Partnership Manager

Accepting Applications Until:

24 October 2025

Job Description

The Partnership Manager Is Responsible For Driving Partnership Revenue And Delivering Multiplatform Campaigns To The Highest Standard Within The National Agency Team. In This Role You Will Be Responsible For The Development Of Agency And Client Relationships And The Management Of The Partnership Account Manager For Your Agency Group. This Role Requires Immaculate Client Service, Creativity, Ability To Sell Multi-Platform Partnerships, Thorough Knowledge Of All Global Brands And Platforms And The Ability To Build Long Term Relationships To Encourage Continued Partnership Investment.

As a Partnership Manager at Global, you will:

Key Responsibilities

• Ability to dissect and understand partnership briefs in order to successfully facilitate creative brainstorms and interpret insight to respond accordingly.
• Ability to build strategic and integrated pitch presentations offering bespoke partnership solutions to our customers.
• To be target and revenue driven.
• Ability to sell confidently and develop strong influential relationships across your agency and client patch.
• Successfully plan and implement a strategy to drive overall revenue growth for your agency group.
• Deliver exceptional customer service and ensure the smooth running of the day-to-day business.
• Accurate forecasting for your patch short term and long term.
• A proactive approach to identify new clients and opportunities.
• Creativity and Innovation in order to come up with new and exciting partnership ideas and concepts.
• To work collaboratively to support and help the wider Partnership department and Business Units.
• Understand the key challenges your customers face to ensure you can provide partnership solutions that are mutually beneficial and ensure we are perceived as a key partner.

What You’ll Love About This Role

• Think Big: Working across all Global brands, platforms and products. From Breakfast Sponsorships, Global Events, Presenter led content to Podcasts, The Partnership Manager has the opportunity to sell and deliver everything we have to offer.
• Own It: Ownership of your agency relationships, freedom to build your network and raise your profile.
• Keep it Simple: The huge network of experienced people across the partnerships team that will work with you to drive greater efficiencies and deliver ideas at scale the Global way.
• Better Together: Working with all internal Commercial and Editorial departments allows the opportunity to create innovative and bespoke partnerships to our customers.

What Success Looks Like

• Revenue growth for your agency patch and the overall Partnership team.
• Strong relationships with your designated agency patch and clients
• Collaborative relationships with internal Business Units and Editorial teams.
• Delivering the highest level of service to your agency patch and clients.
• Knowledge of all Global brands, platforms and products.

What You’Ll Need

• Knowledge of all Global brands and platforms.
• Proven ability in successfully driving partnership revenue – minimum 3 years working in a media partnership team.
• A sound knowledge of radio and the commercial opportunity it offers.
• Thorough understanding of the key challenges we face commercially and how we may overcome these.