Director of Strategic Partnerships & Syndication

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Our offices are currently remote. Forbes aims to offer employees the flexibility they need to be successful. Upon our return to the office, the expectation is that this role can be based out of Jersey City, NJ. 

The Director of Strategic Partnerships & Syndication will serve as a key member of the Forbes Enterprise Growth team. In this role the director will be responsible for day to day management of our strategic partners within our Accolades business while also growing our paid content syndication business. The director will work on delivering on our partnership goals,  responsibilities and objectives as defined by our strategic alliance agreements.   The Director of Strategic Partnerships & Syndication will report directly to the Group Vice President of Strategic Partnerships & Licensing. 

The main responsibilities include customer relationship management, project and timeline management, reporting, hosting weekly meetings with partners, working with internal cross departmental functions including:  sales, marketing, events,  product, engineering and legal teams to deliver on the business partnership objectives.  The director will also be responsible for growing our content syndication business by developing content concepts,  determining feasibility all the way to writing proposals and managing direct sales outreach to existing and new partners.  The director will work closely with our VP of Content Licensing & Syndication at developing our go to market strategy.  

The ideal candidate is smart, energetic, friendly, and polished with strong verbal communications skills. An analytical mind is just as necessary as an outgoing personality. The role requires great customer service and ability to establish rapport, timely communication and collaboration.  This is a position for a motivated and passionate individual looking for a fast-paced, dynamic role that touches many parts of the media business. Ability to adjust to changes quickly and effortlessly is also vital.

What You'll Do:

• Work closely with and communicate directly with strategic partners to insure adherence to our contract terms and conditions.
• Lead weekly meetings with key partner stakeholders to insure strategic alliance activities are fulfilled.
• Cross departmental work to insure timely deliverables of partnership requests including: marketing, sales and event related activities.
• Solid understanding of all facets of the media business and all Forbes licensing products including logo, badge and quote usage rights, content syndication, reprints, awards and plaques and our fast-growing Profiles products.
• Work across the media organization to assist management in all enterprise level proposal development and volume deals.
• Serve as primary liaison between the partner teams and Growth team management
• Traffic necessary paperwork and proposal deliverables through internal channels in partnership with the Accolades Sales Coordinator.
• Serve as primary liaison between the client and Forbes for all syndication opportunities. 

The annual base salary range for this role is $145,000 - $165,000

Forbes has estimated the compensation range set forth above in good faith.  The compensation range is what we believe we will offer, and ultimately pay, a successful candidate.  In determining this range, we consider the experience, level of education (if applicable to the role), knowledge, skills, and abilities required to be had by a successful candidate as well as the budget and the company’s pay rates, generally. This said, we may have to make changes to our compensation estimates and job descriptions from time to time and we expressly reserve the right to do so.  Should we make any such changes, this advertisement will be revised to reflect such revisions.  We encourage you to occasionally re-visit this advertisement to ensure that you are abreast of any changes.  Thank you for your interest in joining Forbes!

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