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Brand Partnerships Manager
The Tab Group is hiring a Brand Partnerships Manager to build our direct brand partnerships business from the ground up, with students and Gen Z at its centre.
This is a rare build-it-from-the-ground-up role: own the commercial proposition early, close the deals yourself, and grow your remit and team as the business grows.
The Tab Group is the youth and student arm of Digitalbox, alongside Reality Shrine and Film Shrine. We reach millions of young people across the UK and US through student culture, reality TV and film, and this role connects that audience with the brands trying to reach it.
We want someone entrepreneurial who's energised by building rather than inheriting. You'll take a differentiated proposition to market, shape the offer as you go, and prove the model. Get it right and the remit only grows.
What You'll Do
- Own the full sales cycle: prospecting, pitching, negotiating and closing direct brand and agency partnerships
- Build relationships with brands and media agencies across the student and youth space
- Shape the commercial proposition - pricing, packaging and how we sell - mainly for The Tab and its student audience (sometimes across Reality Shrine and Film Shrine)
- Sell integrated deals spanning branded written content, social video, campus activation and events
- Grow existing clients into larger annual partnerships
- Work with editorial and social teams to deliver campaigns that perform
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What We're Looking For
Essential
- 5+ years in media, partnerships or sponsorship sales, with a track record of closing direct deals
- Confidence pitching and closing senior brand and agency decision-makers
- An entrepreneurial, ambitious approach, comfortable building a pipeline rather than inheriting one
- Experience selling across at least one of social, campus or events
Bonus
- Direct experience in the student or Gen Z space, with existing brand or agency relationships there
- A network in student-facing categories: banks, telcos, tech, food delivery, fashion, graduate recruitment
- London-based


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Benefits
- Uncapped commission with accelerators - your rate rises once you pass target
- 9am-6pm Mon-Thurs (flexible start), and a 4.30pm finish on Fridays
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, and your birthday off
- Hybrid working, with at least one day a week in our Spitalfields office
- Pension, life assurance, and cash towards routine medical and dental
- 24/7 GP helpline and mental health support
- Company parties and retreats, and a MacBook Air
To Apply
Email your CV to grace@thetab.com with the job title in the subject line, plus a short note on a direct partnership or branded content deal you're proud of: what you sold, to whom, and the result.
Let us know your salary expectations and your notice period.
Applications close at 11.59 pm on Sunday 2 August.
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