Content Partnerships Manager

Company Description

Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company - the home of Australia’s most trusted and loved brands spanning News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment. We pride ourselves on creating the best content, accessed by consumers when and how they want - across Publishing, Broadcasting and Digital.

Our Purpose: We shape culture by sparking conversations, challenging perspectives, and entertaining our communities.

We bring people together by celebrating the big occasions and connecting the everyday moments. Australia belongs here. We bring our purpose to life via three shared values: We walk the talk, turn over every stone and keep it human.

**Job Description**:
Based in the heart of North Sydney, at our brand-new purpose-built creative campus, we have an exciting opportunity for a **Content Partnerships Manager (Entertainment)** to join our Content Partnerships team.

The **Content Partnerships team** is part of a cross functional group within Nine’s commercial arm. Within this broader marketing services department, we have experts in content, client experience, strategy, creative, media production and marketing.

We support the broadcast, digital, print and audio national agency and direct sales teams and work closely with our network programming and production teams, external production partners and digital and audio publishing teams to drive the development, negotiation, and delivery of market leading partnership solutions for our clients.

This role is responsible for the development, negotiation and delivery of market leading brand solutions across Nine’s Entertainment formats, primarily **The Block **and is responsible for working with programming, production (internal and external) to support the sales team in market to drive commercial outcomes.

**Day to day you will**:

- Produce compelling go to market collateral and be responsible for the timely communication of opportunities to the commercial teams
- Develop, negotiate and articulate bespoke content integrated brand solutions to drive premium revenue
- Build strong relationships with key internal stakeholders from multiple departments in order to develop collaborative working relationships
- Collaborate with the commercial team to pitch commercial opportunities to brands and agencies as needed and manage the pipeline of commercial opportunities to deliver the best outcomes
- Be the lead on your designated portfolio; provide content integration specialist support and knowledge to the wider Nine team
- Effectively manage conflict resolution and compliance on campaign deliverables, working closely with both content & Client Experience team to deliver positive outcomes

**Being part of our Nine Sales team means you will benefit from**:

- ** Competitive Sales Incentive Scheme** that rewards and recognises performance & success
- Opportunity to build your skills by completing **Sales Academy** - our bespoke training and development program for Sales.
- ** Every day is flexible** - we believe in the future of work where our work is led by task and purpose.
- ** Complimentary subscriptions to all our platforms** including Sydney Morning Herald, AFR, The Age, Brisbane Times and WA today.
- Brand new offices in the heart of North Sydney - **within our building are our news and filming studios** where all the action happens - plus views of the Harbour
- ** Exclusive invitations to Nine Events** - whether you are a fan of Ninja Warrior or the NRL, it could be you sitting in the audience

**Qualifications**:
You will take complete ownership over your content portfolio and drive innovation and new ways of thinking. You will build and maintain amazing relationships with a diverse range of internal teams including sales, programming, and other support functions such as trade marketing, research and insights and external partners - production companies, clients and agencies.

**What we would like to see on your resume**:

- Mix of expertise in integrating brands into content, television, digital, social, radio, licensing and events
- A strategic thinker who can get things done and has excellent planning skills
- Previous experience negotiating with content creators, sales people, clients and agencies gained from working for media owners
- Improvement oriented and demonstrated high levels of ownership and responsibility
- Sales or production experience (not essential)

Additional Information
**Life at Nine**

Nine is a people business. Being part of the team means you’ll be in a culture that promotes creativity and innovation, diversity and inclusion, is open to feedback, rewards impact and ensures everyone is heard. Importantly, you'll receive the following:

- Career development and quality training
- Up to 16 weeks paid primary carer’s parental leave
- Discounts on lifestyle, entertainment, and leisure memberships, including health insurance, dental and gym
- Discounts on products and services with corporate partne