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.

Please see attached job description for full list of duties.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

To apply, you will need to complete the short application form,

Then please copy and paste your CV onto the online application form detailing your skills/experience and work history.

Your CV will be assessed against the essential technical criteria;

• Ability to understand, interpret, summarise and clearly communicate a range of often complex information and intelligence to different audiences.

Complete the Personal Statement section (in no more than 750 words), please demonstrate:

• A track record of communicating and dealing effectively with a diverse and senior set of stakeholders, including effectively communicating and influencing at Director and/or Board level.
• Demonstrable application of excellent organisational and interpersonal skills and ability to forge positive working relationships at all levels.
• Be able to provide advice and recommendations that demonstrate strong political awareness and analytical insight; and maintain focus on big picture considerations whilst understanding the detail.

Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application.

Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications –this is 23:55 on the advertised date.

Sift

The sift will take place shortly after the closing date.

In case of a high volume of applications, we will complete a pre-sift on your CV and the essential technical criteria; Ability to understand, interpret, summarise and clearly communicate a range of often complex information and intelligence to different audiences.

Interview

If successful at shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend an interview. This will include a pre-prepared presentation.

Interviews will be held either in person in a local HMLR Office or via MS Teams, this will be advised nearer the time. The blended interview will test the essential experience and behaviours listed in the Job Description.

We expect interviews to take place during the week commencing the 30 November 2026.

Candidates may refer to notes within their interview, but they should be used as a prompt only.

HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confident Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people.

If you require the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else you would like the panel to take into consideration, you are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.