The Role

Executive Education at London Business School works with ambitious corporations who are transforming their businesses and investing in their people. Annually over 10,000 people attend Executive Programmes taught by some of the worlds leading business thinkers. We are looking for a Director, Corporate Community to join this outstanding team.

The Director, Corporate Community is responsible for engaging and nurturing the community of global corporations and partner with Executive Education and London Business School. The role owns the partnership model and value proposition for the community, ensuring it meets the audience’s needs, is flexible, adds value, and creates stronger engagement and mutually beneficial collaboration between corporations and the School.  

Given the multiple corporate relationships held in Executive Education and across different departments, the role will include building and nurturing strong internal and external relationships at senior levels. The Director will bring a commercial mindset, creativity, agility and collaboration to build a successful, diverse and vibrant community of corporations. 

This is a new role within Executive Education and an amazing opportunity to build this community from scratch.

Main Responsibilities

• Contribute to Executive Education’s development of a vision, strategy and plan to enable the realisation of the London Business School vision.  
• Lead the development of Key Performance Indicators to support the assessment of the strength/quality of the offering and the impact of related engagements.  Lead the identification, development, and management of a portfolio of existing corporate relationships related to the corporate community offering, and develop new, strategically important relationships to ensure London Business School has a network of substantial, profitable and enduring relationships.  
• Work collaboratively across Executive Education and School departments to build stronger relationships with colleagues and corporations.  
• Oversee the development and co-ordination of proposals, leading where appropriate to maximise the School’s likelihood of winning.  

Who we are looking for

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to develop and maintain corporate relationships at senior levels.  
• Highly skilled in negotiation, networking, and influencing.  
• Experience of consultative sales and developing solutions for clients.  
• Ability to manage multiple internal and external stakeholders and to operate effectively with senior leaders.  
• Experience of key account management and developing client relationships.  
• Extensive awareness of the activities of the organisation and competitor schools.  
• Ability to scan the horizon, identify industry best practice and translate this into future planning for own area of specialism. 

Why London Business School

London Business School; a global and vibrant business community based in two of the world’s most dynamic cities, London and Dubai. It’s where extraordinary minds and diverse perspectives connect, to have a profound impact on the way the world does business and the way business impacts the world. We offer best in class hybrid learning to our students and participants, whilst creating a flexible, supportive and dynamic working environment for our people to excel in, whatever their location. 

What you can expect from us

• Generous annual leave of 27 days plus extra between Christmas and New Year
• Generous pension package, 21.4% employer contribution (in return for employee enrolment and contribution)
• Free onsite gym and swimming pool
• Amazing range of professional development to support your career path
• Enhanced cycle to work scheme
• Wellbeing offering to support your physical, mental and financial health
• Up to 5 days volunteering leave or parent /carer emergency leave

All enjoyed in a Smart (hybrid) Working environment so we’re looking forward to discussing how, where and when you might work best to deliver in your new role.

Our commitment to driving inclusion and belonging 

We are a globally reaching institution, committed to creating tangible and sustainable change in driving inclusion & belonging within our School, education and society at large.  We are dedicated to creating an environment where everyone in our community feels they belong and thrive. This is a key school priority, and we want everyone who joins LBS to feel respected, welcomed, and heard. 

Please note we start screening CVs and interviewing candidates from the start of a campaign. A successful candidate could progress to offer before the advertised closing date. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible if you are interested in any roles

Closing date 1st May 2023

London Business School