Senior Partnership Manager

We want to drive and develop our supplier relationships and partnerships to provide our members priority/guaranteed access to the world’s most popular live events, restaurants and luxury brands. To deliver unique access, key benefits and experiences for our members and relevant corporate clients across the world of Sport, Music, Theatre and the Arts plus other categories. Your role is to grow revenue for the business and delight members through positive NPS results and feedback. As well as fulfil contractual obligations for client exclusive benefit programmes.

Your role as Senior Partnership Manager, will ensure that you are working with other key stakeholders both within live entertainment proposition and with the wider teams in general; Ensuring that together as a team proposition are delivering and meeting business expectations by achieving key metrics.

You will share your work across other departments and offices, ensuring they have an excellent knowledge of our partnerships and are making the most effective use of them.

As an industry lead, your knowledge and passion to motivate and drive performance of lifestyle managers, operational teams and the platform should consistently be shared. You (and in turn the lifestyle management team(s)) should always be up to date with current market trends, what competitors are delivering, what our members are obtaining access to, unique market leading partnerships and eager to develop entertainment knowledge.

**Key Responsibilities**
- To take full accountability for all partnerships and contracts secured by you that fall within your market across all genres. Develop clear strategies to ensure we have best in market offers, inventory (e.g. Ticket allocations) commission agreements in place (where not detrimental to access), and proposition materials (e.g. Social Media assets)
- To support Lifestyle Managers within Australia and APAC (or those using APAC suppliers) to maintain relationships with partners to ensure we are nurturing an ongoing sustainable relationship for future growth
- To monitor performance of partnered suppliers and ensure they are delivering a consistently high-quality service; driving improvements to member satisfaction/NPS and efficiencies
- Monitor redemption, data analytics and demand of live events and ticketing genres to ensure it’s resonating with the member base. Based on this continued understanding make improvements to the strategy by member group (or client) and region ensuring we have relationships in place which are driving engagement, acquisition, loyalty and revenue
- Work closely with the Global Proposition Director, Content and Marketing department ensuring all offers and events have maximum exposure to members
- To be continuously aware of competitors and what they are delivering to ensure we are always one step ahead in the market
- To work closely with the relevant operational teams across the business to ensure you are fully aware of all best practice to ensure we are consistently improving processes
- To work with the relevant stakeholders across the business to create a holistic strategy for approaching vendors. To ensure teams across the business are kept fully up to date with changes and new processes implemented
- To drive efficiency within entertainment teams (or entertainment requests) by continuously developing and improving processes; sharing successes and implementing processes learnt from other regions
- Propose and implement new strategies, campaigns and to positively impact on member satisfaction/NPS, corporate revenue and efficiencies
- Contribute to wider strategic goal, and offer procurement for the global team or for wider region with support from your Director
- Work with Client Services and Regional Business Development Managers with all client related matters; supporting on new business proposals
- Be available to lead, maintain and support on any established client and member relationships

**Requirements**:
**We are looking for someone who is**:

- Experience in procuring and maintaining Live Entertainment relationships (across multiple levels e.g. Promoters, Ticketing Platforms, venues eg), benefits and offers, contract management and negotiation.
- Has experience in, but not essential: Broad working knowledge of key brands and partners globally across various lifestyle industries (retail, dining)
- Ability to initiate and lead on new business initiatives and proposal; ensuring these are aligned with the Live Entertainment and general proposition key objectives
- People management skills; having the ability to motivate and drive performance in others (whether line reports or colleagues). Effectively communicating and motivating people to ensure you are always obtaining the best results.
- Can demonstrate experience of working within a customer-led industry and strives to continuously deliver excellent customer service.
- Project management; being able to manage highly complex global projects with