Partnerships Manager

Immediate

Partnerships Manager driving partnership revenue for Immediate's consumer brands through agency relationships. Building strategic partnerships, generating new opportunities, and delivering against revenue targets.

Posted 4/22/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £55,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive partnership revenue across the Immediate portfolio, taking ownership of pitches and converting opportunities into revenue.
Proactively generate and shape partnership opportunities within your agency patch and wider market, developing first-class, idea-led responses to briefs, often at pace.
Own and grow your agency relationships, building deep understanding of client objectives, business challenges, and planning cycles. You will service the Publicis patch alongside the Head of Partnerships, and act as the dedicated partnerships lead for Havas and Goodstuff.
Position Immediate as a strategic partner, proactively pitching our premium audiences to agency partnerships and planning teams.
Work in lockstep with Agency Trading, ensuring a coordinated and effective approach to agency engagement and revenue growth.
Develop proactive, market-facing concepts, taking proactive ideas out ahead of briefs to unlock new opportunities.
Drive a digital-first approach, maximising digital revenue across multi-platform partnerships.
Collaborate closely with Client Directors across Food, Motoring and Entertainment, leveraging their market expertise and direct client relationships to strengthen responses.
Lead and orchestrate cross-functional teams, working closely with the Imagine Studio and Client Services on every pitch, as well as IX (experiential), social, native, Prism (Audience Insight team), editorial, publishing, product, tech and marketing teams, (where applicable) to deliver standout partnership ideas.
Lead and run creative brainstorms end-to-end, from setting up the session to facilitating icebreakers and techniques that drive participation, align thinking, and deliver innovative, strategically grounded concepts.
Champion renewals, working closely with Client Services to build long-term partnerships and deliver strong repeat business.
Maintain a robust and accurate pipeline, ensuring all opportunities, activity and forecasting are consistently and correctly tracked in Salesforce (Connect) in line with team best practice.
Deliver against revenue targets and KPIs, taking ownership of your individual performance.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven track record of delivering high-value, complex partnership revenue
Commercially creative thinker, able to turn insights into compelling, sellable ideas that resonate with clients and agencies.
Strong digital fluency, with a clear understanding of how platforms, formats and audience behaviour drive effective partnerships.
Experience in content-led thinking, with an instinct for what makes ideas engaging, relevant and effective.
Established network within media agencies, ideally across Publicis, Havas and Goodstuff, with credibility among Partnerships and Planning teams.
Outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to tell a clear, persuasive story.
Confident and credible presenter, comfortable influencing senior stakeholders.
Commercially astute, with strong numeracy and the ability to understand value, pricing and deal dynamics.
Skilled negotiator, able to balance client needs with commercial outcomes.
Resilient and self-motivated, comfortable operating at pace and managing competing priorities.
Collaborative by nature, able to build trust and work effectively across multiple teams.
Proactive and opportunity-led, with a strong personal drive to win and exceed targets.
Attention to detail, maintaining quality and accuracy even under pressure.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A relaxed working environment with regular socials including a summer festival
Supportive well-being initiatives and benefits, talks & workshops, and Mental Health First aiders & Champions
25 days holiday plus a day for your birthday. Our offices will be closed between Christmas and New Year’s which are in addition to your annual entitlement
Tailored training and development through both our inhouse learning platform and LinkedIn Learning
A progressive and transparent culture focused on your development
Flexible / hybrid working
Cycle to work scheme
Enhanced Family Policies including paternity, adoption and surrogacy leave. We also provide a pregnancy loss, fertility, and carers policy
Competitive pension plans and Life Assurance
A newly renovated modern office with lots of collaborative spaces

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Hard Skills & Tools

partnership revenuedigital revenuecontent-led thinkingnegotiationKPI deliverypipeline managementaudience behaviour analysiscreative brainstormingsalesforcemarket-facing concepts

Soft Skills

commercial creativitycommunicationpresentationcollaborationresilienceself-motivationattention to detailproactivitycredibilitynumeracy