Description
We are a growth mind-set, meritocratic, and high-performance business with a progressive outlook in all that we do. We are a digital first agency – working with some of the world's most famous and innovative brands to deliver both performance and omnichannel media solutions.
As our business changes and evolves, we are looking for someone to help deliver our global strategic partnerships. Your role is to deliver the strategic partnership, globally, across Google and other key partners that we have an elevated, deep, strategic relationship with. An evergreen relationship across innovation, strategic and commercial initiatives requires a dedicated owner to then work with delivery, our regions around the world to align on the opportunities and to deliver against our elements of partnership.
The Global Partnerships Director will be part of the global product team and work into the Europe CEO directly. Strategic partnerships require focus and delivery and this role is to ensure we have all stakeholders on track and aware of the partnership progression.
A JBP will guide and cover elements from channel innovation, cloud, adtech, beta’s, strategy and marketing, meaning you will work across a vast spectrum of senior stakeholders in NA, MENA, Europe and APAC as well as with the global team.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the construction and delivery of global partnerships, to benefit our clients and regions through innovation, presence, opportunity creation and advanced work in areas such as cloud
- Be proactive in taking advantage of global opportunities with our partners and mobilizing the agency around them
- Clearly track and visualize the progress to partner goals
- Regularly update executive team on partnership progress, challenges and barriers with solutions of how to solve them
- High frequency of communication with vendor partner leads and form strong relationships with each of them
- Bring together key parts of the org design to deliver and build into our partnerships
- Be aware of what's next – positively drive and influence the roadmap of our partnerships
- Have a pov on how to develop cloud and AI based solutions
- Be in pitches as and when required to do so
- Build marketing collateral showcasing our partnerships and the client impact of our work together
- Drive fame for our partnerships in creative ways, internally to the agency, to our clients and to our markets
- Ensure that all partnerships are contributing positively to the overall growth of the agency, and they are delivering on client needs
- Build internal materials to educate, induct and drive the right engagement with our partnerships across all levels, on a regular and frequent basis
Requirements
- Strong background and understanding of performance marketing across search and social
- Experience working in platform across Meta and Google and their product offering
- Strong and clear understanding of global media partners, their org design and how to get the best from them at a global, regional and local level
- Multi market experience, directly or indirectly and the ability to lead cross cultures and languages
- Excellent project management skills
- Highly numerical and proficient with forecasting
- Excellent presenter and communicator
- Be an innovator – have experience innovating from the inside out, being able to drive partnership innovation
- Have excellent knowledge of the future of performance and how we can extract maximum advantage through locking arms with global partners and working closely to an end goal
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Be able to translate strategic partnerships into tangible business impact and reveue
- Be a self-starter, working as a team of one but able to collaborate across many disciplines
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with a mindset for using data to drive results
- Strong consulting and collaboration skills, with the ability to partner with multiple key stakeholders locally and globally
We are committed to empowering workers in the communities local to where we operate, and are mindful of minimising the carbon cost of commuting. Where a position required regular presence in the office, as in the case of managerial positions, we attempt to hire staff who live within a reasonable commute (<50 miles or 1.5 hours) of the office they will be based in.
Equal opportunities
Assembly is an advocate for equal opportunity in the workplace. We are committed to ensuring equal opportunities regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability and gender identity. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Social and Environmental Responsibility
At Assembly, we have a responsibility to bring impact into our every day. This means we must always look for ways in which to be conscious citizens in our roles to support society and environmental sustainability. We encourage employees to; be a conscious citizen by actively participating in our organisation's sustainability efforts, help us promote environmentally friendly practices within the workplace, collaborate with community organisations and stakeholders to support initiatives aligned with our company's values, participate in volunteer activities that benefit the community. Employees are also encouraged to make suggestions and evaluate our business practices to identify areas for improvement in social and environmental performance. Employees at Assembly demonstrate commitment to sustainability and inclusivity in their actions and behaviours.
