Partner Relationship Manager
Deadline: September 1, 2025
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Contact: emma.green@wearecatalyst.org
Role Overview
As Partner Relationship Manager, you’ll sit as a key member of our Open Innovation team, shaping, managing and evolving relationships with our corporate partners to drive mutual impact.
This role isn’t just about managing accounts, it’s about orchestrating collaborations that help fast-track Northern Ireland’s most promising tech start-ups and scale-ups. You’ll be the bridge between big business and brilliant innovators, helping to spark breakthroughs and build a community that’s greater than the sum of its parts.
Partners contribute both financially and through their insight and involvement. In return, they gain:
- Visibility as leaders in innovation
- Access to a vibrant network of founders, researchers, and change-makers
- Influence on the future of innovation in Northern Ireland
- Opportunities to give back through mentoring, steering panels, and more
Key Information
- Full time, permanent contract.
- Attractive benefits package
- Competitive salary up to £45,000 depending on qualifications/experience.
- Based in Belfast, Titanic Quarter.
- Reporting to Director of Innovation Partnerships.
Essential Criteria
- Strong prior experience in a Partner Relationship Manager or Business Development position.
- Experience managing relationships with senior leaders in commercial organisational.
- Experience designing or delivering partner engagement strategies or programmes
- Proven ability to work across functions and sectors with diplomacy and drive
- High level of IT literacy, particularly in CRM tools and reporting systems
- Exceptional communication skills — written, verbal, and interpersonal
- Self-starter with a proactive mindset, able to spot opportunities and act on them
- Strong customer focus with commercial acumen and creative problem-solving skills
- Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced setting
- Comfortable working independently and collaboratively
Desirable Criteria
- Experience in innovation, entrepreneurship, or start-up ecosystems
- Experience designing or delivering partner engagement strategies or programmes
- Understanding of the Northern Ireland business and tech landscape
Working at Catalyst
A certified Great Place to Work® and recognised as one of the top 100 Workplaces in the UK for 2024, receiving awards for Best Place to Work, Best Workplace for Development, Best Workplace for Employee Wellbeing, and Best Place to Work for Women, Catalyst is one of Northern Ireland’s most exciting employers.
With a strong vision of Opportunity for all from world-leading innovation, this is a workplace brimming with ambition to create social, cultural, and economic advantage. We are a force for good, bold in our approach with integrity at our core and passion in everything we do.
Diversity and Inclusion at Catalyst
Diversity and inclusion aren’t boxes to tick on a CSR list. At Catalyst, they are part of our DNA, lived, breathed, seen, and heard across our community, projects, and co-working spaces.
We not only want to foster and empower a culture of innovation, but also an environment where people can be their true, authentic self and thrive, and we are proud to be recognised by the Diversity Charter for achieving silver status, with ambitions to progress to Gold.
Employee Perks
- Competitive Benefits Package including Private medical insurance foryou and your dependents
- Generous pension contribution
- Generous life assurance policy
- Enhanced parental leavepackages
- Hybrid working options available
- Free open access to company organised events.
