About the Role
Time Out is seeking a commercially driven Agency Partnerships Manager to build and grow agency relationships, driving revenue through innovative, multi-platform partnerships. This role focuses on developing new business, growing existing accounts, and delivering creative commercial solutions to connect brands with Time Out's audience across various platforms.
Responsibilities
- Build and develop relationships across planning, partnerships, and investment teams within your agency patch.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen existing partnerships and establish new client relationships.
- Deliver revenue growth through creative, multi-platform commercial partnerships across digital, social, branded content, experiential, and video.
- Manage agency briefs and collaborate with Creative Strategy and the commercial team to develop partnership proposals.
- Proactively identify new business opportunities while growing existing agency and client accounts.
- Create engaging presentations and commercial proposals showcasing Time Out's audience, editorial authority, and commercial offering.
- Work collaboratively across Creative Strategy, Project Management, Editorial, Branded Content, and e-Commerce to deliver integrated campaigns.
- Contribute ideas during internal briefing and brainstorming sessions.
- Ensure successful campaign delivery, meeting client expectations and commercial objectives.
- Represent Time Out at client meetings, networking events, and industry events.
- Share agency insights, market trends, and client feedback with the commercial team.
- Collaborate across the commercial team, sharing knowledge and contributing to a positive team culture.
Requirements
- 4+ years' experience in media sales, branded content, or integrated commercial partnerships within a media owner, publisher, or agency environment.
- Experience building relationships across media agencies and advertisers.
- Good understanding of agency planning and buying processes.
- Experience developing and delivering integrated commercial partnerships across digital, social, branded content, experiential, and video exceeding revenue targets.
- Commercially minded with the ability to identify opportunities to grow accounts and generate new business.
- Confident presenter with excellent communication and negotiation skills.
- Ability to build relationships with agency contacts and clients at all levels.
- Strong storytelling and proposal-writing skills.
- Ability to translate client objectives into compelling commercial solutions.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.
- Good commercial understanding of campaign pricing, profitability, and revenue delivery.
- Proficient in Google Slides, PowerPoint, and Excel.
Skills
- Relationship-building
- Commercial awareness
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Storytelling
- Proposal writing
- Organizational skills
- Commercial understanding
Location
- Covent Garden, London
Work Type
- Hybrid (3 days in-office, 2 days remote)
Experience Level
- 4+ years
About the Company
- Time Out Group is a leading global media and hospitality business that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city.
- Time Out Media distributes high-quality content across multiple digital and physical channels in over 350 cities and 50 countries.
- Time Out Market is the world's first editorially curated food and cultural market, with 13 open locations globally and more in development.
Equal Opportunity
- Time Out Group believes in diversity and equal opportunity for all people.
- We do not discriminate against external or internal candidates on the basis of age; disability; gender, gender reassignment; race; religion or belief; sexual orientation; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity.
- We believe that diversity develops creativity and enables personal and professional growth.
- We believe in an open culture where ideas are shared candidly and where there is no fear of failure.
- We believe that everyone has the right to express themselves as they are.
- We believe in an open world, social justice, and the pursuit of happiness.
