Head of Strategic Partnerships

Your Team : The Strategic Development team is responsible for growing and diversifying both commercial and customer revenue streams through evolving and enhancing our products and processes, always leading with data and insight. This team acts as a centralised resource responsible for assimilating, and responding, to the needs of our customer and internal teams. The team delivers strategic support across the business by offering depth of expertise in areas of strategic focus and delivering innovative new revenue streams. This role will report directly into the Strategic Development Director and will be vital in delivering growth across The Sun.,

• Drive and lead new opportunities for The Sun, growing customer and commercial revenue through strategic partnerships
• Conduct research to identify new market opportunities and translatethem into well-defined and executed strategies
• Programme management of strategic initiatives across the commercial and customer functions, ensuring that each of the various teams are working effectively together and delivering their strategic objectives
• Discover and cultivate partnership opportunities and manage existing partnerships to drive growth for The Sun
• Manage multiple prospects, bids and proposals, building a pipeline of opportunities
• Manage the RFP process for new potential partners and negotiate and agree contracts ensuring all agreements are financially profitable and data compliant.
• Lead opportunity modelling for new target markets for The Sun to grow commercial and customer revenue streams.
  
  Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and insights to drive strategic decision-making.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build and maintain effective partnerships and collaborations.
• Proven experience in programme management, ensuring that multiple teams work cohesively to achieve strategic objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and capitalise on new market opportunities, translating them into actionable strategies.
• Exceptional negotiation skills to manage the RFP process and secure financially profitable and compliant contracts.
• Proactive and innovative mindset, with a track record of driving growth and diversification in commercial and customer revenue streams.
  
  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, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Life at News At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely. We championdiversity and inclusion (https://www.news.co.uk/diversity-and-inclusion-at-news-uk/) , we strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
• 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 covering pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes
• 'Bikes for Work' scheme
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate. News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.