Sponsorship Lead

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Government Commercial Function Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 282222**Salary**:

- £65,500 - £73,000- GCO Pension, GCO Terms. Up to 15% performance-related-pay available on accreditation.**Job grade**:

- Grade 7- Commercial Lead**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- GCF - Department for International Trade - Department for Business and Trade**Type of role**:

- Commercial**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed Hours**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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- London, SW1A 2BLAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Job description**:
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has overall responsibility for developing, coordinating and delivering a new trade and investment policy for the UK, including preparing for and then negotiating Free Trade Agreements and market access deals with non-EU countries, and promoting UK trade and investment across the world.

We are a department for the whole of the UK, and we work with business partners across the country. In our engagement, we strive to understand businesses’ needs for the international trading environment and support their ambitions to export and invest across borders. We provide advice, intelligence on opportunities, and export finance and insurance.

Situated within the Commercial Function in the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), The Government Commercial Sponsorship Team (GCST) is the Sponsorship Centre of Expertise for the UK Government.

The team leads sponsorship activity across the UK Government’s most high-profile events and campaigns. These have included the UK’s participation at Expo2020 Dubai, COP26 & COP27 (the UN Climate Change Summit), Commonwealth Games, FIFA World Cup Doha and other high profile business, sporting, and cultural events. Current projects include Expo2025 Osaka, British Council, Great Campaign and the Rugby World Cup and Olympics (France), We work with many of the UK’s largest companies including HSBC, Sky, Vodafone, BP, Reckitt, Barclays, JLR, Shell, Sainsbury’s and Diageo. The team is also responsible for developing sponsorship policy, governance, and capability across government. The team works closely with Cabinet Office, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and other government departments, operating both in the UK and across our embassy network around the world.

**Our Vision**:To be the UK’s leading B2B ad B2G sponsorship platform, delivering world class sponsorship that adds strategic and financial value to His Majesty’s Government (HMG) and its partners.

**Our Mission**:To professionalise HMG’s sponsorship offering and maximise the impact of partnerships by:

- Fostering and managing strategic sponsor relationships with UK businesses
- Supporting the effective delivery of HMG’s global campaigns
- Building sponsorship understanding, capability and governance across HMG

Further information on DBT can be found at:
**Person specification**:
The Sponsorship Lead - Business Partnering will have responsibility for creating and implementing a new business partnering model for sponsorship across the UK Government. This will include building and managing strong relationships across government departments, developing and then promoting sponsorship governance and best practice and coordinating the delivery of departmental sponsorship programmes.

As a member of the Government Commercial Organisation and operating within DBT Commercial, you will play a leading role in the team, actively supporting colleagues to deliver against team objectives, representing the team at a senior level and promoting our sponsorship offering to wider government and industry.

The main responsibilities are likely to include:
- Create and manage new business partnering arrangements with government departments.
- Oversee the International Markets Sponsorship Strategy to deliver sponsorship governance, best practice and revenue across the UK’s global embassy network.
- Lead the Sponsorship Advisory Service that provides sponsorship best practice support to teams across the UK Government. This includes the creation, development and evaluation of training programmes to upskill colleagues across HMG on sponsorship best practice and providing active sponsorship advice and support.
- Lead the development of sponsorship strategy, policy, governance and processes.
- Manage, coach and develop a small team in a matrix structure.

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- **Market Insight** - Deep understanding of sponsorship as a marketing tool backed up with a proven track record of creating value for companies and rights holders through sponsorship
- **Commercial Focus** - Experience creating and embedding sponsorship best practice processes across multiple stakeholders and multiple markets
- **Builds Relationships** - Experience of influencing key interna

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