Associate Director of Commercial and Partnerships

This is an exciting senior leadership role where you’ll shape how Alzheimer’s Society grows its impact, influence and income through partnerships and innovation. You’ll sit on our Senior Leadership Team and play a pivotal role in turning strategy into action. Your focus will be on growing and diversifying service income, developing powerful partnerships across health and social care, and making sure our dementia support services are both sustainable and transformational.

You’ll be working at the intersection of purpose and commercial thinking scaling our training, education and consultancy offer, exploring new funding models and building relationships that help us reach more people affected by dementia. This is a role with real autonomy, visibility and stretch, where your ideas, leadership and influence will directly shape the future of dementia support in a fast‑changing landscape.

If you’re someone who enjoys thinking big, building strong relationships and making things happen all while staying deeply connected to values and impact this role offers the chance to do your best work for a cause that truly matters.

You’re an experienced, confident leader with a strong background in commercial growth, partnerships or business development within health, social care, the voluntary sector or a related environment.

• A proven track record of delivering income growth, scaling services or developing new commercial opportunities
• Experience of building and managing senior‑level partnerships across organisations and sectors
• Strong strategic thinking skills, with the ability to translate big ambitions into clear, deliverable plans
• Confidence using data, insight and evidence to assess impact, make decisions and demonstrate value
• Excellent influencing, negotiating and communication skills, including presenting with credibility at senior levels

You’ll also be a collaborative, inclusive leader who leads with empathy and thrives in complex, fast‑moving environments.

What you’ll focus on:

• Growing and diversifying service income through partnerships and innovation
• Building and maintaining strong, senior‑level relationships across sectors
• Scaling training, education and consultancy offers with clear impact
• Turning insight, evidence and data into smarter decisions
• Leading inclusive, high‑performing teams aligned to our values

Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

We need to ensure the voices around our table better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under‑represented at Alzheimer’s Society. We want everyone we work with, as a colleague, volunteer, supporter, or someone we support, to feel included and that they belong at Alzheimer’s Society. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and internal employee forum and Employee Lived Experience network groups help us promote inclusion and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.

Benefits:

Our employees work hard every day to make a true difference in people's lives. We are proud to support them with a range of benefits, recognition and many options for working agilely, all contributing to a strong work‑life balance. We also have various learning programmes to support you in your development and help you grow to realise your potential and shape a career with Alzheimer’s Society.