Agency Partnerships Executive

Agency Partnerships Executive (Havas + Independents)

Location: Covent Garden, London (Hybrid 3 days in-office, 2 days remote)

Department: Commercial

Reporting to: Head of Agency Partnerships

Role Overview

Working alongside experienced Agency Partnership Managers and the wider commercial team, you'll help grow agency relationships, identify new business opportunities and deliver creative, multi-platform campaigns for some of the world's biggest brands. We're looking for someone with plenty of drive, enthusiasm and commercial curiosity who enjoys building relationships and wants to develop into a successful media sales professional.

Key Responsibilities

Agency Partnerships

• Build and develop relationships across your allocated agency patch, becoming a trusted point of contact for agency planners, buyers and partnership teams.
• Support the growth of existing agency accounts while identifying opportunities to win new business.
• Respond to agency briefs by working with Creative Strategy and internal teams to develop engaging commercial proposals.
• Present Time Out's commercial offering confidently to agencies and clients.
• Maintain regular contact with agency partners to build strong, long-term relationships.

Commercial Development

• Sell Time Out's full suite of commercial solutions, including digital display, branded content, social, video and live.
• Help identify new commercial opportunities across your agency patch.
• Create engaging sales presentations and proposals tailored to client objectives.
• Keep your sales pipeline up to date and support accurate forecasting.
• Stay informed on media trends, competitor activity and agency priorities.

Campaign Delivery

• Work closely with Creative Strategy, Editorial, Project Management and Campaign Delivery teams to ensure campaigns run smoothly.
• Help manage campaigns from briefing through to delivery, ensuring an excellent client experience.
• Support post-campaign reporting and identify opportunities for repeat business.
• Represent Time Out at client meetings, networking events and industry events.

Skills & Experience

We're looking for someone who brings energy, enthusiasm and a genuine passion for building relationships. You'll be naturally curious, eager to learn and motivated by delivering great work for clients.

• 2-3 years experience in media sales, advertising, agency partnerships or a commercial media environment.
• Experience working with media agencies or advertisers, ideally within an independent agency environment.
• Strong communication, presentation and relationship-building skills.
• Commercially minded with a genuine interest in media, advertising and partnerships.
• Confident speaking with clients and building trusted relationships.
• Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple opportunities and deadlines.
• A proactive attitude with the confidence to identify opportunities and take ownership of your work.
• Naturally collaborative and enjoys working as part of a team.
• Strong PowerPoint/Google Slides and Excel skills.

About our culture

At Time Out Group we believe in diversity and equal opportunity for all people. We do not discriminate against external or internal candidates on the basis of age; disability; gender, gender reassignment; race; religion or belief; sexual orientation; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity. We believe that diversity develops creativity and enables personal and professional growth where we all learn from each other. We believe in an open culture where ideas are shared candidly and where there is no fear of failure, but rather an understanding that we must experiment and have the freedom to succeed. We believe that everyone has the right to express themselves as they are as this enriches us all. We believe in an open world, social justice, and the pursuit of happiness, after all, we are in the happiness business.