Head of Growth and Partnerships
Head of Growth and Partnerships
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27-04-2025
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About the Role
Your Mission
Youll lead our commercial strategy and growth forging major partnerships and setting anew standard for relationshipfirst business development. Working alongside our CEO andMD youll build a modern growth engine designed for serious impact.
This isnt just a sales role. Its a rare opportunity to build something that matters and to scale your impact across sectors and systems. With pace and imagination youll forge powerful partnerships and shape the story culture and presence of an organisation redefining 21st century leadership.
Were looking for a commercial leader who sees growth not just as numbers but as influence and impact. Its a chance to wake up every day and build something the world genuinely needs with people who care as much as you do.
THE ROLE
1. Drive growth across our portfolio
Youll lead our commercial strategy and growth forging major partnerships and setting anew standard for relationshipfirst business development. Working alongside our CEO andMD youll build a modern growth engine designed for serious impact.
This isnt just a sales role. Its a rare opportunity to build something that matters and to scale your impact across sectors and systems. With pace and imagination youll forge powerful partnerships and shape the story culture and presence of an organisation redefining 21st century leadership.
Were looking for a commercial leader who sees growth not just as numbers but as influence and impact. Its a chance to wake up every day and build something the world genuinely needs with people who care as much as you do.
THE ROLE
1. Drive growth across our portfolio
- Execute our commercial strategy and drive highvalue impactful opportunities
- Manage the full growth and sales cycle and leverage technology to do it with impact
- Create momentum external energy and internal belief through hustle clarity & action
- Lead how we build steward and grow relationships across our ecosystem; from CEOs and policymakers to purposeled partners
- Lead from the front: engaging directly with senior stakeholders and decision makers
- Create spaces to convene exceptional people around big ideas and shared purposeEmbed a relationshipfirst mindset across the organisation
- Engage and grow our community of 1000 senior leaders as clients advocates and change makers. Aligning commercial momentum with community energy
- Spot convening and storytelling opportunities to deepen engagement and drive impact
- Position Forward as the bold impactdriven leadership organisation of the future
- Use partnerships convening and storytelling to grow our reputation and reach
- Feed realtime market insight into product design comms and strategy and help those teams stay externally attuned and ahead of the curve
- Build a growth strategy that amplifies our message and mission not just metrics
About You
We believe different perspectives drive better leadership and make us stronger. Were actively working to ensure our organisation reflects the diversity of the world we serve. Thats why we seek team members from all walks of life who bring the skills perspectives and mindset to help us grow.
Youll be joining at a defining moment where our brand model and ambition are expanding fast. Youll report to the CEO sit on the senior leadership team and hold joint accountability for commercial performance.
Youll lead a highperforming team of Partner Managers and our Communications Lead.
APPLY IF YOU ARE
Youll be joining at a defining moment where our brand model and ambition are expanding fast. Youll report to the CEO sit on the senior leadership team and hold joint accountability for commercial performance.
Youll lead a highperforming team of Partner Managers and our Communications Lead.
APPLY IF YOU ARE
- A relationship strategist and steward: trusted by senior leaders and precise in how you build and steward relationships
- A commercial force with heart: building pipelines and closing deals through genuine connection and shared purpose
- Entrepreneurial to your core: you see opportunity everywhere act fast and love building things from the ground up
- Tech minded: confident using AInative tools to drive smarter growth and impact
- Brandaware and reputationsavvy: you understand the power of perception presence and positioning when dealing with senior leaders
- Comfortable with complexity: you navigate senior stakeholders and complex systems with nuance and clarity
- Systems thinker and handson doer: you design how it should work and then make it happen
- Missionaligned: you believe better leadership can change the world and youre ready to prove it
- A communicator and storyteller: you distil complexity into clarity and craft compelling narratives that move people and deals forward.
About us
At the Forward Institute we believe leaders are the worlds most powerful force for change. The next decade demands a new kind of leadership: courageous deeply human and fit for a world in transition.
Leadership is having a onceinageneration reckoning. AI is reshaping decisionmaking influence and power. Geopolitics is disrupting the established world order. How our leaders respond will shape oursociety for decades to come.
Thats why were building the UKs most ambitious leadership organisation helping senior leaders act with purpose and responsibility in a world shaped by disruptive technology climate crisis and profound social change. Organisations come to us because they recognise that the old rules of leadership are obsolete and they need new answers
Weve spent the last 10 years working with 1000s of senior leaders in some of the most important institutions across business government and civil society. Now were going further partnering withCEOs founders and senior leaders to help them build the most impactful organisations of our time.
