Strategic Partnerships Manager

BTE Partnerships are seeking an innovative Strategic Partnerships Manager to join our market-leading business on a permanent basis. This is an excellent opportunity to support the Senior Strategic Partnership Manager with a portfolio of strategic BTE partnerships, holding responsibility for supporting, building and developing long-term and consultative relationships with ARAG’s strategic partnerships.

The successful candidate will look to drive mutual growth objectives and assist in creating, maintaining and delivering partnership development plans to drive sales & marketing strategies, ensure excellent service delivery, adherence to governance & regulatory requirements and ultimately secure retention & loyalty across our partners.

 This is a unique opportunity where the successful candidate will work alongside a team of Senior Managers to retain and manage large and high value partners, and work closely  to develop strategic goals together.

We are keen to hear from candidates with proven success supporting, leading and developing partnerships, including exploitation of wider business opportunities within the existing partnerships. Ideally you will have previous experience working in the insurance or financial services industry, or within a regulated environment.

In addition, we are looking for a candidate that can demonstrate the following:

• Ability to deliver innovative and quality customer solutions
• Collaborative and able to work with others to set goals, resolve problems and make decisions to enhance the effectiveness of the business
• The ability to influence and communicate with confidence at senior levels
• Success at developing and managing internal and external stakeholders to build effective working relationships and collaboratively develop customer offerings
• Flexible and adaptable communication style with the use of appropriate tools, techniques and skills to allow effective and efficient communication
• Highly accountable with the ability to drive loyalty and success across our partners with clear commercial acumen
• Ability to support development of strategic account objectives and apply them in tactical decision making
• Passion for the ‘Art of the Possible’ contributing to a highly innovative and collaborative partnership culture
• Influence and first-rate stakeholder management skills to create stakeholder investment in partnership strategy and transformation
• Understanding of corporate and regulatory governance requirements ensuring compliance is at the forefront of decisions and activity

This role is a hybrid opportunity, and on occasion will require country-wide travel, as well as a specific requirement for presence in the Bristol office.

If you think you would be a good match for this role and can demonstrate some transferable experience please apply, regardless of whether you meet all the criteria listed above.

ARAG UK has been helping businesses and individuals gain access to justice for over 40 years. It’s our founding principle to enable everybody, not just those who can afford it, to assert their legal rights.

Thousands of businesses and individuals defend or pursue legal action each year safe in the knowledge that ARAG are paying their legal bills. Our businesses include a legal expenses insurance company and a law firm with many opportunities in both areas.

We have always been aware that it’s the people that really make it happen; the quality of our people defines the quality of the company, the service we offer and the good outcomes for our customers, so we’re committed to creating a great place to work for our employees.

We believe it is an exciting time to join ARAG. You can expect an organisation that will challenge and develop you to progress your career.  

By giving you every opportunity to develop yourself professionally and personally, we also pride ourselves on having an open, inclusive and high energy culture that encourages a fun working environment and places our customers at the very heart of everything we do.

If you are keen to become part of our exciting future then we would love to hear from you. In addition to the very genuine development opportunities we provide we also offer a generous reward and benefits package.