Senior Partnerships Strategist (Manchester)

Partnerships Strategist

Location: Mail Metro Media Manchester Office
Position: Permanent

Job Introduction

Mail Metro Media is the home of some of the UKs most popular media brands including MailOnline Daily Mail and Metro. As a news organisation we are committed to breaking news as it happens and distributing this content around the globe in realtime.

We are committed to producing engaging and insightful commentary for our dedicated readers and inspiring thoughtprovoking discussion across all of our media channels.

The partnerships team is focused on helping our clients to leverage our platforms in a transformational way for their businesses via continuous innovation and brilliant thinking to develop inspiring creative media ideas and delivering faultless execution.

Main Responsibilities

Drive Partnerships revenue by:

• Ability to lead responses from start to finish from the facilitation of brainstorms through to the execution of the campaign.
• Delivering each pitch with a unique innovative and compelling creative idea delivered across our platforms
• Understanding and using our products to best effect to ensure each partnership delivers its KPIs
• Creating bestinmarket responses to briefs time after time
• Proactively identifying and developing new commercial prospects
• Collaborating with other sales teams to maximise revenuegenerating opportunities
• Building a strong network of influential relationships with key senior agency contacts and clients where relevant to ensure we are included in all briefs and are in a strong position to push to win business.
• Keep abreast of what competitors are doing in the partnership space to ensure our proposals are as good as they can be and also identify any potential collaboration opportunities.
• Deliver excellent PCAs to ensure repeat business
• Understand our data capabilities and other tools that can make campaigns more effective and valuable
• Helping and encouraging more junior members of the team where needed and stepping in to support where necessary

Accurately report sales pipeline using Salesforce

• Keep relevant internal stakeholders informed of progress
• Gain testimonial feedback from clients / agencies when appropriate

Collaborate crossfunctionally to ensure effective campaign delivery

• Work with Project Management to ensure full delivery of integrated solutions
• Work with Creative and Commercial Editorial teams to maximise campaign effectiveness
• Work with Insights team to ensure campaign KPIs are tracked effectively

Take responsibility for skills base development utilising dmg media learning resources

• Understand latest product innovations to develop new sources of commercialisation
• Maintain deep understanding of marketplace

Person Specification

• Solid experience working in partnerships or content creation
• Experience developing multichannel partnerships preferably in media owner or agency environment
• Proven track record in converting partnerships business either at agency or media owner
• Solid understanding of structuring cross platform media plans
• Experience leading crossdepartmental groups
• Track record of reaching and exceeding sales targets
• Strategic approach to proactivity
• Understanding of print and digital media and of competitor landscape.
• Strong established commercial relationships with Senior key agency contacts and advertisers
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint Excel and Word

About Mail Metro Media

Mail Metro Media is the advertising home of some of the UKs most engaged newsbrands: Daily Mail The Mail on Sunday MailOnline Metro The i Paper New Scientist and The Telegraph (print products). The team provides a single point of contact across print digital audio video and social allowing agencies and advertisers easy access to the millions of consumers who engage with dmg medias brands every day.

Find out more about us at or find us on LinkedIn Instagram and X at @MailMetroMedia.

Leadership

At the helm of Mail Metro Media are Chief Revenue Officer Dom Williams who is responsible for all advertising revenue across our farreaching portfolio and Executive Director Digital Hannah Buitekant who is responsible for digital operations data and indirect revenue. Dom and Hannah are supported by an extensive senior leadership team that boasts a wealth of specialist media knowledge and decades of industry experience.

Why work for Mail Metro Media

Not only will you be a part of the biggest media organisation in the UK but youll work somewhere thats dedicated to people and culture. Our people are a top priority whether thats supporting mental health being Disability Confident accommodating parenthood providing fitness classes driving diversity and inclusion flexibility or anything else it matters to us.

Many of our team members work flexibly in many different ways including flexible hours or an element of working from home. Please talk to us during your interview about any flexibility you may need we can usually find a way to make work work for you!

Here are some of the top reasons our people love working for us:

• Collaborate and innovate with the best people in media on a daily basis
• Work in an awardwinning team in the fastpaced world of news and entertainment
• Get support in reaching your professional goals through webinars workshops mentorship and more
• Get personal support through mental wellbeing volunteering time off our menopause policies a working parents group our EDI Champions network and more
• Comprehensive benefits including medical and dental insurance childcare schemes a huge range of discounts enhanced pension contributions and more
• A lively friendly office complete with a free gym subsidised canteen and doctors surgery (London only)

Get in touch for more information

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps we can take to ensure that your recruitment process is welcoming and comfortable.

Candidates please contact Kate Moore at to learn more.

Package Description

Our benefits package increases the longer youve been with us. Heres what to expect:

• 25 days holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
• Upon joining you will be automatically enrolled onto the Pension Plan at the minimum level of 5% employee contribution 3% Company contribution.
• Life cover under the Pension Plan 4x your basic salary.
• DMGT Discounts (for discounts on online shopping vouchers and reloadable cards)
• Subsidised canteen
• Onsite gym (Northcliffe House only)
• Onsite nurse and GP clinics (Northcliffe House only)
• Our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted dining cards

Plus many other benefits.

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity race gender religious beliefs sexual orientation age marital status or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.