Were entering a pivotal chapter; evolving our brand launching bold new initiatives (including into leadership and AI) and doubling down on our mission.
Now were looking for a brilliant entrepreneurial missiondriven Head of Growth & Partnerships to sit at the heart of that mission and help scale it.
Change Leadership Change Everything
Leadership is having a onceinageneration reckoning. AI is reshaping decisionmaking influence and power. Geopolitics is disrupting the established world order. How our leaders respond will shape oursociety for decades to come.
Thats why were building the UKs most ambitious leadership organisation helping senior leaders act with purpose and responsibility in a world shaped by disruptive technology climate crisis and profound social change. Organisations come to us because they recognise that the old rules of leadership are obsolete and they need new answers
Weve spent the last 10 years working with 1000s of senior leaders in some of the most important institutions across business government and civil society. Now were going further partnering withCEOs founders and senior leaders to help them build the most impactful organisations of our time.
Were entering a pivotal chapter; evolving our brand launching bold new initiatives (including into leadership and AI) and doubling down on our mission.
Now were looking for a brilliant entrepreneurial missiondriven Head of Growth & Partnerships to sit at the heart of that mission and help scale it.
Change Leadership Change Everything
Benefits
- A frontrow seat to shape the future of leadership at a defining moment for business and society working with some of the UKs most influential leaders and organisations
- A highenergy missiondriven team we move fast challenge each other and care deeply about what we do
- Serious investment in your growth worldclass development coaching mentorship and exposure to ideas and people you wont find anywhere else
- A meaningful leadership role with autonomy influence and the chance to be at the heart of building a new kind of leadership organisation
- Hybrid working and generous flexibility including 30 days holiday bank holidays and a home office setup allowance
- Health & financial benefits private health insurance (Vitality) 5 employer pension contribution and wellbeing support
- A competitive salary we expect to pay well for exceptional talent
How to Apply
If this sounds like your kind of challenge wed love to hear from you.
To apply: Please send your CV and answers to the following questions in written or video format answering the following questions;
Applications close on 12 May.
The process will include:
We cant wait to meet you.
To apply: Please send your CV and answers to the following questions in written or video format answering the following questions;
- What draws you to the Forward Institute and our mission
- Why is this the right role for you right now and what will you bring to it
Applications close on 12 May.
The process will include:
- First round interviews: Week of 19 May
- Rolerelated task: Between first and second round
- Second round interviews: Week of 26 May
- Final round: Week of 2 June
We cant wait to meet you.
About us
At the Forward Institute we believe leaders are the worlds most powerful force for change. The next decade demands a new kind of leadership: courageous deeply human and fit for a world in transition.
Leadership is having a onceinageneration reckoning. AI is reshaping decisionmaking influence and power. Geopolitics is disrupting the established world order. How our leaders respond will shape our society for decades to come.
Thats why were building the UKs most ambitious leadership organisation helping senior leaders act with purpose and responsibility in a world shaped by disruptive technology climate crisis and profound social change. Organisations come to us because they recognise that the old rules of leadership are obsolete and they need new answers
Weve spent the last 10 years working with 1000s of senior leaders in some of the most important institutions across business government and civil society. Now were going further partnering withCEOs founders and senior leaders to help them build the most impactful organisations of our time.
Were entering a pivotal chapter; evolving our brand launching bold new initiatives (including into leadership and AI) and doubling down on our mission.
Now were looking for a brilliant entrepreneurial missiondriven Head of Growth & Partnerships to sit at the heart of that mission and help scale it.
Change Leadership Change Everything
Leadership is having a onceinageneration reckoning. AI is reshaping decisionmaking influence and power. Geopolitics is disrupting the established world order. How our leaders respond will shape our society for decades to come.
Thats why were building the UKs most ambitious leadership organisation helping senior leaders act with purpose and responsibility in a world shaped by disruptive technology climate crisis and profound social change. Organisations come to us because they recognise that the old rules of leadership are obsolete and they need new answers
Weve spent the last 10 years working with 1000s of senior leaders in some of the most important institutions across business government and civil society. Now were going further partnering withCEOs founders and senior leaders to help them build the most impactful organisations of our time.
Were entering a pivotal chapter; evolving our brand launching bold new initiatives (including into leadership and AI) and doubling down on our mission.
Now were looking for a brilliant entrepreneurial missiondriven Head of Growth & Partnerships to sit at the heart of that mission and help scale it.
Change Leadership Change Everything
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