Ready for a new challenge in 2023? Keen to grow within a passionate and creative team? Read on to find out if working with Karryon sounds like your jam.
Now in its tenth year and widely recognised as Australia’s leading digital travel industry media brand and community, Karryon creates and delivers high-quality news and feature editorial, social and branded content, as well as multi-channel campaigns for our industry-leading travel partners.
We’ve got some hugely exciting plans for 2023 and beyond, and we are now on the hunt for a Sydney-based Partnership Development Manager to become an integral member of the team.
Your mission will be to drive the sustainable growth and success of Karryon’s partnership offerings, working with the team to evolve new and existing stakeholder opportunities while bringing fresh ideas and activity as you seek new partners and business leads.
We love new and creative ideas, so really, nothing is off the table. Ready to hit the ground running and take the first steps on a new path?
What’s in it for you?
- Belong as an integral team member of a small, independent, boutique publisher, free from big corporation attitudes with a set of authentic and real values to live by
- An opportunity to learn and excel within a dynamic culture and collaborative team with a responsible and global outlook
- Base yourself out of our King Street located lux headquarters in Sydney’s CBD with flexible home working options
- A chance to grow your skillset, thrive and shine in a business that’s going places
- An extra day off for your birthday
- Training opportunities and travel perks
- Team incentive and bonus
Here’s what you’ll need to apply:
- 2- 3 years minimum experience in a BDM/Partnerships/Sales role
- Digital travel/lifestyle media/publication background highly desirable with experience and understanding of the travel eco-system
- A successful track record of sales conversion
- Proficiency with CRM usage (Ideally HubSpot) and Google slides
- An authentic approach to selling and developing innovative campaigns/ experiences
- Strong communication skills and a passion and curiosity for working with people
- A demonstrated ability to strategically future-proof business in a previous role
Your responsibilities will include:
- Prospecting, maintaining and growing relationships with key partners
- Assisting across multiple areas of the business, primarily within partnership, event and sales opportunities
- Working closely with the partnership and events managers to develop strategic and creative solutions for partners’ campaigns and developing new outreach strategies
- Working cohesively with partnership, production and editorial teams to align partner expectations and liaise with partners on creative/campaign concepts
- Developing strategic and creative solutions to partner briefs
- Producing and delivering proposals, pitch documents and post-campaign reports for partners
- Managing and updating weekly sales statistics in Karryon’s CRM to report to the team
- Managing and producing invoicing, booking forms and signed proposals
- Providing market intelligence on market trends and industry trends
- Identifying opportunities to grow and develop Karryon
- Occasionally attending industry events and conferences as a Karryon ambassador
What will give you the edge?
- Proactively hustling to foster strong relationships internally and externally
- Excellent organisational and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to act autonomously
- Creative thinking and a high degree of emotional intelligence
- Strategic and analytical approach to business development
- Growth mindset and an appetite to learn
- A passion for the travel industry
More about Karryon
Our mission is to ‘Connect the world together in travel’. We live by the Karryon values and encourage these within Karryon’s partnerships and audiences.
Now in its tenth year, Karryon was founded upon the goals of putting a sense of belonging, community and purpose into the travel media space while achieving superior outcomes for our partners.
Those aims continue to be the driving force of the business each day.
Sound like you? Send your CV and cover letter to careers@karryon.com.au
Salary is negotiable, dependent on experience.
Applications close Friday 26, May 2023
