Time Out Group Plc
Agency Partnerships Executive
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Agency Partnerships Executive (Havas + Independents)
Location: Covent Garden, London (Hybrid 3 days in-office, 2 days remote)
Department: Commercial
Reporting to: Head of Agency Partnerships
Role Overview
Working alongside experienced Agency Partnership Managers and the wider commercial team, you'll help grow agency relationships, identify new business opportunities, and deliver creative, multi-platform campaigns for some of the world's biggest brands. We're looking for someone with plenty of drive, enthusiasm, and commercial curiosity who enjoys building relationships and wants to develop into a successful media sales professional.
Key Responsibilities
Agency Partnerships
- Build and develop relationships across your allocated agency patch, becoming a trusted point of contact for agency planners, buyers, and partnership teams.
- Support the growth of existing agency accounts while identifying opportunities to win new business.
- Respond to agency briefs by working with Creative Strategy and internal teams to develop engaging commercial proposals.
- Present Time Out's commercial offering confidently to agencies and clients.
- Maintain regular contact with agency partners to build strong, long-term relationships.
Commercial Development
- Sell Time Out's full suite of commercial solutions, including digital display, branded content, social, video, and live.
- Help identify new commercial opportunities across your agency patch.
- Create engaging sales presentations and proposals tailored to client objectives.
- Keep your sales pipeline up to date and support accurate forecasting.
- Stay informed on media trends, competitor activity, and agency priorities.
Campaign Delivery
- Work closely with Creative Strategy, Editorial, Project Management, and Campaign Delivery teams to ensure campaigns run smoothly.
- Help manage campaigns from briefing through to delivery, ensuring an excellent client experience.
- Support post-campaign reporting and identify opportunities for repeat business.
- Represent Time Out at client meetings, networking events, and industry events.
Skills & Experience
We're looking for someone who brings energy, enthusiasm, and a genuine passion for building relationships. You'll be naturally curious, eager to learn, and motivated by delivering great work for clients.
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- 2-3 years experience in media sales, advertising, agency partnerships, or a commercial media environment.
- Experience working with media agencies or advertisers, ideally within an independent agency environment.
- Strong communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
- Commercially minded with a genuine interest in media, advertising, and partnerships.
- Confident speaking with clients and building trusted relationships.
- Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple opportunities and deadlines.
- A proactive attitude with the confidence to identify opportunities and take ownership of your work.
- Naturally collaborative and enjoys working as part of a team.
- Strong PowerPoint/Google Slides and Excel skills.
About our culture
At Time Out Group, we believe in diversity and equal opportunity for all people. We do not discriminate against external or internal candidates on the basis of age; disability; gender, gender reassignment; race; religion or belief; sexual orientation; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity. We believe that diversity develops creativity and enables personal and professional growth where we all learn from each other. We believe in an open culture where ideas are shared candidly and where there is no fear of failure, but rather an understanding that we must experiment and have the freedom to succeed. We believe that everyone has the right to express themselves as they are as this enriches us all. We believe in an open world, social justice, and the pursuit of happiness, after all, we are in the happiness business.
About Time Out Group plc
Time Out Group is a leading global media and hospitality business that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city.
It all began in London in 1968 when Time Out helped people discover the exciting new urban cultures that had started up all over the capital. Since then, this iconic brand has consistently maintained its status as the go-to source of inspiration for both locals and visitors alike. Today, it is the only global brand – with a local voice – dedicated to city life.
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Through Time Out Media and Time Out Market – which are highly synergistic – the Company helps its large audience go out in the world's greatest cities with its curated content and experiences, and connects global brands as well as local talents with this valuable audience.
Time Out Media’s multiple digital and physical channels span websites, mobile, social media, videos, newsletters, and Live Events. Across these channels, Time Out distributes its high-quality content – created and curated by a global team of local experts – around the best food, drinks, culture, art, music, theatre, travel, and entertainment in over 350 cities and over 50 countries. The Company is monetising this global reach and its strong traffic from a desirable audience by offering bespoke 360-degree multichannel advertising solutions to international, national, and local brands and businesses. Since its launch in 1968, Time Out has become a global brand that advertisers and consumers love and trust.
Time Out Market is the world's first editorially curated food and cultural market, leveraging the Time Out brand to bring the best of the city together under one roof: its best chefs, drinks, and cultural experiences – based on the editorial curation Time Out has always been known for. The first Time Out Market opened in 2014 in Lisbon, quickly becoming one of the city's most popular destinations. The success of Lisbon brought further expansion and there are currently 13 open Markets: in addition to Lisbon, there are sites in New York (in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighbourhood and in Manhattan's Union Square), Boston, Montreal, Dubai, Cape Town, Porto, Barcelona, Bahrain, Osaka, Budapest, and Vancouver. More Time Out Market locations are in the pipeline as the global expansion continues.
Time Out is a dynamic, pioneering brand and so is our team. We want to work with the best and brightest talent because we work for the world’s greatest cities, the people enjoying them, and the businesses in them. As a truly global team, we get to collaborate with colleagues from New York to Paris, Cape Town, and Sydney and beyond. It’s our expertise, authenticity, and collaboration that make us successful and a unique team.
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