Join us as a Partnerships Manager
- You'll join NatWest Boxed’s rapidly expanding Commercial Partnerships team.
- This is an opportunity to achieve excellent exposure in a highly visible role and to make a real impact with your work
The Partnerships team plays a critical role in managing our 3rd parties. As a Partnership Manager, you will play a key role in developing and maintaining a best-in-class supplier programme, effective procurement & commercial processes to support and evolve the BaaS proposition.
You'll also:
- Lead complex, end-to-end (E2E) sourcing RFPs and projects across multi 3rd party categories, aligning supplier selection with corporate OKRs and the evolving Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) proposition
- Drive high-value, complex commercial and contractual negotiations, translating complex requirements into securing favourable commercial terms, and continuous improvement mechanisms in a rapidly scaling environment
- Foster relationships and strategic management of critical suppliers & commercial partners to ensure strong contractual performance and value whilst identifying commercial benefit and continuous improvement initiatives in a rapidly scaling and changing environment
- Develop and embed scalable category strategies that align supplier capabilities with business growth, acting as the SME sourcing expert to help influence strategic decisions and secure buy-in from senior stakeholders.
- Interpret financial Management Information (MI) and spend dashboards to proactively manage the third party cost base, identifying opportunities to reduce spend through strategic sourcing across categories and executing cost-saving initiatives across the portfolio.
To succeed in this role, you'll need to be a procurement expert preferably from a fintech or financial services background. You'll also need:
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
- Strong influencing and interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication and presentation skills to a senior audience. Proficient in creating presentations and executive summaries
- Proven commercial acumen with extensive experience in negotiating complex contracts and utilising rigorous negotiation tactics (e.g., volume-metric discounts, long-term contracting) to maximise value and optimise commercial terms.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities and categories
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
19/08/2026Ways of Working:Remote FirstSkills Required
- Procurement expertise and supplier management experience
- Experience leading complex end-to-end sourcing RFPs and projects
- Proven commercial acumen and extensive experience negotiating complex contracts
- Strong analytical, data-driven decision-making and ability to interpret financial MI and spend dashboards
- Excellent communication and presentation skills to senior audiences, including creating executive summaries
- Strong influencing and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities and categories
- Fintech or financial services background
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NatWest Group and has not been reviewed or approved by NatWest Group.
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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