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Macmillan Cancer Support

New Partnerships Lead

London
£61k – £67k/yr
Posted about 13 hours ago
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New Partnerships Lead

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 (typically at least 1 day per week in office, plus travel for external meetings as required)

Salary range: £61,000 - £67,000

Are you an inspiring leader with a passion for securing high value corporate partnerships? Do you have a track record of leading high-performing teams and engaging senior stakeholders?

We’re looking for a New Partnerships Lead to expand our pipeline of new business opportunities and secure new six- and seven-figure, strategic corporate partnerships to raise funds, build awareness and provide support for people living with cancer.

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 New Partnerships Lead, you will lead our New Partnerships Team (x4 Senior Managers and x2 Managers) and develop an ambitious strategy to significantly grow our portfolio of high-value, strategic corporate partnerships. You’ll inspire and motivate your team to identify, pitch and secure large-scale partnerships that drive income and impact.

You will represent Macmillan and influence board-level decisions, opening doors to new opportunities and strengthening our presence across corporate networks. Your leadership will ensure we deliver bold, compelling propositions that demonstrate the difference companies can make when they partner with us.

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Key responsibilities:

  • Develop and deliver a strategy that significantly grows income, impact and acquisition of new partnerships.
  • Lead and develop a high‑performing team to meet or exceed annual income targets.
  • Identify and secure high-value, strategic partnership opportunities that align with both Macmillan’s mission and corporate partners’ objectives.
  • Foster a culture of collaboration across Macmillan to maximise the value and impact of partnerships.
  • Ensure effective pipeline management and prioritise opportunities with the greatest strategic fit and financial value
  • Work as part of the Corporate Partnerships leadership team to achieve the wider team strategy.
  • Use data and insight to manage performance, strengthen propositions and prioritise opportunities.
  • Represent Macmillan to senior and board‑level stakeholders to influence decisions and secure new partnerships.
  • Build Macmillan’s profile across corporate networks, staying ahead of trends, market developments and competitor activity.
  • Translate complex internal strategies into clear, compelling value propositions for corporate audiences.

About you

You are an inspiring team leader with a strong track record of securing substantial partnerships or accounts. You bring commercial awareness and strategic thinking capability, with experience of influencing at senior levels.

You will have:

  • Strong leadership skills, with experience managing and developing resilient and high‑performing teams.
  • Experience developing and delivering strategies to secure large‑scale, long‑term income (£2m plus per annum desirable) within the charity or commercial sector.
  • A high level of personal presence and confidence engaging and influencing senior stakeholders, including C‑suite and board‑level audiences.
  • Experience using data and insight to drive fundraising or sales effectiveness.
  • A track record of innovating and challenging the status quo to achieve growth.
  • Ability to identify opportunities for partnerships and propositions to deliver strategic objectives beyond income.
  • Experience in budget planning and forecasting.
  • A passion for Macmillan’s mission and the impact corporate partnerships can make.

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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 Wednesday 22nd July

Interview dates: Virtual first-round Interviews will be held on the week commencing 3rd August (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 TATeam@macmillan.org.uk for advice and reasonable adjustments.

We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.

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Skills

Leadership Skills
Strategic Thinking
Partnership Development
Stakeholder Engagement
Data Analysis
Budget Planning
Team Management
Commercial Awareness
Fundraising
Sales Effectiveness
Innovation
Collaboration
Proposition Development
Market Awareness
Networking
Performance Management

Location

London, England, United Kingdom

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