Relationships and Partnerships Manager

The opportunity
This is an exceptional opportunity for a Relationships and Partnerships Manager to join UAL Awarding Body. In this role, you will manage our business development and commercial function, with a view to enhancing our reputation, expanding our reach, and fulfilling our commercial, educational, and social purpose ambitions.

Based within UAL Awarding Body, a department of the University dedicated to designing and awarding creative qualifications for students across the UK and internationally, you will lead initiatives to support our expansion in existing markets and facilitate diversification into new ones.

This role requires exceptional product, project, budget, and people management skills, coupled with extensive experience in selling new products within competitive educational markets. As part of the Relationships and Insights team, you will contribute to our communications and content, events, business development, and research and policy work.

About you 
We are seeking a candidate with a comprehensive understanding of educational markets, including schools, 6th form colleges, and further education institutions.

Essential to this role is a thorough grasp of external environmental factors influencing educational markets, including policy changes and funding, coupled with proficiency in conducting competitor analysis.

You should possess a demonstrable track record of successful sales, particularly in field sales and key accounts, preferably within the education sector, as well as a talent for not only launching and selling new products effectively but also for driving revenue growth from existing offerings. Experience in crafting comprehensive sales plans and translating them into actionable operational strategies for customer acquisition and retention will also be key.

Strong communication skills, both oral and written and effective leadership skills, with the ability to motivate and lead a team is also important.

We are UAL
University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

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Closing date: 23:55 on 5 May 2024.

We advise you to apply early as the application closing date may be brought forward if we receive enough applications.

Our culture
UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

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