Looking for a new challenge in 2025? Are you ready to take charge of building lasting relationships, driving revenue growth, and being a trusted face of Karryon for new and existing value-driven partnerships?
This dynamic Karryon Partnership Manager role goes beyond the desk. It offers exciting opportunities to attend industry events and collaborate with over 200 of the world’s leading travel brands and businesses as partners.
Reporting to Karryon’s general manager, Dani Tuffield, you’ll also be working with Karryon’s existing trusted partnership team, a group of dedicated professionals driving success together.
What you’ll do:
- Drive sales: Manage and grow Karryon’s partnership portfolio by selling our expanding range of digital media products, event sponsorships, and creative services to new and existing partners.
- Foster relationships: Build, nurture, and sustain partnerships that deliver exceptional ROI for stakeholders and align with Karryon’s mission: Together in Travel.
- Attend events: Represent Karryon at industry events and conferences, building connections and growing brand awareness.
- Sales pipeline management: Utilise CRM tools (like HubSpot) to track prospects, manage relationships, and forecast sales performance.
- Performance reporting: Regularly analyse campaign performance metrics to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
- Innovate and deliver: Proactively identify new opportunities, pitch ideas, and craft tailored proposals that exceed client expectations.
- Strategise for success: Bring creativity, strategy, and insights to every partner brief, delivering campaigns that inspire and perform.
What you’ll bring:
- Sales and negotiation expertise: Demonstrated ability to negotiate deals and close partnerships effectively.
- Presentation skills: Comfortable creating and delivering compelling presentations to stakeholders at all levels.
- Market knowledge: Familiarity with the travel, tourism, media and publishing sectors will be highly regarded but not essential for the right person.
- Team collaboration: Ability to work cross-functionally with editorial, production, events and marketing teams to achieve shared goals.
- Solutions-driven mindset: A knack for exceeding partner expectations and solving challenges creatively.
- Organisational skills: The ability to juggle multiple campaigns and deadlines effectively.
- Passion for travel: A deep understanding of travel’s transformative impact.
What’s in it for you?
- Work with the best: Collaborate with over 200 trusted partners and the world’s leading travel brands and businesses.
- Hybrid flexibility: Enjoy the freedom of working from home two days a week.
- Prime office location: Our Sydney CBD (King Street) HQ puts you at the heart of the action.
- Work-life balance: Get an extra day off to celebrate your birthday and annual time to volunteer on give-back projects.
- Travel and connect: Attend industry events that get you out of the office and into the action.
- Great people, great culture: Be part of a supportive, inspiring team—we’re nice people and a great employer.
What we value:
- Inclusivity: A team player who thrives in a collaborative, diverse environment.
- Growth mindset: A willingness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced industry.
- Integrity: A commitment to delivering on promises and upholding our mission, Together in Travel.
Ready to lead, inspire, and deliver results as Karryon Partnership Manager? Apply now with your resume and a cover letter by emailing Karryon’s general manager, Dani Tuffield, at dani@karryon.com.au
Salary based on experience. Applicants must be Sydney-based to apply for this role. No recruiters, please.
About Karryon: Karryon.com.au is Australia’s most visited travel trade site in 2024, as verified by the global standard Similarweb. In 2024, we connected over 200 leading travel brands with an engaged audience of 1.7 million travel professionals globally, fostering collaboration and innovation in this ever-evolving sector. Founded 12 years ago on the mission of connecting people ‘Together in Travel’, Karryon champions the industry by delivering timely news, insights, and stories that matter most to travel advisors, brands, and businesses. As the leading digital media platform and community for travel professionals, Karryon is where the Australian travel industry stays informed, inspired, and connected.
