National Partnerships Manager (Maternity Cover)
Home-based, with some travel to London offices and occasional UK travel as required (events)
Fixed-term contract, 9 – 12 Months
Full time
At Make UK, we’re passionate about championing British manufacturing. Representing over 4,500 manufacturing businesses across the UK, we help our members grow, innovate and compete by connecting them with expert advice, valuable services and influential networks.
We’re looking for a commercially minded, relationship-focused National Partnerships Manager to join our National Partnerships team on a maternity cover contract. This is an exciting opportunity to manage and grow strategic commercial partnerships that deliver real value to our members while generating sustainable income for Make UK.
You’ll be responsible for managing and developing Make UK’s portfolio of commercial partnerships, with a particular focus on our successful Member Benefits programme. Working closely with internal teams and external partners, you’ll ensure partnerships deliver excellent outcomes for members while supporting ambitious commercial objectives.
This is a varied role that combines account management, business development, project management and stakeholder engagement. You’ll also play a key role in shaping and implementing new partnership opportunities that strengthen our offering and drive long-term growth.
What you’ll be doing
- Managing relationships with our Member Benefit Partners and other key commercial stakeholders.
- Driving lead generation and referral activity to achieve partnership revenue targets.
- Working collaboratively with membership, marketing and other teams to maximise member engagement with our partner offers.
- Monitoring partnership performance and producing regular reports and insights.
- Developing promotional campaigns and collateral with internal colleagues.
- Planning and delivering partnership events and identifying new commercial opportunities.
- Supporting tender processes to introduce new member benefit services.
- Helping design and implement new partnership models, identifying and onboarding strategic partners to expand our commercial portfolio.
What we’re looking for
You’ll be an organised and proactive partnerships professional who enjoys building lasting relationships and delivering commercial results.
- Experience managing commercial partnerships, account management or business development.
- Strong project management and organisational skills.
- A proven ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Commercial awareness, including confidence interpreting budgets and financial performance.
- Excellent negotiation, communication and influencing skills.
- Experience identifying and developing new partnership opportunities.
- The ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across teams.
- Strong attention to detail and a solutions-focused approach.
Experience in a membership organisation or events management would be an advantage but isn’t essential.
Why Make UK?
You’ll join an organisation that’s passionate about supporting one of the UK’s most important sectors. We offer the opportunity to work with leading organisations, influence strategic partnerships and make a tangible difference to the services we provide to thousands of manufacturing businesses.
With over 125 years of experience, Make UK is a leading provider of essential business support and a champion for manufacturing industry in the UK. Make UK has the close ear of Government and is a trusted provider of essential services for world leading manufacturing companies across the country. Everything we do is designed to inspire British manufacturers to compete, innovate and grow.
Make UK staff enjoy a good benefits package and values a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Benefits to include, but not limited to: no bank holiday/weekend work, flexible hours, health cover, matched pension contributions up to 8%, and life assurance.
We are committed to supporting the Armed Forces Community and we recognise the contribution that Service personnel, both regular and reservist, veterans and military families make to our organisation and have pledged to support this by signing up to the Armed Forces Covenant.
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