As a Corporate Partnerships Manager, you will lead WWF Belgium’s corporate engagement strategy, securing high-value partnerships that drive awareness, funding, and action for a nature-positive future. You will identify, develop, and manage strategic partnerships with corporate stakeholders, ensuring alignment with WWF’s mission and values.
Deep dive into the role
- Strategic Corporate Engagement: Identify, research, and engage with new corporate partners to build long-term, high-impact relationships.
- Business Development & Prospecting: Leverage your network and expertise to identify corporate prospects, analyze their sustainability strategies, and align their interests with WWF’s mission.
- High-Impact Pitches & Proposals: Develop compelling, tailored partnership proposals and deliver persuasive presentations to senior corporate leaders.
- Negotiation & Due Diligence: Lead contract negotiations, ensuring all agreements align with WWF’s ethical standards, values, and compliance requirements.
- Partnership Stewardship: Develop and implement engagement strategies to strengthen partnerships, ensuring long-term corporate commitment.
- Financial & Data Management: Oversee financial recording and reporting, ensuring compliance with GDPR and WWF’s internal policies.
Who will you collaborate with
- Your colleagues in the Philanthropy/Corporate Engagement team.
- The CEO, the CPOO, Policy, Communications, and Finances departments.
- WWF offices and external corporate partners.
This is a good match for you if
- You are a strategic, results-driven professional with a passion for building impactful partnerships.
- You are fluent in Dutch and English with a strong knowledge in French.
- You hold a master's degree or equivalent (additional certifications in relevant fields are a plus).
- You have 5+ years of proven experience in corporate partnerships, fundraising, or business development, with a track record of securing and managing partnerships.
- You have a strong knowledge of CSR, corporate sustainability strategies, and corporate philanthropy, with insights into corporate structuring and decision-making processes.
- You are familiar with the Belgian economy, key industries, and sustainability challenges, with an established corporate network.
- You are an exceptional communicator with strong networking, negotiation, and presentation skills, with the ability to engage and inspire corporate leaders.
- You thrive in both external corporate engagement and internal collaboration with conservation specialists and other WWF teams. You value processes and structure, understanding their role in building effective and sustainable partnerships.
- You embody WWF’s values: Courage, Integrity, Respect, and Collaboration.
Ready to join us in our mission? Here is what’s in it for YOU
- A full-time, permanent contract.
- An attractive salary package for the sector including meal vouchers, group insurance, health insurance, 100% reimbursement of the costs of public transport, homeworking allowance, ...
- A flexible working environment: either from home with all the ad hoc IT equipment, or in our pleasant office in the heart of Brussels, easily accessible by public transport
- Our policies and benefits reflect the importance of people being able to have a good work-life balance and being able to bring their ‘full self’ to work
- The opportunity to contribute to the mission of WWF and to share our values that will be embedded in your work and behaviours.
https://wwf.be/nl/jobs/corporate-partnerships-manager
