Schools & Partnerships Manager UK & Europe

The Role

What are the main responsibilities for this role?

• Develop and implement a strategic plan to foster and grow partnerships with schools, corporates, relevant partners for lead generation and sales.
• Identify and engage potential new corporate partners in line with the Crimson’s goals and strategies.
• Act as a key point of contact for partners, maintaining ongoing communication, addressing any issues or queries, and ensuring a high level of partner satisfaction.
• Collaborate with internal teams to develop partnership proposals, manage implementation, and assess the success of partnership initiatives.
• Track and progress partnership leads with the sales consultants and support them throughout the sales journey.
• Represent Crimson at meetings, presentations, and events, articulating our mission and creating opportunities for partnership.
• Conduct school talks and workshops, as well as Counsellor engagements, across the UK and Europe
• Monitor and report on the effectiveness of partnerships, making recommendations for improvements as needed.
• Planning and content development for school, and other partnerships in order to grow relationships and strengthen Crimson’s position within the market, including, but not limited to: Presentation slides for parent/school talks; webinars; seminars, workshops email nurturing drips marketing material for Crimson’s partnerships team activities, competitions, webinars, events, talks etc. Counsellor/School/Parent/Student events and give-aways Crimson marketing material for Counsellors Monthly Schools & Partner Newsletters
• Presentation slides for parent/school talks; webinars; seminars, workshops
• email nurturing drips
• marketing material for Crimson’s partnerships team activities, competitions, webinars, events, talks etc.
• Counsellor/School/Parent/Student events and give-aways
• Crimson marketing material for Counsellors
• Monthly Schools & Partner Newsletters
• Work with the local Marketing team on social media and other platforms to market schools and partnership activities.

What skills and experience are required?

• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Business or a related field.
• Experience in/with leading UK/EU schools.
• Proven experience in sales and partnership development or a related role, ideally within an educational context.
• Strong commercial accument (this is a sales role not a BD role or admissions role)
• Knowledge and experience using a CRM like SalesForce reports, lead tracking etc.
• Strong understanding of the UK and European educational landscape and the specific needs and challenges of educational institutions.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain strong relationships.
• Strong editorial and writing skills.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to identify opportunities for collaboration and partnership.
• Ability to travel as needed to meet with partners and represent the Crimson.

Why work for Crimson?