Partnership Manager (Global Entertainment Services Team)

1 Day ago • 5 Years + • Business Development • Finance

Job Summary

Job Description

The Partnership Manager will be a key member of the PlayStation Global Entertainment Services team, driving business development for media partnerships on the PlayStation platform. Responsibilities include app and partner strategy, deal negotiations, account management, financial forecasting, marketing coordination, reporting, and internal collaboration with various Sony teams across EMEA. The role involves managing existing partnerships with companies like Sky, Canal+, BBC, and MBC, as well as supporting global sports partners. The ideal candidate will possess strong relationship management, negotiation, analytical, and communication skills, and a deep understanding of the digital entertainment landscape.
Must have:
  • 5+ years experience
  • Superior relationship skills
  • Media & tech industry experience
  • Strong analytical & communication skills
  • Deal negotiation & management
  • Financial modeling & forecasting
Good to have:
  • OTT app experience
  • Foreign language skills
  • International experience
Perks:
  • Discretionary bonus
  • Hybrid working model
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Dental Scheme
  • 25 days holiday
  • On-site gym
  • Subsidized café
  • Free soft drinks
  • On-site bar
  • Access to cycle garage and showers

Job Details

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

Role Overview:

In this role you will be a key member of the PlayStation Global Entertainment Services team and drive key BD functions for media partnerships for the PlayStation platform. 

Those functions include app and partner strategy/portfolio planning, deal negotiations, account management and tracking on platform, financial forecasting, marketing coordination, and reporting.

Additionally, you will be an internal champion for key partner projects, develop strategic frameworks, provide in-depth analysis, value exchange planning, drive consumer experience benefits, define partner selection criteria, and ensure successful integrations and launches. The role will also be focused on EMEA-based relationships with internal Sony teams: Global Marketing, Global Store & Services, Legal, Finance, Product Planning, Global Business Operations, R&D and Engineering, as well as streamlining related processes.

The role will partner with territories based throughout the world and report to the Senior Director of Global Entertainment Services.   

The Manager will oversee existing and new third-party partnerships from Sky, Canal+, BBC, MBC, and others.  You will also support global sports partners (eg. DAZN, MLB, NBA, and others) on initiatives. 

What you'll be doing

  • Organisational
    • Act as extension of GES, in London, representing GES’s mission and objectives, delivering on business KPIs and ensuring that global policy and strategy are being followed at the local level.
    • Summarize existing business and partners activities, key issues (Europe), propose resolutions and provide recommendations to sr. management and peers.
    • Work closely and collaboratively with internal product planning, engineering, legal, finance, marketing and research, to coordinate and execute programs/opportunities.
  • Deal Negotiations
    • Management of negotiations and approval process for local media services and platform partners where PlayStation is present throughout Europe.
    • Support the sourcing and closing of deals, negotiate terms, finalize requisite legal agreements.
    • Work on robust financial models for deal analysis to determine structure, support proposals, and influence negotiations for launching new services.
  • Account Management
    • Participate in all components of partners relationships, app development, financial tracking, escalations, partner placements (marketing / promotions / advertising).
    • Identify and select new partners, define joint goals, manage ongoing strategic relationships.
    • Evaluate potential business partners to accelerate the expansion of media and platform partnerships as well as enhance overall consumer value propositions.
    • Schedule and drive quarterly reviews with partners for engagement, platform health, product roadmap, competitive analysis, revenue targets and marketing engagements.
  • Finance
    • Assist with revenue forecast and budget processes.
  • Reporting
    • Work with GES Leadership to generate partner reporting and analytics and platform insights.
    • Develop and report on KPI’s relative to Global Entertainment Services activities.
  • Strategy
    • Identify and research emerging market trends, develop strategic frameworks and create supporting analyses to prioritize company resources utilizing various research sources and forecast methodologies.
    • Identify and develop partner roadmap and opportunities from concept/ideation into robust business cases to deliver industry leading content for PlayStation gamers. 

What we're looking for:

  • 5+ years of experience overall.
  • Superior relationship skills; including the ability to work with multiple cultures.
  • Experience across both media and technology industries preferred (OTT app experience a plus).
  • Knowledge of digital entertainment, including distribution models, platforms and types of content.
  • Excellent quantitative and analytical skills.
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to author and deliver presentations.
  • Ability to work with abstract ideas and situations across functional areas of business.
  • Detect and understand future consumer and market trends.
  • Translate trends into compelling partner and product strategies.
  • Strong computer skills, including expertise in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Foreign language or international experience is a plus.

Benefits: 

  • Discretionary bonus opportunity
  • Hybrid working model (FlexModes)
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Dental Scheme
  • 25 days holiday per year
  • On Site Gym
  • Subsidised Café
  • Free soft drinks
  • On site bar
  • Access to cycle garage and showers

Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about how we process your personal information, and your data protection rights.

 

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond. 

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.

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Sony Interactive Entertainment pushes the boundaries of entertainment and innovation, starting from the launch of the original PlayStation in Japan in 1994. Today, we continue to deliver innovative and thrilling experiences to a global audience through our PlayStation line of products and services that include generation-defining hardware, pioneering network services, and award-winning games. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, with global functions in California, London, and Tokyo, and game development studios around the world as part of PlayStation Studios, we believe that the power of play is borderless. Sony Interactive Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.  


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