Digital Sales Partnerships Manager

Freedom Fibre Limited.; Keele; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic Internet Service Provider is seeking a Digital Sales Partnerships Manager to develop and manage affiliate partnerships. This role focuses on acquiring high-value partners and negotiating advantageous terms to achieve aggressive sales goals. The ideal candidate will possess strong industry knowledge, excellent negotiation skills, and the ability to build relationships with senior stakeholders. This is a hands-on role designed for a results-oriented professional ready to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in digital partnerships or affiliate management.
• Strong existing industry network with decision-makers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Source and evaluate new affiliate and digital comparison partners.
• Negotiate and secure trading agreements with favourable terms.
• Ensure high rankings and visibility across partner platforms.

Skills

Commercial negotiation

Performance analysis

Relationship-building

Project management

Analytical skills

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

CRM systems (HubSpot)

Job description

Temp role until 30th June 2026

Main purpose of job:

LilaConnect is a rapidly growing Internet Service Provider seeking to establish Digital Comparison Sites and affiliate partnerships as a core new route to market. The Digital Sales Partnerships Manager will be responsible for building this channel from the ground up; identifying, recruiting, and managing high-value partners who can drive significant broadband sales volume for the business.

This role requires a commercially minded partnerships specialist who can secure advantageous trading terms, ensure LilaConnect consistently ranks highly across partner platforms, with the ability to oversee the operational and technical processes that delivers high levels of customer acquisition. Success in this role will directly influence LilaConnect’s ability to achieve ambitious 2026 sales targets, with the DCS/affiliate channel which is expected to become a major contributor to overall net adds.

The position demands an individual with strong industry knowledge, a well-developed network, proven negotiation capability, and the presence and credibility to work with senior decision-makers across partner organisations. It is a hands-on, results-driven role designed for someone who can both shape strategy and execute at pace.

Key Result Areas:

Partner Acquisition & Channel Development

· - Source and evaluate new affiliate and digital comparison partners aligned with LilaConnect’s strategic and commercial objectives.

· - Establish the Digital Comparison Site route-to-market as a major sales channel for LilaConnect.

-Lead onboarding of partner organisations, ensuring smooth operational and technical set-up.

Commercial Negotiation & Contract Management

· -Negotiate and secure trading agreements, including favourable commercial terms, SLAs, and performance expectations.

· -Ensure agreements maximise return on investment and contribute to aggressive sales targets.

Channel Performance Management

· - Ensure LilaConnect achieves high rankings and visibility across partner platforms daily.

· - Manage propositions, pricing, offers, and messaging in conjunction with Marketing and Sales teams.

· - Oversee the end-to-end sales commissions process internally and with partners.

• Deliver regular performance reporting, insight generation, and forecasting.

Operational & Technical Process Oversight

· - Work with internal teams (Marketing, BI, Sales Operations, IT & Finance), to deliver technical and administrative processes that are fully aligned.

• Resolve operational blockers swiftly to maintain partner confidence and channel performance.

Internal & External Stakeholder Management

· - Build and maintain strong relationships with partner account managers and commercial teams.

· - Act as the primary internal escalation point for partner-related issues.

-Collaborate with internal departments to ensure proposition and operational alignment.

Continuous Improvement & Market Insight

·- Monitor competitor activity across affiliate and comparison site channels.

·- Identify opportunities to optimise conversion, ranking, visibility, and operational efficiency.

-Recommend channel improvements based on insight, analytics, and partner feedback.

Person Specification

Essential

·Degree or equivalent experience

·Proven experience in digital partnerships, affiliate management, or comparison site channels.

·Strong commercial negotiation experience.

·Experience managing performance-driven digital sales channels.

Strong existing industry network.

·Excellent commercial judgement and negotiation skills.

·Strong analytical skills with ability to interpret performance data.

·Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

·Strong relationship-building and partner management ability.

·Strong organisational and project-management skills.

Ability to manage technical onboarding and operational processes.

·Gravitas and credibility when dealing with senior stakeholders.

·Proactive and results driven.

·Resilient, adaptable, and able to operate in a fast-paced growth environment.

Comfortable working independently and taking ownership of a strategic channel.

Desirable

·Industry-specific accreditations (commercial, partnerships, digital marketing)

·Telecoms or utilities industry experience.

Experience scaling a new sales channel from inception.

Experience in GTM strategy within a digital environment.

Understanding of CRM systems (HubSpot)

Experience with partner integration technologies or tracking platforms.

Freedom Fibre recognise the service provided by recruitment agencies and as such have a Preferred 2nd tier Supplier List, with whom terms of business have been agreed. Only suppliers who have signed up to these terms can place candidates with Freedom Fibre and will receive instruction directly from us to do so. Freedom Fibre is therefore unable to consider speculative CV's or proposals from any other third party and any speculative CV's or proposals being sent into the organisation will be treated as gifts.

As such, Freedom Fibre reserves the right to directly contact any candidates who have been speculatively submitted by a third party and shall therefore not be liable for any fees whatsoever should it choose to engage the candidate’s services. Furthermore, speculative submission of candidate CV's does not establish a right of representation should the same candidate’s details also be submitted by a Freedom Fibre Preferred 2nd tier Supplier or independently by the candidate themselves.

Submission of any unsolicited CV's and proposals to Freedom Fibre will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of these terms and agreement that these terms are the totality of any commercial or contractual relationship whatsoever in respect of the candidate(s) whose unsolicited CV's were sent.