United Kingdom · Marketing · Principal/Manager (12-16 years)

Group Manager, Partnership Marketing

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Experience bandPrincipal/Manager (12-16 years)
Direct reports3-5 reports
Reports toDirector of Partnerships & Alliances
UK framework levelUsually a manager, or the deepest specialist in a team

Also advertised as Head of Partnership Marketing · Senior Partnership Lead · Partnership Marketing Director (Associate)

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1What this role really is

This isn't just about managing a team; it's about owning a significant chunk of our growth through strategic alliances. You'll be the one setting the direction for a key part of our partner marketing efforts, making sure your team hits their numbers and that our partners actually deliver value. You're building a programme, not just running campaigns.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Partner Relationship Management (PRM) - e.g., Impact, PartnerStackStrategic

Leads platform selection, defines data architecture for partner measurement, integrates PRM with the broader MarTech stack (CRM, BI), and sets up reporting frameworks for the team.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) - e.g., Salesforce, HubSpotStrategic

Defines the CRM strategy for the entire partner ecosystem, owns the data model for partner attribution, and influences forecasting models based on partner pipeline.

Analytics & Attribution - e.g., Google Analytics 4, RockerboxStrategic

Defines the company's overall marketing attribution model, ensuring partner contributions are accurately weighted. Presents channel performance and ROI analysis to the executive team, and guides the team on complex attribution challenges.

Project Management & Collaboration - e.g., Asana, Monday.comStrategic

Implements and standardises project management methodologies across the entire partnerships team. Uses platform data to report on team efficiency and campaign velocity, and ensures team adherence to best practices.

Content & Design Collaboration - e.g., Figma, Canva, HighspotAdvanced

Defines the co-branding guidelines and asset strategy for different partner tiers. Selects and implements content management and enablement platforms, and ensures brand consistency across all partner-facing materials.

Financial & Strategic Planning - e.g., Anaplan, Workday Adaptive PlanningExpert

Owns the partnership marketing budget within Anaplan. Models different investment scenarios, forecasts partner channel ROI, and presents the financial plan to finance leadership, making strategic budget recommendations.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choice	Coming in	Where you are now	The step above
Budget Allocation (within your segment)	No authority; provides data inputs for manager.	Proposes budget for individual campaigns; manager approval required.	Manages budget up to £50K for specific workstreams; consults Director on major shifts.
New Partner Programme Design	No involvement.	Contributes ideas for specific campaign elements within existing programmes.	Designs new features or processes for existing programmes; recommends new programme types to Lead.
Team Hiring & Performance Management	No authority; may participate in interview panels.	Provides feedback on junior candidates; no hiring authority.	Mentors junior team members; provides input on performance reviews.
External Partner Agreement Terms	No involvement.	Reviews standard terms for individual campaigns.	Negotiates minor commercial terms (e.g., MDF spend, co-marketing deliverables) within approved frameworks.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Total Partner-Sourced & Influenced ARR

The total Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) that originates directly from partner efforts or where partners played a significant role in the sales cycle.

Target · Exceed £5M ARR annually, with a clear growth trajectory quarter-on-quarter.

In Q2, your team delivered £1.8M in partner-sourced ARR and influenced another £3.2M, hitting a combined £5M for the quarter, contributing significantly to the annual target.

Partner Channel Contribution to Overall Company Revenue

The percentage of the company's total revenue that can be attributed to the partner ecosystem you oversee.

Target · Maintain or increase contribution to over 20% of total company revenue.

If the company's total revenue was £25M, your team's £5M contribution means the partner channel accounts for 20%, hitting your target.

Ecosystem Health Score Improvement

A composite score reflecting partner satisfaction, engagement levels, activation rates, and overall revenue generated per partner segment.

Target · Improve the overall Ecosystem Health Score by 15% year-on-year.

Our Q4 partner survey showed a 10% increase in 'likelihood to recommend' our partner programme, and activation rates for new partners improved from 60% to 75% over the year, contributing to the overall health score.

Team Performance & Retention

How well your direct reports are performing against their individual goals and how long they stay with the company.

Target · Achieve 85%+ of team members hitting their individual KPIs and maintain an annual team retention rate of 90% or higher.

