Senior External Partnership Manager

The Senior External Partnership Manager sits at the heart of HM Land Registry’s Customer and Strategy Group. We ensure that HMLR is led by and is delivering Strategy 2025+, by developing and maintaining the strategy, monitoring progress, and providing insight through futures thinking, horizon scanning, and external insight and analysis.

Within the Strategy Hub, the team builds and manages strategic external partnerships including the cross-industry and government group the Digital Property Market Steering Group (DPMSG). We gather and share intelligence on strategic partnerships, work with comms colleagues to support HMLR to deliver a professional external affairs service and help HMLR maintain and develop international relationships.

The purpose of the role is:

• Driving, developing and managing the DPMSG and other sectoral support groups, enabling a multi-year programme critical to delivering HMLR’s strategic priorities.
• Developing and maintaining awareness of government policy relevant to the DPMSG vision, strengthening priority cross government relationships, and integrating government activity into the DPMSG agenda to deliver improvements and measurable impact to the property system.
• Advising on and managing HMLR’s involvement in rapidly evolving external partnerships, identifying risks, maintaining key relationships, and connecting external initiatives to HMLR’s priorities and activities.
• Working across HMLR (and with the forthcoming internal Innovation Hub) to support prioritisation and delivery of collaborations with the market, including prototypes, proofs of concept, and pilots.

This includes gathering intelligence, analysing benefits, ensuring external stakeholder activities are factored into planning, and working with the Innovation Hub to ensure activities support HMLR’s strategic direction for its own products, data and services and/or enable market products and services that utilise HMLR data for the betterment of the property system in support of Government Missions.

To manage the DPMSG partnership, including:

• setting and securing senior-level agreement for strategic direction, including structure and ways of working.

This includes managing and developing the DPMSG government network to ensure the right level of support, to maximise opportunities and to manage any potential conflicts or overlaps of work.

• Oversight as the senior responsible owner for project management, ensuring that the group delivers published strategic commitments.

Driving delivery of the published DPMSG roadmap through engagement with external stakeholders, ensuring that outputs are produced on time and to the right quality.

• Managing and setting up the working groups, defining timelines and plans for delivery, managing governance, risks, actions, deliverables, timelines and communications.

Alongside your salary of £56,587, HM Land Registry contributes £16,393 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

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