New Business Lead (Mat Cover)

The Vacancy

Please note that this role is being offered on a 12 month fixed term contract as it is maternity cover.

About This Role

The Royal Academy of Arts is currently looking to recruit a New Business Lead to join our Sponsorship and Corporate Partnerships team on a fixed term contract basis.

This role will lead on the identification, cultivation and conversion of new corporate sponsors and secure six figure incomes from new funding partners, with a particular focus on the funding of Royal Academy exhibitions, RA Schools and wider projects.

The New Business Lead will be key to supporting new ways of generating income for the RA, considering both the development of existing income streams and new business plans.

About You

To be considered for this role you will have considerable experience in sales and business development roles with corporate clients, along with a successful track-record of securing, retaining and growing (new) business relationships, and achieving challenging new business targets.

With a creative approach to working, you will be able to identify commercial opportunities and be innovative in your approach to new business.

You will an excellent communicator, comfortable speaking with and effectively influencing senior decision makers and potential sponsors.

The Company

The RA dates way back to 1768 when a group of artists and architects persuaded King George lll to help them to ‘establish a society for promoting the Art of Design'. The original academy, in Pall Mall, was less than 10 meters long. Since then, there have been many changes, though the RA’s core purpose of bringing art and design to a broad audience and championing art and artists still holds true.

Today we are a contemporary art organisation hosting internationally acclaimed exhibitions and through investment in employee training and development, with courses such as Unconscious Bias, LGBTQ+ Awareness, Bystander, and Mental Health First Aid training, we are striving to foster a safe space for everyone through positive action. We also have Employee Network Groups, Ways In Groups, and an Employee Council so every employee has a voice and a way to feel heard by colleagues through the CEO.

The RA is truly a unique place, both as an attraction to our visitors, but also as a workplace. Our people are at the heart of all we do, and we support a broad and inspiring mix of departments; from exhibitions, curators, art handlers, researchers, publishers, and digital to schools and education, visitor welcome, fundraisers, and corporate support.

The Benefits

Exhibitions

Reciprocal Agreements with galleries across the UK

Enhanced Pension

Generous employer contributions

Enhanced Holiday

25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays

Wellbeing

Access to a virtual GP Service and Mental Health First Aiders

Agile Working

The opportunity to work flexibly

RA Staff Council

Where your views are heard and listened to

Employee Clubs

Football, Staff Choir and more