London Politica
Strategic Partnerships Lead
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Strategic Partnerships Lead
Contract: 12 months, with strong likelihood of extension
Full Time: 40 hours a week
Location: Hybrid, 1–3 days a week in London office
Travel: Quarterly international travel to major global conferences
Salary: Competitive, based on experience
Start Date: November 2026
Application Deadline: Rolling
About London Politica
London Politica is a fast-growing geopolitical advisory firm providing strategic insights, convening, and executive engagement to businesses, governments, and organisations navigating geopolitical uncertainty. We operate across diplomacy, policymaking, and corporate strategy, working with senior decision-makers around the world.
We are seeking an exceptional Strategic Partnerships Lead to help build the relationships, partnerships, and commercial opportunities that support the growth of London Politica and our partner organisations, the Oxbridge Diplomatic Academy and the GeoTech Hub.
The Role
This is a highly external, entrepreneurial role for someone who is exceptional with people, commercially minded, and deeply interested in international affairs.
You will take ownership of identifying and developing new partnerships across business, government, diplomacy, defence, and international affairs. While we call this partnerships rather than sales, the role is fundamentally about creating opportunities: identifying organisations we should be working with, securing meetings, understanding their priorities, developing compelling propositions, and building relationships that can develop into meaningful long-term partnerships and revenue.
This might involve pitching a geopolitical advisory engagement, executive briefing, crisis simulation, private dinner, or keynote for London Politica; developing executive education and geopolitical leadership programmes for the Oxbridge Diplomatic Academy at Rhodes House, Oxford; or building relationships with defence and technology companies around London Politica’s GeoTech Hub alongside the Munich Security Conference.
You will also use major international summits as platforms for business development, arranging meetings, dinners, side events, and partnership opportunities, while supporting the delivery of client engagements and programmes. The role will work closely with the CEO, Chief of Staff, and Head of Multilateral Programs, with significant responsibility for independently developing relationships and opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
- Partnerships and Business Development: Own and build a proactive pipeline of prospective clients, sponsors, and institutional partners; identify relevant decision-makers; conduct outreach; secure meetings; and maintain thoughtful, persistent follow-up.
- Commercial Judgement: Identify where relationships can translate into meaningful commercial or institutional opportunities, understand prospective partners’ priorities, and help shape propositions that respond to them.
- Relationship Management: Build and maintain long-term relationships with CEOs, ambassadors, senior government officials, investors, partners, and other institutional leaders, exercising diplomacy, judgement, and discretion.
- Proposals and Commercial Materials: Develop persuasive proposals, presentations, decks, and tailored partnership materials, often at short notice, and rapidly iterate them for different clients and sectors.
- Programmes and Convening: Help develop and deliver executive education programmes, geopolitical advisory engagements, dinners, roundtables, summits, and other high-level convening.
- International Summits: Use major conferences and forums as platforms for relationship building and business development, arranging meetings, events, and partnership opportunities.
- Client Engagement: Support the delivery of partnerships once secured, helping coordinate engagements, maintain strong relationships, and identify opportunities for further collaboration.
- External Relations and Communications: Draft high-quality outreach, proposals, invitations, and external correspondence, and support LinkedIn, social media, and other external communications.
- Pipeline Management: Maintain a clear and organised overview of relationships, conversations, commitments, and follow-ups to ensure opportunities continue moving forward.
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Who You Are
- Commercially minded, entrepreneurial, and naturally focused on creating opportunities.
- Exceptional with people and comfortable engaging stakeholders considerably more senior than you.
- Highly proactive and comfortable with cold outreach, relationship building, and persistent follow-up.
- Strategic, with strong commercial judgement and an ability to understand what an organisation cares about and tailor a proposition accordingly.
- Fast, resourceful, and able to move from an idea to a polished proposal, deck, or outreach strategy quickly.
- An excellent written and verbal communicator, with the judgement to operate confidently in senior international environments.
- Socially confident, culturally aware, diplomatic, and meticulous.
- Deeply interested in geopolitics, international affairs, business, and diplomacy.
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Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in international relations, political science, economics, business, or a related field.
- 2+ years of relevant professional experience preferred, particularly in partnerships, business development, external relations, consulting, international affairs, executive education, or a related field. Exceptional graduates are also encouraged to apply.
- A demonstrable track record of proactively creating opportunities, whether through business development, partnerships, sponsorships, fundraising, entrepreneurship, or other initiatives.
- Confidence in independently managing a pipeline, from initial research and outreach to negotiation, follow-up, and conversion.
- Experience with PowerPoint, Canva, LinkedIn, CRM platforms, Excel, or social media is highly desirable.
- AI Fluency: Strong proficiency with modern AI tools and an ability to use them intelligently to research, draft, iterate, organise, and work more effectively.
- Willingness to travel internationally approximately once a quarter.
What We Offer
- International Exposure: Work with senior figures across diplomacy, government, business, defence, and international affairs.
- Major Global Forums: Opportunities to support programming and partnerships around leading international summits and conferences.
- Career Growth: Early responsibility for partnerships, commercial opportunities, and international engagement.
- Entrepreneurial Environment: A fast-moving organisation where strong ideas can quickly become real programmes, partnerships, and initiatives.
Contract and Eligibility
This is a 12-month contractor position, with a strong likelihood of extension. The successful candidate will be self-employed and responsible for their own tax obligations.
We regrettably are unable to sponsor visas.
How to Apply
Submit a tailored CV and cover letter to strategicpartnerships@londonpolitica.com with the subject line “Strategic Partnerships Lead – [Your Name]”.
In your cover letter, briefly outline your interest in the role, how your experience aligns with our needs, and an example of a time when you proactively created an opportunity, partnership, or initiative.
We review applications on a rolling basis and encourage early submissions.
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