Manager, Brand Partnerships

The role

The Manager, Brand Partnerships will lead a portfolio of major brand partnerships across sport, entertainment and culture in Australia and New Zealand. This role involves turning multi-year partnership investments into marketing platforms and leading integrated campaigns and physical activations.

What you will do

• Lead DoorDash's brand partnerships portfolio across sport, entertainment and culture.
• Turn partnership rights into marketing platforms through integrated campaigns and experiences.
• Maximise the value of partnerships by identifying opportunities to unlock incremental value.
• Lead major physical and experiential activations from strategy through live delivery.
• Build trusted relationships with partners as the senior day-to-day marketing lead.
• Create customer experiences using partnerships for DashPass members.
• Lead integrated partnership campaigns with internal teams and external agencies.
• Manage complex stakeholders, agencies, and production teams.
• Measure and communicate partnership impact using performance frameworks.
• Lead and develop one direct report.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in brand partnerships, sponsorship, experiential marketing or a related field.
• Strong track record working with high-profile sports, entertainment, cultural or major event properties.
• Understanding of sponsorship rights and rights optimisation.
• Experience leading large-scale, integrated partnership activations from strategy through execution and measurement.
• Ability to move between strategy and execution.
• Ability to manage multiple major partnerships, agencies, stakeholders, deadlines and live deliverables simultaneously.
• Ability to combine creative ambition with commercial judgement.
• Strong relationship builder and influencer.
• Understanding of how partnerships work across the full marketing ecosystem.
• Proactive and entrepreneurial.
• High standards for execution.
• Comfortable travelling and working outside standard business hours when required.

Nice to have

• Significant experience managing major consumer-facing partnerships

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and perks

About the company

DoorDash is a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery. The company is growing rapidly and aims to be a company people turn to for any and all goods.