FTE Sponsorship Manager | S3 | Comms, Marketing & Responsible Banking | Milton Keynes | Internal Mobility

Country: United Kingdom

IT STARTS HERE

Santander is evolving from a global, high-impact brand into a technology-driven organisation, and our people are at the heart of this journey. Together, we are driving a customer-centric transformation that values bold thinking, innovation, and the courage to challenge what’s possible. This is more than a strategic shift. It’s a chance for driven professionals to grow, learn, and make a real difference. Our mission is to contribute to help more people and businesses prosper. We embrace a robust risk culture and all our professionals at all levels are expected to take a proactive and responsible approach toward risk management.

THE DIFFERENCE YOU MAKE

The Sponsorship & Events team is looking for a Sponsorship Manager based out of Unity Place, Milton Keynes. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in turning our sponsorship strategy into impactful activity. Reporting to the Senior Sponsorship Manager, you’ll help develop and deliver innovative sponsorship activations for partners such as Formula 1, that connect our brand with customers, colleagues and businesses. You’ll work collaboratively across Marketing and the wider business to understand the objectives we’re trying to achieve, identify how our sponsorship assets can help deliver them, and ensure our activity is designed with clear outcomes and measures of success from the outset.

You’ll bring together excellent sponsorship expertise with a good understanding of marketing and commercial drivers. Just as importantly, you’ll be curious about what works and why - using insight, data and evaluation to continually improve the effectiveness of our sponsorship activity and demonstrate the value it creates for Santander.

We’re shaping the way we work through innovation, cutting-edge technology, collaboration and the freedom to explore new ideas. To succeed in this role, you will be responsible for:

• Supporting the Senior Sponsorship Manager in delivering Santander UK’s sponsorship strategy, translating brand, marketing and business objectives into creative, integrated activation plans with clear and measurable outcomes.
• Developing and delivering sponsorship activations in collaboration with Marketing, Communications, business units and Santander Group, ensuring our sponsorship assets are effectively integrated and amplified across relevant channels and campaigns.
• Building a great understanding of Santander’s commercial priorities and identifying opportunities for sponsorship to drive customer engagement, consideration, acquisition, loyalty and wider relationship objectives.
• Managing sponsorship projects and activations from brief through to delivery and evaluation, ensuring activity is delivered to a high standard, on time, within budget and in line with agreed objectives.
• Putting measurement and effectiveness at the heart of our activity, establishing clear objectives and KPIs, using insight and performance data to demonstrate impact and applying learnings to improve future activity.
• Managing sponsorship budgets effectively, including planning and forecasting expenditure, tracking spend, managing purchase orders and invoices, and identifying opportunities to maximise value and ensure robust financial control.
• Managing day-to-day relationships with sponsorship partners, agencies, suppliers and internal stakeholders, ensuring we maximise the value of our contractual rights, assets and investment.
• Supporting effective governance across sponsorship activity, including contractual rights, approvals, financial crime, risk and compliance requirements, ensuring all activity is delivered in line with Santander policies.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

Our people are our greatest strength. Every individual contributes unique perspectives that make us greater as a team and as an organisation. We’re enabling teams to go beyond by valuing who they are and empowering what they bring. The following requirements represent the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential for success in this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Hard Skills

• Experience developing and delivering sponsorship, partnership, experiential or integrated marketing activity, with a great understanding of how sponsorship can contribute to wider marketing and business objectives. (Required)
• A good understanding of marketing principles and the role different channels and disciplines play in building brands, engaging customers and driving commercial value. (Required)
• A great effectiveness mindset, with experience of setting objectives and KPIs and using insight, data and evaluation to understand performance and inform future decisions. (Required)
• Excellent project management skills, with experience managing multiple workstreams, budgets, stakeholders, agencies and suppliers. (Required)
• The ability to take a business or marketing objective and translate it into a clear, creative and actionable sponsorship activation plan. (Preferred)

Soft Skills

• Great relationship and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to work collaboratively with colleagues and partners at different levels. (Required)
• Commercial awareness and an ability to identify opportunities to maximise the value of sponsorship rights and assets. (Required)
• Great written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop clear briefs, recommendations and presentations. (Required)
• A curious and proactive mindset, with the confidence to challenge constructively, ask the right questions and look for ways to improve the effectiveness of our work. (Required)
• An understanding of the importance of governance, risk and compliance when delivering sponsorship activity within a regulated organisation. (Preferred)

WE VALUE YOUR IMPACT

At Santander, your contribution matters. We recognise the difference you make every day, and we make sure you feel valued, supported and rewarded in return. Here, recognition goes beyond pay. It’s about the pride you feel in your work, the impact you have on customers and communities, and the opportunities you have to grow and thrive — personally and professionally.

Salary Range: £46,000.00 - £69,000.00 per annum (depending on experience) This salary range represents the expected remuneration for the role. Annual salary is based on a standard 35-hour working week. Actual salary offered will depend on skills, experience, qualifications and location.

Competitive rewards that reflect the real impact you make and the value you bring.

Wellbeing that goes beyond work — we work with a range of wellbeing partners across our 4 pillars of wellbeing (physical, mental, social and financial) to give you access to a suite of apps, discounted gym and fitness access, weekly online classes, flexible healthcare and mental health support.

Support for every life stage — from menopause and pregnancy to parenthood and beyond, with enhanced family leave, childcare options and tailored wellbeing support.

Time to give back through volunteering opportunities that let you make a difference in the communities we serve.

Global growth opportunities to shape your career, learn new skills and explore what’s possible across our international network.

Ready to be recognised? It starts with you.

LOCAL COMPLIANCE

At Santander, we’re proud to be an inclusive organisation that provides equal opportunities for everyone — regardless of age, gender, disability, civil status, race, religion or sexual orientation. We’re committed to creating a recruitment experience that’s accessible, fair and welcoming for all candidates. We want our people to thrive — at work and at home — while delivering the best outcomes for our customers and supporting each other to grow.

To make this possible, our roles are site-based with a hybrid working pattern, where colleagues are expected to attend the office at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles). When applying, please consider the travel distance, time and cost to your chosen office location(s). This role is based in Milton Keynes, but will require travel to London as part of a hybrid working model. This role also includes the requirement to travel to support the delivery of events and activities the team manage. This can mean overnight stays and extended working hours.

WHAT TO DO NEXT

If this sounds like a role you are interested in, then please apply. For further Guidance please visit Internal Mobility - Candidate Guidance. If you want to know more about the opportunity: Please contact: Jemma Abela – Jemma.Abela@santander.co.uk