Four out of five of your team members exceeded their quarterly MQL targets, and the one who missed it had a clear development plan in place. No one left the team this year.

Strategic Programme Development

The ability to identify market gaps, design new partner programmes (e.g., a new technology alliance tier), and successfully launch them, showing clear potential for future growth.

You'll be presenting new programme proposals to senior leadership, securing budget and resources, and demonstrating early wins or strong pipeline generation from these new initiatives. Your programmes should be well-documented and scalable.

Cross-Functional Influence & Alignment

How effectively you get other teams (Sales, Product, Legal) on board with your partner marketing initiatives and ensure everyone's pulling in the same direction.

You're regularly invited to strategic planning meetings outside of Marketing. Sales teams actively seek your input on partner engagement. Product teams are building features that support partner integrations. You're known for proactively resolving potential channel conflicts before they become major issues.

Team Coaching & Development

The observable growth and development of your direct reports, both in their day-to-day execution and their long-term career paths.

Your team members are taking on more complex projects, showing increased autonomy, and successfully mentoring junior colleagues. They're achieving their personal development goals, and you're actively advocating for their career progression within the organisation.

Operational Excellence & Scalability

The efficiency and scalability of your team's processes, ensuring that growth doesn't lead to chaos and that campaigns can be replicated and optimised.

You've implemented new tools or processes that have demonstrably reduced manual effort or improved campaign turnaround times. You've built clear playbooks for common partner marketing activities that your team consistently uses. Your programmes are designed to handle a larger volume of partners without breaking.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy

Building High-Performing Teams

You'll spend a good chunk of your day coaching your direct reports, helping them unstick problems, and celebrating their wins. You'll find genuine satisfaction in seeing them grow and take on bigger challenges.

One of your junior managers successfully launched their first major co-marketing programme, and you were there every step of the way, providing guidance and support.

Driving Tangible Business Growth

You'll be directly accountable for multi-million-pound revenue targets. The thrill of seeing your team's efforts translate into significant pipeline and closed deals is what gets you up in the morning.

Your quarterly review shows that partner-sourced revenue is up 25% year-on-year, a direct result of the programmes you've put in place.

Shaping Strategic Direction

You'll be defining the 'what' and 'how' for a major part of our partner ecosystem. This means presenting new programme ideas, getting buy-in from senior leaders, and seeing your vision come to life.

You successfully pitched and launched a new technology alliance programme that's now generating high-quality leads for a new product line.

What frustrates people

The constant battle to get other departments (especially Sales) to prioritise partner deals or follow agreed-upon rules of engagement, despite clear evidence of their value.
Watching a promising strategic partnership stall for months due to slow legal reviews or internal resource constraints, despite your best efforts to push it forward.
Having to repeatedly justify the long-term value of ecosystem building to leadership who are often focused on short-term quarterly numbers.
Managing a team through periods of high pressure or unexpected setbacks, and having to shield them from some of the internal politics that come with a high-impact role.
Dealing with underperforming partners who consume a lot of your team's time but deliver minimal results, and having to make the tough call to 'manage them out' of the programme.

What this role does not give you

A purely individual contributor role where you can focus solely on execution without managing people or budgets.
A predictable, unchanging daily routine; priorities will shift, and urgent requests will pop up.
A role where all your work makes it to market exactly as planned; some initiatives will be deprioritised or fail.
A quiet, heads-down environment; you'll be in meetings, coaching your team, and on calls with partners most of the day.

6Who you work with

You'll be directly accountable for a significant portion of our partner-influenced revenue, typically in the multi-million-pound range. Your decisions will shape how we recruit, onboard, and grow our partner base, directly influencing our market reach and competitive positioning. You're not just executing; you're building a capability that will define future growth.

