Head of Partnerships - Insurance

32Co

01Health is at an inflection point. The platform is built, revenue is accelerating, and we are moving from a single-specialty company to a multi-vertical specialist healthcare platform - with AI as embedded clinical infrastructure. Our vision is to help all clinicians deliver the latest innovations in healthcare, improving the standard of care for millions of people.  Backed by the investors behind Revolut, CityMapper, and Depop - we're scaling fast across the UK and beyond, and are looking for exceptional people to join us on our mission.  What is happening at 01Health right now: Balderton-backed Series A company 90% of UK patients can reach an 01Health–affiliated clinic within 30 minutes All growth has been inbound, ~50% word of mouth 4.98★ customer rating from the dentists who use us Aerox (sleep) ready for national rollout to top-performing 01 Partners, with a 300+ clinic waitlist US expansion live  New verticals being tested and prototyped We are not searching for product–market fit anymore. We are ready to dominate the market, and to do it across multiple medical specialties, transforming lives in the process. The Role: We have already cracked our offering to individual clinicians - this is the foundation of 01Health, and is the reason why we have such great product market fit. This year, we have started to ramp up our Partnerships proposition - the commercial & tooling suite that activates dental groups and enables us to onboard multiple practices at once. As Head of Partnerships, you will set strategy, manage the team and be responsible for all revenue generated through Enterprise (ENT) and Mid-Market (MM) partnerships. You will be accountable for the health of the Partnerships pipeline, the performance of live contracts and the refinement of the holistic Partnerships proposition (including via integration of new verticals, input into our product roadmap, etc.). You'll sit at the Commercial leadership table, define what gold-standard commercial leadership looks like, and set the direction for one the fastest growing area of the business. What You Will Do: Set ENT and MM strategy: Define ICPs, pricing tiers, segmentation, exclusivity rules target prospect approaches, etc. Own the Enterprise playbook end-to-end Own the partnership P&L: Responsible for Partnerships ACV signed, actual vs. committed revenue in live partnerships, LTV per signed partner, etc. Run the Enterprise team: Set targets, run weekly pipeline reviews, hire and performance manage the team, etc. Run forecast motion: Build accountability around pipeline coverage, weighted forecasts, deal-stage hygiene, LT-level reporting, etc. Integrate cross-vertical proposition: Work with other teams to integrate new verticals into Enterprise proposition and help launch multi-vertical offerings Be the senior stakeholder for top-tier prospects: Own C-suite relationships in partners, lead high-level pitches, and run final-stage contract negotiations. What We Are Looking For: You know what great looks like - because you've built it. 10+ years commercial experience, including 5+ years of managing teams of 5 or more  Operated at a Series A-B company & helped scale a Sales org post-Series A Personally owned and delivered against significant annual revenue targets with full accountability  Deep experience with Enterprise at scale: large customers with annual contracts of £250,000+ Proven experience of turning own data analysis into tangible strategic actions A pro-active, independent problem solvers who thrives in high-ownership environments where the playbook is still being written Able to commute into our Hoxton office on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Why Join Us: Real impact, every day - your work directly changes patient outcomes. You'll feel it, and so will the people whose care you're improving. 25 days holiday + your birthday off - because no one should work on their birthday! Outsized leverage and full ownership - real authority today, lasting impact tomorrow; what you build now shapes how this company operates at every stage after. Grow fast - backed by top VCs and built by the best; you'll be learning from some of the sharpest minds in health-tech every single day. Vitality Health cover - private medical insurance, because we take care of the people who take care of the business. Team Perks - enjoy regular team lunches, quarterly socials, and an annual company retreat. Hybrid working - we all come together three days a week, but the rest of the time, enjoy the flexibility to work from home or our Hoxton office.

