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We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start:\nOne of the UK’s most exciting unicorns with a team of over 800 people\n\nAmong thefastest-growing tech companies in the UK\n\nProfitable since 2017\n\nBacked by top investors including Balderton Capital andGoldman Sachs\n\nLoved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot)\n\nSo far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days.\nWe’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.\nJoin us if you want to\nTake ownership: you are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1\n\nWork in small teams of exceptional people: Lendies are relentlessly resourceful. We challenge the status quo to solve problems and find smarter solutions\n\nBuild the best technology in-house: we use new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting\n\nAbout the role\nZable is about to become the face of Lendable. We’re rebranding the company and product, significantly increasing our D2C marketing investment, and building out a marketing function under our newly appointed CMO. It’s one of the most exciting marketing builds in UK fintech right now, backed by real financial strength, a large customer base and a product people love.\nPartnerships and sponsorships will be central to how we grow, and we’re building the team to make that happen. As our Growth Partnerships Manager, you’ll shape the strategy and the budget, not just manage the day-to-day. Reporting to the Head of Growth Partnerships, you’ll define our commercial approach, decide where partnership spend goes, and take every deal from first conversation to live activation: agreeing terms, making sure campaigns land well, and keeping partners engaged. You’ll also make the case for each investment, with the data to back it, to senior leadership.\nThis is a senior seat for someone who enjoys both the creative and the analytical sides of partnerships. You’ll have real budget responsibility, model payback economics, and bring colleagues with you on the big calls. If you think about CPA, rev share and LTV:CAC as naturally as you think about relationships, you’ll feel at home here.\nWhat we're looking for:\nEssential:\n5+ years in partnerships, affiliate marketing, sponsorships, BD or growth roles for a consumer brand, including time spent shaping commercial strategy, not just executing it\n\nFluent in core acquisition performance metrics, CPA, Revenue share, LTV, ROI and blended CAC, and comfortable moving between them when structuring a deal\n\nWorking knowledge of channel economics: payback period, cohort behaviour, and how partnership spend compares against other acquisition channels\n\nDirect experience running affiliate and/or influencer partnership end to end, including commercial negotiation (not just relationship management)\n\nTrack record of running activations end-to-end and delivering measurable results\n\nStrong account / relationship management skills\n\nComfortable with the data, channel economics, attribution and ROI\n\nHighly organised and detail-oriented, you can run multiple activations in parallel\n\nStrong commercial communicator, you can hold your own with senior partners and senior internal stakeholders alike\n\nExperience setting and owning a partnerships budget or channel P&L, with the judgement to reprioritise spend as performance data comes in\n\nComfortable presenting strategy and performance to senior leadership, and defending investment decisions with data\n\nDemonstrable use of AI in your workflow\n\nDesirable:\nExperience in fintech or financial services\n\nExperience with sport, entertainment, media or large brand sponsorships\n\nExperience with an affiliate network or tracking platform (e.g. Impact, Awin, CJ, Partnerize) and reading platform-level reporting unassisted\n\nExperience with affiliate, influencer or embedded finance partnerships\n\nSome deal structuring experience\n\nExperience line-managing or mentoring a more junior partnerships or affiliate executive\n\nYou’re a good fit if you’re:\nA natural relationship-builder, partners trust you, and so does your team\n\nA strategic thinker as much as a doer, you can zoom out to set the plan, then zoom back in to execute it yourself\n\nCommercially literate first, relationship-led second, you measure success in growth, not vanity\n\nA strong project manager, you keep things moving and on-budget\n\nData-fluent , you build your own view on what’s working from raw performance data, not just a dashboard summary\n\nHands-on and resourceful, you make things happen\n\nCurious about AI and how it changes the partnerships discipline\n\nWhat you'll be doing\nLeadership & Strategy:\nSet the partnerships strategy and roadmap, and own the case for investment with senior leadership\n\nMentor and support a more junior partnerships or affiliate executive\n\nRepresent the partnerships function in senior leadership and budget reviews\n\nCommercial & Performance:\nNegotiate commercial terms with affiliates, influencers and sponsorship partners - CPA, Revenue share, hybrid and flat-fee structures - and know which model fit the partner\n\nOwn the partnerships budget and unit economics of every live partnership: track CAC by channel and partner against LTV, and flag anything trending the wrong way before it becomes a budget problem\n\nBuild and maintain the channel-economics view that lets the team compare partnership spend against other acquisition channels\n\nManage affiliate network/platform relationships (tracking, reconciliation, payout accuracy) and be the first port of call when number don’t match\n\nActivation:\nRun sponsorship and partnership activations end-to-end, brief, plan, ship, measure\n\nManage the day-to-day with partners: planning, comms, escalations\n\nCoordinate across creative, growth, lifecycle and legal\n\nPartner Management:\nOwn the partner relationship, be the trusted operator they call first\n\nManage budgets and timelines across activations\n\nSpot opportunities to expand existing partnerships based on their performance data\n\nPerformance & Optimisation:\nTrack partnership performance against targets, CPA, CAC, LTV, ROI, Rev Share payout\n\nBuild the playbooks and tooling that scale the function, including standard commercial terms by partner type\n\nUse AI to scale research, brief-writing and reporting\n\nCross-functional:\nPartner with creative on activation assets\n\nPartner with finance and legal on contracts and accruals and commission reconciliation\n\nReport on partnership performance to the Head of Growth Partnerships, with the numbers to back every recommendation\n\nLife at Lendable\nWinning team: the opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies\n\nFlexible working: flexible approach tailored to each role. Hybrid roles require three days in-office weekly; fully remote roles include regular opportunities for in-person connection through socials and off-sites\n\nSocials & connection: opportunities and events to come together, socialise, and get to know each other beyond the office walls\n\nHealth coverage: support for your physical and mental wellbeing, including private health cover\n\nRetirement & savings: long-term financial wellbeing through retirement savings plans\n\nEmployee referral programme: earn a competitive bonus when you refer successful new team members\n\nOffice meals & snacks: enjoy a fully stocked kitchen, plus complimentary lunches prepared by in-house chefs on in-office days at select locations\n\nSustainable commuting: cycle-to-work and electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes available in select locations\n\nPlease note: The availability and details of specific benefits vary by location and role. 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