Strategic Partnerships Manager
We are recruiting for a Strategic Partnerships Manager on a contract basis until end of December 2024 based out of either London or Birmingham. Your role is responsible for supporting the development and establishment of strategic partnerships with key stakeholders. You will build collaborative working relationships and agreements that secure effective joint outcomes and maximise opportunity, while mitigating risk and impacts.
The role who suit someone with a combination of skills such as; stakeholder management, project management, commercial/contract management and legal/contract drafting skills.
As a Strategic Partnerships Manager, you will need to have/be:
- Ability to develop collaborative relationships, influence and build trust amongst stakeholders and communities exercising diplomacy at every stage.
- Analytical skills and an ability to interpret and respond to changing landscapes and understand and communicate complex issues with clarity and pay attention to detail.
- Prioritisation and planning - Able to work to tight deadlines in a calm manner in a fast-moving organisation.
- An ability to be heard through personal credibility and the exercise of sound judgement.
- Communication - Ability to create high quality communications, sometimes with difficult messages to a sensitive audience, be able to network and demonstrate ambassadorial skills.
- Knowledge:
- An understanding of the complex political environment within which the organisation operates, including relevant governance and accountability issues.
- Type of experience:
- Experience of delivering community engagement in a fast paced, high profile and challenging environment or
- working in communications on large infrastructure projects and using new and innovative communication channels
- Experience of working within communities, devising a strategy, and managing the delivery of engagement activities in the public and/or private sectors, on infrastructure projects of similar scale, scope and complexity.
- Experience of providing counsel at a senior leadership level across an organisation on community engagement.
- Experience of working in a political and/or regulated environment/sector.
- Experience of dealing with local or national media during public consultation.
- Experience of delivering projects to budget and quality requirements
Details:
- Pay Rate: £480.00 per day
- Working Hours: Monday - Friday, Full Time
- Location: Birmingham or London, hybrid (office 2 days per week)
- Duration: Contract, initially until the end of the year
Role of Strategic Partnerships Manager:
- To be responsible for supporting the Strategic Partnerships Senior Manager in establishing strategic partnerships with key stakeholders and support collaborative working relationships that secure effective joint outcomes.
- To be accountable for supporting the establishment of collaborative ways of working with defined and agreed stakeholders assisting in brokering, negotiating and delivering schemes that interact with the programme, agreeing joint ways of working that maximise opportunities whilst protecting delivery - cost and programme.
- To be responsible for supporting the negotiation strategies for additional commercial agreements and variations to existing agreements that support the delivery, ensuring value for money whilst maintaining the safe and timely delivery of the scheme.
- To be accountable for supporting the management of agreed external relationships with strategic stakeholders.
- To be responsible for collaborating and working with regional organisations to support strategic forums that facilitate discussion and decision making around maximising the organisation as a catalyst for growth, ensuring company representation at these forums as required.
- To be accountable for supporting the appropriate response to issues raised with strategic partners regarding opportunities to enhance scope for regional benefit where feasible to do so.
- To be responsible for working with stakeholders and Integrated Project Teams to deliver supplementary projects