Corporate partnerships manager

Salary: £45,000 / year

Closing date for applications: May 29, 2026 at 11.59pm

We are currently looking for a Corporate Partnerships Manager to join our Development team on a full time, fixed term contract for 12 months.

Southbank Centre is the UK’s largest centre for the arts, and a charity that is proud to bring millions of people together on London’s South Bank. Our mission is to make a difference to the lives of artists, audiences and communities through the variety of our programming and spaces. We look after an 11-acre site, which includes the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room, and the Hayward Gallery.

The Corporate Partnerships team are passionate about making connections and aligning values with companies to create authentic brand partnerships. We are looking for an experienced and tenacious Corporate Partner Manager with demonstrable experience of delivering to financial targets, to create and sell integrated brand partnerships that deliver across multiple touchpoints. The successful applicant will be part of a dynamic and driven team to research, identify, build and secure new corporate partnerships for a variety of Southbank Centre’s projects and creative output.

Key Responsibilities

• Source, build and maintain great relationships with brand partners in the UK
• Match Southbank Centre’s artistic activity with relevant prospective brand partners
• Create engaging decks which respond to prospective partners’ priorities
• Work with all relevant departments and external stakeholders to ensure the successful execution of partnership benefits
• Lead on renewal negotiations & contracting for select existing corporate supporters

Skills & Experience

• Proven and demonstrable track record of five and six figure sum income generation against targets
• Demonstrable experience of both renewal partnerships from both existing brand partners as well as new business
• Evidence of multitasking and working across various projects to tight deadlines
• Evidence of their effective influencing, presentation writing and negotiating skills
• Able to tactfully and diplomatically with a wide range of people

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.