Senior Partnerships Manager

Job Description: Senior Partnerships Manager, Fresh Air (12 month contract)

If you are considering sending an application, make sure to hit the apply button below after reading through the entire description.

 

At Fresh Air..  

We’re not playing at this.

We make podcasts and podcast campaigns for brands.

We are industry-leading experts in what we do. 

We’re building a business out of podcasts, and we don’t apologise for wanting to make money.

Because we make money, we pay people properly and treat people properly.

 

We’re proud of what we do 

We make work that we’re proud of, and we work with people we like.

Our clients like us back, and value our expertise.

If we need the right kit, we buy the right kit.

We care about what our clients care about, and we give them what they want

… even if they’re being difficult. We’re not precious and we don’t do arty strops.

We respect our competitors, and we don’t begrudge them work.

We say yes, then we work out how to do it.

 

We’re proud of how we do it

We work together on pitches and brainstorms, no matter whose project it ends up being. 

We get noticed for our work. We win awards.

Colleagues and clients will send emails at weird times – weekends and evenings. That doesn’t mean you’re expected to do the same or respond unless it’s desperate. 

Holidays are for turning off.

We don’t wallow in mistakes. No-one dies, and there are no witch hunts.

We make something, so we can change it.

We laugh.

 

Our clients want brilliant work that delivers.

We give them brilliant work that delivers. And an experience that means they come back for more.

 

The Role:

Our Senior Partnerships Manager is a critical role in Fresh Air Media to initiate, grow and manage our partnerships with brands, agencies, podcast platforms, channels, talent and podcasters. It’s building amazing collaborative partnerships with top podcasting talent and the biggest shows in the world. It’s growing Fresh Air Media to be the best (and best to work with) specialist podcast media agency in the UK - with a portfolio of amazing campaigns under our belt. 

We’re looking for someone with a media planning/advertising background, who has experience working with clients and managing partnerships/projects. You may be in brand or creative strategy role looking for something new -  from working on pitches, storytelling & positioning, to managing and building partnerships with clients/agencies no day is ever the same with variation in the role. You’ll be excited by the opportunity to work with some of the biggest podcast talent in the UK. 

This position is a 5 day a week, initially a 12 Month Contract role, covering our current Senior Partnership Manager, beginning in August 2026,  with a salary of £57,935 per annum. You will receive private medical insurance, 28 days per year of paid holiday and be enrolled on Fresh Air’s workplace pension scheme. 

 

Our Senior Partnerships Manager IS …

• Creative with ideas and their implementation

• Curious to learn everything they can about our business & podcasting

• Committed to developing themselves

• Collaborative with colleagues and clients 

• Able to initiate and deliver projects

• Ambitious to build, grow and develop Fresh Air Media

• Excited by the challenge

Overall, they care about the work we create and the way it is delivered.

 

Our Senior Partnerships Manager CAN …

• Build trusted relationships with clients, colleagues & talent

• Manage brands, agencies and podcasters

• Initiate conversations with agencies and brands who don’t know who we are

• Succinctly articulate and sell Fresh Air Media’s offering to agencies

• Manage accounts and creative projects to deliver on time and on budget

• Work with creatives and video/ audio editors to deliver the best ads within podcasts

• Balance multiple projects simultaneously

• Plans and implements campaigns single-handedly

• Lead pitches and generously help to grow others’ ideas

• Support on any relevant projects in articulating positioning & storytelling

• Be flexible in thinking, techniques and approaches

• Be resilient in trying ideas that might not work

• Be proactive in finding ways to improve ways of working and chasing down contacts

• Stick to deadlines

• Explain marketing and brand thinking to producers and podcasters

• Adapt their communication style and ways of working according to the different needs of colleagues and clients

• Be an ambassador for Fresh Air at client and industry events

• Help to shape the future of Fresh Air

Our Senior Partnerships Manager HAS..

• Demonstrable experience in creating, negotiating and delivering podcast campaigns for brands, either within an agency or direct for a brand

• Experience in client servicing, especially on the media or creative agency side with a love of podcasting

• Good knowledge of the internal workings of media and creative agencies - with a strong network to make things happen. 

• A natural networking ability, and the instinct to commercially and creatively grow Fresh Air’s business and deliver amazing campaigns for clients. 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Evidence of creative strategy, media planning and data handling in a previous role

• The ability to work independently and manage their own time

• Tons of ideas, team spirit, character and a sense of humour!

Yeah, OK but what does the Senior Partnership Manager actually do?

You will be a lynchpin at the heart of Fresh Air Media, creating podcast partnerships with brands, agencies and the world of podcasting. You will manage our biggest clients, executing podcast campaigns across all the podcast platforms, be the podcast expert in the room, and make the biggest, most creative, most effective campaigns happen. 

No two days will be the same. 

Your typical working week might be made up of a combination of any of (but not limited to) the following:

• Coming up with a winning creative strategy for an original show with a brand

• Partnering with a media partner, a brand and Fresh Air to grow an existing show

• Proactive pitches for targeted brands and podcast opportunities, working closely with producers, talent and the executive team

• Producing high quality audio and video creative work with creatives and editors

• Using audience insights, platform data and pixel tracking to measure effectiveness and ROI

• Liaising with everyone from Acast to Goalhanger, from Flight Story to Spotify to execute and account manage campaigns - whether it’s direct response or brand building

• Liaising with talent agents and podcast platforms to create amazing podcaster talent partnerships

• Setting up meetings, workshops and development programmes with media and creative agencies to grow Fresh Air’s business. 

• Leading brainstorms and creating creative and strategic proposals in collaboration with relevant team members, and turning them into winning revenue

You will ultimately be responsible for managing your own workload, and will take pride in producing the very best output possible. The management of Fresh Air will do everything we can to support you in this. You’re not on your own!

Location: Fresh Air isn’t a business where everyone needs to be in the office every day or at fixed times. Our London office (15 Tileyard. N7 9AH) allows us to host meetings and work together in a creative, collaborative, comfortable environment, and means we can combine as a team most easily. 

Ideally, we expect this role to be in the office for at least 1 day per week. 

However, a great deal of the work we do can take place anywhere, and there is no obligation for you to be in the office if it’s not necessary. Indeed, a commute into London is often a waste of time that could be more productively used at home. Location is therefore flexible according to each week’s workload. 

Hours: We understand that different hours sometimes work best for different people at different times. The Senior Partnership Manager hours need to be based on our standard week of Monday-Friday 9-6, and you’ll need to be available and contactable during working days. However, we also know that sometimes it’s not that simple, and we’ll look to provide flexibility when required. 

Given the unpredictable nature of project-based workloads, some long days and out of hours work will be necessary. However, again, you  will be trusted to balance these out across the weeks.

There will be occasions such as networking events or group sessions which require you to be available in the evening, but these will be arranged with plenty of notice.

 

Personal Development

It’s important that the Senior Partnership Manager immerses themselves in the world of podcasting. With an industry that’s developing and growing so quickly, there are always new models, new formats, new distribution opportunities - and we’d expect you to engage actively with them and bring them to the team. xwzovoh

We will provide training and support in whatever processes and skills are required for you to continually improve in their role.