Partner Growth Executive (12 Month FTC, Maternity Leave Cover)

Lyst is a global Fashion Tech company and premium shopping app, founded in London in 2010 and catering to over 200M shoppers per year. We offer our customers the largest assortment of premium & luxury fashion items & products in one place, via an assortment of 8.5M+ items from over 17,000 of the world’s leading brands. We are a scale-up business with a current team size of c. 160 people in London, combining an agile mentality with a proven business model and over a decade of experience. This provides a balance between foundations and structure, and autonomy and pace.

At Lyst we obsess over the customer, providing a search & discovery experience which taps into our customers’ emotional engagement with the fashion category. Fashion is a design-led sector, and increasingly this manifests across the whole digital estate, where brand, technology and content combine to elevate the shopping experience. Our mission is to help fashion shoppers make better decisions and help fashion partners find better audiences as the category-leading destination for every fashion shopper. Lyst has raised over $160m from leading investors including Accel, Balderton, Molten Ventures, Fidelity International, and LVMH.

We are looking for a Partner Growth Specialist (mat cover + 2 months) to join the Partner Growth Squad, whose mission is to create solutions for our retail partners to better support their business needs and drive more sales.

This position is responsible for managing strategic, top-producing partner relationships to drive revenue growth, identify and implement key optimisations, and ensure overall partner performance. You will be the go-to person for your partners and help to assist in troubleshooting any issues, provide sales and data insights into performance, and be the internal advocate for their requests.

You will also be responsible for managing your own media sales pipeline and work closely with other internal stakeholders in our London office, across Partner Marketing, Brand and Design.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3-4 years of partnerships or media sales experience in a fast-growing company, ideally at an affiliate marketing network, agency or managing affiliate marketing for a retailer
• Experience managing complex strategic and time sensitive projects, while ensuring cohesion between any internal and external stakeholders
• Proven track record in building client/business relations - ideally at a luxury brand, fashion publisher or creative agency - as you will be managing a set of high value, complex partnerships
• Media sales, email and brand partnerships experience, preferably with fashion or luxury background 
• Exceptional negotiation, sales and communication skills - including presentation experience - as you and your team will be selling new products to our top partners and must be comfortable negotiating with senior level partners
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize to perform well in a highly dynamic, rapidly changing environment and lead others in doing so
• Commercial strategic thinking and strong analytical skills to help you develop and execute internal projects as well as develop regular reporting on sales trends and performance insights
• A target motivated professional as you must be able to deliver against short term immediate and long term strategic goals whilst motivating your team to do so, too.
• Self-starters who thrive while working on their own as well as contributing to team goals - you’ll be working with a range of other teams at Lyst so cross-collaboration and teamwork is key
• Solid understanding of affiliate marketing, attribution models, and other performance marketing metrics
• Availability to travel for face-to-face partner visits (seasonal and when safe to do so) across Europe

Benefits

• Our Ways of Working: We all come into the office between 2-4 days a week, spending at least every Tuesday & Thursday all together. We strongly believe that in-person collaboration and time spent together as a team allows us to deliver high impact work, but the flexibility to also work remotely supports our diverse team. 
• 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.

We want to build a world where fashion works for everyone, and we want teams that are just as inclusive. Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture at Lyst. We recognise and celebrate the value and impact diversity brings to our company and are committed to ensuring this is a consistent focus, for which we are held to account. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply for this role. We are happy to talk about flexible working arrangements.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Lyst we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.