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Brand Partnerships Manager, Lakeside Shopping Centre, Essex

Salary £35,000 - £40,000

Mall Solutions are a leading Commercialisation management company, working for shopping centre owners and property managers throughout the UK and Europe. We are looking for an exceptional candidate to take on this exciting new role to deliver best in class commercialisation at Lakeside Shopping Centre, Essex.

Commercialisation is the term used to define all income streams that fall outside of standard in-line shop units in shopping malls such as Mall Retail Kiosks, Brand Promotions, Partnerships and Media along with other initiatives that enhance the customer experience whilst generating revenue for our client.

It is highly likely you have previously worked in a business development, sales or account management position and have a passion for prospecting and new business. The successful candidate should be able to develop a robust sales pipeline and bring out of the box thinking and innovative ideas to the table.

We would like to invite applications from candidates who possess:

• A minimum of 2 – 3 years business experience – essential
• Experience working with brands and agencies – favourable but not essential
• Experience in the shopping centre industry – favourable but not essential
• Can demonstrate experience in prospecting leads along with strong business development and negotiation skills – essential

As we offer a support and mentoring programme candidates from all sectors that have these essential skills are welcomed along with those with previous commercialisation and brand agency experience:

The key responsibilities of the role:

Brand, Partnerships & Media

• To implement the agreed brand partnerships, brand experience and events strategy
• To keep an active pipeline of brand and agency contacts for the purpose of sourcing best in class brand experience and partnership activity
• To develop a high level of understanding of the key national and local brand experience/partnerships market trends and their impact on revenue.
• Proactively manage relationships with third party brand agencies to upsell activity and drive revenue
• To work with the marketing team to enhance events through commercial activity
• Managing commercialisation performance to meet or exceed set financial targets.

Mall Retail Kiosks

• To implement the agreed mall retail strategy
• Identifying and sourcing new mall retailers and keeping an active pipeline of mall retail operators, both locally and nationally.
• To source and implement innovative, award winning mall retail
• Building and managing existing mall retailer relationships and conforming to the compliance requirements
• To manage the mall retail merchandising standards of kiosks on site
• Managing commercialisation performance to meet or exceed set targets
• To project manage the process for the delivery of mall retail installations to ensure that installs are fully compliant from a H&S perspective

The position will be based onsite at Lakeside Shopping Centre.

Please apply with CV.

Contact information

Jo Normansell