Brand Partnerships Manager

• Proven experience in brand partnerships, collaborations, business development or special projects.
• Commercially driven, with a track record of turning relationships and ideas into revenue.
• Excellent negotiator and confident managing senior brand relationships.
• Highly organised with strong project management skills.
• Strong understanding of fashion, design, retail and contemporary culture.
• Well connected across brands, agencies and the creative industries.
• Comfortable managing multiple projects, budgets and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of content, social, PR and experiential marketing.
• Commercially numerate and confident managing budgets, forecasts and reporting.
• Proactive, resourceful and comfortable taking ownership.
• Collaborative and happy working hands-on within a fast-moving independent business.

Lead Goodhood's brand partnerships, collaborations and special projects - building a strong pipeline of commercial opportunities that generate revenue, create culturally relevant moments and grow the Goodhood brand.

Own the partnership and collaboration calendar from opportunity and commercial negotiation through to execution and launch.

• Own and drive Goodhood's annual partnership and activation calendar.
• Deliver agreed revenue targets and commercial KPIs and report to Management weekly.
• Manage and oversee brand events and activations.
• Build a strong pipeline of new business across fashion, footwear, lifestyle, design, food, drink and culture.
• Develop existing partners into long-term, repeat relationships.
• Lead partner conversations from initial pitch and proposal through to negotiation, delivery and reporting.
• Create compelling partnership proposals, scopes of work and commercial packages.
• Maintain clear visibility of pipeline, confirmed revenue and future opportunities.
• Lead regular internal partnership meetings, driving actions and keeping projects on track.
• Curate and own Goodhood's annual calendar of collaborative product.
• Identify brands, designers, artists and cultural partners for future collaborations.
• Build a balanced pipeline of commercially strong, culturally relevant and unexpected projects.
• Work closely with Buying and Creative to shape concepts, product assortments and launch strategies.
• Own collaborations from initial approach and commercial negotiation through development, production and launch.
• Maintain a consistent cadence of collaborative product throughout the year.
• Build commercial forecasts and targets for each project.
• Ensure launches are supported by strong storytelling across content, PR, events and Goodhood channels.
• Review performance and use learnings to shape the future collaboration calendar.
• Develop and deliver a strong calendar of events, activations and special projects around Goodhood and its partners.
• Own projects from brief to delivery, managing timelines, budgets, suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Ensure projects are properly scoped, resourced and commercially viable.
• Produce clear briefs, timelines and responsibilities for major projects.
• Manage project budgets and protect agreed commercial margins.
• Oversee production, logistics and delivery of events and activations.
• Deliver concise post-project reporting, demonstrating reach, engagement and value to partners.
• Build and maintain a strong network across brands, agencies, artists, designers and the wider creative industries.
• Keep Goodhood connected to emerging brands, talent, ideas and cultural movements.
• Ensure every partnership feels credible, relevant and distinctly Goodhood.
• Work with Marketing and Creative to maximise the reach and impact of partnership projects.
• Identify opportunities to introduce new audiences and communities to the brand.
• Own partnership revenue targets and forecasts.
• Maintain an accurate live pipeline of opportunities and confirmed projects.
• Negotiate strong commercial terms and protect project profitability.
• Manage project budgets and ensure delivery against agreed spend.
• Report regularly on revenue, pipeline, project performance and future opportunities.

Location: London