Strategic Partnerships Manager

Full time, permanent. Monday - Friday 8.30am - 5pm

Location: (Option for hybrid working based in our Brighton office, or fully remote for the ideal candidate)

About Sampl:

Our mission is to help brands ensure that every sample reaches someone with a genuine desire for the product, to accurately target campaigns that deliver tangible results.

We help leading brands from Cadbury to Clarins to Estee Lauder engage their audiences through social and online media to create highly targeted product sampling campaigns in Europe, the US and APAC. 

Our end-to-end product sampling solutions drive loyalty and engagement whilst helping brands acquire rich first party data and product reviews. Our team thrives on collaboration, innovation, and delivering great results.

The Opportunity:

We are looking for a highly motivated and ambitious Partnerships Manager to join our growing team and help build out our partnerships globally. Our partners provide us with media solutions and/or re-sell our platform and services. This exciting role means you will be managing and growing your own revenue stream and growing our partnerships to ensure other organisations have access to our solutions. 

Our partners cover retailers, loyalty platforms (including O2 Priority), agencies (Publicis, Dentsu) and media partners (Conde Nast, Hearst etc). The partnerships team is always on the hunt to find new media partner channels for our clients to help them reach their perfect audience. 

This is an exciting time for Sampl, we’ve just been named one of the 100 fastest-growing startups in the UK & Ireland, plus in the Top 100 Companies to work for. This role is a mid-senior role reporting into Associate Director, Strategic Partnerships.

• Identifying and prospecting new media partners that offer us access to the perfect audience groups across multiple industries, including beauty, snacking, pet and household 
• Identifying and prospecting new reseller partners including publishers, retailers and agencies that work with relevant brands / in relevant categories
• Join and contribute to regular internal sales pipeline meetings 
• Create pitch lists and research brands and partners that fit our growth plans 
• Use sales tools including Apollo and LinkedIn Navigator to engage potential partners 
• Drive partner engagement by understanding and managing partner category, motivation, and goals, and finding scalable ways to regularly engage and excite partners 
• Provide regular reports on partnership and campaign performance to both partners and internal teams
• Enable and educate our sales team to talk about our partners confidently
• Meet (or exceed!) your KPIs around calls and meetings booked   

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience in partnerships or sales, with a track record of successful outreach, networking, and proposition development.
• Be commercially savvy and not afraid to pick up the phone and find new opportunities and areas for growth 
• Passion for deal-making and meeting new people 
• Ability to cultivate and maintain strong relationships with partnership teams.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage senior stakeholders.
• Articulate, ambitious, and proactive team player.
• A bonus is having an established network of partner contacts and the ability to identify and develop innovative partnership opportunities that align with company strategy

• Hybrid working set-up
• Auto-enrolment in the company-wide benefits scheme 
• EMI share options - be part of our growth journey
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, Employee Assistance Programme & comprehensive well-being support package
• Generous holiday entitlement, including two weeks off at the end of the year
• Regular work social events including team lunches, Spa days, Go Karting, mini golf
• A bright, modern office within a co-working space in the heart of Brighton

Additional requirements:

• Right to work in the UK (we cannot provide sponsorship).
• Ability to travel to our Brighton office once a month.

Salary:

£40k to £50k DOE + bonus & benefits

Sampl encourages applications from candidates from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds.