What you'll do
The Corporate Partnerships Manager will play a pivotal role in the delivery and stewardship of Mission 44's corporate partnerships. This role requires a candidate with demonstrable experience providing independent, day-to-day management support for a portfolio of corporate partners.
Roles and Responsibilities
Partnership Management & Corporate Account Stewardship (75%)
- Relationship Management: Manage a portfolio of corporate partners as the day-to-day point of contact, ensuring all partnership commitments are delivered on time and to a high standard.
- End-to-end Project Management: Provide end-to-end project management for key accounts, including capturing actions from meetings, maintaining delivery plans, tracking deadlines, and ensuring timely follow-through across all stakeholders.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Proactively keep internal teams informed about partnership developments, maintaining clear lines of sight across directorates and coordinating touchpoints where cross-functional input or collaboration is needed.
- Comms Alignment & Storytelling: Work closely with the Communications team to ensure high-value partners are integrated into long-term brand campaigns and storytelling strategies, driving partnership evolution over a multi-year horizon.
- Activation & Logistics: Coordinate corporate partner involvement in key events, campaigns, and storytelling opportunities, working closely with the Events & Engagement and Impact teams to manage invitations, logistics, sponsorship benefits, tickets, and communications that strengthen partner engagement.
- Impact Reporting: Track partnership outcomes and collaborate with the Impact team to transform data and insights into compelling, partner-ready narratives that demonstrate progress and reinforce trust.
Systems, Processes & Portfolio Operations (15%)
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date CRM records for all partner activity, ensuring data integrity and visibility across directorates
- Support portfolio-level reporting and insights, helping the team understand progress against KPIs and identify opportunities for improvement
- Contribute to the refinement of internal processes, partnership frameworks, and ways of working that strengthen efficiency, due diligence protocols, and partner experience
- Proactively identify opportunities to streamline workflows and enhance collaboration across teams
- Support internal due diligence processes and actively manage partnership risk, knowing when and how to escalate legal, financial, or reputational concerns to senior management
New Business & Opportunity Development (10%)
- Support the Head of Corporate Partnerships in identifying and developing new partnership opportunities through research and prospecting
- Conduct research on prospective partners to assess alignment between their priorities and Mission 44's work
- Synthesise findings into concise, actionable summaries and prepare briefings that enable senior colleagues to engage prospects in a well-informed manner
- Contribute to cultivation planning by identifying key decision-makers and opportunities for engagement
Why this matters
This role offers significant strategic exposure: supporting frontline fundraisers through high-level insight gathering and the preparation of compelling new business proposals. A unique component involves managing the internal coordination, logistics, and detailed briefing required for high-level partner touchpoints involving our Founder and Lewis Hamilton Ventures.
What you need
- Demonstrable experience managing corporate partnerships, client accounts, or external stakeholder relationships in a charity, corporate, or agency context
- Proven ability to provide end-to-end project management for complex deliverables, including maintaining detailed delivery plans, tracking deadlines, and coordinating multiple internal and external stakeholders with accountability
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the capacity to develop tailored messaging for different audiences
- A track record of successfully working cross-functionally with teams to ensure alignment and delivery of partner commitments
- Proven ability to translate complex impact data and partnership outcomes into compelling, accessible narratives and stewardship materials
- Ability to deliver consistently high-quality work at pace
Nice to have
- Experience supporting partnerships focused on social impact, ESG, education, youth development, or DEI
- Understanding of the UK education, STEM, or motorsport sectors, and the landscape of grantmaking organizations
- Experience supporting or engaging with senior stakeholders
- Practical experience maintaining accurate records and reporting within a CRM system (e.g., Virtuous, Salesforce) to ensure data integrity
- Experience in corporate fundraising or partnership development within an international context
Personal qualities
- A genuine passion for Mission 44's purpose, young people, and a desire to contribute to bold, systemic change in inclusive education and equitable STEM pathways
- Resilient with demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- You see ambiguity and change not as challenges, but as opportunities to contribute to shaping processes, frameworks, and future strategy
- A mindset comfortable with taking initiative, anticipating potential issues, and offering constructive solutions with exceptional self-accountability and follow-through
- Operates with the highest levels of integrity and discretion when handling sensitive partner and organisational information
- Strong personal commitment to learning and improvement
Benefits
- Enjoy 28 days annual leave, plus a day for your birthday
- Use our cycle-to-work scheme and free gym access
- Save for retirement with our generous pension package
- We finish every Friday at noon in August
- Optional health insurance and access to an EAP
- Professional development budget of £1k
- Unlimited volunteering leave, as agreed with your manager
- Wellbeing allowance to spend in whatever way works for you
- Competitive parental leave package
