Brand Partnership Manager

POLY GLOBAL ADVISORY; Lombardia; In loco; EUR 45.000 - 65.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Poly Global Advisory, a leading international communications and brand development agency, is seeking a proactive business development professional in Italy to build new client opportunities across fashion, luxury and consumer brands. You will work directly with the founder/CEO and international teams to open conversations and move opportunities through the sales pipeline.

The role emphasizes taking ownership, researching targets, conducting personalised outreach, reactivating relationships and

Competenze

• Experience in business development or partnerships in fashion or luxury.
• Strong networking and relationship-building with senior executives.
• Proactive, autonomous and able to manage a commercial pipeline.
• Fluent English and professional Italian.
• Familiarity with CRM and digital outreach tools.

Mansioni

• Identify and research potential clients across fashion, luxury, lifestyle, and consumer brands.
• Build and manage a structured new-business pipeline.
• Conduct outreach via email, LinkedIn, introductions and events.
• Coordinate proposals, presentations and materials with founder and team.
• Develop strategic partnerships with agencies, consultants, showrooms, investors.
• Maintain accurate CRM and pipeline reporting.

Conoscenze

Business development

Partnerships

Sales

Communications

Fashion

Luxury

Creative industries

Professional services

Strumenti

CRM

LinkedIn

Prospecting tools

Descrizione del lavoro

About Poly Global Advisory

Poly Global Advisory is an international communications, PR and brand development agency working across fashion, luxury and consumer brands.

For more than a decade, we have worked with international designers and brands across Europe, Asia and the United States, supporting global communications, brand positioning, fashion shows, events, market entry, VIP relations and strategic development.

The Role

This is not a traditional marketing role and it is not an account-management position.

Your primary responsibility is simple:

Create qualified new business opportunities and help turn them into paying clients.

You will work directly with the founder/CEO and our international teams to identify potential clients, open conversations, develop partnerships and manage opportunities through the sales pipeline.

The founder will participate in qualified client meetings, strategic conversations and closing negotiations. Your role is to build and manage the commercial engine around those conversations.

We are looking for someone proactive, commercially minded, highly organized and comfortable initiating relationships rather than waiting for opportunities to arrive.

What You Will Do

• Identify and research potential clients across fashion, luxury, lifestyle and selected consumer-brand sectors.
• Build and continuously manage a structured new-business pipeline.
• Identify founders, CEOs, brand directors, marketing directors and communications decision-makers.
• Conduct personalized outreach through email, LinkedIn, introductions, events and existing relationships.
• Reactivate former PGA clients, contacts, prospects and industry relationships.
• Develop referral opportunities through our international network.
• Qualify prospects before introducing them to the founder or senior team.
• Arrange and prepare business-development meetings.
• Manage follow-ups after meetings and ensure opportunities continue moving forward.
• Coordinate proposals, presentations and commercial materials with the founder and team.
• Develop strategic partnerships with relevant agencies, consultants, showrooms, investors and industry organizations.
• Identify opportunities around Milan Fashion Week, European market entry, launches, communications and special projects.
• Maintain accurate CRM and pipeline reporting.
• Track conversion, proposals, expected revenue and next actions.
• Work closely with our Milan and Los Angeles teams to identify cross-market opportunities.

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for someone who is naturally commercial and comfortable opening doors.

You should ideally have:

• Previous experience in business development, partnerships, sales, communications, fashion, luxury, creative industries or professional services.
• A strong understanding of fashion, luxury, lifestyle or consumer brands.
• Excellent relationship-building and communication skills.
• Confidence approaching founders, CEOs and senior executives.
• Strong written and spoken English.
• Professional Italian.
• Excellent research and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of a commercial pipeline.
• Strong follow-up discipline.
• Comfort using CRM, LinkedIn and modern prospecting tools.
• Good understanding of how AI and digital tools can improve research, outreach and sales productivity.

Existing relationships within fashion, luxury, beauty, lifestyle, hospitality, entertainment, investment or UHNW networks would be a significant advantage.

Additional international languages and networks are also valuable.

The Personality We Want

We are not looking for someone who waits to receive a list of tasks every morning.

We want someone who sees an interesting company, researches it, finds the decision-maker, understands why PGA could be relevant, finds a way to start a conversation and follows the opportunity until there is a clear outcome.

You should be:

• commercially hungry;
• outgoing and confident;
• sophisticated in communication;
• persistent without being aggressive;
• resourceful;
• curious;
• comfortable with international cultures;
• highly accountable.

You should enjoy creating opportunities rather than simply administering them.

What Success Looks Like

During the first months, success will be measured primarily through:

• quality of the target pipeline;
• qualified meetings generated;
• reactivation of existing relationships;
• proposals created;
• conversion of opportunities into paying clients;
• recurring revenue generated.

This is a results-oriented commercial position.

Why Join Now?

This is an opportunity to join an established international agency at an important moment of transformation.

Rather than inheriting a rigid corporate sales structure, you will have direct access to the founder, significant autonomy and the opportunity to help shape PGA's future commercial strategy and international client portfolio.

We are looking for someone who wants to build, not simply maintain.