Overview
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At Audible, we believe stories have the power to transform lives. It's why we work with some of the world's leading creators to produce and share audio storytelling with our millions of global listeners. We are dreamers and inventors who come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to empower and inspire each other. Imagine your future with us.
About This Role
We are seeking an experienced strategic partnerships professional, tasked with cultivating and nurturing content relationships across the audio entertainment landscape. This role will orchestrate high-level collaborations with world-class audio entertainment partners and platforms, emerging and acclaimed creators, esteemed awards associations, and internal strategic initiatives.
In this position, the Director of Global Strategic Partnerships will manage various internal and external content partnerships across marketplaces while supporting strategic content goals. This role will be responsible for improving the health of current strategic partnerships and for driving the growth and success of potential, future relationships. This person will help impact long-term goals and important team objectives across the Content organization.
This position reports to Audible's Head of Global Strategic Partnerships and will be located in Audible'sLondon office.
About You
You're passionate, collaborative, and highly organized with a history of managing and executing strategic partnerships and initiatives across entertainment, content, or brand industries. Your work is both strategic and tactical, and you thrive in managing ambiguous initatives, programs, projects and situations where the problem or strategy may not yet be defined.
You use your expertise and judgment to determine the right goals, inform decisions, and manage partner expectations. You model best practices of partner management and drive high-quality process improvements and operational excellence. You deliver independently, clear blockers effectively with the right resources, and escalate when appropriate.
You're motivated by working strategically across multiple departments to problem-solve complex situations. You communicate with empathy, clarity and conciseness in both verbal and written formats.
Role Responsibilities
* Lead strategic partnership programs by cultivating relationships with key industry partners, using your expertise and judgment to involve the appropriate internal stakeholders, determine the right goals, and ensure alignment with Content objectives
* Serve as a key liason between external partners and Audible, translating partner requirements into actionable strategies that resonate across diverse markets and internal stakeholders
* Model best practices and drive operational excellence by implementing and optimizing partnership frameworks and processes. You will drive high-quality process improvements and the use of operational excellence best practices, ensuring consistent excellence in execution and scalability across Audible globally
* Orchestrate the development and nurturing of robust, long-term alliances with premiere partners worldwide, leveraging these relationships to secure brand affinity and exclusive audio experiences that drive global market expansion
* Influence and collaborate cross-functionally with global teams including Legal, Operations, Marketing, PR, Studios, Content Services, Editorial, Merchandising, Programming, Product, Finance, and Business Intelligence to deliver comprehensive solutions
* Drive strategic content initiatives that anticipate and adapt to evolving market trends, positioning Audible at the forefront of the global audio entertainment landscape
* Use partnership insights to participate in strategic planning that advances long-term content objectives
About Audible
Audible is the leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. We spark listeners' imaginations, offering immersive, cinematic experiences full of inspiration and insight to enrich our customers daily lives. We are a global company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are dreamers and inventors who are passionate about the positive impact Audible can make for our customers and our neighbors. This spirit courses throughout Audible, supporting a culture of creativity and inclusion built on our People Principles and our mission to build more equitable communities in the cities we call home.
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