Senior Strategic Partner Manager - 12 Month FTC

Your role: A key role supporting the Platforms Director to manage News UK’s interactions and relationships with one of its most important partners: Google.

News UK is a major contributor to a 4 year global partnership with Google that includes News Corp’s businesses in the US and Australia. This deal includes significant workstreams across our editorial, marketing and commercial functions. Outside of the deal, News UK has many dependencies with Google across the entire business. As the pace, scale and complexity of these interdependencies continues to evolve, the Senior Strategic Partner Manager joins up the various conversations and activities, and acts the central conduit of business touchpoints with Google.

Requires a foundational understanding of AI, given its central importance to the evolution of Google's products.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee delivery in the UK of the News Corp & Google partnership, creating and constantly developing a strong partnership framework and briefing senior leadership to guide decision-making
• Ensure deal commitments are met, holding the Google and internal teams to account for meeting their individual objectives including contractual obligations. Implement and maintain a strong reporting structure to proactively monitor, identify and escalate any potential delivery issues and provide support for local business areas to engage in new opportunities
• Work with key members of The Times, The Sun and Broadcasting to communicate their strategies to our key Google contacts. Work with Google to identify new product and platform integrations, develop new opportunities and implement where appropriate. Strong internal stakeholder relationships in place to maximise opportunities
• Be the central day to day point of contact for our external relationship managers at Google. Establish strong ways-of-working with each of them, understand their priorities, facilitate introduction to News UK subject matter experts as required
• Manage our central relationship with YouTube underpinned by our Joint Business Plan. Run regular workshops, support video teams in achieving their strategies and ensure that News UK is prioritised for new innovations on YouTube’s product roadmap
• Build deep relationships across Google outside of our dedicated partner contacts, including for example: Google Ad Manager, Google Ads, Play Store, YouTube Partner Sales Enablement, Privacy Sandbox, Cloud, Trust & Safety, Google TV, Media Labs. Leverage these relationships to unlock better service and identify opportunities to extract further value
• Integrate closely with commercial teams on Google marketing pitches, collaborating to ensure we have the best chance of winning the business
• Work with business unit leads to triage and resolve escalations and general ad hoc queries
• Advocate for News UK’s interests with Google and with News Corp HQ

At News UK, we know the value of working together, which is why we operate a hybrid working policy with a minimum of three days a week in the office. Being in the office allows us to collaborate, innovate, and thrive as a team in our vibrant and dynamic workspace. Some roles may require more office-based days depending on the nature of the position, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter to learn more about what’s required for your role.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.

At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

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