Job Description
Business Partnerships Executive (Maternity Cover)
England Athletics is the National Governing Body for the sport in England. We work in partnership with the wider athletics family, especially our member clubs, UK Athletics, Sport England & Commercial Partners, to grow opportunities for everyone to experience athletics and running, to enable them to reach their full potential. England Athletics also provides national level competition and is responsible for athlete development beneath world class performance level.
England Athletics is a membership organisation with c1,800-member clubs/bodies and c181,000 registered athletes, which exists to provide services and support to its members and to promote and deliver athletics and running activities across all ages, event disciplines, ability levels and aspirations. There are also more than 7m who run each month in England, 3,650 licensed road races and 113,000 active RunTogether participants operating in more than 2,400 registered running groups.
Our vision is that athletics will be the most popular and inclusive sport in England, led by a network of progressive clubs and organisations, and supported by a sustainable, respected and trusted governing body. In achieving this we will expand the capacity of the sport, sustain and increase participation and performance levels as well as influence participation in the wider athletics market.
The Business Partnerships Executive (Maternity Cover) will provide account management and support growth of existing business partners across England Athletics, RunTogether and funetics programmes. This role will support Head of Business Development with partner acquisition and commercial income generation
The role involves proactively managing activation of EA secondary commercial partnerships, management of cross organisational Partnerships Implementation Group, proactively working with the Head of Business Partnerships to generate ideas for partner activation, support the plan to grow commercial income and enhance experiential activity at EA National Championships.
We are looking for an individual with a minimum two years’ experience in an account management role preferably in sport, entertainment or a similar industry and who can evidence successful partnership retention and growth. The individual must be someone who can collaborate, communicate, be self-driven and at the same time work in a team and promote the right behaviours.
England Athletics is an equal opportunities employer who actively encourages applications from suitably qualified and experienced candidates regardless of your gender, gender identity, sexuality, ethnicity, disability, age, religion or belief, parenting, caring or marital status. We recognise the potential that every individual brings.

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