Strategic Partner Manager, Platforms & Partnerships - 12 Month FTC

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Job Description

Your role: This is a maternity cover role for a Strategic Partner Manager in the Platforms & Partnerships team at News UK. The successful candidate will support and drive News UK's relationships with a range of key platform partners - including TikTok, Snapchat, Pinterest, Reddit, and Spotify - across all News UK brands.

This role sits at the intersection of account management, content strategy, and platform innovation. It requires strong relationship-building skills, commercial acumen, and the ability to work across a matrixed organisation to unlock opportunities and ensure the delivery of high-impact projects.

The role also contributes to the wider strategy of the Platforms & Partnerships team, helping shape how we evolve and grow our platform presence across brands and functions.

Day to day you will:

• Partner Account Management: Support the strategic management and day-to-day coordination of multiple platform partnerships, delivering against joint business plans and maintaining high standards of communication and follow-through. Lead or contribute to partnership meetings, ensuring deliverables are tracked, performance is monitored, and opportunities are identified across brands. Ensure we are exploring and maximising key revenue opportunities within each partnership, working closely with platform contacts and internal stakeholders to identify areas for commercial growth.
• Cross-Functional Project Support: Work across editorial, commercial, video, social and data teams to align internal stakeholders around partnership priorities. Help coordinate and implement cross-team projects, ensuring clear objectives, timely delivery, and measurable outcomes.
• Platform Innovation & Optimisation: Champion platform-specific opportunities - from TikTok monetisation pilots and Pinterest eCommerce activation to Reddit engagement strategies - and help develop action plans that bring brand value, audience reach and/or revenue.
• Reporting & Communication: Maintain and update reporting frameworks, regular comms (such as the Platforms & Partnerships email newsletter), and support quarterly business reviews with insights and outcomes.
• Relationship Stewardship: Act as day-to-day point of contact for key external partners, developing strong working relationships and understanding each platform's priorities, roadmaps and tooling. Facilitate collaboration between platform reps and News UK teams, ensuring mutual value is achieved. Help maintain strong alignment with News Corp HQ by feeding in UK perspectives and updates, and supporting global platform conversations as required.
• Strategic Support: Work closely with the Platforms & Partnerships Director and broader team to identify and pursue areas of growth, mitigate risks, and adapt to changes in platform policy or opportunity. Provide input into strategic documents, internal briefings, and leadership presentations.

What we're looking for from you:

• Excellent stakeholder and relationship management skills, both internally and externally
• Experience working with or within digital platforms, publishers, or content/media businesses
• Strong organisational skills and ability to juggle competing priorities across multiple brands
• Clear, confident communication style and ability to work effectively across different teams
• A strategic thinker who's also hands-on and execution-focused
• A genuine interest in content, audience growth, social media trends, and platform partnerships

If you think you have what it takes but don't tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone's potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

At News UK, we know the value of working together, which is why we operate a hybrid working policy with a minimum of three days a week in the office. Being in the office allows us to collaborate, innovate, and thrive as a team in our vibrant and dynamic workspace. Some roles may require more office-based days depending on the nature of the position, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter to learn more about what's required for your role.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.

At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• 'Bikes for Work' and 'Electric Car' scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you to apply for any of our roles please contact us on [email protected].