Partnerships Manager

Mondelēz International; Uxbridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading snack company seeks a Partnerships Manager to join their Cadbury team in Uxbridge. This role entails managing partnerships in the sport and entertainment sectors, developing activation strategies, and ensuring compliance with brand guidelines. Ideal candidates will have experience in partnership management and strong marketing skills. Join a high-performing team to make an impactful contribution.

Qualifications

• Experience in sport and entertainment sector preferred.
• Ability to manage business objectives beyond brand and budget.
• Strong analytical and creative skills.

Responsibilities

• Be the day-to-day contact for partners across football and entertainment.
• Develop year-round activation strategies for partners.
• Execute brand guidelines for consistency across partners.

Skills

Partnership or Rights Holder Management experience

Strong Marketing experience

Analytics and creativity

Leading and influencing teams

Effective communication skills

Job description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

Have you ever wanted to work on the world’s most exciting confectionary brands? Are you looking to join a fun, high‑performing team and help to leverage our world class partnerships & activations in the UK? Are you ready to make an impact in the business & travel the country working with our partners?

Now is your chance to be part of the Cadbury team as the new Partnerships Manager!

How you will contribute:

• Be the day-to-day contact for our partners across football and entertainment, working alongside our retained agencies to execute our partnership strategy and contractual rights;
• Develop year‑round owned, earned and activation strategies for each partner, aligned to our Cadbury Equity plans to maximise our contractual rights;
• Lead agency partners to challenge, track and exceed KPIs and deliverables for all partnerships.
• Execute Cadbury brand guidelines to ensure fresh consistency across all local MDLZ and external partners;
• Support the Marketing team to deliver ambitious marketing plans through ATL, BTL and instore.
• Work alongside the Commercial Lead to execute the Partnerships Strategy and marketing plans and to plan for success in short (current year) and mid‑term (current +1) across the trade including white space opportunities & ecomm
• Work alongside the Social Media Manager to execute talent and influencer strategies for Cadbury and to develop strategic and tactical collaborations in our owned channels;
• Join the Brand Experience team and support ambitious digital transformation plans;
• Work closely with all key stakeholders, including Sales, activation, personalisation, project managers, external agencies and licensees to ensure visibility and passion to drive
• Provide counsel across all Mondelez brands on current and future partnership opportunities – both locally and overseas;
• Engage cross‑functional team and supports decision making on key strategic planning for partnerships.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Partnership or Rights Holder Management experience in sport and entertainment sector preferable.
• Strong Marketing experience (brand and agency management, budget and campaign planning)
• Managing business objectives beyond brand and budget
• Analytics and creativity—a balance of commercial and strategic acumen
• Leading and influencing teams
• Communicating effectively, verbally and in writing, and executive presentation skills
• Working in markets with diverse economic environments a distinct advantage

Relocation Support Available?

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply! Our people make all the difference in our succes

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Excited to grow your career?

We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!

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Job Type

Regular Brand & Portfolio Management Marketing