Associate Director of Commercial and Partnerships

This is an exciting senior leadership role where you’ll shape how Alzheimer’s Society grows its impact, influence and income through partnerships and innovation.

As Associate Director of Commercial and Partnerships, you’ll sit on our Senior Leadership Team and play a pivotal role in turning strategy into action. Your focus will be on growing and diversifying service income, developing powerful partnerships across health and social care, and making sure our dementia support services are both sustainable and transformational.

You’ll be working at the intersection of purpose and commercial thinking scaling our training, education and consultancy offer, exploring new funding models and building relationships that help us reach more people affected by dementia. This is a role with real autonomy, visibility and stretch, where your ideas, leadership and influence will directly shape the future of dementia support in a fast‑changing landscape.

If you’re someone who enjoys thinking big, building strong relationships and making things happen all while staying deeply connected to values and impact this role offers the chance to do your best work for a cause that truly matters.

About you

You’re an experienced, confident leader with a strong background in commercial growth, partnerships or business development within health, social care, the voluntary sector or a related environment.

You’ll bring:

• A proven track record of delivering income growth, scaling services or developing new commercial opportunities
• Experience of building and managing senior‑level partnerships across organisations and sectors
• Strong strategic thinking skills, with the ability to translate big ambitions into clear, deliverable plans
• Confidence using data, insight and evidence to assess impact, make decisions and demonstrate value
• Excellent influencing, negotiating and communication skills, including presenting with credibility at senior levels

You’ll also be a collaborative, inclusive leader who leads with empathy and thrives in complex, fast‑moving environments.

What you’ll focus on:

• Growing and diversifying service income through partnerships and innovation
• Building and maintaining strong, senior‑level relationships across sectors
• Scaling training, education and consultancy offers with clear impact
• Turning insight, evidence and data into smarter decisions
• Leading inclusive, high‑performing teams aligned to our values

Dementia is the UK's biggest killer. One in three people born in the UK today will develop dementia in their lifetime.

At Alzheimer's Society, we're the UK's leading dementia charity and the only one to tackle all aspects of dementia by giving help and hope to people living with dementia today and in the future. We give vital support to people facing the most frightening times of their lives, while also funding groundbreaking research and campaigning to make dementia the priority it should be.

Together with our supporters, we're working towards a world where dementia no longer devastates lives.

Our values make sure that our focus is clear for the challenges and opportunities ahead and remind us of what we all stand for.

Our commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We need to ensure the voices around our table better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Alzheimer's Society.  

We want everyone we work with, as a colleague, volunteer, supporter, or someone we support, to feel included and that they belong at Alzheimer's Society. 

Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee forum and Employee Lived Experience network groups help us promote inclusion and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people. 

Our hiring process

During your recruitment process we want to make sure that you bring your whole self and can be at your best. We are working hard to ensure our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible, so please do inform us of your experience and anything you think we could do better by completing our candidate survey when you apply.  Please also contact Alzheimer's Society Talent Acquisition Team via [email protected] for application support or any adjustments you might need.

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed. We recognise the benefits of AI, but if you're considering using it to submit your application, we encourage you to reflect on the value it truly adds. AI tools often lack the personal touch and authenticity that set candidates apart. We want to hear your unique perspective, experiences, and skills, so we encourage you to showcase them in your own voice.

We try to avoid closing roles early where possible, however if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close earlier than the advertised closing date. Should this occur, we will aim to provide you with at least 48 hours' notice.

We are committed to safer recruitment and ensuring the welfare of those we work with, due to the nature of some of our roles, we might need to carry out a Criminal Record Check at the relevant level. You can read more information via our Website.

Giving back to you

Our employees work hard every day to make a true difference in people's lives. We are proud to support them with a range of benefits, recognition and many options for working agilely, all contributing to a strong work life balance. We also have various learning programmes to support you in your development and help you grow to realise your potential and shape a career with Alzheimer's Society. 

You can also visit our Working for Us pages, which give you more information about what it's like to be an employee at the Society.