Partnerships Manager - 12month FTC

London, England, United Kingdom

7/25/2025

This role is a 12month Fixed-term contract

The Role

This role sits within the Affiliate and Performance Partnerships team. As a Partnerships Manager in our growing team, you will focus on contributing towards increasing the footprint of our performance partnerships on a global scale. You will specialise in managing and nurturing existing enterprise partners, supporting them and driving growth, as well as investing a good amount of your time in business development; identifying new partners, pitching, and winning new business. Additionally, you will own the analysis and reporting on the performance of your portfolio of partners.

Your Responsibilities

• Sales / Negotiations - You are a sales and negotiation expert. You love working with partners and know how to find value for everyone in those relationships.
• Big picture thinker - You are a creative and big-picture thinker – nothing is impossible.
• Forward thinker - You are an early adopter and like to be ahead of the competition – you look for partners that share those values.
• Partnership Management - Own and manage a portfolio of current partnerships by quickly building personal relationships with our global enterprise-sized partnerships and assessing opportunities to grow revenue.
• Reporting / Insights - Provide consistent reporting and insights to external partners and internal stakeholders.
• Data-driven decisions - Leverage internal data, partner insights, market trends, and the competitive landscape to make data-driven recommendations for perpetual improvements
• Tech knowledge - Continually researching and understanding the global travel tech environment to ensure that we remain at the forefront of the industry.
• Industry knowledge - Conduct competitive intelligence scans/benchmarking and develop strategies to adapt to changing environment within the travel vertical.
• Partner growth - Lead and assist in negotiating media placements, collaborations, and exclusives with key partners
• Commercial - Identify and initiate new ideas, incentives and bonus structures to achieve and exceed performance goals
  
  

Skills/Experience

• Sales / Partner management experience - Strong sales, negotiation and partnership management skills – knowing the travel tech space is a plus
• Technical partner integration experience - Good technical skills and the ability to talk product: knowledge on APIs, feeds, widgets, etc
• Team player / Autonomous - Ambitious, results-driven individual who enjoys working as a team but can also thrive independently
• Analytical - Able to analyse data and determine partner or market success focused around ROI
• Commercial understanding - Commercial outlook, negotiation and experience of managing 3rd parties
• Business Development - Demonstrated success in conducting outreach and recruiting for new performance-based marketing partners and relationships
• Relationship builder - You love people. You’ll be responsible for building and maintaining relationships with hundreds (if not thousands) of partners
• Big picture thinker - You are a creative and big-picture thinker – nothing is impossible.
• Business acumen - Strong business and marketing acumen with an ability to identify business opportunities, deliver results, and adjust plans as appropriate
• Tooling / Technologies - Experience with management and tracking technologies used to measure performance (ie. Tableau, GA, Impact Radius, Partnerize, CommissionJunction)
• Digital marketing knowledge - You may not be an expert but you have a well-rounded knowledge of other digital marketing channels.