FlyForward
Business Development Manager
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Company Description
FlyForward is committed to empowering young people with opportunities to pursue their passion for aviation. By providing accessible pathways into aviation careers, we aim to make the field inclusive and diverse. Our organisation prioritises breaking down barriers and unlocking doors to careers in the skies. FlyForward is passionate about inspiring the next generation and creating a future where everyone has the chance to soar.
About This Role
As Business Development Manager, you will lead FlyForward’s efforts to build the relationships, partnerships, and funding opportunities that help our mission grow. You’ll represent FlyForward externally, introduce our work to new audiences, and turn promising conversations into meaningful collaborations. This role is central to expanding our reach by approaching companies and identifying funding partners, developing sponsorship proposals and maintaining long-term relationships. You’ll help ensure more people know about FlyForward and more organisations want to support what we do.
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Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver FlyForward’s business development and partnership strategy.
- Identify and approach aligned companies, funders, sponsors, and community organisations.
- Build and maintain relationships with prospective and existing partners.
- Create tailored partnership, sponsorship, and funding proposals.
- Lead outreach through email, calls, meetings, networking, events, and presentations.
- Identify opportunities for sponsorship, donations, volunteering, in-kind support, and collaborative campaigns.
- Work with the wider team to create partnership materials and communicate FlyForward’s impact.
- Manage a pipeline of opportunities, tracking outreach, applications, follow-ups, and next steps.
- Support funding applications, partner reporting, and relationship stewardship.
- Raise FlyForward’s profile through relevant events, networks, media, and sector opportunities.
- Keep up to date with relevant funding and partnership trends.
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Requirements
- Experience in business development, partnerships, fundraising, sponsorship, sales, account management or a related role.
- A proven ability to build relationships and secure partnerships, funding or other support.
- Confidence engaging new organisations and senior stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including proposal and presentation writing.
- Excellent networking, relationship-management and organisational skills.
- Ability to research prospective partners and tailor outreach to their priorities.
- Proactive, independent and comfortable managing multiple opportunities at once.
- Knowledge of the nonprofit, charity, corporate social responsibility or funding landscape is desirable.
- A genuine commitment to FlyForward’s mission.
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