Corporate Partnerships Manager - Land Rover

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Job description

Location: Coventry/Midlands area. We are currently operating a hybrid working model between home and office. See below for further detail.
Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday - Friday but we're open to flexible working
Contract: Fixed term until March 2025
Salary: Circa £39,000 per annum

Would you relish the opportunity to lead the account management of our long-standing 67-year partnership with Land Rover?

We're looking for a Corporate Partnerships Manager to work collaboratively with our incredible partner Land Rover.

What you will be doing
You will lead and account manage the Land Rover and Red Cross partnership. Working as part of the brand and marketing team at Land Rover, you will primarily work with Land Rover UK to ensure that the UK arm of the global partnership is effectively delivered.

You will ensure that all activities meet the strategic objectives and financial targets, whilst exploring and developing any additional opportunities which further the partnership's impact.

Working closely with colleagues across organisations, including the Land Rover Global Partnership team and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, you will establish new initiatives and ensure best practice is shared with other in-market Land Rover and Red Cross partnerships.

This role has been classed as a flexi role, you will be required to work from home and the Land Rover Coventry or Gaydon office at minimum once a month with an occasional working day in our London Head Office.

The role might be for you if
You have experience working in partnership management or a corporate fundraising role. You'll have demonstrable experience of managing high value partnerships and have experience of working in communications and/ or marketing.

You have outstanding relationship building skills with experience of establishing strong and effective donor and internal stakeholders relationships at all levels to deliver an integrated and collaborative partnership.

You have strong commercial acumen and have worked in a fast-paced environment. Ideally you have an interest in luxury cars sector, if not be really motivated to learn the industry.

Please view the attached job description, person specification for full list of duties, responsibilities, and criteria.

We use kindness to help those in crisis, and behind every great cause there's a great team making everything possible.

The Corporate Partnerships team at the Red Cross is part of the Fundraising and Supporter Engagement Directorate which maximises the income raised from Companies and Institutional funders. The team has a successful track record in securing and building long term, mutually beneficial and strategic relationships with UK-based companies. This exciting and fast paced team delivers a range of fundraising mechanics including strategic partnerships, marketing, or social responsibility alignment; multi-country partnerships; sponsorship; cause related marketing and employee fundraising.

About Jaguar Land Rover
Jaguar Land Rover is a British company with two distinct brands: Jaguar and Land Rover.

Jaguar is the first ever brand to offer a premium all-electric performance SUV, the Jaguar I-PACE. Land Rover is the global leader of luxury SUVs through its three families of Range Rover, Discovery and Defender.

JLR is reimagining the future of modern luxury. Central to our Reimagine strategy is the electrification of both the Land Rover and Jaguar brands. All Jaguar and Land Rover nameplates will be available in pure electric form by the end of the decade. This marks the start of the company's journey to become a net zero carbon business across its supply chain, products and operations by 2039.

Land Rover and the Red Cross have worked together for over 67 years, making it one of the world's longest standing humanitarian/corporate relationships. Throughout this time, the partnership has helped to facilitate life-saving work, through funding, vehicles and expertise. Together, Land Rover and the Red Cross are committed to providing vulnerable communities with access to knowledge and support, no matter who and where they are.

Globally, the partnership supports disaster preparedness and response projects across the world, with a current focus on Australia, India, Italy, Mexico and the UK.

Closing date for applications is 9th December 2021 with zoom interviews to follow on the 15th & 16th of December 2021.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits, these include:
36 days holiday (including Bank Holidays) per annum, pro rata
Option to buy an extra 5 days annual leave
Up to 6% contributory pension
Flexible working policy

A little bit more about us...
The British Red Cross help anyone, anywhere in the UK; get the support they need if crisis strikes. From hiring a wheelchair or dealing with loneliness, to adjusting to life in a new country - we're there when you need us.

Our organisation was born out of a desire to bring help without discrimination.
Impartiality and neutrality have been central values for the Red Cross since we started.

At the British Red Cross, we are looking for the best people to help us provide support to millions of people affected by crisis in the UK. We want our team to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve, offering equal opportunities to everyone, regardless of; age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

Diversity is something we celebrate and we want you to be able to bring your authentic-self to the Red Cross. We want you to feel that you are in an inclusive environment, and a great position to help us spread the power of kindness.

In the British Red Cross we will not tolerate any form of misconduct, including sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse. We have a code of conduct in place, and are committed to creating a culture of integrity in the organisation where misconduct is not tolerated, situations of abuse are quickly investigated and perpetrators are dealt with effectively.

If you are appointed to a role within BRC you will be subject to the organisation's Code of Conduct, a copy of which you can find on our website.

As part of its recruitment and selection process the British Red Cross undertakes DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) checking of all individuals who regularly work with or have access to children and vulnerable adults.

If driving is an essential requirement of the role, appropriate driver checks will be completed in line with current policy.

The British Red Cross, incorporated by Royal Charter 1908, is a charity registered in England and Wales (220949) and Scotland (SC037738).

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