At Speedy we hire, engage and retain talented employees who match the capabilities we need. To ensure that you fulfil both your personal and professional ambitions, Speedy offers the right mix of challenges, varied learning and development opportunities along with competitive packages.

Our working environment is supportive, open and honest with teamwork, drive and opportunity being key to our success. With roles as diverse as drivers to engineers in our depot network to customer services executives and finance experts in our central support functions, we may have just the right opportunity for you.

If you’d like to be part of our team of more than 3000 people across the UK and Ireland.

The role of the Strategic Partnership Development Manager will be utilising strong client relationships, our strategic partnership development manager will work with our partners and internal stakeholders to identify and validate new opportunities; propose, interpret, and define solutions and lead on propositional development to improve the customer experience. This may involve project managing opportunities through to completion or supporting our partners whilst other project and programme resource deliver solutions.  To deliver sales / profitable growth through the acquisition of new, and management of existing, partner relationships.

• Establish, develop, and lead an effective partnership with key clients’ partners, as well as the day-to-day management of the partnership agreement
• Work with our partners to capture requirements and introduce innovative ways of working.  Providing strategic and tactical support to the Exec and senior management and turning insight into tangible, deliverable plans
• Project management – Formulate implementation plans for, and mobilise, strategic initiatives ensuring all requirements/changes are delivered successfully.
• Data analysis – Develop financial models and business cases to support analyses and enable data-driven decision-making.

What you’ll need:

• Interpersonal skills
• Business Acumen
• Ability to think strategically to foster relationships and that contribute to the organisation’s growth and success.
• Previous line management experience.
• An experienced strategy/operational development professional leader who has a strong reputation and who has held a high level of influence within their current or previous role.
• Demonstrable experience in leading strategic projects
• Strong analytical skill set
• Comfortable working with an environment of ambiguity and high degree of complexity
• A great communicator, happy to liaise and influencing at senior levels, both internal and external
• Intellectually curious, with high energy and resilient, able to thrive in a fast paced and constantly evolving business
• Experience and accomplishments in business development account management and project management
• Ability to support your business unit/team to deliver our ESG Strategy – Decade to Deliver.

What we offer:

• Monthly cash car allowance or company car
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Health Cover
• Life assurance
• Pension Scheme
• 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Free onsite parking 
• Canteen facilities
• 95% discount across the Speedy brand.
• My Staff Shop: discounts and offers for shopping etc. across many suppliers. 
• Green Commute Initiative: Work scheme for cycling 
• Vita – Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Offers free and confidential support and counselling to help you through matters such as wellbeing, divorce, legal, and financial management.

Speedy offer a Career Line of Sight which enables a detailed understanding of the route to progression and growth within the Speedy Group.

Please be aware Speedy reserves the right to close our vacancies earlier than the listed date if we have received a high level of applications. We would recommend that if you wish to be considered that you complete the application as promptly as possible.

Please be aware that some roles within The Speedy Group UK&I may require a DBS, Credit or Security Clearance Check. The Speedy Group is an equal opportunity employer where we embrace diversity in all its forms and fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. 

Link below to our policies in line with our ESG Governance. 

https://www.speedyservices.com/esg/governance

All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status. All roles within The Speedy Group require proof of right to work in the UK by the start of employment.