Senior Manager, Brand Partnerships (m/f/x)

WHO WE ARE

Avolta is the world’s leading travel experience player. With a traveler-centric philosophy and a geographically diverse network, the travel retail and F&B company addresses the needs of up to 2.3 billion passengers each year, with 5,500 outlets in more than 75 countries across six continents. Guided by their Destination 2027 strategy and boosted by their recent combination with travel F&B giant Autogrill, the company is well positioned to realize their ambition to create a Travel Experience Revolution through their many locations at airports, motorways, cruise lines, seaports and railway stations amongst others.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

As Senior Manager, Brand Partnerships, you own Avolta's most important brand-advertiser relationships in your territory and shape how the world's leading brands invest in travel as a media channel. This is a strategic, senior individual-contributor role — you build durable, multi-year partnerships at the most senior levels of the brand and act as the commercial architect for your portfolio, carrying a significant revenue and partnership-value mandate.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Owns and grows Avolta's strategic relationships with priority brand advertisers, positioning travel media at the center of their marketing and commerce agenda
• Sets the account strategy and multi-year growth roadmap for your portfolio, and build the senior relationships — across marketing, media, and commerce leadership — that underpin it
• Co-creates multi-year joint business plans that turn one-off campaigns into always-on, strategic partnerships
• Shapes Avolta's proposition, packaging, and pricing by bringing category and market intelligence back from the front line
• Carrys and grows a revenue and partnership-value mandate for your portfolio
• Works with Advertising Solutions and delivery teams to convert strategy into outcomes that compound into renewal and growth
• Represents Avolta Advertising credibly at senior levels across the brand and travel-media ecosystem

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• 8+ years in media/advertising at a senior level, ideally including retail media, OOH/DOOH, digital media, or premium publishing
• A track record of owning strategic, multi-year advertiser relationships and a meaningful revenue number, direct-to-advertiser
• Established senior relationships with brand marketing, media, and commerce leadership in your market
• A strategic, consultative operating style — you build commercial architecture and JBPs, not one-off buys
• Executive-grade presence and the credibility to operate at senior client level

Nice to have

• Travel retail or travel media experience
• Category depth with major advertisers (beauty, luxury, spirits, tech, finance, travel)
• Experience shaping a proposition or business line in a scaling commercial environment