Partnership Lead

APCO Worldwide LLC; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A global advisory firm is looking for a Partnership Lead to manage and nurture relationships with partners for mutual success. The successful candidate will collaborate with the client’s partnership team and internal teams, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and delivering exceptional client servicing. Strong communication skills, project management expertise, and a client-centric mindset are essential. This is a fixed-term opportunity for 6 months, extendable for similar periods, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Qualifications

• Ability to build trust and keep all stakeholders aligned.
• Skilled in crafting compelling sales pitches and understanding marketing strategies.
• Capable of managing timelines, resources, and deliverables efficiently.
• Committed to understanding and fulfilling client needs.
• Ability to work seamlessly with internal teams to achieve partnership goals.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary liaison between the client’s partnership team and internal teams to ensure all deliverables are met.
• Prepare partnership sales pitches, onboarding decks, and address specific partner needs.
• Maintain open communication with partners, address concerns promptly, and ensure partnerships deliver value.
• Manage partnership-related projects, ensuring timelines, resources, and objectives are effectively met.
• Build trust and foster strong relationships with both the client and their partners.

Skills

Strong Communication Skills

Sales and Marketing Knowledge

Project Management Expertise

Client-Centric Mindset

Collaboration and Teamwork

Job description

Role Summary

This is a fixed-term opportunity for 6 months, extendable for similar periods, to work on one of APCO’s exciting projects. The Partnership Lead is a dynamic, client-focused role responsible for managing and nurturing relationships with partners to ensure mutual success. This position requires strong collaboration with the client’s partnership team and internal teams to deliver on agreed objectives, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and exceptional client servicing.

Key Responsibilities

1. Collaborate with the Client’s Partnership Team
   • Act as the primary liaison between the client’s partnership team and internal teams to ensure all deliverables are met.
   • Prepare partnership sales pitches, onboarding decks, and address specific partner needs.
   • Align partnership strategies with the client’s growth objectives to deliver measurable results.
2. Ensure Partner Needs and Rights Are Met
   • Maintain open communication with partners, address concerns promptly, and ensure partnerships deliver value to all stakeholders.
3. Collaborate with Internal Teams
   • Work closely with creative, social media, and other internal teams to ensure deliverables align with partnership goals.
   • Support the creation of onboarding materials and refine pitches in collaboration with relevant teams.
4. Program and Project Management
   • Manage partnership-related projects, ensuring timelines, resources, and objectives are effectively met.
5. Client Servicing Focus
   • Build trust and foster strong relationships with both the client and their partners through excellent communication and relationship management skills.

Requirements

• Strong Communication Skills: Ability to build trust and keep all stakeholders aligned.
• Sales and Marketing Knowledge: Skilled in crafting compelling sales pitches and understanding marketing strategies.
• Project Management Expertise: Capable of managing timelines, resources, and deliverables efficiently.
• Client-Centric Mindset: Committed to understanding and fulfilling client needs.
• Collaboration and Teamwork: Ability to work seamlessly with internal teams to achieve partnership goals.

Careers at APCO

Through our recruitment, hiring and retention efforts, APCO is committed to building teams to bring the best possible expertise and robust perspectives to our clients. We embrace differences in experience, viewpoint and ideas, starting with our values and extending to our behaviors, policies and practices. We aim to create a positive work experience and welcoming environment where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.

About APCO

APCO is a global advisory and advocacy firm helping leading corporations, foundations and governments navigate a complex world and create lasting impact. Founded in 1984, with one woman’s vision and bold action, APCO has grown into an independent, majority women-owned firm of more than 1,200 employees with work spanning 80 markets around the world. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., APCO is comprised of strategic advisers, consultants and creators, working together across borders and functions, to provide services and expertise on financial, competitive, political and societal issues.

APCO is a trusted partner to bold purpose‑led leaders, lawmakers, government officials, NGOs, the media and other stakeholders in the health, energy, technology, transportation & infrastructure and food & consumer products sectors. For 40 years, the firm has provided public affairs, crisis & reputation, impact, corporate reputation and global solutions services.

APCO is renowned for its ability to champion clients’ interests and permission to operate, build their reputation and strengthen their standing. APCO’s integrated approach and team of tenacious and empathic talent create connections and winning strategies that accelerate progress and deepen impact. By bringing diverse people and ideas together, and working beyond traditional boundaries, APCO builds the un/common ground upon which progress is made.