DC Thomson
Commercial Partnerships Manager
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Job Title: Commercial Partnerships Manager
Department: Commercial Growth
Reporting to: Head of Commercial Growth
Locations: Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness, Scotland
Ways of Working: Hybrid (3 days in the office per week)
Travel: 20% (National and some International)
Contract Type: Permanent
DC Thomson are recruiting for a Commercial Partnerships Manager to join our Commercial Growth Team based in any one of our Dundee, Aberdeen, or Inverness offices. This is a newly created role due to the growth.
The Commercial Partnerships Manager exists to deliver sustainable, high-value commercial growth through long-term strategic partnerships across DC Thomson’s portfolio in an increasingly competitive, fragmented, and value-driven media market.
This is an opportunity to leverage your extended network to work across the whole DC Thomson brand portfolio from energy to golf to B2B and B2C.
Operating within a portfolio business model, the Commercial Partnerships Manager is primarily externally focused and accountable for converting audience insight, brand strength, and partner need into multi-year commercial outcomes.
The successful candidate will design integrated partnership solutions, steward senior agency and client relationships, and ensure that commercial activity is aligned to strategic priorities, audience behavior, and transformation goals in a tough external environment.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Delivering agreed annual and multi-year partnership revenue targets, with a demonstrable shift toward higher-value, longer-term deals
- Building and sustaining senior-level client (including C-Suite level) and agency relationships that position DC Thomson as a strategic partner, not a supplier
- Maintaining a robust, transparent, and accurately forecasted commercial pipeline, using CRM discipline to inform decision-making
- Designing integrated partnership propositions that leverage portfolio assets and respond to evolving market and audience needs
- Sharing insight, learning, and best practice to strengthen commercial capability across the business
Skills:
- Excellent networking, client management, and relationship management acumen
- Manages complex, high-value sales cycles and strategic accounts; influences senior stakeholders and negotiates commercial outcomes
- Builds and sustains trusted, outcome-focused relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders
- Applies commercial judgement to optimize value, manage risk, and deliver sustainable financial outcomes
- Identifies, qualifies, and develops new opportunities aligned to strategic objectives
- Uses data and insight to inform commercial decisions, proposition design, and performance tracking
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Experience:
Essential:
- Demonstrable ability to sell effectively across a varied portfolio
- Background within a portfolio or matrixed organization
- Previously designed integrated or non-standard commercial partnerships
- Demonstrable ability to succeed in a fast-moving, competitive market with shifting audience behavior
Desirable:
- Background in a B2B industry
- Established network within relevant industries
Behaviours that will help this role succeed:
- Being More Curious
- Actively seeks insight into partner needs, audience behavior, and market shifts to inform better commercial solutions
- Experiment with Purpose
- Tests new partnership models and revenue approaches in a disciplined way, learning quickly, and scaling what works
- Owning the Outcomes
- Takes clear accountability for commercial performance, quality of delivery, and relationship outcomes, not just activity
- Being More Collaborative
- Works openly across brands, functions, and portfolios to create integrated solutions and share best practice
To apply for this role, please follow our online application process and submit a CV and cover letter.
Closing date for applications: 19th August 2026 at 12noon
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