Brand Partnerships Manager

Description Togather are the team at the heart of great events. We’re a founder-led company of 40+ event specialists working across some of the largest and most exciting events in the UK. Our Marketplace supports both B2B and B2C customers to handpick standout suppliers across street food, drink and venues for private events, from large-scale summer and Christmas parties to regular office lunches for clients including Spotify, Netflix & BBC. Live partners with organisers of large-scale public events, using our 360 tech and industry expertise to curate and deliver exceptional food and drink experiences that also drive commercial results for our clients. From major festivals, stadium fanzones and cultural celebrations, we work hand in hand with client teams to deliver exceptional guest experience for the likes of GALA festival, Rock Oyster, Hill Dickinson Stadium and Pride in London. Internally, we’re proud to have been recognised by Tempo and the Startups 100 Awards as one of the UK’s best places to work. We care deeply about building an ambitious, supportive and high-performing team. We started life 10 years ago as Feast It, a two-person marketplace launched from a kitchen table - and today, over 10 million guests a year attend a Togather-powered event. Across every project, our mission remains the same: To make events better for everyone. The Role: Togather connects brands to the 30 million fans who come through our events every year, through food-and-drink-integrated experiences that feel native to the event, not sponsored. Think branded trader units, branded F&B destinations, listing deals, pop-ups, supper clubs, workplace engagement, and food creator and influencer partnerships. We're hiring a Brand Partnerships Manager to own this pipeline end to end: identifying and pitching brand opportunities, structuring and closing deals, and handing confirmed briefs over for delivery. This is a commercial role for someone who speaks ROI, builds relationships with brand marketing teams, and can position Togather as an end-to-end activation partner, not a media placement or a logo on a banner. Reporting into our Commercial Director, you'll sit within our Partnerships team, who are working to build our client base across the Live sector of events. What you'll own Build and manage a qualified pipeline of brand partnership opportunities across trader units, F&B destinations, pop-ups, supper clubs, workplace engagement, and food creator/influencer partnerships Proactively identify and approach target brands, particularly in drinks, hospitality, lifestyle and consumer categories, building direct relationships with brand marketing teams and agencies Translate a brand's objectives into a genuinely creative activation concept, not a sponsorship slot Build the commercial model for each partnership and negotiate terms that protect margin and the fan experience Hand off confirmed briefs cleanly to the delivery team, staying engaged through…