Job Description

Location: Mail Metro Media Headquarters - High Street Kensington, London
Position: 1 2-Month Fixed Term Contract

About Us
Mail Metro Media is the commercial advertising arm of DMG Media, the UK’s leading premium publisher. Across Daily Mail, Metro, The i Paper, and The Mail+, we reach 30+ million adults monthly.

We’re in the middle of a transformation and building differentiated ad products that no one else in UK publishing can offer:

• A premium ad experience
• Exclusive high-impact formats
• Immersive editorial content
• 400k+ subscribers
• Commerce insights

About the Role

We are looking for a Junior Partnership Strategist to join us at Mail Metro Media on a 12-month fixed term contract. You will play a key supporting role in delivering creative, integrated partnership ideas that drive commercial success for Mail Metro Media. You’ll work alongside the Partnerships Strategy team to help shape responses, build relationships with agency partners, and bring ideas to life across our portfolio of brands.

This is a collaborative, hands-on role perfect for someone with energy, curiosity and a desire to build a career in media partnerships.

Main Responsibilities

• Support the development of partnership responses that combine creativity, insight and innovation
• Contribute ideas during brainstorms and help shape cross-platform concepts
• Assist in building pitch decks, case studies and post-campaign analysis (PCAs)
• Help ensure every pitch is engaging, original and tailored to client needs
• Build strong working relationships with agency partnerships and planning teams
• Assist in identifying proactive and reactive opportunities early in the planning process
• Use Mail Metro Media’s audience insights to help demonstrate our value to partners
• Work closely with Insights, Campaign Delivery and Project Management to support the rollout of partnership campaigns
• Collaborate with Creative and Commercial Editorial teams to help maximise campaign impact
• Support KPI tracking and measurement to demonstrate campaign success
• Stay connected to creative, cultural and industry trends to understand what great branded content looks like
• Keep up to date with competitor activity, new formats, and product innovations
• Contribute to proactive partnership strategies that tap into seasonal, cultural and news moments
• Be a visible advocate for Mail Metro Media’s partnership offering, internally and externally

About You

• 1–2 years’ experience in media, partnerships or creative production (agency or media owner)
• A genuine passion for media, storytelling and creative thinking
• Strong organisation skills and the ability to manage multiple projects
• Excellent attention to detail and a proactive, can-do attitude
• Confidence communicating and collaborating across teams
• A good understanding of digital, social and print media
• Proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel and Word

Package Description

Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:

• 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
• Pension plan and life cover
• Discounts on online shopping, dining cards and vouchers, and access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Onsite gym, subsidised canteen and onsite nurse and GP clinics

Plus much more...

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.