Director, Partnership Marketing

The physical location for the candidate selected must be within the contiguous United States. Susan G. Komen offers a 100% virtual working environment, allowing you to work from anywhere in the U.S.

About Susan G. Komen

Susan G. Komen is the ONLY organization addressing breast cancer on multiple fronts—research, community health, global outreach, and public policy initiatives—to make the biggest impact against this disease. For over 40 years, we’ve led the way in funding groundbreaking research, community health initiatives, and advocacy programs across the U.S. Our culture fosters passionate, growth-minded professionals who thrive in a collaborative team environment, inspiring greatness in others. We prioritize open communication, feedback, and continual improvement at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Corporate Partnership Marketing
  • Develop and lead marketing strategies that support corporate partner acquisition, activation, retention, and growth.
  • Serve as the marketing lead throughout the partnership lifecycle, from pitch support through activation, renewal, and growth.
  • Create integrated marketing plans, co-branded campaigns, messaging frameworks, toolkits, and promotional assets aligned with partner and organizational objectives.
  • Collaborate with Corporate Development on partnership positioning, proposals, renewal strategies, and partner storytelling.
  • Partner with creative, content, digital, communications, and mission teams to execute partnership campaigns across paid, earned, owned, and shared channels.
  • Manage partnership marketing deliverables and evaluate campaign performance to ensure objectives are achieved.
• New Partnership Growth
  • Identify opportunities across advertising, media, sponsorship, consumer, and cause marketing landscapes.
  • Monitor trends in advertising, sponsorship marketing, media partnerships, consumer engagement, and cause marketing to identify innovative growth opportunities.
  • Ensure new partnership opportunities align with brand strategy and organizational goals.
• Measurement & Reporting
  • Establish KPIs and measurement frameworks to evaluate partnership performance, audience engagement, and impact.
  • Prepare internal and partner-facing reports that communicate results and recommendations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and minimum 7–10 years’ experience in partnership marketing, brand marketing, sponsorship activation, or a related field.
• Experience developing marketing plans with corporate partners or sponsors.
• Strong collaboration experience working across internal teams.
• Experience developing and executing national or multi-channel marketing campaigns.
• Strong understanding of brand strategy, campaign planning, consumer engagement, content marketing, and partnership activation.
• Demonstrated success working across multiple stakeholder groups and influencing decisions in complex organizations.
• Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Experience developing executive-level presentations, marketing proposals, and strategic recommendations.
• Strong analytical mindset with experience measuring campaign performance and translating data into actionable insights.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing; research, develop, present, and promote projects; work independently; prioritize work; and meet deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in an advertising agency, media company, large nonprofit, consumer brand, sports organization, or entertainment property.
• Experience with cause marketing, corporate social responsibility (CSR), sponsorships, or purpose-driven brand partnerships.
• Knowledge of paid, earned, owned, and shared media strategies.
• Familiarity with audience segmentation, marketing analytics, and customer engagement strategies.
• Experience supporting fundraising, revenue generation, or nonprofit growth initiatives.

Benefits

• Competitive salary of $105,000–$135,000/annual (exact compensation based on skills, education, experience, geographic location, and other factors).
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Retirement plan with a 6% employer match.
• Unlimited Paid Time Off.
• Fully remote work arrangement with a bi-weekly work-from-home stipend.
• Parental leave.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• A culture of learning and development.

Susan G. Komen provides a remote working environment for all active employees, defined as the ability to work from any physical location within the U.S. where work duties can be performed without disruption or distraction. Work schedules are determined by departmental needs.