Membership Relationship Manager – Leading Trade Body (Financial Services)

Excellent opportunity for a proven relationship builder, ideally with a membership background (Trade Body), and/or from within Financial Services – to join the membership team at this leading Trade Body within the Financial Sector.  If you are looking for a role where you can build great relationships, spot and develop opportunities, and be part of a genuinely enjoyable team, then this could be just the one.

You’ll be joining a well-established and highly respected Trade Body at the heart of the UK financial services sector. They represent over 300 Financial organisations and play a key role in bringing the industry together, shaping policy, and driving collaboration across banking, lending, payments, and beyond, with involvement in topics as varied as cybersecurity, sustainability and innovation. As well as their 300 members, they have an impressive cohort of over 200 Associate Members, across Consultancy (eg KPMG), Law (eg Allen & Overy) and Tech, who gain access and unique opportunities for networking and partnerships through their membership.

This role will see you joining the Associate Membership team of 4 – a team who work closely and enjoyably together, to maintain, develop and continually enhance the Associate membership body, and their engagement, experience, participation and benefits of being part of this highly valuable Organisation.  (This role is offered on an initial 12 month contract due to an internal secondment and with excellent opportunities beyond).

What you’ll be doing
You’ll take ownership of your own portfolio of Associate Members (think consultancies, law firms, tech firms—ranging from big names to smaller, growing businesses), building strong relationships and keeping them engaged. 
It’s a varied role— using a great breadth of skills across relationship management, commercial insight, and vision, spotting and developing new opportunities ... One day you might be catching up with members, the next spotting sponsorship opportunities or helping shape a new industry event around a hot topic or interest within the sector.  You’ll also work closely with teams across the organisation (events, policy, commercial) to make sure members are getting real value and to create new opportunities for engagement.

Day to day, you’ll be:

• Managing and growing relationships with your own portfolio of members – across Management Consultancy, Law and Technology
• Working collaboratively with your team, and also the wider organisation, including Events, Sponsorship, Policy – to both deliver existing opportunities, as well as spot and develop new ones, including events – developing the Associate Membership offering
• Working with internal teams to bring new ideas and opportunities to life
• Spotting commercial opportunities (events, sponsorship, new members)
• Keeping members engaged through regular contact and relevant opportunities
• Supporting and helping deliver events, roundtables, and webinars for Associate Membership – attending wider industry events
• Sharing insights on what members want and need (through event attendance, desk research and data review)

What they’re looking for:

• Someone who’s a good communicator, and a natural people person—who naturally gains trust and engagement, you enjoy building relationships and staying connected – able to deal with all levels of contacts including senior level business leaders
• Experience in Account Management/Relationship Management/Business Development, ideally from a similar Trade Body/Membership Organisation with experience maintaining and developing member relationships, benefits and with an eye to new opportunities and ideas
• Financial sector experience ideally sought
• Alongside your strong ability to engage f2f, you’re also strong on the organisational and data side - comfortable using CRM systems and working with data
• A natural commercial instinct—you can spot opportunities and motivated to drive them forwad
• Confident working with different stakeholders, both internally and externally – a strong collaborator

Why it’s a great move

• This is a hugely well regarded organisation at the heart of the financial sector, and will give you loads of exposure to different organisations and senior stakeholders
• It’s a great ‘relationship’ role’ - broad, varied role where across a lot of different skills, you’ll learn a lot, and really have something to get your teeth into, a mix of enhancing existing relationships and developing new
• You’ll be joining a really friendly, down-to-earth team who genuinely enjoy what they do
• Hybrid working (2 days a week in the office) + excellent benefits

If you like the idea of a role where no two days are the same—and where you can really make an impact while enjoying the people you work with— and that sits within such a highly regarded body within the financial sector - this is well worth a look!

Click APPLY now – looking for someone to join the team asap!  So do get your CV in for review ASAP and then we can tell you more!