The Community & Partnerships Lead is responsible for building brand presence, community engagement, and commercial growth through on-ground activations, events, and strategic partnerships. This role focuses on creating demand in the market by engaging directly with gyms, communities, and brand users, while supporting interactions with partners as part of broader brand activity.
This is a full-time salaried role with a flexible structure. Your hours shift to follow the highest-impact opportunities, which includes weekends when events are on and travel for major events. Day to day, you'll work remotely across the Gold Coast in a Switch work van, with a minimum two days a month at our Sunshine Coast office.
Key responsibilities
Plan and execute weekly gym activations and community sessions
Coordinate brand presence at sporting clubs, HYROX, run clubs, functional fitness events and similar environments
Represent the brand in-market and engage directly with customers
Build and maintain relationships with gym operators, retail partners, and community stakeholders
Support retail and gym partners through activations that increase brand visibility and engagement
Drive awareness that leads to in-store and online demand
Ensure strong product exposure and a consistent brand experience across all activations




Identify new partnership opportunities in key markets
Capture leads through events, activations and sampling
Maintain records of leads, partners and contacts in Monday.com CRM
About you
You're probably the person who seems to know everyone at your gym, run club or local fitness events. You're outgoing, love meeting current people and get energy from being in a room full of them.
You'll bring
Proven sales experience, ideally in business development, account management or field sales
A confident, outgoing personality and the ability to start conversations with anyone
Strong relationship-building skills with gym operators, retailers and community leaders
Experience managing a CRM and keeping leads, contacts and pipelines up to date (we use Monday.com)
Self-motivation, with the drive to set your own schedule and hit targets without close supervision
Strong organisation and adaptability, able to juggle multiple events and partners
Willingness to work weekends and travel for major events
A passion for fitness and performance environments
An existing connection to the Gold Coast fitness community, and an understanding of gyms, running and HYROX, will be highly regarded.
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📌 Community & Partnerships Manager (Gold Coast)
🏢 Switch Nutrition
📍 Gold Coast