Partnerships Manager

PE Global is currently recruiting for a Partnership Lead for a contract role with a leading multinational vacation rental company based in London

In this role, you'll play a critical part in taking new platform products to market by identifying, securing, and scaling early partnerships that validate new use cases, prove new commercial opportunities, and scale these programs globally. This is a highly cross-functional role, ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, with specific focus on new product development and innovation.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Partnership Management: Effective at building and maintaining senior-level relationships with strategic partners to drive joint revenue opportunities. Has a proven track record of developing and executing a unique strategy for each partner, including business planning, co-marketing motions, and enablement initiatives. Can easily reference and describe in detail previous programs you have launched from 0-1, the challenges you overcame, and how you achieved the success metrics of these programs.
• Strategic Planning: Leverage your vast partnerships experience to build a strategic plan that highlights the key industries and companies we will target, develop the incentives & product value props we will use to differentiate ourselves from the competition, and illustrate how we will grow the channel over time. You will own strategic partner recruitment end-to-end, beginning with initial partnership scoping, and eventually with ongoing partner management.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Works closely with Product Marketing, Business and Engineering to align on strategic initiatives that drive deeper technical integrations and differentiated value propositions. Can speak to specific examples of how you built relationships internally to execute new partner product launches, expand API capabilities, and scale new platforms. .
• Program Ownership: Understands what KPIs are required for success, can get the right reporting in place, and overall use data to guide your focus,program pivots and build consensus with cross functional stakeholders. Data also informs how you approach structuring partnerships to grow.
• Product Knowledge: Well-versed in all of the potential ways companies can integrate and partner with the client from API integrations to highly integrated product partnerships. In addition, you prioritize partner feedback and pain points and can work cross-functionally with product and engineering to prioritize Partner feedback thus improving our feature set and creating more delightful user experiences for Partners.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in partnership management
• Existing relationships and experience in the travel services (Grocery, Transportation, etc.) or experiences (Tours, Tickets, Landmarks, etc.) industries
• Experience negotiating and integrating B2B partnerships to drive new supply acquisition.
• You have an eye for product design and thrive in an environment working with partner product teams to evangelize Airbnb's technology offerings to further product and business goals.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• You are comfortable with change and can adapt. You should assume priorities will change with little notice. You are comfortable operating in that environment.
• Experience managing large, diverse, and strategic partner relationships while also a strategic leader who can partnership strategies, innovative commercial models and go to market plans to ensure your programs will scale globally.
• Be adept at solving ambiguous problems and building for scale
• Highly entrepreneurial and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with the ability to thrive under minimal guidance
• Communicate with clarity and purpose in both written and verbal communication

Interested candidates should submit an updated CV.

***Please note our client cannot assist with any visa sponsorship and candidates must have the correct visa to live and work in UK***