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BBC Children in Need exists to make a positive difference to the lives of disadvantaged children and young people across the UK. These roles support our mission to focus on finding and funding the inspiring ideas that change children’s lives.
The Partnership Executive is responsible for managing a portfolio of the charity’s corporate partners. The role will manage relationships across each business in order to retain support whilst exploring growth opportunities to maximise income and drive engagement.
Main responsibilities
- Understand the partner commercial business model including stakeholders and develop annual partner plans.
- Lead on the operational elements as the day to day contact and support the Senior Account Lead by feeding into the strategic direction of each partnership.
- Develop an in depth understanding of the charity’s work and the Grant Making Framework in order to communicate confidently on the issues surrounding children and young people and the impact of our work.
- Work closely with teams from across the charity to support the delivery of any campaigns, engaging partners to support targets for income, amplifying reach to priority audiences, and maximsing exposure through partner channels.
- Drive successful, productive and mutually beneficial relationships at every level within the partner business to ensure Children in Need (CiN) deliver on the partnership key priorities.
- Work with stakeholders from across the partner’s business and CiN at all levels to maximise any comms, social and PR opportunities to communicate successes across all internal and external platforms.
- Track and monitor spend in line with budgets.
- Produce regular reports analysing progress against pre agreed KPIs - including financial targets - identify and present key learnings from fundraising activity.
- Prepare presentations, proposals, plans and reports as necessary with attention to detail.
- Represent the partnership, charity and wider BBC at internal and external meetings and events.
- Occasional travel to partner meetings and events.
Are you the right candidate
Essential skills required to be successful in role:
- Demonstrable record of account management and driving mutually beneficial partnerships in a competitive commercial environment.
- Experience of managing key stakeholders at every level and developing bespoke programmes to drive revenue and engagement.
- Effective organisational, planning and prioritisation skills to manage a varied and busy workload.
- First class communication skills and a proven ability to build and develop relationships.
- Creative and innovative thinking
Desirable
- Diplomatic and persuasive, able to build objective lines of argument/rationales for action and present viewpoints tactfully and assertively.
- Experience of working in a target-driven environment, with a demonstrable record of meeting and exceeding targets.
- Experience of working with a team to organise high profile and complex events, manage subsequent analysis, monitor income and expenditure and make relevant recommendations based on any learnings.
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