Do you have experience in new business or business-to-business marketing? Do you enjoy travelling, creating new connections, and talking about exciting exhibitions? About us
One of the strategic ambitions of the Science Museum Group (SMG) is to extend our reach and to increase income. The Cultural and Commercial Partnerships team is critical in realising this aim, as they raise SMG’s profile nationally and internationally, commercially leveraging our brand, content, and skills and create new partnerships worldwide.
Through our touring exhibitions, shared expertise via consultancy work, and long-lasting relationships created by our research informed science engagement training, we aim to be strategic but also opportunistic in our approach to building cultural and commercial partnerships.
We are working towards a very strong international profile and developing a reputation for excellence that enhances our offer, promotes the UK and generates income.
About the role
As Partnerships Manager, you will research and develop a portfolio of opportunities which will help increase the audience reach of Museums’ collections and raise SMG’s profile both nationally and internationally.
Building partnerships for our groupwide touring exhibitions, consultancy and training activities, you will focus on business development, client relationship management, contract negotiations and various marketing activities. Your main target will be cultural clients namely museums, galleries and science centres.
As we endeavour to offer flexibility where possible, this role will work to a hybrid working pattern with regular visits to your local SMG site. We are open to where you are located across the country, as this role can either be based in London, Manchester, York or Bradford. However please note that regular travel will be required to London, as well as travel to other UK locations and abroad.About you
Joining us, you’ll be experienced in sales and partnerships, ideally within the cultural sector, although comparable experience in an international business-to-business marketing and sales environment will equally be considered.
You’ll be an excellent relationship builder with the ability to negotiate multiple contracts simultaneously across different projects and have high level knowledge of international relations, partnerships management, and business development.
View the Vacancy Information Pack on the vacancy listing on our website for more details about the role and the application process, or click ‘Apply’ to submit an application.
What we offer
Joining us as an employee, you will have the opportunity to develop your career in a world-class museum group. We know work/life balance and wellbeing is crucial to our colleagues, so we offer up to 25 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays; a support with personal and professional development; employee assistance programme; enhanced contributory pension; and enhanced support for things that happen in life such as parental and adoption leave, sickness and career breaks.
‘Open for All’ is one of the Science Museum Group’s five core values and sets out our important aspiration to be a place for everyone. As a national museum group, we have an ability to reach a wide and diverse population of audiences, colleagues and partners through our geography and scale.
We are working hard to understand our organisation better and to foster a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, experience, knowledge and expertise. By having greater diversity, we believe that we will be a stronger and better organisation and ultimately will be able to inspire more futures. We therefore welcome applications from those who bring difference.
