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Corporate New Business Lead

Published 30 May 2025

Closing date: Monday 23 June 2025, 9am

Crohn's & Colitis UK are looking for an experienced, confident, and proactive individual to join our team. You will be an integral part of the charity, leading on the majority of new business within our Corporate Partnerships Team, building your own pipeline, and strategic partnerships, whilst acting as resident expert for external corporate opportunities.

About us

We're the UK's leading charity for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis.

A diagnosis of Crohn’s or Colitis is life-changing. Over 500,000 people in the UK are living with a lifelong disease many people have never heard of, and for which there is no known cure.

Crohn’s & Colitis UK funds research, provides award winning information and support and raises vital awareness by increasing the public’s understanding of the conditions, and what it means to live with debilitating symptoms. But we need to do more. We need to be a louder voice in the marketplace. Our ambitious plans for 2025, will help to make a real difference to every supporter’s journey with us. If this excites you - join us!

The role

Salary: £35,000 - £38,000 per annum, depending on experience

Hours: Full-Time (35 hrs per week)

Place of work: Hybrid, with a requirement to attend the office in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, once a month and 4 times a year for our mandatory All Staff Together days.

You will be ambitious in vision, feeling confident to develop strategic multi-year partnerships from the beginning. This is a role you can really make your own and know that your success does make a difference. By succeeding in this, we are helping to build better diagnosis, better care and better lives for everyone affected by Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis.

About you

The role is suited to someone who:

  • Has a proven new business track-record developing partnerships with commercial and corporate organisations across multiple sectors, ideally operating at five and six figures
  • Experience of managing corporate partnerships, ideally from within the charity sector
  • Demonstrable knowledge of the commercial sector and how to access decision makers
  • Enthusiastic, highly motivated, and a good networker
  • Confident in presenting and pitching presentations to a variety of stakeholders via a number of channels
  • Both empathetic and resourceful, with an open, honest, and flexible approach to work
  • Enjoys a challenge, is self-motivated and is open to new ideas
  • Excellent project and time management skills, with the ability to effectively manage competing priorities
  • Good numeracy skills and ability to analyse and report on financial performance
  • Excellent communication skills, verbal and written and comfortable reaching out to cold contacts via a number of different channels
  • Is a strategic thinker, and a team player.
  • Is a fantastic communicator, able to build and maintain effective relationships with our stakeholders.
  • Has experience of working with databases

Please see our Recruitment Pack for details of our full Job Description and Person Specification.

Our location

We are based in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, so we are easily accessible by road and rail. In this role, there is plenty of scope for working from home,  although there will be occasions when you will need to attend face-to-face meetings with, donors, your team, our partner agencies, or several team away-days each year. In addition, the charity meets four times a year at its office in Hatfield (or a location in London) for our mandatory ‘All Staff Together’ days.

Benefits

We offer competitive benefits that include:

  • 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing one day per year up to 30 days
  • Salary Sacrifice Pension scheme
  • Flexible working options
  • Enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay
  • 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
  • Wellbeing programme
  • Interest free loan for season tickets
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Free parking and secure bike locks
  • Training and development financial support and/or study leave
  • Performance review and development scheme.

How to apply

Closing date: Monday 23 June 2025, 9am.

If you have any queries about this role, would like to have a conversation before formally applying, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact jobs@crohnsandcolitis.org.uk

Please submit a CV and supporting statement outlining why you’d like to apply, how you fulfil the person specification, and what you feel you will bring to the role, so you’ll need to refer to the Recruitment Pack found on our website.

Please email your CV & Supporting Statement to: jobs@crohnsandcolitis.org.uk

Interviews will take place week commencing 30 June 2025.

Please note: no applications will move forward within the recruiting process without a supporting statement.

We are an inclusive employer and offer equal opportunities to all regardless of an individual’s age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership status, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

We are not a licensed sponsor at this time. Any offer of employment will be made subject to the applicant residing in the UK and a valid right to work in the UK being provided.

We will not be accepting any contact from Recruitment Agencies or Media Sales


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Our helpline team can help by:

  • Providing information about Crohn’s and Colitis.

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