Partnership Development Manager

About the Role

Deep Knowledge Group (www.dkv.global) is seeking a Partnership Development Manager to build scalable commercial and strategic distribution around DKG's portfolio.

This role is intentionally distinct from conventional Business Development.

A Business Development Manager primarily asks:

Who can buy this product?

The Partnership Development Manager must also ask:

Who can distribute it, implement it, co-develop it, open a market for it, add a missing capability, bring customers to it, or create a much larger commercial opportunity together with DKG?

DKG's project portfolio creates multiple partnership models: regional representatives, distributors and resellers; strategic institutional partners; technology and data providers; vendors; media and event partners; corporate partners; white-label collaborators; joint-development and JV candidates; ambassadors; and commercial intermediaries with existing market access.

The objective of this role is to convert those models into functioning partnerships with measurable activity.

Core Mandate

Build a partner network that gives DKG commercial leverage beyond what its internal team could achieve alone.

This means identifying the right partner type for each product, approaching the strongest candidates, creating a compelling structure for cooperation, onboarding them properly and ensuring that partnerships become active rather than remaining signed documents.

Key Responsibilities

• Map the partner ecosystem around priority DKG products and markets.
• Determine the appropriate partnership model for different product families.
• Identify and qualify potential distributors, resellers, regional representatives, JV partners, implementation partners, vendors, strategic institutions, media partners and co-development counterparties.
• Develop partnership propositions tailored to the specific economics and interests of each counterparty.
• Conduct outreach and partnership negotiations.
• Structure agreements together with DKG management and Legal.
• Build commission, revenue-share, referral, co-development, licensing and other partnership models where appropriate.
• Onboard regional and commercial representatives and ensure they receive suitable product materials, scripts and access to Data Rooms.
• Equip partners with enough DKG and product fluency to represent the Group credibly.
• Track partner-generated opportunities, introductions, pipeline and commercial outcomes.
• Identify inactive partnerships early and either reactivate or discontinue them.
• Coordinate with Business Development where a partner creates direct customer opportunities.
• Coordinate with Product Development when a partner can add technical, distribution or market capability.
• Gather structured feedback from external partners on product-market fit and commercial barriers.
• Use and improve DKG's PartnershipTech / partnership-management infrastructure as an operational tool, rather than allowing platform development to delay active partnership work.

Partnership Models You May Work With

Depending on the product, these may include:

• regional representatives and independent commercial operators;
• distributors and resellers;
• white-label partners;
• co-development partners;
• strategic corporate and institutional partnerships;
• government and ecosystem collaborators;
• media and conference partnerships;
• technology and data providers;
• clinics, HealthTech companies and other Longevity ecosystem partners;
• marketplace vendors;
• referral and affiliate models;
• JVs and regional commercialization structures;
• ambassadors and industry connectors.

Requirements

• 4+ years in strategic partnerships, channel development, alliances, B2B business development or related work.
• Demonstrated record of creating partnerships that generated measurable activity, customers, distribution or revenue.
• Strong ability to identify mutual commercial value rather than proposing generic “strategic cooperation.”
• Strong relationship-development and negotiation skills.
• Experience managing external counterparties after agreement, not only reaching signature.
• Ability to understand sophisticated technology and commercial products quickly.
• Strong written communication and proposal-development ability.
• Experience with CRM, partner pipelines or comparable structured relationship-management systems.
• High degree of autonomy and follow-through.
• Strong practical use of AI for research, counterparty analysis and communication preparation.
• Excellent English.

Strong Advantages

• Experience with channel sales, affiliate or ambassador networks, licensing, white-label arrangements or JVs.
• Existing network across technology, investment, healthcare, FinTech, innovation ecosystems or regional business-development communities.
• Experience building international or regional partner networks.
• Experience working with platform or marketplace businesses.
• GCC/UAE or Asian market experience.