Sponsorship Lead - Partnership Development

The Sponsorship Lead will have responsibility for developing and selling sponsorship rights for the UK Governments events and campaigns as well as managing relationships with internal event and campaign owners and building impactful partnerships with industry. This is a sales target-driven role where you will be actively establishing new sales leads and closing new business. Working across the UK Government (including working with Ministers) and with senior business leaders (including at CEO level), you will work on some of the most high-profile government and business events that take place both in the UK and overseas. Some overseas travel may be involved. As a member of the Government Commercial Organisation and operating within DBT Commercial, you will play a leading role in the team, actively supporting colleagues to deliver against team objectives, representing the team at a senior level and promoting our sponsorship offering to wider government and industry. Locations The successful candidate(s) will be able to agree a contractual workplace from those locations listed in this advert. When selecting your location listed in this job advert please be aware that this will be your contractual base location with a requirement to spend a minimum of 40% of your working time in this organisational workplace. Your time spent on official duties at workplace locations other than your contractual office such as supplier, customer or partner locations required to perform your role is included in the 40% attendance. This requirement will however take into consideration any reasonable adjustments agreed upon appointment for people with a disability, flexibilities agreed for those with specific caring responsibilities, or other similar temporary flexibilities.