Accelerator Strategic Partnership Manager (12 Months)

Join us as an Accelerator Strategic Partnership Manager

• Take on a leading role, where you’ll be managing project teams and influencing key stakeholders to deliver high profile, bank-wide projects
• You’ll coordinate the delivery of initiatives aligned to our business strategy and brands, while consistently driving trust and advocacy
• This is an opportunity to work collaboratively across the bank, giving you a platform to expand your network and gain an insight into the business
• We're offering this role for a period of 12 months

What you'll do

As an Accelerator Strategic Partnership Manager, you’ll oversee and deliver sustainable initiatives and programmes across the bank, liaising with peers to support all of our external societal and community programmes. You’ll be building strong relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, both internally and externally, driving performance and strategy and enhancing the reputation of the bank.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing and delivering engagement opportunities to raise the visibility, awareness and attribution of the bank’s supporting enterprise activities
• Owning the definition, agreement and recording of targets and objectives articulating the commercial, societal, reputational and engagement benefits of activity
• Working in an Agile way with other programme managers to ensure the delivery of priority projects and activities at all times
• Managing project and programme budgets, maintaining effective budgetary oversight, forecasting, invoicing and reconciliation

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll have strong knowledge and experience of sustainability and corporate responsibility as a business discipline. Good communication, networking and influencing skills are essential, alongside a strong background managing external relationships and partnerships to deliver social value, including charity partners, sponsorships and supplier or outsourcing arrangements.

You’ll also need:

• Good knowledge of business or enterprise support, including risks and opportunities
• An understanding of the financial services industry, and our structure and business divisions
• The ability to translate strategy and plans into deliverable programmes or actions
• Strong project management, governance and budget management skills
• Excellent analytical skills