ICONS
Creative Partnerships Manager
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Location: London, Hybrid
Employment: Full-time
Compensation: £45,000–£55,000 base + performance bonus
ICONS (www.interioricons.com) is a fast-growing ecommerce furniture company selling design-led products in the US.
We are hiring a Creative Partnerships Manager to build and manage collaborations with talented interior designers and other creatives.
This is a hands-on role combining business development, relationship management, project management and creative execution.
Your mission is to build a strong pipeline of creative collaborations by identifying great partners, winning them over, managing projects from first contact through testing, and helping turn their ideas into compelling visual concepts.
You do not need to be a furniture buyer or product-development specialist. We are looking for someone who is commercially confident, highly organised, creatively minded and comfortable using modern AI tools.
What you will do
- Identify relevant US interior designers, creatives and potential collaboration partners.
- Proactively approach and pitch potential partners.
- Build strong relationships and negotiate collaboration agreements.
- Manage multiple collaborations and external relationships simultaneously.
- Brief partners and keep concepts, feedback and approvals moving to deadline.
- Help turn sketches, references and ideas into compelling visual concepts using AI and other creative tools.
- Coordinate internal reviews and product testing.
- Communicate feedback and results clearly to partners.
- Coordinate the handover of successful concepts to the relevant internal teams.
- Track the collaboration pipeline and commercial performance.
- Continuously improve how we source, manage and scale creative partnerships.
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What we are looking for
- Strong sales, business development or partnerships skills.
- Excellent relationship-building and communication ability.
- Strong project-management and organisational skills.
- Comfortable proactively approaching and pitching people you do not already know.
- Creative eye and ability to improve visual presentation.
- Comfortable using or learning AI image-generation and other modern creative tools.
- Commercially minded and comfortable working with targets and performance data.
- Highly proactive and able to manage many moving projects.
- Comfortable working as a hands-on individual contributor.
- Experience in furniture or interiors is useful, but not required.
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How success will be measured
- Quality and volume of relevant partners engaged.
- Collaborations successfully agreed.
- Number of concepts progressing through the collaboration pipeline.
- Speed and reliability of project execution.
- Quality of concepts and visuals produced.
- Commercial performance of collaborations.
- Development of a repeatable and scalable partnership process.
Recruitment process
Shortlisted candidates will complete a short paid practical exercise based on the type of work they would do at ICONS.
We care more about commercial ability, execution, creativity and what you can actually do than about specific degrees or traditional job titles.
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