National Media Partnerships Manager

Red Bull; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Bull UK is seeking a National Media Partnerships Manager in London to enhance brand growth through innovative media partnerships. This role combines business development and marketing, requiring a strategic thinker with a strong media background and a passion for the brand.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in media partnerships and business development.
• Strong understanding of the UK media landscape.
• Proven track record of delivering high-impact media partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Drive Media Partnerships Strategy and execute high-impact partnerships.
• Lead Business Development from insight to execution.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams to bring ideas to life.

Skills

Media partnerships

Business development

Strategic marketing

Negotiation

Relationship building

Creative thinking

Market intelligence

Job description

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Red Bull UK is currently recruiting for a National Media Partnerships Manager to be based in London, UK.

The Media Partnerships Manager will accelerate the growth of Red Bull's brand in the UK through innovative media partnerships that drive reach and engagement of Red Bull's diverse editorial content offering with target audiences. This role sits at the intersection of business development and marketing - designed for a prolific networker and futurist who thrives on connecting the dots between Red Bull's marketing strategy, content offering and strategic partnership opportunities in the evolving media landscape.

You will lead strategic content partnerships with UK-based broadcasters, streamers, digital platforms, to license and distribute Red Bull's premium editorial and longform content to grow impact. You'll also explore commercial and brand-building opportunities in emerging and non-traditional spaces, from co-productions to OOH and experiential.

This is a self-starting, end-to-end role: from spotting opportunities and shaping strategy to pitching, negotiating, contracting, and executing. Though operating as a team of one, you'll collaborate deeply across Red Bull's marketing, content, programming, and comms teams - becoming a key connector across the business and a passionate ambassador for the brand.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Areas that play to your strengths

All the responsibilities we'll trust you with:

• Drive Media Partnerships Strategy

  Identify and execute high-impact partnership opportunities across broadcast, streaming, digital, experiential, and emerging channels. Align deals with Red Bull's brand strategy, marketing pillars, and target audience touchpoints.

• Lead Business Development

  Develop and own the pipeline of partnership opportunities - from initial insight and outreach through to deal structuring, negotiation, and execution. Prioritize scalable, audience-centric deals that drive both brand equity and business value.

• Collaborate Cross-Functionally

  Act as a bridge between internal teams (Marketing, Content, Comms, Legal, Finance) to bring partnership ideas to life. Provide strategic input into brand and media plans to identify where partnerships can drive disproportionate impact.

  Champion the Brand

  Serve as a public-facing representative of our brand - passionately communicating our purpose, values, and voice to prospective partners.

• Forecast and Report

  Provide insight-led forecasting on partnership performance, including reach, engagement, and commercial value. Track and evaluate KPIs against brand and marketing objectives.

• Market Intelligence & Trendspotting

  Stay ahead of the curve on shifts in consumer behavior, media consumption, and platform innovation. Use this intelligence to shape proactive partnership ideas that place our brand in culture, not just in media plans.

• Content & IP Development (where relevant)

  Work with content teams to identify opportunities for co-productions, original series, event integrations, or premium content licensing that extends the brand into storytelling and entertainment.

EXPERIENCE

Your areas of knowledge and expertise

that matter most for this role:

• Strong experience in media partnerships, business development, content licensing or strategic marketing - ideally within or adjacent to media, entertainment, or consumer brands.
• Strong understanding of the UK media landscape - including broadcasters, digital platforms, content studios, and emerging media formats.
• Extensive network of contacts
• Proven track record of identifying, developing, and delivering high-impact media partnerships.
• Experience operating end-to-end: from insight, opportunity development, negotiation and contract management through to execution and reporting.
• Creative, strategic, and commercially-minded - able to balance brand building with business outcomes.
• Naturally entrepreneurial with a "builder" mindset - we are looking for someone who thrives when writing and delivering the brief for success and not needing to be told what to do
• A confident communicator and relationship builder - able to represent the brand externally with passion, credibility and conviction.
• An innovator - obsessed with where culture and media are going next, and always scanning for what's around the corner.
• A true Red Bull brand lover - someone who believes in our purpose and mission and sees media partnerships as a key tool to help more people connect with what we stand for.

• Travel 20-30%

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