Inside the business

Director of Partnerships & Alliances
Head of Sales
Product Marketing Leads
Finance Business Partners
Legal Counsel
Regional Marketing Leads

Outside the business

Strategic Partner C-suite and Marketing Directors
Industry Analysts and Consultants
Key Vendor Partners (e.g., PRM providers)
Industry Event Organisers

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

Proven track record of successfully managing a portfolio of significant partnerships and driving measurable revenue outcomes (typically 8+ years experience).
Demonstrable experience leading and developing a team of marketing professionals (at least 3-5 years in a leadership capacity).
Expertise in designing and implementing scalable partner marketing programmes, not just executing individual campaigns.
Strong financial acumen, including experience managing budgets of at least £250K and demonstrating ROI.
Exceptional ability to influence and align diverse internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership and C-suite executives.
Deep understanding of marketing attribution models and how to measure the complex impact of partnerships.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

AI-Driven Personalisation at Scale for Partner Programs

Generic partner enablement and marketing won't cut it. Partners, like customers, expect personalised experiences. AI will allow us to tailor resources, content, and even incentives to individual partner needs and performance, at scale.

Dynamic content delivery in partner portals based · AI-driven recommendations for partner training and · Personalised incentive structures based on partner · Using AI to identify 'next best action' for indivi · Automated, personalised communication flows for pa

This quarter: Research AI-powered CRM and PRM features for personalisation.
Next quarter: Work with your team to identify one area where personalisation could significantly improve partner engagement (e.g., onboarding).
Month 4-6: Pilot an AI-driven personalisation feature within your PRM or marketing automation platform.
Month 7-9: Document the impact and build a business case for broader adoption of AI-driven personalisation across the partner programme.

Quick win: Use AI tools (like ChatGPT) to draft personalised outreach emails for different partner segments, even if it's not fully automated yet. Focus on tailoring the 'what's in it for them' message.

Data Governance & Ethical AI in Partnerships

As we use more data and AI, the ethical and compliance implications grow. You'll need to ensure our partner data practices are robust, transparent, and compliant, building trust with partners and mitigating risks.

Data privacy in shared partner datasets (e.g., co- · Bias detection and mitigation in AI-driven partner · Transparency in AI usage with partners (e.g., how · Secure data exchange protocols with partners · Compliance with evolving data regulations (e.g., G

This quarter: Attend a workshop or webinar on ethical AI and data governance.
Next quarter: Review your team's current data sharing practices with partners, identifying potential compliance gaps.
Month 4-6: Work with Legal and IT to develop a clear data governance policy for partner data.
Month 7-9: Educate your team and key partners on best practices for data privacy and ethical AI in joint initiatives.

Quick win: Start by reviewing your existing partner agreements for data sharing clauses. Make sure you understand what data can and cannot be shared, and how it should be used.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up

Regularly attending industry conferences and webinars focused on partner ecosystems, channel sales, and strategic alliances (e.g., Channel Partners Conference & Expo, SaaS Connect).
Participating in leadership development programmes or executive coaching to refine your management and strategic influence skills.
Engaging with industry thought leaders on LinkedIn and other platforms, contributing to discussions around the future of partnerships.
Mentoring junior professionals within the marketing department or externally, which helps solidify your own leadership capabilities.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: Ecosystem Orchestration & Platform Thinking

Partnerships are moving beyond simple 1:1 relationships to complex, multi-partner ecosystems. Customers expect seamless experiences across multiple vendors. You'll need to think about how our product and partners integrate to create a unified solution for the end-user.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

The rising capability

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What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Ecosystem Orchestration & Platform Thinking

Partnerships are moving beyond simple 1:1 relationships to complex, multi-partner ecosystems. Customers expect seamless experiences across multiple vendors. You'll need to think about how our product and partners integrate to create a unified solution for the end-user.

API-first partnership strategies
Joint product roadmapping with tech partners
Building 'solutions' with multiple partners, not j
Measuring ecosystem-level value, not just individu
Orchestrating complex customer journeys across par

Advanced Predictive Analytics for Partner ROI

Simply reporting on past performance won't cut it. Leadership will expect you to predict future partner performance, identify high-potential alliances before they fully mature, and proactively address risks. AI and advanced analytics will be key to this.

