📍 Location: London or Milan
💰 Salary: €50–65K up to ~20% bonus
🏷️ Industry: Premium Lifestyle / Fashion / Design
Role Overview
A dynamic premium lifestyle brand is seeking a Collaborations Manager to drive the strategy, creation, and execution of high-impact co-branded partnerships. This role blends product, marketing, and commercial strategy — overseeing everything from scouting partners and shaping creative concepts to delivering limited-edition product launches and tracking performance across sales and visibility.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and manage the annual collaborations pipeline and strategy.
- Scout, evaluate, and pitch aligned brand partners across fashion, lifestyle, design, and culture.
- Lead concepting and co-creation: product direction, storytelling, visual identity, and launch positioning.
- Own end-to-end project management: timelines, prototypes, assets, packaging, approvals.
- Partner with Product, Digital, PR, Sales, and Operations to deliver seamless launches.
- Plan go-to-market activities, ensuring maximum visibility and commercial impact.
- Analyse performance across sell-through, demand, engagement, and partner commitments.
- Prepare structured recap reports and recommend improvements for future drops.
What You Bring
- Strong background in brand partnerships, collaborations, capsules, or limited editions.
- Proven ability to manage multiple cross-functional workstreams and deadlines.
- Understanding of product development processes, retail calendars, and operational flows.
- Creative sensibility combined with structured execution and commercial awareness.
- Excellent communicator, confident managing external partners, creatives, and agencies.
- High level of ownership, attention to detail, and ability to deliver under fast-paced timelines.
Ideal Background
- Candidates coming from fashion, streetwear, lifestyle, or design-driven consumer brands, especially where collaborations are a core growth and brand-building lever. Experience working with cultural partners, creators, or high-visibility launches is a strong plus.
