Senior Corporate Partnership Manager

Contract type: Permanent

Full time: 34.5 hours, we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours

Location: Hybrid between home and our London Office (1 day per week in office, usually Wednesday)

Salary range: £43,000 - £48,000

Do you have a track record of building and optimising strategic partnerships? Are you ambitious, engaging, and passionate about delivering results and growth?

We are looking for an experienced Senior Corporate Partnership Manager to lead transformative partnerships at Macmillan. We are looking for a proactive and strategic individual who has proven experience in delivering mutually beneficial partnerships that go beyond income generation to make a significant impact.

About us

At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.

Our new organisational strategy sets out how we'll fight even harder to make every pound raised count for even more. With your help, we'll transform cancer care for good.

About the role

As a Senior Corporate Partnership Manager, you will lead and project manage a number of activations across a portfolio of partnerships, primarily in the consumer / retail sector. You will be responsible for developing and implementing the partnership strategy, ensuring alignment with both organisations' goals.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead on innovative corporate fundraising initiatives, manage key stakeholder relationships, and inspire a high-performing team to deliver sector-leading results.

You'll be the primary contact for one or more flagship partnerships, responsible for strategic planning, income growth, and cross-functional collaboration. Your role will be instrumental in delivering exceptional partnerships and unlocking new opportunities to contribute to Macmillan's mission.

Key responsibilities:

• Drive forward 2–3 strategic partnerships, ensuring growth, renewal, and long-term success
• Develop and execute comprehensive partnership plans aligned with Macmillan's strategic goals
• Lead on proposals, programme development, and stakeholder engagement to grow partnership value
• Act as the primary contact for partners, building strong relationships with senior stakeholders
• Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver partnership activity, including service-related and influencing activity
• Manage partnership budgets, ensuring financial targets are met
• Provide inspirational line management to a Partnership Officer, supporting their development and performance
• Work closely with Business Development to maximise fundraising and profile potential of corporate partners

About you

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Proven experience managing corporate fundraising partnerships worth £500K+
• Strong leadership skills, with experience of line managing or matrix managing
• Excellent presentation, negotiation and influencing skills, with experience of creating compelling proposals
• Strategic mindset, with the ability to step back and shape partnership plans that align with organisational goals
• Excellent organisational and project management skills, with the ability to work across a number of conflicting deadlines and priorities
• Evidence of delivering income performance against targets

In return, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more

Recruitment process

Application deadline: 23:59 on Sunday 30th November

Interviews: Virtual Interviews will be held on the weeks commencing 8th December and 15th December (exact dates TBC)

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

So we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan TA Team for advice and reasonable adjustments.