Commercial Partnerships Associate

Job Description

Most early careers jobs ask you to choose between doing something meaningful and accelerating your career. This isn't one of them.

We're recruiting on behalf of one of London's fastest-growing mission-driven organisations.

Over the last few years they've grown rapidly, built an exceptional team and have ambitious plans for the future. They're now looking for bright, ambitious graduates and early-career professionals who want to take on real responsibility from day one.

This isn't the sort of place where you'll spend two years watching from the sidelines. If you're good, you'll be trusted quickly.

The opportunity

As a Commercial Partnerships Associate, you'll help build and strengthen relationships with the organisations that support our client's long-term growth and impact.

This is a broad, varied role combining relationship management, research, commercial thinking and high-quality written communication. You'll work closely with senior colleagues on a range of strategic projects, helping identify new opportunities, prepare compelling proposals and build long-term partnerships.

Typical responsibilities might include:

• Researching prospective organisations and partnership opportunities.
• Preparing presentations, proposals and other written communications.
• Supporting partnership and commercial projects from initial conversations through to delivery.
• Building and maintaining relationships with external stakeholders.
• Coordinating meetings, follow-ups and project activity.
• Working across different teams to help deliver key commercial initiatives.
• Looking for ways to improve processes and contribute new ideas as the organisation continues to grow.

The common thread? Building relationships, communicating brilliantly and helping the organisation grow.

About you

We're looking for people who are:

• Graduates or within 1–3 years of starting their career.
• Bright, ambitious and full of initiative.
• Excellent communicators, both written and verbal.
• Naturally organised with great attention to detail.
• Curious, proactive and comfortable taking ownership.
• Excited by the idea of working in a fast-paced environment where you'll have a genuine impact.

Strong academics are certainly valued (many of the team studied at Russell Group universities), but we're equally interested in people who've shown drive outside the lecture theatre.

Experience in sales, partnerships, fundraising, recruitment, consulting, communications or account management would be advantageous, but isn't essential.

If you've played football (e.g. for your university, a local club or similar), that's a bonus—but by no means essential.
 
What's on offer?

* £28,000-£40,000 depending on experience.
* A genuinely supportive, high-performing team.
* Significant responsibility from the outset.
* Clear opportunities to develop as the organisation continues to grow.
* The chance to build a career whilst making a tangible difference every day.
 
If you're looking for somewhere you'll be challenged, trusted and able to make an impact from day one, we'd love to hear from you.