External Partnerships & Engagement Manager

Title: External Partnerships & Engagement Manager Location: Cardiff, London or Remote (UK)

📍London/Cardiff/UK Remote | 💰£41,300-52,250  + equity + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + Benefits  ✨

Our VAIB team⭐

Making money work for everyone is what we do at Monzo, but it only counts if it works for the people who need support the most. Our Vulnerability, Accessibility, Inclusion and Bereavements (VAIB) team is dedicated to breaking down barriers across the bank. We make sure that whether a customer is vulnerable, disabled, excluded, or experiencing a bereavement, they get a product and a service that is empathetic, accessible, and built entirely with them in mind.

🔑You’ll play a key role by...

As External Partnerships & Engagement Manager, you will strategically manage a portfolio of VAIB partnerships that bring vital specialist expertise and enhanced support to Monzo's most vulnerable customers. You will proactively identify new partnership opportunities while leveraging data and customer feedback to continuously monitor and maximize the value of your existing relationships. Ultimately, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate this external insight and lived experience into tangible, practical improvements across our products, services, and customer journeys.

• Manage Partnership Lifecycles: Own the end-to-end portfolio of VAIB external partnerships, from identifying strategic opportunities to onboarding, ongoing relationship management, and appropriate exits.
• Drive Data-Led Impact: Continuously evaluate partnership performance using data and operational feedback, clearly reporting successes and confidently acting to strengthen or stop underperforming relationships.
• Oversee Governance and Risk: Partner with Supplier Operations to conduct robust due diligence, ensuring all external relationships strictly adhere to Monzo’s risk, governance, and regulatory expectations.
• Translate Insights into Action: Leverage specialist partner knowledge to identify opportunities and drive tangible improvements across vulnerable customer journeys, products, and support strategies.
• Lead Lived-Experience Research: Own the Signposting Standard and collaborate with the Research team to capture lived experiences, turning best-practice insights into clear cross-functional recommendations.
• Deliver Community Engagement: Plan external awareness campaigns, host expert listening sessions, and collaborate with Public Policy and Communications to amplify Monzo's impact and support media activity.

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if…

• You have a deep understanding of VAIB principles and the barriers vulnerable customers face, driven by a strong commitment to improving customer outcomes through meaningful external collaboration.
• You have proven experience managing external relationships, going beyond relationship-building to set clear objectives, build trust, and hold both internal and external stakeholders accountable for delivering measurable benefits.
• You have experience evaluating partnership effectiveness using data and customer feedback, and are highly skilled at translating external expertise and lived experiences into practical, actionable recommendations for teams across Monzo.
• You have a strong grasp of due diligence and risk management, ensuring all external partnerships are supported by rigorous governance and robust, accurate documentation.
• You are a highly organised problem-solver capable of managing multiple competing priorities, confidently navigating challenging stakeholder conversations, and proactively course-correcting when partnerships fail to deliver their intended value.

Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At Monzo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply— even if you don’t have everything that's listed just yet. Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you!

🙌 What’s in it for you

💰 £41,300-52,250 ➕Incentive Awards tied to your performance.

⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.

📚 £1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

🏡 We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.

➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.

🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps

• Recruiter call (25 minutes)
• Values & Behaviours Interview (60 minutes)
• Role Specific Interview (60 minutes)

This process should take around 3-4 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible!

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We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out.

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