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Senior Partner Manager

Mention Me

Mention Me

London, UK
Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Who we are

Hi, I’m Jocelyn, our Head of Partnerships at Mention Me and I’m hiring! Before I tell you more about the role, here's a little bit about Mention Me and what we do.

Becoming a Mentioneer means you’ll be joining our Customer Advocacy Intelligence® movement, which is changing the world of marketing.

Our data-driven Advocacy Intelligence Platform equips brands to drive growth through their fans by encouraging and rewarding personal recommendations.

There’s a good chance you’ve already come across us while online shopping from Puma, Michael Kors, ASOS, Ray Ban, or any other of the 500+ brands we work with.

We’ve delivered more than 5.5m referrals totalling over $2bn in revenue for our clients.

Now, our mission to make all brands think advocacy-first is stepping up a gear, and you might be just who we need to help us.

The Role

We’ve got big plans to scale our business. As we embark on that adventure our partnership team will play a significant role in accelerating our growth.

We are looking for a Senior Partner Manager to join our Mention Me team based in Vauxhall, London. The primary purpose of the Senior PM is to ramp, manage and develop close strategic relationships with a portfolio of new & existing partners to deliver incremental revenue and value to our partners.

What you’ll do:

The Senior PM has responsibility for all day-to-day activities, ensuring best-in-class relationships and a strong partnership strategy that drives new business revenue for Mention Me and our 3rd party partners.

You will be focused on building joint product value propositions, driving sales enablement and field interaction, pipeline management and forecasting, and proactive business planning and business development.

  • Responsible for driving value to our partners
  • Responsible for delivering against opportunity & revenue targets.
  • Responsible for increasing the time to value for and from our partners
  • Identify new & existing partners with maximum commercial opportunity
  • Onboard, ramp and manage new and existing tech & agency partners
  • Understand & support the training requirements of our partners that are needed to drive engagement
  • Design & implement initiatives to increase sales and the overall growth of the channel.
  • Representing Mention Me at industry events, attending conferences, and hosting webinars and roundtables
  • Acts as a funnel to bring information, updates and trends from the partners back to the Mention Me team. A highly collaborative approach, with very close contact with marketing, client success, sales, and product & engineering

We'd really like to hear from you, if...

  • You are commercially focused - 5+ years in direct sales and/or account management. Practical knowledge in strategic selling processes and tools needed to conduct multi-stakeholder deals. Proactive in identifying opportunities to scale success for clients and partners
  • You have strong knowledge of the martech ecosystem - A sufficient understanding of cross-channel marketing and typical practices put into place by retail & eCommerce brands. Familiar with the martech ecosystem. Technically capable. Able to clearly demonstrate the value of our service and how it integrates into our clients existing tech stack
  • You have experience working with partners - a proven track record developing strong technology partnerships. Very familiar with partner enablement and management processes.
  • You collaborate well with others - nothing we do is done in isolation. Being open to sharing input and ideas with the dynamic team is essential to success. You have the gravitas to conduct multi-department projects and processes and are able to galvanise teams to work towards a common goal.

What you’ll get:

Here are some of our favourite perks and benefits, but we have so many more!

🏡 Remote and Hybrid working.

🏥 Private medical insurance with Vitality, including: mental wellbeing support, a range of lifestyle benefits and great incentives

👩🏾‍⚕️ Major dental, vision, and life insurance policies.

📚 An annual learning and development budget

🤲🏾 2 Celebration Days: additional time off for you to celebrate religious days, cultural events, birthdays, anniversaries, or any other significant day that’s important to you

👨‍👩‍👧 Enhanced parental leave

🌴 25 days holiday plus public holidays, alongside additional days for being a Mentioneer

🏆 Monthly prizes for being amazing! Values Awards and Customer Love awards, and Founders’ Award for Awesomeness. Win up to £500 cash, vouchers, meals out and trips away.

🤩 Regular social events, from chocolate-tasting and pottery-making to poker nights and picnics

💻 All the up-to-date tech you’ll need (we love Macs)

🫶🏼 Short and long-term disability support

Diversity, equity and inclusion

We celebrate every Mentioneer, exactly as they are. We don’t shy away from breaking down systemic discrimination in society, or from difficult conversations and decisions. We’re committed to being a force for change. You can read more about how we’re doing this and always learning, by looking at our blogs here.

The same goes for our recruitment. We welcome every application, regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, physical ability, family structure, socioeconomic status, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation or gender identity. If you’d like to find out more about diversity and inclusion at Mention Me, get in touch.

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