Senior Project Manager, Strategic Digital Partnerships About ourrole
- Define AEMEA platform partnership strategy, priorities, and governance; align to brand missions and market needs.
- Lead senior partner engagement: negotiate joint plans, support models, innovation access, and success measures.
- Ensure scalable enablement across markets: capability programs, playbooks, and adoption tracking.
- Drive innovation portfolio: select high-value pilots, ensure disciplined evaluation, and scale what works.
- Stakeholder alignment across legal, procurement, data, and brand teams; remove blockers and accelerate delivery.
- Executive reporting: communicate outcomes, risks, and next-step investments with clear business rationale.
What you will need
- University level education
- Advanced experience in partner strategy, media leadership, commerce, or consulting preferred
- Minimum 10 years of experience in platform partnerships, digital media leadership, electronic commerce, or agency leadership
- 5+ years influencing regional stakeholders and shaping multi-market programmes
- Experience negotiating support, resources, and strategic value with senior partner teams
- Demonstrates strong strategic partner leadership, negotiation, and cross-company collaboration skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships across internal and external stakeholders, including close collaboration with regional/global headquarters and teams in Japan.
- Deep understanding of digital media and commerce ecosystems, with the ability to identify partnership opportunities, create clear value cases, and align partners and stakeholders to measurable business outcomes.
- Strong innovation mindset balanced with disciplined measurement, governance, and commercial thinking to ensure initiatives deliver sustainable business value and operational excellence.
- Excellent executive communication and influencing skills, with the confidence and professionalism to represent Kao effectively with senior internal and external stakeholders.
- Proven capability in governance design, programme management, prioritisation, and operating rhythm leadership, with the ability to drive alignment, decision-making, and execution in complex and fast-paced environments.
- Calm, resilient, and adaptable under pressure, with a structured and solutions-oriented approach to navigating ambiguity and competing priorities.
- Strong people leadership and coaching mindset, fostering collaboration, capability development, accountability, and continuous improvement across teams and partners.
Whatyou can expect from us
- An entrepreneurial environment where passionate and innovative teams come together.
- Respect, teamwork and collaboration are at the heart of how we work.
- A workplace culture that prioritises employee wellbeing, with opportunities to get involved in initiatives such as Mental Health First Aiders, our Charity Committee, and DE&I communities
- A broad range of benefits, including flexible working, competitive salaries, health and wellbeing offers, pension schemes, insurance options, and more
- Learning and development opportunities