Manager, Advertiser & Merchant Partnerships

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Commercial manager launching Encore advertiser sales and sourcing merchants for Pulse iD’s UAE loyalty and digital offers platform. Building brand partnerships across banking, travel, retail, and other priority sectors.

Responsibilities:

  • Launch direct advertiser sales for Encore in the UAE
  • Source merchants for loyalty clients
  • Originate, pursue, and close advertiser partnerships in the UAE and wider GCC
  • Work directly and through advertising agencies, initially focusing on banks, subscriptions, and travel
  • Negotiate commercial terms, campaign structures, and bounties, including CPA and CPC models
  • Match advertiser supply to publisher demand by vertical and close coverage gaps
  • Identify and approach merchants and brands
  • Present loyalty-program benefits and sign merchants to monthly merchant and offer commitments
  • Cover dining, retail, entertainment, wellness, and travel categories according to client seasonal calendars
  • Build long-term merchant relationships and rotate low-performing offers
  • Take merchants and advertisers from first contact to live offer, including approvals, terms, creative, English and Arabic copy, and tracking
  • Work with customer success, marketing, and operations
  • Maintain accurate pipeline and onboarding records
  • Report merchants signed, offers live, and forecasts against targets
  • Share market feedback and early results to improve pitches and case studies

Requirements:

  • 5+ years’ relevant experience in advertising sales, merchant partnerships, business development, affiliate marketing, loyalty, or related sectors
  • Fluent English
  • Arabic is strongly preferred
  • Proven track record of originating and closing deals with brands or merchants in the UAE
  • Strong local network in the UAE
  • Strong commercial acumen and negotiation skills
  • Data-driven, with a good understanding of loyalty offers and performance-marketing models such as CPA and CPC
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Comfortable engaging clients by email, phone, in meetings, and at events
  • Highly driven, with a strong sense of ownership
  • Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment
  • Based in the UAE
  • Legally eligible to work in the UAE

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary plus commission on merchants signed
  • Work with leading brands, banks, and telcos across loyalty, payments, and digital advertising
  • A dynamic, collaborative team
  • Clear opportunities for career growth