Partnership Manager
Impact: Strategic
Develops and maintains strategic relationships with partners to achieve business objectives through identifying potential collaborators, negotiating agreements, and collaborating on growth initiatives.
What the day looks like
- People interaction
- Extensive
- Team vs solo
- Team-oriented
- Client facing
- Always
- Impact visibility
- High
- Travel
- Medium
- Schedule flexibility
- Moderate
- Remote work
- Hybrid
- Typical work hours
- 45
- Stress level
- Moderate
At a glance
- Median salary
- $95,000
- Entry-level
- $60,000
- Senior
- $140,000
- Growth by 2033
- 12%
- Demand
- Growing
- Freelance potential
- Low
- Salary growth potential
- High
- Typical student debt
- $30,000 - $50,000
Skills you'll use
Hard skills
- CRM Software
- Contract Management
- Market Analysis
Soft skills
- Negotiation
- Communication
- Relationship Building
Technical complexity: Moderate
How to get there
- Minimum education
- Bachelor's Degree
- Licensing
- No
- Years to mid-career
- 5
- Years to senior
- 10
- Career switching
- Moderate
Where this career leads
How people arrive here
Where you can go from here
Typical progression
- Partnership Coordinator
- Partnership Manager
- Senior Partnership Manager
- Director of Partnerships
Future outlook
- Automation probability
- 10%
- AI disruption risk
- Low
- Demand trend
- Growing
How people feel about it
- Overall satisfaction
- 4/10
- Meaning
- 4/10
- Work-life balance
- 3/10
- Prestige
- 7.5/10
- Social perception
- High