Corporate Partnerships Manager

Are you a force for good? Does the opportunity to devote your talents to a cause much greater than yourself excite you? Are you a strategic connector who thrives on building high-impact partnerships that fuel meaningful change? The Arbor Day Foundation is a place where you can do work that matters, with people who care. As we say at the Foundation: life is short, love where you work.  

As one of the world's largest conservation organizations, the Arbor Day Foundation inspires people to plant, nurture, and celebrate trees. We help others understand and use trees as a solution to global issues (like air quality, water quality, climate change, deforestation, poverty, and hunger) that are critical to survival.  

The Arbor Day Foundation is seeking a Corporate Partnership Manager to join our growing Corporate Partnerships Team. Your role is to connect the dots between a company’s priorities – where it’s sustainability targets, employee engagement, or community impact – and the tangible, scalable impact of trees. The Corporate Partnership Manager will connect with corporations within the Midwest territory: Nebraska, Denver, Kansas City, Texas and will own the full relationship sales cycle.   

Reports to: Director, Corporate Partnerships  

What you bring:    

• Passion for the Foundation’s mission, nature, environmental stewardship and people.  
• Experience in B2B sales, fundraising, or corporate engagement, with proven success managing high-value accounts or corporate relations.  
• Experience working directly with senior-level executives (C-Suite or VP level).  
• A creative, entrepreneurial mindset—you're always finding new paths to “yes.” 
• Proven ability to hit ambitious revenue and activity targets.  
• CRM fluency and data-drive decision-making. 
• Willingness to travel 25% of the time for high-impact partner engagement including conferences, client meetings, roundtables, and events.  

What you’ll do:  

• Secure new corporate partners by identifying, engaging, and closing mission-aligned organizations seeking to amplify their environmental or Corporate Social Responsibility impact.
• Develop and pitch customized partnership campaigns that creatively align our mission with the business objectives of fortune 1000