Partnerships Manager (Driving Experiences)

We're looking for a Partnerships Manager to take ownership of our Driving Experience categories as part of our Partnerships team.
The Partnership team are the trend-setters in everything experiences. We're racing to find the next best thing to keep inspiring our customers. We source, grow and retain outstanding experiences, and manage relationships with our fantastic partners. The front line of the business, we work our hardest to meet the needs of all stakeholders to deliver incredible results.,

• Truly own your categories (Driving experiences) with commercial accountability of buying in margins (BIM)


• Scope and deliver initiatives, owning the strategy to grow your own defined categories, overcoming challenges with pricing and availability


• Source key partnerships to deliver geographical coverage


• Attend key trade events and utilise your network of connections to keep up with latest restaurant news, insights & research


• Build out annual plans with key partners to include new products and promotions including supplier funded deals to meet the requirements of our seasonal marketing activity


• Display insatiable curiosity, research and remain up to date with category and product trends


• Conduct confident pitch presentations to win new partnerships, with the ability to articulate benefits of the Virgin brand and negotiate BIM


• Identify, secure and onboard new partnerships with the best suppliers in the industry to enhance the product portfolio


• Communicate brilliantly with Customer Service and Product Support to ensure every customer and supplier experiences heartfelt service throughout their journey with us


• Ensure that capacity planning and service and delivery considerations are fully discussed with partners from the outset and considered at every stage of selection and launch


• Identify and create bundle opportunities
  
  Ordinary is everywhere, because it's easy. But we go further, striving for extra at every turn. We look after the small details, we think about the big picture, and we piece it all together to create something really, really special.

Our products positively glow with it, transporting our customers to the most incredible worlds. Together with our partners, we open doors to five-star hotels, and unlock Michelin-starred menus. We have you driving Ferraris, jumping out the sky… we have you flying World War II warplanes.
We know there's no one size fits all for extraordinary, so look a little closer and you'll discover we're extraordinary to the core.
We champion each other and care about our environment for an extraordinary workplace. We surprise and delight for extraordinary customer relationships. We work hard and smart for extraordinary outputs. All this means we can hire extraordinary people who keep bringing it, keep improving, keep sprinkling that extraordinary magic dust.