Thought Machine

Thought Machine's mission is bold – to properly and permanently rid the world's banks of legacy technology. To achieve this, we have developed the foundations of modern banking through core and payments technology which run natively in the cloud. What we are attempting is hard and means we need great people working together to build great technology. We have grown rapidly in the past few years – growing our team to more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and our newly established Engineering Hub in Lisbon. We have raised more than £500m in funding and our investors include Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase Strategic Investments, Standard Chartered Ventures, and more. We have created a culture that enables our team to produce the best work in the industry while ensuring we have fun along the way. We're regularly cited as having a fantastic workplace culture and have been recognised by Sifted magazine as having one of the highest Glassdoor ratings for a UK fintech company and the industry's most generous employee share package. Named one of the world's most innovative fintechs by Global Finance Magazine, we were also recognised by the Financial Times as one of Europe's fastest-growing companies for two consecutive years—and a UK Best Employer for 2026. At Thought Machine, we believe the next era of finance is predictive, personal, and powered by AI. Over the last decade, we engineered the cloud-native foundation making that vision a reality — bridging sophisticated architectural logic with the real-time data required for world-class customer experiences. Our platform is globally recognised for its radical flexibility and resiliency, empowering the world’s most ambitious banks and fintechs to build, launch, and scale the products and experiences of tomorrow, faster than ever before. After a record year of growth and recently finalising our next fundraising round, we are entering our most ambitious stage of growth yet. We are now looking for a Head of Partnerships to architect and lead the ecosystem that will bring Vault Core and Vault Payments to every bank and fintech on the planet. As Head of Partnerships, you will own the strategic direction and commercial performance of the Thought Machine partner ecosystem. Sitting at the intersection of product strategy and market expansion, you are responsible for ensuring our platform remains the central gravity for the modern financial stack. Starting with a team of five, you will work to ensure we identify and engage the right partners to become a seamless part of our customer offering. You will be the bridge between our internal product roadmap and the external commercial market, ensuring that our ecosystem accelerates sales cycles, opens new territories, and provides a complete, end-to-end solution for our clients big and small. Key duties: * Ecosystem Strategy & Architecture: Identify and prioritise partnership categories—from global payment networks to AI-driven specialists—that enhance our competitive position and solve critical customer needs. * Commercial Deal Architecture: Design and negotiate high-stakes commercial frameworks, including revenue-sharing and joint go-to-market (GTM) strategies that drive measurable ARR growth for Thought Machine and our partners. * Team Leadership & Scaling: Manage and scale a high-performing team of five Partnership Managers, shifting the focus from "introductions" to "executed commercial outcomes" while building repeatable global processes. * Market-Product Alignment: Collaborate with Product Leads to ensure that third-party integrations are high-quality, reliable, and add immediate value to our core banking and payments products. * AI Opportunity & Productisation: Lead the strategy for integrating AI-first partners, ensuring their capabilities are leveraged to deliver the "predictive and personal" banking experiences our clients demand. * Partner Governance & Quality Control: Establish and enforce "Vault-Certified" standards, defining the technical and operational benchmarks partners must meet to ensure zero compromise on system resiliency and regulatory compliance (e.g., DORA, SOC2). * Commercial Enablement & GTM: Develop the playbooks and sales enablement tools required to turn technical solutions and integrations into sellable product sets that accelerate sales cycles and open new territories. * Strategic Intelligence: Act as a primary feedback loop for the CPO, providing data-backed insights on market trends and competitor moves to inform "build-vs-buy-vs-partner" decisions. * Regional Expansion: Develop and execute partnership plans that support our growth in North America, EMEA, and APAC, ensuring our ecosystem is localised and compliant. * Performance & ROI Optimisation: Implement a rigorous framework for tracking ecosystem health, focusing on metrics such as partner-influenced pipeline, integration adoption, and impact on customer time-to-value. Who you are: * Strategic Growth Leader: Extensive experience in Partnerships, Business Development, or Product Strategy within Fintech or Enterprise SaaS. You have a proven ability to use CRM data and market trends to quantify the impact of an ecosystem on sales velocity and LTV. * Commercially Driven: You have a track record of closing complex, multi-million pound deals and understand how to align technical product roadmaps with aggressive revenue targets. * Complex Stakeholder Navigator: You can effectively influence internal Engineering teams while simultaneously navigating the procurement, legal, and risk hurdles of Tier 1 global financial institutions. * Solution-Minded: You understand the modern financial technology landscape and can identify which combination of Thought Machine and partner tech solves a client’s problem most efficiently. * Effective Leader: You have experience managing and developing teams through rapid scale, focusing on clear accountability and the transition from a "deal-support" to a "market-making" model. * A Master Communicator: You navigate high-level negotiations with global incumbents and agile startups alike, building trust through clarity and commercial logic. Traits we value: * Commercial Rigour: You prioritise opportunities based on ROI, market demand, and strategic impact. * Ambitious Outlook: You are motivated by the challenge of replacing legacy banking tech and believe in the AI-powered future of finance. * Metrics Driven: You are able to set and enforce leading, present, and lagging metrics on performance, both for our partners and our team * Decisiveness: You are comfortable making high-stakes calls and moving at the pace of a Series E scale-up. * Directness: You value transparency and provide clear, actionable insights to your team and your peers. Benefits: * Highly competitive salary * Pension plan (match up to 5%) * Life insurance - three times annual salary * Competitive maternity (six months fully paid) and paternity leave (four weeks fully paid) * Shared parental leave (matched to our maternity leave for the same point in time) * 25 days holiday and bank holidays * Flexible working hours * Cycle-to-work scheme * Electric car scheme * Season ticket loan * Access to outstanding learning materials and courses * Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine * All the latest tech you need * Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals * Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks * A talented and experienced team as your colleagues * An environment where we encourage learning and progress * Two charity days a year * Weekly food pop-up We actively hire candidates who demonstrate technical excellence in their field and welcome people of all ages and backgrounds, providing everyone with equal access to professional development. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't accurately match the job description. We also encourage applications from those with different abilities, including candidates with ADHD, autism, dyslexia or dyspraxia.

