Corporate New Business Lead

The Talent Set are delighted to be working with a fantastic children’s charity to recruit their Corporate New Business Lead.

The charity offers a flexible working environment, with hybrid working, and an expectation to work from their Surrey office 2 days per week.

Reporting to the Corporate and Community Fundraising Manager, you will be responsible for proactively generating significant income from five and six figure corporate partnerships by managing the new business pipeline, identifying new opportunities, building relationships and networking with key stakeholders and producing compelling applications and creative partnership proposals.

Key Responsibilities:

·                Lead corporate new business development to drive the growth of corporate partnerships

·                Research and identify new business

·                Identify key decision makers and use strong consultative and negotiation skills to articulate the benefits of a partnership

·                Make effective and targeted new business calls, including warm and self-generated leads

·                Effectively network

·                Work closely with colleagues to develop and present, inspiring, high quality new business proposals, pitches and presentations as well as respond to incoming proposals from potential corporate supporters

·                Project manage our quarterly webinar series and a series of regional networking events to build relationships and engage key stakeholders.

·                Monitor CSR/Corporate Responsibility issues in the media, fundraising trends and keep up to date with professional fundraising associations and media regarding fundraising tools and skills development

Person Specification:

·                Experience of working in a corporate fundraising position or highly demonstrable, transferable skills from the corporate sector.

·                Highly proactive approach to researching and initiating new business opportunities

·                Proven experience of prospect management

·                Proven experience of winning new business

·                Proven experience of bid writing, presenting and cultivating key stakeholders

·                Clear and creative written communicator

·                Confident oral communicator; face to face and over the telephone

To be considered for this position please apply with your CV as soon as possible, regrettably please note we may not be able to reply to each and every application.

We are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practises that ensure equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and will happily make reasonable adjustments to always ensure a fair process.