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Job Description
Strategic Partner Manager – Social Media Platform
London / Hybrid
Contract: Inside IR35 £430 PD
9 Month Contract
An excellent opportunity has arisen with a global social media brand to drive business growth within their advertising business through fostering innovation through strategic partnerships.
Role and Responsibilities:
- The Partnership team is seeking a strategic and results-driven Partner Manager to cover the EMEA region
- The mission is to drive business growth and foster innovation through partnerships
- Partnerships spans many countries and ranges from startup ad tech to measurement, creative, messaging and commerce companies
- This role will involve collaborating with some of the most influential and exciting partners, where you'll be building technology solutions to drive growth and innovation for advertisers and partners
- Identify and translate market opportunities and challenges into a well-defined strategy aimed at accelerating the growth in EME
- Collaborate with partners at different stages of the partnership life cycle (emerging or established) to focus on their go-to-market plans
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to influence partner product development efforts, including both shorter-term feature requests and long-term strategic roadmaps
Essential Skills and Experience:
- 8 years of client facing experience in partner management, account management, or technical sales
- Experience developing working relationships at all levels of management, internally and externally
- Strong project management, organisation, and stakeholder engagement skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders, building strong functional relationships based on trust and respect
- Self-starter, proven ability to shift priorities quickly and act proactively, while maintaining organization and focus on the key priorities
- Experience in using data to come up with executive summaries and business cases that drive decision-making and investments