experience by working with us
* Closely collaborate with and support the Customer Success teams during partner client onboarding - ensuring your partners clients are having a seamless experience
* Issuing quarterly performance reports and commission statements
About Us:
Switching to an electric car is one of the most significant ways you can make a positive change towards net zero. We want to make it cheaper and easier than any other option. Salary sacrifice makes this possible, allowing employees to save 20-50% on any electric car by reducing your salary in exchange for an electric car as a benefit. This makes electric cars an affordable option for everyone.
Each person wants to make choices to achieve a net zero future. People are limited by information, access, price and complexity - this is slowing down progress globally. The pace of achieving net-zero is a huge problem because each tonne of carbon emissions contributes to climate change for centuries.
At The Electric Car Scheme, our goal is to make net zero the obvious choice.
You can offer a cost-neutral benefit that gives employees access to the most affordable way to switch to an electric car. Together we’re speeding up our ability to tackle climate change by empowering others to make sustainable choices.
The Electric Car Scheme is here to break down barriers. By empowering others to make sustainable choices, we can speed up your efforts to tackle climate change.
Benefits:
* Hybrid working with 2 days in the office (Hayes, London)
* 25 days holiday + bank holidays
* Add 1 day holiday per year service + buy / sell up to 5 days each year
* Flexible work policy with options to take into account family care
* Best in class Family Friendly Leave and PayFor example, our Maternity leave (in year 1) is 6 weeks full pay and 6 weeks half pay. This increases to 12 weeks full pay, 8 weeks half pay after year 1.
* Use our own scheme to lease a vehicle through salary sacrifice and save 40-70% to drive a brand new electric car
* £500 pa. personal development budget
* £100 home office budget
* Bupa healthcare
* Pension
* Equity options - own a part of the business
Why Work With Us?
* Personal growth - join us as an early employee to fast track your progression opportunities!
* Competitive salary, pension & incentives scheme to share in our success
* Voted 4.9 on Glassdoor
* Voted Top 100 Organisation to ‘Escape’ to in 2022 and in 2023 by Escape the City
* Certified Company on Welcome to the Jungle
* Be part of our friendly, family-like culture, enjoy our benefits - we value our people, diversity and building a culture where we can thrive
* We are the UK’s only B Corp Certified salary sacrifice provider