We are recruiting for a Brand Partnerships Executive to play a key role within the Brand and Marketing team, supporting the delivery of AJ Bell’s brand partnerships and sponsorships activities.
Working closely with the Brand Partnerships Lead, the role helps bring partnerships to life through creative activations, events and campaigns, while ensuring brand consistency across all touchpoints. The role also focuses on driving internal engagement, building strong relationships with partners and agencies, and maximising the impact of sponsorships and charitable initiatives for customers, colleagues and the wider community.
The key responsibilities of the role are as follows
- Support the delivery of sponsorship activity, such as the AJ Bell Great Run Series. Activity will include delivery of creative brand assets (digital and physical), events and activation management, and supporting on external and internal comms.
- Support the delivery of our charitable partnerships, maximising opportunities for the AJ Bell Futures Foundation to give back to the community and engage employees.
- Working collaboratively with our internal events team to promote partnership opportunities, maximising staff engagement
- Act as brand guardian, ensuring all assets adhere to brand guidelines.
- Help to drive internal staff engagement with our sponsorships and partnerships.
- Manage all sponsorship and partnership related content in line with regulatory and business requirements.
- Support the business to deliver the brand across all customer and employee touchpoints.
- Support the business to achieve its regulatory requirements, including consumer duty.
What we're looking for
- At least 3 years’ brand marketing experience, specifically brand partnerships.
- Excellent communication skills, including written.
- Able to build and maintain relationships with internal teams, external partners and agencies with confidence.
- Collaborative team member, with a flexible proactive approach.
- Experience in delivering end-to-end smaller creative campaigns for example email, social, digital and out of home.
Knowledge and Skills
- Creative thinker – enthusiastic when developing new ideas.
- Practical approach to problem solving.
- Highly organised, self-motivated and able to work to deadlines.
- Flexible and capable of working on multiple projects at the same time.
- Proven ability to deliver multiple creative assets end‑to‑end, from brief development through to production, delivery and evaluation.
- Strong attention to detail in all aspects of your work.
- Solid understanding of social media e.g. LinkedIn, Meta and YouTube.
- IT literate (Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
- Copywriting skills, nice to have.
About AJ Bell
AJ Bell is one of the UK’s fastest-growing investment platform businesses, providing award-winning solutions for everyone, from professional financial advisers to first-time investors.
Today, over 673,000 customers trust us to manage more than £108 billion of assets. By continually striving to make investing simpler and more accessible, we’re helping more people take control of their financial futures.
We’re proud to be recognised as one of the UK’s Best 100 Companies to Work For for six consecutive years, and a Great Place to Work® in 2025 and 2026 a reflection of our supportive and collaborative culture.
What we offer
- Salary up to £35,000 (dependent on experience)
- 25 days holiday, increasing with service + buy/sell scheme + bank holidays
- 6% Pension with matched contributions
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Share schemes (including free shares and BAYE)
- Health Cash Plan and discounted private healthcare
- Free onsite gym
- Enhanced family leave (subject to qualifying criteria)
- Travel and bike loan schemes
- Employee Assistance Programme
Life at AJ Bell
- Regular social events including summer and Christmas parties
- Learning and development opportunities tailored to you
- Casual dress code
- Friendly, supportive team environment
Our ways of working
We offer hybrid working, with a minimum of 50% of your working time per month spent in the office.
For new starters, there’s an initial period of full-time office working to help you settle in and build relationships.
Inclusion & diversity
We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and able to be themselves at work.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds and make hiring decisions based on skills, experience and potential.
Qualifications
Top Skills
What We Do
AJ Bell was formed in 1995 and is now one of the leading online investment platforms in the UK. We provide customers and advisers with wide investment choice, low-cost delivery, market leading online functionality and first class service to help them manage investment portfolios within SIPPs, ISAs and Dealing accounts. We are a fast growing and profitable company, with over 484,000 customers and £76.2 billion of assets under administration. We are part of the FTSE 250 on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.
