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SalaryPartnership Manager
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
Location: Old Trafford, M16 OPU
Salary: £35,000 - £45,000 per annum.
Our client are a dynamic Higher Education organisation dedicated to providing exceptional education, innovation and giving the students skills to succeed after Education. They pride themselves on their commitment to excellence and their passion for making a positive impact in the lives of their students. They are currently seeking a talented and driven Partnership Manager to join their team. develop, manage and maintain a strong pipeline of partnerships which deliver strong and sustainable industry learning, experience and employment opportunities for students and amplify them as an industry led higher education organisation.
The Role
- Play a leading role in the development and delivery of their partnership strategy.
- Lead and manage the ongoing operational delivery of their partnership plan, ensuring timely and productive engagement with all partners.
- Act as key account manager for their strategic partners, developing and growing relationships; understanding partner objectives, sharing outcomes and delivering individual partner strategies.
- Ensure delivery of a process-driven approach to partner outreach and relationship management, ensuring alignment with their strategic priorities
- Identify and source partnership opportunities through inbound lead follow-up, outbound research and cold engagement activity.
- Collaborate with senior leadership and colleagues across all internal teams to ensure seamless delivery of activity that benefits all their students.
- Negotiate and finalise commercial activity in accordance with their contract guidelines and policies.
- Forecast, measure and report the results of all partner activity identifying new opportunities and supporting growth, for example identifying and delivering co-created content, network introductions, funding/fundraising, academic delivery partnering and event partnerships.
Skills &Qualifications
- Experience with managing commercial partnerships and sponsorships.
- Excellent people skills - with experience of successfully managing teams.
- Excellent engagement and communication in a client facing and business development focused role .
- Ability to both works proactively on your own initiative with minimum supervision and to work collaboratively, building strong and productive working relationships in the team, across the organisation and externally.
- Good knowledge of the Greater Manchester business community knowledge of the digital sector .
- Experience of income generation.
- Lead and manage the delivery of all mentors, work experience placements, internships and project opportunities for students.
- Collaborate with the careers team to arrange partner participation in career development events and workshops.
- Lead on generating graduate employment opportunities, preferential status and guaranteed interviews with existing and new partners, building a pipeline of talent from them into partner organisations.
- Work closely with the team engaged with bootcamps, short courses and degree apprenticeships to identify opportunities to extend partnerships.
- Prepare and present tailor-made proposals to the senior management of prospective partners.
- Work alongside colleagues in student recruitment to identify opportunities for partners to collaborate and enhance recruitment activities, increase event/activity awareness.
- Identify relevant external events and networking opportunities to ensure appropriate representation where relevant to the role.
- Support the development of and implementation of all industry panels and forums.
Benefits
- An empowering and agile working culture, enabling you to live your lifestyle, fuel your passions and do your best work.
- A competitive salary
- 35 days of annual leave (including bank holidays) + 2 weeks paid leave over Christmas and New Years
- Birthday Leave, their gift to you!
- Comprehensive Medical Insurance with Aviva
- Annual Eye Care and Glasses Voucher with Specsavers
- Comprehensive Life Insurance with AIG
- Generous Pension Scheme
- Learning and Development Opportunities including Free full access to LinkedIn Learning, Their Develop Yourself Funding programme and a variety of Workshops and Sessions in the Community (three paid days leave for community/charity activity annually)
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Perks and Discounts
To Apply
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