Senior Partnership Strategist

Location: Manchester

Position: Full Time/Permanent

About the role

We are seeking a high-calibre, proactive commercial strategist to join our dynamic team in the UK.

This pivotal role will drive new business growth, revenue diversification and strategic agency partnerships, while developing innovative, award-winning ideas across the Mail Metro Media ecosystem.

You will combine commercial thinking, creativity, insight and expert client management to turn client challenges into big ideas that deliver measurable results - from initial opportunity and ideation through to pitch, delivery, PCA and long-term growth.

This role will:

• Drive New Business Growth: Proactively identify and develop new revenue opportunities, creating compelling creative solutions beyond traditional media models.
• Champion Creativity: Develop and sell best-in-class, award-winning ideas that harness the full power of the Mail Metro Media ecosystem.
• Own Client Partnerships: Build trusted senior agency and client relationships, becoming a strategic partner from first conversation through to campaign delivery and beyond.
• Lead End-to-End Servicing: Own the client journey across strategy, ideation, pitching, execution, performance and future opportunities, ensuring an exceptional experience at every stage.
• Master Pipeline Precision: Take ownership of the sales funnel, with rigorous Salesforce management, forecasting and pipeline accuracy.
• Champion Data-Led Ideas: Use audience insight, market intelligence, product data and cultural trends to make ideas more relevant, distinctive and effective.
• Diversify Revenue: Identify new categories, partnerships and commercial opportunities to unlock incremental growth.

Main Responsibilities

• Build influential relationships across key Tier 1 and Tier 2 agency partners.
• Develop high-quality, large-scale and long-term media plans and creative propositions.
• Create proactive ideas that generate briefs rather than simply respond to them.
• Collaborate with Creative, Insights, Creative Ops and Project Management to deliver exceptional campaigns end-to-end.
• Deliver impactful PCAs that turn performance and insight into upsell, renewal and future opportunities.
• Maintain a comprehensive Salesforce view of clients, agencies, competitors and pipeline.
• Identify new products, categories and partnership opportunities across the Mail Metro Media ecosystem.

Person Specification

• 3+ years’ experience within the UK media, advertising or creative industry, with a strong track record of pitching and delivering 360° partnerships.
• A creative and commercial thinker with a passion for developing innovative, award-winning ideas that deliver results.
• Proven experience managing end-to-end client relationships, from initial brief and ideation through to delivery, PCA and future growth.
• Confident building trusted relationships with senior agency and client stakeholders.
• Strong strategic storyteller, able to turn insight, data and client challenges into compelling propositions.
• Highly proactive, entrepreneurial and collaborative, with a “make it happen” mindset.
• Commercially astute, with experience identifying new opportunities, growing accounts and driving revenue.

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.