Head of Partnerships

At a glance:

🕑 Full-time, with hybrid working - Immediate Opportunity (November - January start)

😎 Mid-level (minimum 3 years experience)

💰 Experienced-based salary between £55,000 - £65,000

📍 London (minimum 3 office days/week)

⭐ Five-stars on Glassdoor

🌴 Generous 30 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays

🏆 Leading benefits package & competitive salary

🅱 Work for a Certified B Corporation™

💹 Opportunity to get in at the ground floor of a purpose-driven , fast-paced, fast-growth company in the outdoor industry; lots of scope for your growth!

What is the job role?

We’re looking for a Head of Partnerships to take ownership of SunGod’s partnerships - spanning elite athletes, next-gen creators, and world-class teams. You’ll deliver campaigns, collaborations, and products that build credibility, drive awareness, and bring new customers into the SunGod world.

Reporting directly to the MD and working closely with the Head of Marketing, this is a creative, commercial, and hands-on role at the heart of SunGod’s growth.

Key Responsibilities?

✔ Run SunGod’s partnerships programme across athletes, ambassadors, creators, teams, brands, and charities - making sure every relationship delivers awareness, credibility, and commercial value.

✔ Manage major global partnerships like McLaren F1 and INEOS Grenadiers, handling day-to-day activation, contract delivery, and performance tracking.

✔ Lead the Partnerships & Community team to manage SunGod’s wider roster of athletes and ambassadors, supporting them with coaching, direction, and feedback to ensure best-in-class delivery.

✔ Build and nurture long-term relationships with athletes, agents, brands, and organisations - negotiating renewals, maximising ROI, and ensuring alignment with SunGod’s values.

✔ Collaborate with Marketing and Product teams to create campaigns, content, and collaborations that grow brand awareness and bring new customers into the SunGod community.

✔ Drive athlete-led product innovation by working with athletes and teams to feed insights into the product pipeline, shaping collaborations and product launches.

✔ Deliver creative activations - from grassroots community events to high-profile international campaigns - ensuring every partnership is activated to its fullest potential.

✔ Track and report on performance of partnerships, using data and insight to demonstrate ROI and continuously improve impact.

✔ Manage and allocate budgets effectively, ensuring every pound delivers value and supports SunGod’s commercial objectives.

✔ Act as an ambassador for SunGod across sport, culture, and business - representing the brand and building networks that create new opportunities.

✔ Identify and pursue new opportunities with world-class teams, cutting-edge brands, and cultural partners to keep SunGod at the front of the performance and lifestyle conversation.

✔ Challenge and evolve SunGod’s partnership strategy , bringing fresh thinking and bold ideas to build on what’s worked while opening up new directions.

✔ Understand SunGod’s triple bottom line of people, planet and profit, and incorporate this into your job role every day.

Who are we looking for?

The ideal person has the following skills, experiences and competencies:

✔ Proven experience leading partnerships with athletes, teams, or brands in a consumer-facing, brand-led environment.

✔ Track record of delivering standout campaigns, activations and product collaborations that win attention, build awareness, and drive commercial results.

✔ Strong negotiation, budget management and ROI reporting skills , with the ability to maximise value from every partnership.

✔ Leadership experience , with a track record of developing and inspiring high-performing teams.

✔ Strategic mindset with hands-on execution skills — able to zoom out to set direction while rolling up sleeves to deliver.

✔ Confident relationship-builder , credible with athletes and talent, collaborative with colleagues, and comfortable operating at all levels from grassroots creators to C-suite executives.

✔ Culturally tuned-in , with an eye for rising talent, tastemakers and brands that align with SunGod’s world.

✔ Organised and resourceful , able to manage complex projects and timelines while always seeking smarter, more impactful ways to deliver value.

✔ Creative and commercially focused , bringing fresh ideas and pushing boundaries without losing sight of results.

What can we offer you?

Certified B Corporation

Working for a Certified B Corp means joining a community using business as a force for good, contributing to the triple bottom line; People, Planet and Profit.

Benefits

✔ Generous 30 days holiday plus bank holidays;

✔ Competitive starting salary with annual performance-based reviews and bonus scheme;

✔ Professional training, life-skill & development budget;

✔ Free mental health support with unlimited access to Spill therapy;

✔ Cycle to work scheme & annual bike servicing;

✔ HealthShield Cash Plan;

✔ Monthly financial health benefit;

✔ 16 hours of fully paid volunteering annually;

✔ Charitable donation matching;

✔ Annual SunGod team events;

✔ Free product plus a family & friends discount;

✔ Dynamic, stimulating and rewarding work in a purpose-driven company;

✔ Central London office

Flexible working

We thrive with high-performing individuals, offering both growth and flexibility in return. We prioritise your impact, not the time spent at a desk. We encourage the team to fit in hobbies and personal commitments around their work time, ensuring objectives are met and output is always to the highest standard.

As a collaborative team, we value a minimum of 3 days in the office each week, fostering our close-knit team.

Culture of Continuous Development & Learning

Our growth doesn't end at a company level, we endorse and encourage individual growth through developing our professional skills, evolving careers and honing life-skills. There is budget, time and, most importantly, support given to every employee.

Diversity & Inclusion at SunGod

SunGod values a diverse workforce. We’re committed to recruiting people from all walks of life and backgrounds to reflect our customers and our community and to help make our business stronger. We're not looking for "culture fit" candidates, instead, we're looking for those who expand our culture, challenge business as usual and bring their whole selves to work. To support our people we offer family-friendly, inclusive recruitment and employment policies, flexible working arrangements and a range of benefits to suit your circumstances.

What to expect from this application…

This application will ask a few questions about you and your experience.

You will be required to upload a CV at this stage, so it is ready for a future stage.

Based on your application, you may then be invited to complete a skills-based task followed by a panel interview and a final interview.

Blind Applications

In the first stages of our process, your name and other details will be hidden from your CV and application to remove potential unconscious bias in our hiring processes, and to ensure we hire the best candidate for the role.

A tip before you start...

Before you begin, we recommend you take a moment to ask yourself these questions: Why me? Why this role? Why SunGod?