Senior Partner Manager

Position Summary

Why join our team?

With the proliferation of Connected Smart TVs, Samsung Ads has developed a new platform to bridge TV and digital together! For the first time, advertisers can use real-time viewing behaviour to reach consumers in new and innovative ways. Samsung’s Advertising Sales Team operates at the intersection of display advertising and connected televisions offering advertising solutions to help our advertisers reach their target audiences across our TV platform and beyond. Using our unique first-party data this is a new initiative at Samsung with the potential for substantial growth and opportunity.
We are looking for a person who likes early-stage opportunities and would like to join a rapidly growing team to help define the next chapter within an up-and-coming hyper-growth advertising business.
Samsung Ads (part of ESBO - European Service Business Organisation) is responsible for identifying, evaluating and determining new opportunities on top of the global footprint of European Samsung Smart TVs. The EU advertising team aims to bring value to partners, advertisers, and agencies by providing outstanding insights into content consumption in the changing media landscape.

Role and Responsibilities

Your key responsibilities

Responsible the development and management of strategic relationships with programmatic platforms and key stakeholders for Samsung in Europe. This role will focus on optimising advertising inventory on Connected TV and driving revenue growth by applying your expertise in the programmatic ecosystem. This position requires a strong understanding of ad tech, exceptional relationship-building skills, and the ability to align partnerships with broader business objectives to deliver impactful results while collaborate closely with the commercial leadership and ad operations.

Roles & Responsibilities

Revenue management (50%)

• Work with TV Plus commercial leadership to implement strategies to optimise programmatic advertising revenue and inventory management

• Collaborate with internal teams (ad ops, engineering, product) to ensure smooth implementation and ongoing optimisation of programmatic partnerships.

Relationship management (40%)

• Maintain strong relationships with partners, ensuring business objectives align and driving successful outcomes

• Coordinate inventory quality by working with SSPs to identify and eliminate fraudulent or low-quality traffic.

• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and competitive landscape to inform partnership strategies and identify new opportunities

Reporting and actionable insights (10%)

• Generate insightful reports and presentations to effectively communicate programmatic performance and partner value to internal collaborators.

• Monitor and analyse partnership performance, applying data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement

What we need for this role

To be successful, you will possess the following skills and attributes:

• Proven experience in the programmatic advertising ecosystem.

• Extensive experience with ad sales or partner management

• Experience with programmatic concepts such as DPO, Prebid, and header bidding.

• Experience collaborating with legal and data protection teams on contracts and compliance matters.

• Knowledge of video and Connected TV ad servers

• Programmatic advertising platforms (e.g., DSPs, DMPs)

• Additional European language is preferred

• Specific CTV experience will be preferable.

• Data analysis and reporting tools (e.g., Google Analytics, Excel)

• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy

• Adaptability to navigate through changing ad tech landscapes

• Ability to work well under pressure and in fast-paced environments

• Continuous learning approach to stay updated with industry trends and advancements

What does success look like?

Given that this role is based within the EU sales team, reporting into the Head of TV Plus Ad Sales, success will be based on ad revenue and demand optimisations.

Managing successfully the demand partnerships and optimising revenue while aligning with internal stakeholders.

We want candidates to be curious, strategic, tenacious, independently driven but work well within the team. Humility, Hard Work and Harmony are core principals to our team. Most importantly we want the person to have fun.

Skills and Qualifications

Benefits of working at Samsung include

• Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days at home per week

• Bonus scheme linked to individual, team and company performance

• Car allowance

• Pension contribution

• Three volunteering days each year

• Holiday - 25 days plus bank holidays and an additional day off for your birthday

• Access to discounts on a wide range of Samsung products

• Access to a discount shopping portal

A note on equal opportunities

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our Company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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