- Professional
- Office in New York
Job Description:
Amplifi is dentsu's media investment and innovation platform, supporting our agencies and clients with the tools and expertise to drive smarter media decisions. We work closely with publishers, media companies, and tech partners to evolve how we engage with the supply side of the industry.
Our Partnerships & Platform team leads strategic partnerships across dentsu Media US, connecting agencies (Carat, iProspect, dentsuX), clients, and investment teams. We turn client needs, commercial goals, and industry trends into impactful, value-driven partnerships—shaping dentsu's presence in the marketplace, new business, and product innovation.
The Manager, Partnerships will report into the Director, Partnerships. You will be part of the team overseeing the Sports & Entertainment vertical both internally and externally. You will support in all aspects of partnership operations and management across their adjacent media channels including - supporting the creation of partnership strategy for their specialism, ensuring excellence in execution of assigned partnerships, including negotiating and delivering partnership agreements, managing communications with assigned partners and ensuring partnerships delivery against primary goals. The Manager will also create and distribute internal resources and communications with the support of the Director and VP, Partnerships. The Manager will work with the team to ensure their primary responsibilities contribute to a cohesive Partnership strategy for dentsu.
You will align across several departments within dentsu – including technology, media, investment, innovation, activation, trading and planning therefore an ability to work with multiple partners to create solutions.
Responsibilities:
• Relationship management across important partnerships
• Own several reporting needs, manage daily communications and distribution to the correct team members.
• Support the team leadership to implement strategic vision
• Work with Investment, Activation, and Amplifi (trading) to ensure partnership approach meets the needs of our clients and aligns to dentsu standards
• Inform and educate Investment & Activation teams on partner new and updated deal details
• Help create and execute dentsu and client agreements
• Be seen as an integrator both internally and externally driving partners and maintaining engagement across several variables
• Support on client business where needed to build custom partnership plans and subject-matter-expertise of partner landscape.
• Participate in new business as subject-matter-expert in sports and entertainment to deliver the value proposition for the potential client.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree (marketing, advertising, business, or communications)
• 6+ years' experience within the media industry as a partnership or investment member
• 4+ years of experience in sports and entertainment partnerships
• 4+ years of experience in media planning or media buying across social platforms (Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, Amazon), with an understanding of how these efforts connect with traditional media channels—including linear TV, podcasts, CTV, and out-of-home (OOH).
• MSFT product suite expertise (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint)
Additional information
The annual salary range for this position is $51,000-$83,375
Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.
Benefits available with this position include:
• Medical, vision, and dental insurance,
• Life insurance,
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance,
• 401k,
• Flexible paid time off,
• At least 15 paid holidays per year,
• Paid sick and safe leave, and
• Paid parental leave.
Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.
To begin the application process, please click on the “Apply” button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps.
This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.
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Location:
New YorkBrand:
AmplifiTime Type:
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