Predictive modelling for partner lead generation a
Churn prediction for partner relationships
Identifying leading indicators of partner success
Using machine learning to optimise MDF allocation
Scenario planning for different partner investment

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

Partner Lifecycle Management (Strategic)
Co-Marketing & Demand Generation (at Scale)
Attribution Modelling & ROI Analysis (Executive Level)
Contract Negotiation & Management (Complex Deals)
Channel Conflict Resolution (Systemic)
Partner Tiering & Segmentation (Programme Design)

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

1
Senior Partnership Marketing Manager (L3)
3-5 years
Skills to master
- Deep expertise in managing a portfolio of key partners, consistently hitting pipeline goals, and demonstrating strong leadership potential through mentoring and project ownership.
You're ready to move on when
- Successfully launched and scaled multiple complex co-marketing programmes.
- Consistently exceeded partner-influenced pipeline targets by at least 15%.
- Actively mentored 2+ junior team members, seeing them grow in their roles.
- Proactively identified and resolved significant channel conflicts.
- Presented strategic recommendations to senior leadership with positive outcomes.
2
Lead / Principal Partner Strategist (L4)
2-4 years
Skills to master
- Proven ability to design and scale entire partner programmes (e.g., affiliate, technology alliance), define robust processes, and influence strategic decisions across departments.
You're ready to move on when
- Architected and successfully launched a new, impactful partner programme from scratch.
- Accountable for a significant revenue stream (e.g., £750K+ partner-influenced pipeline).
- Built and led a small team or project group, demonstrating strong leadership.
- Developed and implemented new systems or processes that significantly improved efficiency.
- Influenced strategic decisions with VPs and peer leads through data-driven insights.
3
Marketing Manager (with strong partnership focus)
4-6 years
Skills to master
- Broad marketing expertise combined with significant experience in managing external relationships, driving demand generation through third parties, and a clear understanding of channel dynamics.
You're ready to move on when
- Managed complex marketing campaigns involving external partners or agencies.
- Demonstrated strong commercial acumen and budget management skills.
- Successfully influenced cross-functional teams (e.g., Sales, Product) to achieve marketing goals.
- Developed a deep understanding of marketing attribution and ROI analysis.
- Proven ability to lead projects and potentially informal teams.

11Where this role leads

The long view:This Group Manager role is a pivotal step in a rewarding career. It's where you transition from managing programmes to truly shaping a significant part of the business, building a high-performing team, and making a tangible impact on our company's future. We're excited to see what you'll build.

Pay & demand

Pay and demand for this role will appear here, each figure traced to a named authoritative source (e.g. the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, under the Open Government Licence). We don’t show numbers we can’t attribute.

The ten Future Fluencies

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The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Group Manager, Partnership Marketing is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

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13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

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Applied to your work in Group Manager, Partnership Marketing

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How the thinking builds

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Create

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No two people run this the same way

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Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
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Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

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Evidenced on your work in Group Manager, Partnership Marketing

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

Total Partner-Sourced & Influenced ARRThe total Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) that originates directly from partner efforts or where partners played a significant role in the sales cycle.In Q2, your team delivered £1.8M in partner-sourced ARR and influenced another £3.2M, hitting a combined £5M for the quarter, contributing significantly to the annual target.Exceed £5M ARR annually, with a clear growth trajectory quarter-on-quarter.
Partner Channel Contribution to Overall Company RevenueThe percentage of the company's total revenue that can be attributed to the partner ecosystem you oversee.If the company's total revenue was £25M, your team's £5M contribution means the partner channel accounts for 20%, hitting your target.Maintain or increase contribution to over 20% of total company revenue.
Ecosystem Health Score ImprovementA composite score reflecting partner satisfaction, engagement levels, activation rates, and overall revenue generated per partner segment.Our Q4 partner survey showed a 10% increase in 'likelihood to recommend' our partner programme, and activation rates for new partners improved from 60% to 75% over the year, contributing to the overall health score.Improve the overall Ecosystem Health Score by 15% year-on-year.
Team Performance & RetentionHow well your direct reports are performing against their individual goals and how long they stay with the company.Four out of five of your team members exceeded their quarterly MQL targets, and the one who missed it had a clear development plan in place. No one left the team this year.Achieve 85%+ of team members hitting their individual KPIs and maintain an annual team retention rate of 90% or higher.

These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Group Manager, Partnership Marketing to Director of Partnerships & Alliances (L6), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 5 · in progressAI Fluency→ Director of Partnerships & Alliances (L6)→ your design

Where this takes you

This Group Manager role is a pivotal step in a rewarding career. It's where you transition from managing programmes to truly shaping a significant part of the business, building a high-performing team, and making a tangible impact on our company's future. We're excited to see what you'll build.

