Events & Community Manager, UK

This role is Partly's first UK Events & Community Marketer, where you will turn Partly into a movement in the UK collision and aftermarket repair industry. Bodyshop owners and parts dealers don't buy from cold sales decks – they buy from people they trust, in rooms with other operators who already trust the product. Your job is to build those rooms, and then make them visible to everyone who couldn't be there.

Reporting to the UK Head of Growth Marketing (with a close partnership with the UK GM), you'll own the Partly Community across both sides of the network – repairers (independent bodyshops and the wider collision industry) and suppliers (dealer parts businesses) – and the owned social channels that carry it beyond the room. You’ll stand up the events, ambassador programs, awards, owner councils and reward mechanics that make being on Partly feel like membership, and you'll run the Instagram and LinkedIn presence that turns every dinner, ambassador and case study into reach.

This is a field‑led role with a marketer's instincts. You'll be in repairer car parks, in dealer back offices, at industry awards, in regional dinners, at the editor's desk of Bodyshop Magazine – and then back at your laptop turning that into content that travels. If you've built community in a B2B operator market before – automotive, trades, hospitality, healthcare – know how to turn industry suspicion into industry advocacy, and have a genuine knack for social, this is for you.

What will you do:

• Build the Partly Community across UK repairers and suppliers partnering with sales, customer success and marketing.
• Own the social media channels end‑to‑end – calendar, publishing, in‑channel community management, and turning events, ambassadors and case studies into a consistent distribution engine.
• Define how Partly shows up at the biggest and best events in the industry, including sponsorships, activations and community engagement.
• Create the activation plan for regional roundtables, networking, demo nights and more.
• Build an ambassadors/influencer marketing machine from the ground up, creating and nurturing industry relationships and endorsements.
• Manage the annual budget across community, events and social on both sides.

Your skills:

• 3‑5+ years building community in a B2B operator market – automotive, trades, hospitality, healthcare, professional services or similar.
• You can run owned channels with a consistent voice and turn real‑world moments into content that travels.
• You've run owner‑level dinners, conferences and awards programmes end‑to‑end.
• You can walk into a bodyshop or a dealer back office, get the owner talking, and leave with a relationship.
• You can spot a case study in a 15‑minute conversation, produce the content, and ship it.
• You either know the UK collision/aftermarket ecosystem or you can map it and embed in it within weeks.
• You understand why a £500 cheque at the end of a quarter changes parts‑buyer behaviour more than a 0.5% discount on every order.
• Comfortable owning a £1M budget with the rigour to defend cost‑per‑incremental‑WAR‑site against the alternative spend.
• Works with marketing, sales, CS, product, insurer relations and supplier sales without needing a Gantt chart to explain why.
• You take responsibility for outcomes, not activities.
• Realistic about 30–40% UK travel.

Benefits:

• High trust, low process and no bureaucracy.
• Competitive base salary + equity.
• Flexible working hours.
• Focus Days: Two days per week with zero meetings, dedicated to uninterrupted deep work.
• Learn from the best through 'Lunch n Learns' and Fireside chats with unicorn CEOs.
• Quarterly season openers across the UK and EU.
• Annual global offsite in New Zealand.
• Monthly team lunches, celebrating wins, happy hours and more.
• Parental leave and flexible return to work.
• Payroll Giving.
• CycleSaver: UK employees can save up to 47% on cycle subscriptions.