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About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Partnerships Manager on a 12-month fixed-term contract to manage, activate, retain, and support renewals of crucial club partner relationships. This role involves overseeing key partnerships, including a principal partner, and leading a team to ensure partners maximize the value of their agreements.
Responsibilities
- Deliver best-in-class partnerships, ensuring agreements are planned, executed, and evaluated to the highest standards.
- Inspire and motivate a team, identifying learning and development opportunities.
- Lead the development and execution of strategies to activate rights and assets for each partner.
- Build in-depth knowledge of partners to create and drive programs that deliver commercial value and drive renewals.
- Support budget management with the senior management group.
- Act as a key liaison across the club, collaborating with colleagues and leading club-wide projects.
- Evolve partnership management capability by identifying challenges and improving processes.
- Collaborate with the measurement and insights team to produce detailed reports for partners.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in partner, account, or project management with a track record of delivering exceptional service levels.
- Inspiring and trusted leadership experience, passionate about motivating, coaching, and developing a team.
- In-depth understanding of brand marketing with experience developing and executing campaigns across traditional and digital channels.
- Proven background in developing partner strategies, leading brand campaigns and projects, and managing/implementing partnership programs.
- Well-versed in handling brand approvals and guardianship.
- Proactive problem-solver with a solutions-focused approach, thriving in a fast-paced environment.
- Confident and dynamic communicator skilled in building impactful relationships with internal colleagues and external stakeholders.
- Exceptional attention to detail with excellent organizational, planning, and project management skills.
Skills
- Partnership management
- Account management
- Project management
- Team leadership
- Brand marketing
- Campaign development
- Strategic planning
- Rights management
- Problem-solving
- Communication
- Relationship building
- Organizational skills
- Planning skills
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Fixed-term contract
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Exciting reward and recognition scheme
- Generous holiday allowance which increases with length of service
- Great internal learning and development programmes
- A flexible hybrid working model
- Priority access to apply for match tickets
- A competitive health and wellbeing benefits package
- A leading Employee Assistance Programme
- Great discounts with some of our Partners
- Opportunity to play a vital role in delivering ED&I strategy by joining an Employee Network
About the Company
- One of the most famous clubs in world football with a rich heritage and history of success.
- Passionate about our local community.
- Defined purpose: to act for a winning team, culture and community.
- Values: courageous in the pursuit of progress, championing community and each other, doing the right thing.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to ensuring that environments for children, young people and adults at risk remain safe and inclusive.
- Require successful candidates to complete a DBS check and other essential background checks.
- Promoting and embracing equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Belief that diversity of background, skills, and experience drives success.
- Disability Confident Leader: actively welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities and long-term health conditions.
- Offer disability-related adjustments to the recruitment process.
- Possibility to apply for an interview via the Disability Confident Scheme for individuals meeting the definition of a 'disabled person' under the Equality Act 2010.