Partnership Marketing Manager

TripAdvisor® is the world's largest travel site*, enabling travelers to unleash the potential of every trip. TripAdvisor offers advice from millions of travelers, with 500 million reviews and opinions covering 7 million accommodations, restaurants and attractions, and a wide variety of travel choices and planning features — checking more than 200 websites to help travelers find and book today's lowest hotel prices.

The successful candidate will have responsibility for building partner relationships, through content integration, distribution and syndication as well review collection and other partner integrations. You’ll provide reporting and identify opportunities for existing and new partnerships. This role requires a proactive, highly motivated, organized and responsible candidate who is able to work well in a team-oriented and entrepreneurial environment. You’ll work closely with sales, marketing, community, editorial and product at the center of our partnership relationships driving progress in a truly cross-functional way. The Partnership Marketing Manager will work to support and promote current partner products, as well as to identify areas of opportunity and potential product solutions to support B2B relationships, and other business objectives. We are looking for a candidate who will be able to lead a project, as well as dive in and do the legwork; someone who is comfortable liaising with and briefing other teams, as well as communicating with clients at all levels.

* Day-to-day point of contact for existing key partners * Advise and support our key partners in the implementation phase of our content syndication and review collection services including but not limited to page design / best practices, working with internal development teams to launch partners and address / support technical questions from external partners * Optimize live partners through monitoring of implementations and review collection campaigns, providing reporting, and identifying opportunities for improvement, working with other teams to resolve partner questions. * Managing the reporting process, to offer valuable insights to partners, as well as sharing internally. * Maintain documentation, best practices, contracts and support other business development initiatives * Liaise with Product and Engineering teams to help feed the product development process with new partner requirements * Identify new opportunities and solutions to build partnerships and further existing relationships

* Experience in account management and business development/marketing, as well as excellent communication skills * College degree * Experienced at building effective client relationships through positive communication, honesty and trust, across all levels of the account base * Basic understanding of technology such as APIs, data feeds, and HTML * Someone who enjoys problem solving and working with Product and Engineering teams technical solutions to ensure successful launch of partnerships to meet targets * Creative approach to projects, understanding of design and ability to create professional business presentations and proposals * Ability to acquire a deep understanding of a client’s business and goals and then analyze performance data in order to suggest structural and editorial improvements that will optimize performance * Ability to grow an account base and improve product integration/performance with customers * Aptitude for producing outstanding results both professionally and personally by effective management of business processes * Excellent written and oral communication, strong organization skills and attention to detail * Target driven and proven self-starter with ability to deliver on targets through own efforts without constant supervision * Some travel will be required * 2+ years account management experience * At least 8 years relevant experience