Strategic Partnerships Manager

Strategic Partnerships Manager

Location: London, UK
Length: 7 months
Duration: 20/12/2025 - 28/07/2026
Rate: £51.92 per hour (Inside IR35)
Hours: 40 hours per week (Hybrid)

Job Description

As a Strategic Partnerships Development Manager, you are a relationship builder that thrives in a fast paced environment, successfully navigates internal processes, products, and teams, and revels in managing complex and strategically important partnerships for us. You manage and/or deepen relationships with partners, execute agreements, and track impact, enabling us to be successful. You possess strong skills in relationship building, negotiation, project management, and collaboration.

• Drive end to end partner/supplier experience to ensure deal integration which includes negotiating and finalizing contracts, executing on account plans, pitching to partners/suppliers, resolving partner issues and advocating on behalf of partner/supplier.
• Drive partner strategy, including new partner/supplier and opportunity prospecting. Conduct partner/industry research and collaborate on product strategy.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with external partners and internal stakeholders/teams to drive the best partner/supplier experience and ensure product excellence.
• Drive managing partner engagement and relationship by tracking business metrics and insights, building business forecasts, and ensuring strong brand/reputation management.

• Oral & written communication
• Opportunity and pipeline management
• Data analysis, synthesis and reporting
• Navigating complexity
• Deal negotiation
• Project management and planning
• Stakeholder management
• Executive influence
• Contract knowledge
• Industry knowledge

• Experience: Business development and/or partnerships experience.
• Negotiation & contracting: Familiarity with negotiation and contracting, including reviewing and drafting legal documents with legal teams.
• Communication: Very strong communication skills, as the role involves working with third parties and internal teams.

• Industry familiarity: Familiarity with the ads space, specifically: Search advertising, Display advertising, Video advertising.
• Backgrounds: Experience in management consulting and/or investment banking is considered a plus due to exposure to fast paced environments and working with different types of people.