Partnerships Coordinator

If you are passionate about tech and the start-up ecosystem, and want to develop your account management experience with top quality clients, come and join us! 

The Opportunity 

We are looking for a Partnerships Coordinator to join the Founders Forum team to play a significant role in supporting the Partnerships Team. In this role, you will be at the front-line of engaging with our sponsors, ensuring customer satisfaction and that each sponsor gets maximum value from the partnership.

Applicants must possess excellent communication and organisational skills, be highly motivated and self-driven. Applicants must also be capable of working in a deadline-oriented environment, handling daily tasks including, but not limited to: customer service, financial reporting and tracking, partnership nurturing, Salesforce administration

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is eager to enter into an events, media or sales role and gain exposure to a high-quality roster of tech clients, investors and founders.

About Founders Forum

Founders Forum is Europe’s prominent entrepreneur community, focused around a number of annual events where our guests engage in open debate, brainstorms, discussions and problem solving in an intimate and collaborative atmosphere - building connections and discussing how to accelerate the positive impact of technology on the world.

Now, in our nineteenth year, we continue to host invite-only forums, tackling era-defining questions in iconic locations worldwide. We have welcomed guests such as Eric Schmidt, Google; Richard Branson, Virgin Group; Katherine Ryder, Maven Clinic; Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn; Evan Spiegel, Snap Inc; Emily Weiss, Glossier; Shahrzad Rafati, BroadbandTV; Sir David Attenborough, Broadcaster; Marissa Mayer, Yahoo; Bob Iger, Disney; Jean Liu, Didi Chuxing; Ted Sarandos, Netflix; Carolyn McCall, ITV; Tim Steiner, Ocado … the list goes on!

As our community has grown, Founders Forum has built a family of companies to support the needs of entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey. These businesses cover advisory, executive search, diversity and inclusion, venture creation, investment, education, giving and more.

Responsibilities

• Act as a key support for the Partnerships Team and wider events team, to ensure partners have a seamless transition post sale
• Be a key point of contact for select partners, managing the relationship to ensure we are meeting set deliverables and recording/following up with the actions post meetings
• Responsible for ensuring quality control standards throughout execution of an agreement
• Control of inventory product status – reporting and tracking all inbound/outbound contracts and communicating to the wider events team on contract updates and deliverables
• Support with preparation of sponsorship pitch materials (Canva & Powerpoint)
• Responsible for maintaining data integrity in Salesforce and assisting the partnership team as needed with drafting and managing all sponsorship contracts
• Point person for all inquiries from the accounting department
• Responsible to communicate all contract revisions/cancellations to the appropriate teams
• Support with the sponsorship pipeline, researching potential companies

Requirements

• Detail oriented and organized while being able to understand the big picture
• You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills via telephone, email and in-person and are able to select the appropriate form of communication for a given situation
• You are a highly motivated self-starter with ability to prioritise, work to tight deadlines and adapt to last-minute adjustments and rapidly changing agendas
• You have experience of working in a customer-facing role, or have a general understanding of sales principles and practises.
• Experience with MS Excel and Powerpoint
• Experience with Affinity and Salesforce (desirable)

Benefits

We offer a range of flexible, discretionary benefits to our team. These currently include:

• • 25 days contractual annual leave
  • Enhanced discretionary leave provision, including an additional day off for your birthday and leave between Christmas and New Years Day
  • The option to work remotely anywhere in the world for 3 weeks/year (1 week at Easter and 2 weeks during July and August) 
  • BUPA Health insurance, with the option to add dependents
  • Life Insurance
  • AIG Smart Health access including online GP access and mental health support
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Competitive pension provision
  • Perkbox membership with generous monthly allocation of points for day to day purchases
  • Learning and development annual allowance
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Lunch 1x/week, office snacks, and regular team drinks
  • Quarterly team activities and annual team trip/day out 
  • Access to the Founders Forum Group network of businesses and wider tech ecosystem

We currently have a hybrid working model with 4 days spent in the office and 1 day with the option to work remotely/from home.