Lendable

ABOUT LENDABLE Lendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money. We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start: * One of the UK’s newest unicorns with a team of just over 700 people * Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK * Profitable since 2017 * Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs * Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot) So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days. We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes. JOIN US IF YOU WANT TO 1. Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1 2. Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo 3. Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting ABOUT THE ROLE We’re looking for a strategic, data-driven Commercial Partnerships Associate to join the Growth team at Lendable. Focused on Zable’s upcoming new products including car insurance and mobile, you’ll play a central role in go to market of these products on price comparison websites, building the partner relationships that drive customer acquisition, and delivering analytics to guide product development. You don't need a background in partnerships or financial services, we care far more about how you think, how numerical you are, and whether you're genuinely curious about problems. You'll combine data analysis with external relationship management, take real ownership from early on, and work closely with Product, Data and Credit teams to deliver results in a fast-moving launch environment. You’ll be embedded within the growth team and will work closely with different teams at Lendable while being trusted to drive growth initiatives and handle your own projects independently.   Team objectives * We are responsible for the growth of all Lendable and Zable products, delivering projects via our price comparison site partnerships or directly into the market. * The team asks ‘where are new customers?’, ‘what can I improve with my current channels’ conversion?’, ‘what are competitors doing on marketplaces?’, ‘Am I risking negative selection?’, ‘what is the next product or innovation to develop?’, and ‘Are my unit economics working?’. WHAT YOU’LL BE WORKING ON * You will own the launch of Zable car insurance and mobile on price comparison websites - from initial partner conversations through to integration, go live and on-going optimisation * Once live, take responsibility for channel performance: tracking volume, conversion and cost of acquisition at the partner level, identifying what’s driving changes and what to do about them * You will manage partner relationships across strategic and day-to-day activity, balancing focus on large strategic partners with incubating new exciting ideas and holding partners accountable to delivery milestones. * Prepare analysis to support commercial decisions: pulling the right data, forming a clear point of view, and presenting it in a way to keep moving forward * You will be trusted to negotiate customer acquisition costs and commissions with key partners, identifying areas for cost optimisations. * Work cross functionally with Product, Pricing, Data and Compliance to scope integrations, complete due diligence on new partners and drive projects forward * Keep track of what’s happening in mobile and insurance partner markets - new entrants, product changes, competitor moves - and bring those insights to internal discussions * The role progression includes gradually owning the full responsibility for strategy and execution of specific partner projects, marketing efforts or product enhancements that deliver business growth.   YOUR EXPERIENCE * 2-3+ years’ experience in a commercial, consultancy, partnerships, analytical, business development, or account management role; ideally within financial services or a high-growth tech environment. * Highly numerate and analytical, proficient in manipulating and visualising data in AI-assisted SQL / Python, and using commercial modelling to inform decisions. * Strong communicator able to represent Lendable externally and build trusted relationships internally and externally. * Demonstrably uses AI tools to work better, whether that's automating repetitive tasks, speeding up analysis, improving written output, or finding faster routes to answers. We don't care which tools; we care that you've genuinely changed how you work because of them, not just experimented once or twice. * Outcome-driven and proactive: skilled at prioritising, independently driving projects, and managing work to deliver high-value results. * Comfortable contributing to a collaborative team, while thriving in a role where your individual performance and impact are directly visible.   WHAT DOES SUCCESS LOOK LIKE 6 MONTHS AFTER JOINING? * You’ve launched Zable non credit products on price comparison websites, and are starting to generate volume * Formed strong working relationships with all of our key partners, placing Zable as the partner of choice for all analytics or innovation collaborations. * You are assessing new partnership opportunities on a regular basis, have a clear view on the partner pipeline and are acting on ones that deliver tangible value to the business. * Ownership of the customer acquisition funnel at the individual partner level; identifying changes in funnel dynamics and attributing them at pace, sharing insights with Risk, Pricing and Product teams to inform wider acquisition strategy * First line ownership of due diligence checks and ongoing compliance monitoring of Lendable partners through dedicated diligence exercises and mystery shopping. INTERVIEW PROCESS * 30-min introductory call with Talent team * 15min cognitive test * 60min in-person case study exercise with Head of Partnerships * Final round (in-person or virtual): * Head of Partnerships * Commercial MD and Insurance or Mobile MDs LIFE AT LENDABLE * Winning team: the opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies * Flexible working: flexible approach tailored to each role. Hybrid roles require three days in-office weekly; fully remote roles include regular opportunities for in-person connection through socials and off-sites * Socials & connection: opportunities and events to come together, socialise, and get to know each other beyond the office walls * Health coverage: support for your physical and mental wellbeing, including private health cover * Retirement & savings: long-term financial wellbeing through retirement savings plans * Employee referral programme: earn a competitive bonus when you refer successful new team members * Office meals & snacks: enjoy a fully stocked kitchen, plus complimentary lunches prepared by in-house chefs on in-office days at select locations * Sustainable commuting: cycle-to-work and electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes available in select locations Please note: The availability and details of specific benefits vary by location and role. For more information, please speak to your Talent Partner. Check out our blog!