Partnerships Manager

Immediate is home to some of the biggest and most loved consumer brands in the UK, including Radio Times, Good Food and BBC Gardeners World magazine. Our trusted, quality content reaches millions of people a month across digital, print, video, podcasts, apps and live events. We’re the destination for people looking to get more from the things they love. We’re here to inspire, fuel, encourage and educate.

As a Partnerships Manager, you’ll bring the Immediate proposition to life for agencies and clients, using our audience insight and scale to shape compelling partnership ideas and solutions. With a dedicated agency patch (Publicis, Havas and Goodstuff), you’ll work closely with Agency Trading, Client Directors across Food, Motoring, Parenting and Entertainment, and IX (our experiential team) to unlock new partnership opportunities.

Your focus will be on building strong relationships with agency partnerships teams and planners, shaping idea‑led responses to briefs that deliver against client objectives. You’ll join a collaborative, high‑performing team that thrives on creativity and is highly motivated to drive revenue.

As a Partnerships Manager you will:

• 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.
• 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:

• 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.

We offer a relaxed working environment with regular socials including a summer festival, supportive well‑being initiatives and benefits, tailored training and development, flexible/hybrid working, competitive pension plans and Life Assurance, and a newly renovated modern office with lots of collaborative spaces.

At Immediate, we pride ourselves on our open, inclusive, collaborative, and dynamic culture that empowers our people to thrive and give their best. We care deeply about our people, our local communities and the impact we have on the environment. Our active Diversity & Inclusion network, comprehensive well‑being programs, and clear sustainability strategies reflect this commitment. Immediate is an equal opportunities employer.