Join as Partner Acquisition Manager at Lyst, building relationships with fashion partners. Manage pipelines and negotiate deals to enhance Lyst’s checkout-first marketplace strategy.
Responsibilities
New Partner Acquisition: You will build and nurture relationships with potential partners by understanding their business needs and presenting how Lyst can help them to reach more fashion shoppers.
Pipeline Management: Independently manage and prioritise a pipeline of prospective partners, and be responsible for proactively reaching out to them and guiding them through the benefits of joining Lyst. You will drive conversations from initial lead generation through to contract signing.
Strategic Thinking: Develop and refine strategies to secure agreements with leading fashion brands and retailers, demonstrating a proactive and solution-orientated mindset.
Understanding of Fashion Landscape: An understanding of and appreciation for the fashion industry, as well as the challenges and opportunities that both multi-brand and mono-brand partners are currently facing.
Performance & Collaboration: Collaborate with internal stakeholders on strategy and planning to align sales efforts with overall company goals, while analysing performance data to continuously improve results.
Requirements
Experience: As well as a proven background in business development and sales in a fast-paced, tech-driven environment, we are also looking for someone with:
Sales Tools Experience: Salesforce, Hubspot or similar email outreach tools as well as experience with Looker or Tableau.
E-Commerce Platform Experience: Shopify, Magento or other marketplace platforms – a knowledge of different e-commerce platforms from either an internal or external perspective is desirable.
Commercial Acumen: Strong negotiation skills with the ability to drive results and meet targets. A comprehensive knowledge of Excel as well as Keynote/presentation tooling is also required for reporting.
Communication: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to represent Lyst professionally to external partners and internal stakeholders.
Planning: Strong time management skills – you will be comfortable managing and prioritising multiple conversations at different stages and moving them forward in line with goals.
Adaptability: A proactive, solution-oriented mindset with the ability to manage a pipeline autonomously in a scale-up environment.
Benefits
Our Ways of Working: We all come into the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the option to work remotely or come into the office on the other days. We believe that in person collaboration and community spirit is super important, which is why we spend some of our time in the office and some of our time at home.
Time Off: In addition to the 8 statutory bank holidays, you will receive 29 holidays per year. Lyst’s holiday year runs from 1 April to 31 March.
Competitive Family Leave Package: This includes Enhanced Family Leave for those eligible, paid Time off for Dependents and Support for Fertility Treatment & Loss.
Clothing Benefit: We want you to enjoy using the Lyst app and site as much as our customers, so we provide you with a clothing allowance to use on Lyst every year. This starts at £250 when you join and increases up to £1,000 with your length of service.
Private Healthcare: Our healthcare provider is Vitality. Your health is important to us which is why we offer all employees a comprehensive healthcare scheme from the day you start.
Training Allowance: We’re big on continuous learning and growth, so all employees are currently entitled to an annual training allowance of £1,000. This can be used to attend conferences, industry events, training courses and to purchase resources.
Pension Scheme: Our pension provider is The People’s Pension. We offer a minimum employee contribution of 5% and 3% employer contribution.
Eye Tests and Vouchers: Employees can make a saving on their eye test and glasses through our chosen provider. You’ll receive a free eye test every year and a discount towards glasses.
Cycle-to-Work Scheme: Lyst will purchase a bicycle from your chosen retailer, you will then receive a voucher to pick up your bicycle from them.
Transport Season Ticket Loan: Employees can apply for an interest free season ticket loan to support your travel to work.
Social Events: Frequent company wide social events including Christmas & summer parties, sports days, themed drinks, quizzes, cook alongs, as well as smaller team socials. We also have plenty of interest based groups such as football, running club, book club, culinary and more.
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