Senior Partnerships Manager

We are on a mission to transform our highest value corporate partnerships to achieve even greater impact, income, influence, and awareness. We are looking for a strategic Senior Partnerships Manager to join our team and help drive this mission forward.

About this job

As Senior Partnerships Manager, you’ll:

• Design and deliver creative, multi-year partnership strategies.
• Achieve ambitious income targets, ensuring exceptional stewardship of both external and internal stakeholders.
• Identify new opportunities to grow existing partnerships.
• Use your exceptional relationship-building skills to establish strong connections within Dogs Trust and with external partners.
• Play a crucial role in mentoring and leading the broader partnerships portfolio.
• Manage up to two account managers including: objective setting, one to ones, and appraisals.

About you

You will have a proven track record in managing complex, high-value, multi-year charity partnerships, delivering six to seven-figure results. The ideal candidate will excel at identifying strategic opportunities within partnerships, working collaboratively both internally and externally to implement them effectively.

About the team

Over the next five years, we aim to significantly increase funds from charitable trusts/foundations, corporate partners and major donors. The Corporate Partnerships team is made up of two divisions, New Business and Partnership Management. The role of the Partnerships team is to build and retain transformational partnerships that deliver money and mission, to help us improve the lives of dogs in the UK and around the world.

This year, Dogs Trust will be launching a new organisational strategy. This is an exciting moment to join a team that is brimming with enthusiastic, talented fundraisers already making a big impact.

In return for all of this, we have a comprehensive benefits package, which includes excellent annual, leave, Perkbox and pension allowances, and you will you join a team of highly professional and driven colleagues in a brilliant upbeat and collaborative environment, all with a genuine passion for dog welfare.
 

About Dogs Trust

We love dogs. That’s why we do whatever we can to make sure every four-legged friend gets the love they deserve. We’ll never put a healthy dog down, so our work is focused on helping dogs in need, supporting owners every step of the walk, and creating a better world for dogs in the future. It’s what we’ve been doing since 1891 and how we’ve grown to become the UK’s leading dog charity, helping 12,000 loyal friends find their forever homes every year.