Consumer Additions and Consumer Exec
Director of Luxury Strategic Partnerships
Get notified of more jobs like this · No spam, ever
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Role Overview
This is a senior strategic role based within a luxury membership group focused on shaping direction, building influential relationships, and translating market intelligence into stronger programmes, insights, and commercial opportunities within the luxury market.
The role sits at the intersection of market intelligence, strategic planning, thought leadership, international growth, and senior stakeholder engagement. You will spend significant time in the market, developing trusted relationships with senior leaders and external partners, while bringing insight back into the organisation to influence strategy and decision-making.
You will also set the strategic direction across several major programmes, ensuring they have a clear purpose, ambition, and commercial impact, while empowering wider teams to deliver effectively.
Key Responsibilities
Market Intelligence & Senior Relationships
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior business leaders, industry stakeholders, and strategic partners.
- Develop a strong understanding of market trends, challenges, opportunities, and emerging priorities.
- Build relationships with leading research, consulting, and insight organisations to access high-quality intelligence.
- Translate external conversations and market intelligence into actionable insights for the wider organisation.
- Ensure senior leadership and relevant teams have a clear, current understanding of market developments.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Strategy & Thought Leadership
- Set the strategic direction and ambition for major research, insight, and thought leadership programmes.
- Define key priorities, audiences, objectives, and measures of success.
- Shape major research and insight projects, ensuring they answer the questions that matter most to stakeholders.
- Connect different research and thought leadership initiatives into a coherent strategic narrative.
- Use external intelligence and research to influence organisational priorities and strengthen market positioning.
International & Commercial Development
- Help define international market priorities and the strategic objectives for overseas activity.
- Identify opportunities for partnerships, market access, international programmes, and business development.
- Develop senior relationships with international partners and stakeholders.
- Ensure international intelligence is shared internally and used to inform strategy and member/client conversations.
- Work closely with commercial and partnerships teams to maximise the value of strategic relationships.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Act as a trusted strategic partner to the CEO and senior leadership team.
- Provide clear, honest, and commercially relevant insight to support decision-making.
- Work collaboratively with senior colleagues across communications, government relations, membership, and partnerships.
- Set clear direction while giving capable teams the autonomy to deliver.
- Contribute to a highly collaborative, entrepreneurial, and purpose-driven culture.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
About You
You will bring significant senior experience combining strategic thinking, external relationship management, and analytical or intellectual responsibility.
You may have worked within consulting, a think tank, professional services, a luxury or consumer brand, trade or sector body, or another complex, relationship-led organisation.
You'll ideally have:
- A strong track record of building trusted relationships with senior business leaders.
- Experience setting strategic direction across complex programmes or portfolios.
- Experience shaping research, thought leadership, market intelligence, or insight programmes.
- Strong commercial and analytical judgement, with the ability to turn information into clear recommendations.
- Experience working across international markets, partnerships, or business development.
- Strong understanding of the luxury, consumer, or wider business landscape, or the ability to develop this quickly.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with credibility at senior level.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location