Partnerships Project Manager FTC (12 months)

The Telegraph is seeking a Partnerships Project Manager (FTC - 12 months) to play a crucial role in managing and delivering commercial partnership campaigns. This fixed-term role involves working closely with sales, production, and editorial teams to ensure that campaigns are delivered on time, within budget, and exceed client expectations. The Partnerships Project Manager will manage a diverse portfolio of partnership campaigns, focusing on scheduling, administration, quality, client satisfaction, and profitability.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of commercial partnership campaigns for strategic clients and agencies
• Work closely with the Sales team, All Production teams, and Commercial Editors to ensure successful delivery of allocated partnerships through proficient planning, scheduling and reporting to deliver the partnership as sold. Manage any production/planning matters that may arise or escalate to senior PM.
• Champion Workfront for campaign management and delivery, ensuring smooth project delivery through clear timeline management and effective collaboration with stakeholders.
• Drive campaign effectiveness (Results That Matter) for clients and ensure efficient production within agreed profit margins.
• Produce a pre-pitch P&L for each partnership, ensuring accurate cost allocation and adherence to agreed profit margins and reconcile the P&L after the campaign has ended
• Manage partnerships across Travel, Lifestyle, Business & Finance, and Sport topics as allocated
• Maintain centralised, accurate, and up-to-date schedules and trackers for all managed partnership activity, ensuring departmental accessibility.
• Provide best-in-class customer service, adhering to TMG guidelines to ensure seamless campaign delivery and achievement of KPIs.
• Be an enthusiastic user and supporter of Workfront for campaign/project management delivery, ensuring smooth project delivery through clear timeline management and effective collaboration with stakeholders.
• Have a clear comprehensive understanding of all Telegraph products (Telegraph.co.uk, newspaper, magazines, apps, and database).
• Set the standards to support the renewal of campaigns to secure future investment

Requirements

• Proven experience in project management within a commercial partnerships or advertising environment.
• Strong organisational and time management skills to handle multiple campaigns simultaneously.
• Client-focused approach with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Understanding of digital advertising metrics, buying methods, and profit margin management.
• Ability to work proactively and collaboratively as part of a team.
• Experience with project management software, preferably Workfront.
• Attention to detail and numerical literacy to manage budgets and optimize profitability.
• Multi-media knowledge including sales, operations, and campaign delivery processes.

Benefits

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development

With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion

At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

We are proud to be a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.

To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website.