Executive Director, Brand Partnerships (UK)

Responsibilities

• Own commercial growth across defined verticals, delivering against revenue targets through client retention, client growth, partner revenue, and new business acquisition.
• Act as the commercial lead across your designated sectors, building Influencer’s visibility, reputation, and relationships within those markets.
• Build and maintain strong senior relationships across clients, platforms, agencies, and partners within your sectors.
• Develop and maintain clear commercial and relationship growth plans across all key clients and partners within your verticals, identifying opportunities for retention, expansion, upsell, and long-term strategic growth.
• Identify, develop, and convert new business opportunities through proactive outreach, networking, relationship development, and strategic prospecting.
• Lead commercial conversations, negotiations, pitches, and proposal development across opportunities within your verticals.
• Maintain strong pipeline visibility, forecasting accuracy, and opportunity management across your sectors.
• Work collaboratively with Client Services leadership to ensure opportunities are scoped responsibly and aligned with operational capability and delivery quality.
• Partner closely with Strategy, Measurement, Media, Product, and Creative teams to develop compelling and commercially viable solutions for clients.
• Support the growth and visibility of Influencer within your sectors through market knowledge, relationship-building, and external representation.

Requirements

• Strong commercial experience within influencer marketing, media, advertising, social, technology, or integrated agency environments.
• Proven track record driving revenue growth and developing senior client relationships.
• Strong pitching, negotiation, and commercial storytelling skills.
• Experience managing pipelines, forecasting, and opportunity progression.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with strong commercial instincts and growth focus.
• Strong understanding of influencer marketing, creator ecosystems, and platform trends.
• Excellent communication, relationship-building, and stakeholder management skills.
• Highly motivated, collaborative, and commercially driven approach.
• Ambition and capability to grow into broader leadership responsibilities over time.

Benefits

• Private Healthcare through Vitality
• Wellbeing support through Vitality including EAP & Mental Health cover
• 25 days of Annual Leave (+ Bank Holidays which can be flexed to your needs)
• For more information on our benefits, perks and what makes us unique, please visit our website here
• At Influencer, we’re committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion. We promote DEI in our workplace and are a global community who believe our unique qualities should be celebrated. We want everyone at Influencer to bring their authentic selves to work everyday, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We are committed to embedding Diversity, Equity & Inclusion into everything we do at Influencer, making it part of our culture. All we ask is that you have a passion for Influencer Marketing and a desire to be a part of one of the fastest growing companies within this exciting industry.