Contract: 8 Months (tentatively from Feb to Oct 2026, maternity cover)
Employment: Outsourced through ManpowerGroup Middle East
Job Description:
As a Strategic Partnerships Development Manager, you support your team in relationship building. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, and are building a working understanding of internal processes, products, and teams. You support your team in deepening relationships with key industry partners, executing agreements, and tracking impact, enabling us to be successful. You are developing your skills in relationship-building, negotiation, project management, and collaboration, focusing on tasks that contribute to your team's and organization's goals.
Responsibilities include:
- Acquire and onboard new content partners within MENA onto the YouTube platform.
- Align product/content with partner business goals, provide guidance to drive adoption, and secure content required through acquisitions.
- Co-develop partner strategy, including new partner/supplier and opportunity prospecting. Conduct partner research and collaborate on product strategy, with some guidance.
- Contribute or co-own the partner/supplier experience to ensure deal integration which includes negotiating and finalizing contracts, executing on account plans, pitching to partners/suppliers, resolving partner/supplier issues and advocating on behalf of partners/suppliers, with some guidance.
- Contribute or co-own managing partner/supplier engagement and relationship by tracking business /technology metrics and insights, building business forecasts, and ensuring strong brand/reputation management, with some guidance.
- Build and maintain strategic relationships with external partners/suppliers, with some guidance. Collaborate with internal stakeholders on cross-functional projects.
Minimum role qualification requires proficiency in:
- Project Management and Planning
- Industry knowledge
- Executive influence
- Contract knowledge
- Navigating Complexity
- Data analysis, synthesis and reporting
- Stakeholder management
- Deal negotiation
- Opportunity and pipeline management
- Oral & Written Communication
Qualifications:
- Experience managing partnerships and experience in business development, partnerships, or management consulting within the media and entertainment industry, including influencer and creator networks or agencies.
- Ability to communicate in English and Arabic fluently to support partner relationship management in the region.
