Associate Partnerships Development Manager - Costa UK & I - Contract Catering

• Employ your experience, initiate your influence and schmooze your stakeholders
• Join a fun, focused, conscientious and results driven team
• Harness our opportunities for some serious growth and development

We're Costa, the nation's favourite coffee shop brand*, pouring our heart and soul into everything we do and creating moments to remember for our customers, our communities and for each other. Together we turn sips into smiles, choices into opportunities and passions into careers. Help us spread a little happiness!

Who we are looking for

You're curious by nature with an appetite for growth and a thirst for results. A super savvy self starter who likes to get in, amongst and alongside their team and their various stakeholders to translate vision, drive growth and exceed expectations. You always strive to achieve the best for others by delivering the very best of yourself. Your focused determination complimented by your confidence enables you to play with your competitive spirit and challenge yourself and those around you in a fun and meaningful way. You've been cultivating your career for a while now; having gained relevant and valuable experience (particularly in working with third parties and external partners) and you're currently in a role with a similar flavour and are looking for an opportunity to really grow and develop.

A bit about the role

You'll be the go to person, a conduit between Costa and our Partnerships. You'll own, nurture and eagerly develop the relationships with all your key stakeholders within each partnership business that you're aligned to. A champion of the brand, you'll be enabling and empowering your partners to meet our customers' thorough needs as you dynamically drive the growth agenda, whilst regularly, monitoring, measuring, reviewing and celebrating success. You'll join a tremendous and hard working team who share your focused passion for great coffee experiences, results and having fun. Experience of working within a multi-partner sector business, where complex and varied working practices and structures exist will enable you to succeed in this role. As will your drive and passion to deliver new business growth through existing and new partners.

So bring us your unique blend, together with ambition and experience and in return we'll give you a competitive salary, a very achievable yearly bonus, plenty of benefits and more coffee than you could dream of to enjoy in a supportive environment.

*Independent survey of 5000 people published in December 2014 by Allegra Strategies. For further details see www.costa.co.uk/terms