Leading International E-Commerce Company

Our client is the worldwide leader in shopping and payments on the internet. For more than 15 years it has been connecting hundreds of millions of people, enabling them to buy, sell and pay online and it keeps on growing. In order to accelerate the next phase of our client’s media group development employees are committed to transforming the depth, scale and ambition of our client’s partnerships with major media agencies and are creating a dedicated team across EU territories to deliver this vision at a local and regional level. This is a fantastic opportunity for a senior business development leader to join the team in Munich, Hamburg or Dusseldorf as a

Division Lead / Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager (m/f)

at launch and both shape and drive the media group’s strategic agency partnerships.

Displaying a consultative style, candidates must be excellent communicators; experienced at operating to C-Level with agencies and advertisers and able to earn trust with senior stakeholders across other teams of the company. In addition candidates should be comfortable with complex data sets and have the ability to invent and simplify for customers. Candidates will be self-motivated, happy to work autonomously and highly goal-oriented in order to contribute to the ambitious growth plans.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a customer-led strategy for growth for media agencies and direct customers at local and regional (EU) level – including close collaboration with local media group leadership
• Build and manage a detailed engagement strategy to C-Level including local and regional business reviews
• Develop commercial structures to create incremental opportunities for growth across traded, programmatic and biddable products
• Lead education and enablement of key agency functions including delivery of agency-wide events
• Identify opportunities for agency collaboration around large-scale creative solutions – including pro-active engagement with creative agencies
• Liaise with global teams to identify transformative opportunities for agency partnerships offered by the media group’s product development roadmap

Key Experience

• This is a very senior role and substantial business development experience working in or with media and creative agencies is essential; strong digital expertise is an advantage
• Having led international teams is a great advantage since the role will have also direct reports after “having set up the environment”. Till then you also work like having a direct team because it is a project structure
• High values in leading and treating people
• Proven track record of delivering results and generating transformational growth
• Ability to successfully engage and negotiate at C-Level within agencies and agency groups
• Strong analytical abilities and confidence in the use of data
• Experience in an international environment
• Bachelor or Master´s degree

Your benefits

• An innovative international company
• Intensive introductory training by the Head of Department and the entire team
• A team consisting of top talents who enjoy - like you - working very professionally and having fun at the same time
• An exciting, very responsible task
• You can achieve amazing innovations
• A variety of opportunities for personal development
• An attractive set of compensations and excellent perspectives

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Are you interested in the position? We are looking forward to receiving your complete
application (cover letter, resume) stating your salary expectations and your earliest possible starting date with the code SAPM0815 by e-mail: bewerbung@personal-excellence.de

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