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Group Manager, Partnership Marketing

Partner Lifecycle Management (Strategic)
Co-Marketing & Demand Generation (at Scale)
Attribution Modelling & ROI Analysis (Executive Level)
Contract Negotiation & Management (Complex Deals)
Channel Conflict Resolution (Systemic)
Partner Tiering & Segmentation (Programme Design)

This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Group Manager, Partnership Marketing is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

Director of Partnerships & Alliances (L6)
3-5 years
One level up, from Group Manager to Director
- Defining the company-wide strategy for all partnership types (channel, tech, strategic).
- Accountability for total channel revenue and ecosystem health across the entire organisation.
- Building and leading a larger organisation (25-100+ people, including managers).
- Shaping the go-to-market strategy for new products or markets through partnerships.
- Driving multi-year transformation initiatives for the partner ecosystem.

Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be honest, managing a team and strategic programmes means you're always juggling. What if you could free up significant time for high-level thinking and team development? AI isn't here to replace you; it's here to supercharge your team and give you back valuable hours.

As a Group Manager, your focus should be on vision, leadership, and impactful decisions. AI tools can take a lot of the heavy lifting off your team's plate, from identifying the next big partner to drafting complex co-marketing content, allowing everyone to focus on what truly moves the needle.

Strategic Partner Discovery

Use AI to scan vast datasets (industry reports, competitor analysis, social listening) to identify emerging partner categories or specific companies that fit your long-term strategic vision. It can even help model potential ROI for new alliance types.

Programme Performance Insights

An AI assistant can monitor your entire partner ecosystem's data, not just individual campaigns. It flags overarching trends, identifies underperforming segments, and suggests strategic interventions, giving you a birds-eye view for critical decisions.

Executive Summary Generation

Feed AI your team's campaign reports, performance data, and partner updates. It can then draft concise, impactful executive summaries for your Director or the C-suite, highlighting key wins, challenges, and strategic recommendations, saving you hours of report writing.

Team Coaching & Resource Allocation

AI tools can analyse your team's workload, identify potential bottlenecks, and even suggest optimal resource allocation for upcoming projects. It can also provide data-driven insights into individual team member's strengths and areas for development, informing your coaching strategy.

Common questions

How do you become a Group Manager, Partnership Marketing?

Common routes in include Senior Partnership Marketing Manager (L3) (3-5 years), Lead / Principal Partner Strategist (L4) (2-4 years) and Marketing Manager (with strong partnership focus) (4-6 years). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Group Manager, Partnership Marketing progress to?

This role can lead on to Director of Partnerships & Alliances (L6) (3-5 years), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Group Manager, Partnership Marketing in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 5 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Group Manager, Partnership Marketing?

Increasingly, Ecosystem Orchestration & Platform Thinking and Advanced Predictive Analytics for Partner ROI. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

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There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

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What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

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Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 17 national skill standards. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Group Manager, Partnership Marketing: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 5

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Marketing

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you'll gain in this role, particularly around strategic relationship management, revenue generation through channels, and P&L ownership, are highly transferable. You could move into broader business development roles, general management, or even executive positions in other B2B SaaS companies, consultancies, or private equity firms focused on growth.

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Group Manager, Partnership Marketing

What's rising in its place

Ecosystem Orchestration & Platform Thinking

Advanced Predictive Analytics for Partner ROI

Skills this role draws on

Technical

How you actually get there, here

Senior Partnership Marketing Manager (L3)

Lead / Principal Partner Strategist (L4)

Marketing Manager (with strong partnership focus)

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

Roles this leads to

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

A conversation, not a course

No two people run this the same way

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

This Group Manager role is a pivotal step in a rewarding career. It's where you transition from managing programmes to truly shaping a significant part of the business, building a high-performing team, and making a tangible impact on our company's future. We're excited to see what you'll build.

Everything else the record holds

The career path, and where it branches

Director of Partnerships & Alliances (L6)

Where AI is starting to help

Strategic Partner Discovery

Programme Performance Insights

Executive Summary Generation

Team Coaching & Resource Allocation

Common questions

You’ve started things before

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.