Strategic Partnerships Lead – Southern Italy

Headout Inc; Roma; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Headout Inc. in Italy seeks a Business Development Manager to own partnerships with local operators in the south, mainly Naples and Puglia.

You’ll bring 2–5 years in BD, negotiate deals, and sign live partnerships while coordinating across operations, product, tech, and marketing. You’ll manage the end-to-end lifecycle from first outreach to launch and growth, building a strong regional supply and ensuring partners perform against demand data.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience in business development, sales, partnerships, or a closely related role.
• Comfortable working directly with local operators; experience in southern Italy is a plus.
• Able to negotiate a deal and handle the operational work to get it live.
• Follow up with other teams until things get done.
• Fluent in Italian and English.

Responsibilities

• New supply acquisition: find operators and experiences, approach, negotiate, and sign partnerships and make them live.
• Supply growth and maintenance: work with existing partners, identify gaps and opportunities, keep inventory broad and high quality.
• Operational execution: collaborate with Operations, Product, Tech, Marketing, Customer Experience and other teams to set up partners.
• Data: use market data, partner performance and customer demand to decide where to focus and what to change.
• Cross-team collaboration: raise issues early and follow up until resolved.

Skills

Business development

Partnerships

Negotiation

B2B sales

Italian (verbal)

Job description

Headout Inc. in Italy seeks a Business Development Manager to own partnerships with local operators in the south, mainly Naples and Puglia.

You’ll bring 2–5 years in BD, negotiate deals, and sign live partnerships while coordinating across operations, product, tech, and marketing. You’ll manage the end-to-end lifecycle from first outreach to launch and growth, building a strong regional supply and ensuring partners perform against demand data.