Junior Partnership Strategist

Mail Metro Media; Manchester; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Mail Metro Media in Manchester is seeking a Junior Partnership Strategist to turn market insights into winning commercial ideas. You will support briefs from agencies and brands, ensuring proposals are imaginative yet commercially grounded across social, video and digital formats.

You will translate audience and product insights into compelling narratives, assist the sales team, and help manage the Salesforce pipeline with disciplined record-keeping.

Qualifications

• Passion for advertising, media and culture with early potential in a creative, agency or marketing environment.
• Self-starter who researches trends without prompting and shares findings.
• CRM/pipeline discipline with Salesforce clarity.
• Able to pull human insights from data to shape brand messages.

Responsibilities

• Ideate and translate audience insights into compelling concepts for clients.
• Bridge data and creativity to craft narratives in pitch decks.
• Support sales by providing creative hooks to move opportunities through Salesforce.
• Maintain rigorous pipeline records from brainstorm to final pitch.
• Research market trends to keep pitches fresh and competitive.
• Develop go-to-market opportunities to unlock new business.
• Suggest integrated ideas beyond display ads (podcasts, shoppable content, activations).
• Ensure pitch collateral is stored and updated in internal systems.
• Support campaigns and partnerships to deliver high-standard results.

Skills

Curious thinker

Proactive self-starter

Salesforce literacy

Analytical creativity

Agile collaboration

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

As a Junior Partnership Strategist, you are the spark that turns market insights into winning commercial ideas. This is a proactive, entry-to-mid-level role designed for a curious thinker who understands that great creativity must be backed by commercial logic. You will support the team in responding to briefs from the UK’s leading agencies and brands, ensuring our proposals are not only imaginative but also targeted on growing new business. By using data to inform decisions, you will help develop the multi-platform strategies—across social, video, and digital—that drive revenue diversification and keep our brand at the cutting edge of the media landscape.

The New Role Will

• Ideate with Intent: Support the brainstorming and development of creative concepts that solve real business problems for our clients.
• Bridge Data and Creativity: Help translate audience insights and product insights into compelling narratives that live within our pitch decks.
• Support the Sales Engine: Work closely with the sales floor to move opportunities through the Salesforce pipeline, providing the creative "hook" needed to close deals.
• Master Operational Discipline: Ensure all strategic milestones, from initial brainstorm to final pitch, are accurately recorded to support effective pipeline management.

Main Responsibilities

• Proactively research market trends and competitor information to ensure our pitches are fresh, relevant, and more competitive than the industry standard.
• Assist in crafting "speculative" pitches—identifying brands we should be working with and building the creative case to grow new business.
• Play a key role in driving the team’s proactive strategy by developing a suite of go-to-market opportunities designed to unlock new business.
• Contribute to the diversification of revenue by thinking beyond standard display ads, suggesting integrated ideas for podcasts, shoppable content, and experiential activations.
• Maintain an impeccable standard of Salesforce pipeline management, ensuring the strategy team’s contribution is visible by:
• Tracking: Every brainstorm, client meeting, and call to ensure a clear audit trail of the creative process.
• Logging Data: Recording specific client information and feedback to refine future strategic approaches.
• Product Insights: Feeding back what "wins" in the market to the product and editorial teams.
• Ensure all pitch collateral is stored and updated within our internal systems to increase the speed and agility of the production pipeline.
• Support the team across our most important commercial partnerships, helping to ensure campaigns are delivered to the highest standard and strengthening long‑term relationships.
• Deliver a consistently high level of client servicing by assisting with day‑to‑day communications, ensuring partners feel supported and encouraging repeat bookings.
• Provide essential administrative and operational support across campaigns and pitches, helping the wider team stay organised, responsive, and efficient.

Performance & Data-Led Decisions

• Use data to inform decisions by utilising our first‑party data tools to prove why a specific creative direction will resonate with our audience.
• Support the performance management of campaigns by reviewing post‑campaign data to understand what worked, using those "lessons learned" to improve the next pitch.
• Foster high‑level collaboration with the Design, Social, and Sales teams to ensure that the "big idea" is actually deliverable and high‑performing.

Culture & Talent

• Contribute to a culture of innovation and creative bravery that helps make our team one of the most exciting and collaborative to work with in the market.
• Stay hungry for knowledge, attending UK industry events and webinars to bring fresh strategic perspectives back to the team.

Person Specification

• The Curious Thinker: You have a passion for advertising, media, and culture, with an early track record (or high potential) in a creative, agency, or marketing environment.
• The Proactive Self‑Starter: You don’t wait to be told what to research. You are a natural "hunter" of trends and insights who loves to share what you find.
• The Salesforce‑Literate Professional: You understand that creativity requires a system. You are disciplined with pipeline management and value the clarity that comes from a well‑kept CRM.
• The Analytical Creative: You can look at a spreadsheet of audience data and pull out a "human" insight that makes a brand's message feel authentic.
• The Agile Collaborator: You have excellent communication skills, a professional wit, and the ability to work under pressure alongside a fast‑moving sales team.

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.