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Learning Client Partnerships Manager
Role Overview
Champion IGD’s learning offer and drive strategic engagement.
We are looking for a commercially minded Learning Client Partnerships Manager to grow participation in IGD’s free and premium learning portfolio. The role focuses on building strategic client relationships, driving revenue, and converting opportunities into clear commitments.
Responsibilities
What you’ll do
Grow engagement and participation
- Develop and deliver targeted engagement plans aligned to learning growth, revenue, and participation objectives.
- Translate portfolio priorities into focused activity for priority sectors, organisations, audiences, and decision makers.
- Define clear audiences, opportunities, value propositions, and desired actions for priority engagement activity.
- Partner with Marketing and the Programme Managers to develop communications and assets that generate new leads and increase participation.
- Build momentum around priority learning products, supporting launch, uptake, and ongoing growth.
- Monitor reach, response, conversion, and impact, adjusting activity based on results and feedback.
Build strategic client relationships
- Build trusted relationships with key clients, industry partners, and senior stakeholders.
- Understand clients’ business priorities, capability gaps, and learning needs.
- Lead high-quality discovery conversations and presentations, adapting recommendations to client priorities.
- Develop priority account engagement plans that expand clients’ use of IGD’s learning portfolio.
- Build awareness of IGD’s learning offer across priority sectors, organisations, and industry networks.
- Position IGD as a trusted learning partner by clearly articulating the relevance, value, and impact of its learning portfolio.
Manage opportunities and pipeline
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- Maintain clear visibility of learning opportunities across priority accounts, programmes, and audience segments.
- Work with Client Success and New Business colleagues to convert interest into participation or organisational commitment.
- Equip internal teams with clear messaging, proof points, and success stories to support consistent promotion of IGD’s learning offer.
- Use CRM, pipeline, and conversion data to prioritise effort, forecast participation, and identify risks.
- Provide concise updates on client activity, emerging needs, opportunities, barriers, and expected outcomes.
- Partner with the Events team to own the learning events activation plan, using key industry events to raise awareness, generate interest, and drive engagement with IGD’s learning offer.
Lead the engagement function
- Line manage, coach, and develop the Learning Engagement Manager, setting clear priorities and performance expectations.
- Build a proactive, commercially aware, and client-focused approach across engagement activity.
- Foster collaboration and knowledge sharing within the Learning team and across IGD.
Requirements
Essential
- Proven experience growing client engagement within existing and prospective accounts.
- Strong commercial judgement, with the ability to identify needs, develop opportunities, and secure commitment.
- Ability to translate organisational and portfolio objectives into focused client activity.
- Excellent questioning, influencing, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
- Experience using CRM, client, and performance data to prioritise activity and track progress.
- A proactive, collaborative, and results-focused approach across multiple teams and priorities.
- Experience in the food or consumer goods industry.
- Previous line management experience.
Desirable
- Experience in a learning, professional development, membership, or client services environment.
- Understanding of organisational learning, engagement analytics, or pipeline forecasting.
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The rewards
We offer a range of benefits, including a market-leading pension, a bonus scheme, the ability to buy and sell annual leave, and a generous medical insurance package. You will have a great work-life balance, where you are empowered and trusted to manage your time.
The location
We are operating a hybrid approach to working with a mix of home and office-based working. We are based in a very accessible location within the M25, just 20 miles from Central London.
Our behaviours
- We’re hungry for better
- We solve it together
- We make it happen
- We say what needs to be said
More about our people
We’re looking for inspiring professionals; talented people who seek personal and career growth and are ambitious to develop their potential and unlock opportunities for society, for our clients, and themselves.
We seek and attract the very best people and create an environment that supports and includes them. We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their contribution. We welcome applications from diverse candidates. Please discuss any adjustments that you may require throughout the selection and assessment process.
More about IGD
We are a strategic insight, foresight, and learning organisation. Here to unite the industry and benefit society. We invest all our profit into Social Impact.
We foster collaboration through a broad range of forums, bringing together businesses, policymakers, and thought leaders. By providing evidence-based insights, credible research, and strategic foresight, we help organisations make informed decisions that benefit their operations and contribute to the collective good of society.
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