Charity Partnership Manager

• Fundraising Campaigns: Working closely with our corporate charity partner, you'll create, plan, execute, and evaluate engaging fundraising initiatives that align with both Wickes' and the charity's goals. This includes leading the generation and organisation of events in stores, our support centre, and distribution centres, coordinating fundraising activities both internally and externally.
• Internal Stakeholder Management: You'll work closely with key stakeholders and cross-functional teams, including Retail, Commercial, Marketing, and Internal Communications, to align charity initiatives with Wickes' overall business objectives. You’ll influence and engage with leaders at all levels to drive colleague engagement and deliver the objectives of the charity partnership.
• Charity Relationship Management: You'll be the primary contact for Wickes' charity activities, building strong relationships with our charity partner, understanding their mission and key campaigns, and collaborating to develop engaging and impactful initiatives.
• Organisation: You'll plan ahead to ensure all partnership activities and events are well prepared, delivered, and executed, aligning with Wickes' calendar of events and business priorities, as well as the charities' calendar of events and campaigns. You'll also manage the day-to-day communication and administration for all charity-related matters.
• Communication: Working with our corporate charity partner and our internal communications team, you'll produce compelling content for digital channels, point-of-sale materials, social media posts, website updates, email campaigns, and newsletters.
• Colleague Engagement: You'll foster a collaborative environment and engage with all areas of the business, particularly Retail, Distribution, and Commercial, to drive colleague engagement with charity activities and events.
• Compliance: You'll ensure fundraising processes and practices across the business comply with fundraising legislation, and raise any concerns with suggested solutions to resolve.
• Analysis and Reporting: You'll monitor and evaluate the impact of charity initiatives, tracking key metrics (including financial and payment performance) and preparing reports for internal and external stakeholders. You'll use data-driven insights to continuously improve and refine the Wickes' charity programme.

There will be some travel to our Charity’s Head Office, out to our Stores and Distribution Centre. A full drivers licence and your own transport is preferred.

• Project and Events management experience
• Experience of working with charities or similar (preferred)
• Experience managing budgets (preferred)
• Knowledge of the Fundraising Code of Practice
• Strong attention to detail
• Creative – full of ideas to engage teams and customers, with proven experience on how to bring them to life
• Tech Savvy – competent at producing slide decks and spreadsheets
• Exceptional organisational skills
• Excellent influencer at all levels in the business
• Confident – energetic and outgoing, a natural networker and presenter
• Engaging communicator, presenting in front of small and large audiences
• Experience of working in a retail environment (preferred)

You’ll be supported with fantastic learning and development and have the opportunity to grow and develop your career with us.

You’ll work from our Support Centre in Watford, where our Legal & Sustainability team are based, along with our other support functions. We recognise the value of bringing our teams together to collaborate, support each other, and build on our amazing culture. We are also encouraging our teams to work flexibly, with a blend of remote / office working.

Our widely recognised wellbeing strategy is something we’re proud of at Wickes. As part of this, we offer a range of health and wellbeing benefits and support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, financial education & loans, and access to parental, menopause, and fertility support.

• Competitive bonus
• Save-as-you-earn scheme
• Private Medical and Life Assurance
• Discount platform including savings and cash back at numerous retailers, savings on gym membership, cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced contributory pension scheme
• Colleague discount