Responsibilities

• Define AEMEA platform partnership strategy, priorities, and governance; align to brand missions and market needs.
• Lead senior partner engagement: negotiate joint plans, support models, innovation access, and success measures.
• Ensure scalable enablement across markets: capability programs, playbooks, and adoption tracking.
• Drive innovation portfolio: select high-value pilots, ensure disciplined evaluation, and scale what works.
• Stakeholder alignment across legal, procurement, data, and brand teams; remove blockers and accelerate delivery.
• Executive reporting: communicate outcomes, risks, and next-step investments with clear business rationale.

Requirements

• University level education
• Advanced experience in partner strategy, media leadership, commerce, or consulting preferred
• Minimum 10 years of experience in platform partnerships, digital media leadership, electronic commerce, or agency leadership
• 5+ years influencing regional stakeholders and shaping multi-market programmes
• Experience negotiating support, resources, and strategic value with senior partner teams
• Demonstrates strong strategic partner leadership, negotiation, and cross-company collaboration skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships across internal and external stakeholders, including close collaboration with regional/global headquarters and teams in Japan.
• Deep understanding of digital media and commerce ecosystems, with the ability to identify partnership opportunities, create clear value cases, and align partners and stakeholders to measurable business outcomes.
• Strong innovation mindset balanced with disciplined measurement, governance, and commercial thinking to ensure initiatives deliver sustainable business value and operational excellence.
• Excellent executive communication and influencing skills, with the confidence and professionalism to represent Kao effectively with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Proven capability in governance design, programme management, prioritisation, and operating rhythm leadership, with the ability to drive alignment, decision-making, and execution in complex and fast-paced environments.
• Calm, resilient, and adaptable under pressure, with a structured and solutions-oriented approach to navigating ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Strong people leadership and coaching mindset, fostering collaboration, capability development, accountability, and continuous improvement across teams and partners.

Benefits

• we offer amazing benefits that are available to you on your first day of employment (healthcare, 401(k) plus company match), 37 total days off (vacation + holidays + sick) and a competitive salary range of $110,000 - $125,000. We also offer a hybrid work environment.
• An entrepreneurial environment where passionate and innovative teams come together.
• Respect, teamwork and collaboration are at the heart of how we work.
• A workplace culture that prioritizes employee wellbeing
• A broad range of benefits, including flexible working, competitive salaries, health and wellbeing offers, retirement, insurance options, and more…
• Learning and development opportunities