​​​​This role is offered on a hybrid contract giving you the opportunity to also work from home three days a week.

Comic Relief reserves the right to close the role early if a large number of applications are received.

PURPOSE OF JOB: 

The Partnerships Manager will take responsibility for managing relationships with a portfolio of corporate partners, throughout the year and for Comic Relief campaigns. 

The role will build and manage long-term, multi-dimensional partnerships with UK and global organisations, ensuring they align with both Comic Relief’s goals and those of our partners. This role involves meeting fixed income targets, collaborating with internal teams to secure commitments that support our social change agenda, and delivering high-quality account management for a portfolio of strategic partnerships. By developing shared objectives and plans, you will maximise impact, fundraising, and partner satisfaction while fostering meaningful contributions such as financial support, employee engagement, and advocacy.

Key responsibilities:  

• Proactively develop multi-dimensional, long-term UK and global partnerships that delivers both Comic Relief and the partners’ goals, thinking holistically about impact.  

• Take personal responsibility for delivering a fixed income target from specific partnerships with clear definition of restricted and core income.  

• Work alongside the Legal, Finance and Impact & Investment teams to ensure that the commitments that frame the partnerships can be delivered and are in the best interest of Comic Relief. 

• Account manage a portfolio of UK and global based corporate partners which include strategic multi-year partnerships (in and out of campaign), campaign specific partnerships and corporate products or projects.  

• Develop shared plans and objectives for each partnership or project, to achieve partners objectives (regarding their own brand, impact, reach, CSR and internal engagement) as well as maximising fundraising and impact for Comic Relief. To ensure that these plans and objectives are met to partners’ satisfaction and to aid retention.  

• Work with colleagues across the organisation ensuring that contributions from partners constructively support Comic Reliefs social change agenda, whether in the form of financial contributions, employee fundraising and volunteering, retail offerings or advocacy.  

• Provide high quality relationship and account management of all Comic Relief’s major commercial partners, while being the first point of contact and internal resource to key partners.  

Person Specification

Essential Criteria: 

• Experience of working in partnership with major UK or global consumer facing brands and companies with a good reputation.  

• Proven Experience of developing products in partnership with a retailer or consumer brand.  

• Exceptional networking, negotiating, influencing and persuading skills.  

• Effective Communication skills, written and oral – including strong presentation skills. 

• Building and sustaining effective working relationships both internally and externally. 

Desirable Criteria 

• Experience working with key internals stakeholders and cross organisationally.   

• Experience working toward income targets. 

• Experience working with global partnerships.  

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Comic Relief we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Why work at Comic Relief

There are lots of good reasons to join us at Comic Relief. You can read more about our employee benefits, such as our commitment to flexible and hybrid working. We ask staff to come to the office twice a week, normally on agreed team days, so that we can do all those things that are difficult to do online. Our office is based in Whitechapel, London, There are lots of opportunities to develop your skills and experience at Comic Relief, including opportunities to become a Mental Health First Aider or to participate in our Employee Network Groups that focus on making Comic Relief a more inclusive place to work

Disability Confident employer

 As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we take positive action by providing first-round interviews to candidates who have a registered disability, provided they meet the minimum criteria for the role, as demonstrated on their CV.

We ask that candidates that wish to be considered for this scheme email j.scott@comicrelief.com to discuss further. Please do not email CV's/cover letters.