Brand Partnerships Project Manager

Brand Partnerships Project Manager at King

Candy Crush is expanding its world into the real world, aiming to bring fun, color, and cultural relevance to players globally. Brand partnerships are a crucial part of this ambition, helping Candy evolve from just a game into an entertainment brand. To support this growth, King is seeking a Brand Partnerships Project Manager on a 12-month contract. This role will own the operational backbone of the partnership work, supporting the Brand Partnerships Lead in delivering high-impact collaborations across sport, music, lifestyle, CPG, and talent.

This position emphasizes executional excellence, coordination, and project delivery. You will assist the Brand Partnerships Lead by managing day-to-day partnership operations, ensuring projects run smoothly, partners are well-supported, and internal teams remain aligned. The ideal candidate will possess strong organizational skills and a proactive, detail-oriented approach to keep projects on track. This role is delivery-focused rather than strategic, best suited for someone who excels in operational coordination and structured workflows.

Your Role Within Our Kingdom

We are looking for a structured, energetic project manager who thrives on keeping complex projects organized and progressing. Working alongside the Brand Partnerships Lead, you will help deliver the next phase of Candy’s partnership vision, bringing joy to sport, music, lifestyle, and beyond, all while building towards our 15-year anniversary celebrations.

You will manage day-to-day partnership operations, track performance, coordinate across teams, and ensure every activation lands on time, on budget, and with creative excellence.

This role serves as the operational engine behind Candy’s partnerships, perfect for individuals who appreciate structure, logistics, and making things happen. It is central to building a repeatable, scalable partnership model that helps Candy bridge the gap between awareness and consideration, showcasing its presence in culture in a more consistent and meaningful way.

Project & Partnership Delivery

• Manage the day-to-day delivery of partnership projects, ensuring timelines, deliverables, and budgets stay on track.
• Coordinate across internal teams (Brand, Product Marketing, Creative, Game, Legal, BD) to ensure smooth execution.
• Maintain project plans, trackers, workflows, and approvals to keep work moving efficiently.
• Support the integration of partners into Candy’s tentpoles, lifestyle collaborations, sport moments, and music activations.
• Provide operational excellence, helping ensure every activation is delivered to a high standard.
• Build support documentation, file management, and operational housekeeping to keep partnership processes running smoothly.

Partner & Stakeholder Coordination

• Act as the day-to-day contact for partners and agencies, helping clarify requirements, gather assets, and manage approvals.
• Build strong working relationships with external partners, representing Candy with professionalism and a player-first mindset.
• Support the organization by occasional attendance of shoots, partner visits, live moment activations, and cross-team coordination.

Performance Tracking & Reporting

• Track and monitor partnership KPIs, collecting data from internal teams and external partners.
• Build clear post-campaign reports summarizing performance, insights, and recommendations.
• Support the Brand Partnerships Lead in preparing partnership updates for internal stakeholders and leadership.

Operational & Strategic Support

• Assist with partner research, category exploration, and opportunity evaluation across sport, music, lifestyle, CPG and talent.
• Help prepare pitch materials and partner evaluations, using data and insights to strengthen recommendations.
• Support the development and maintenance of delivery frameworks, asset inventories, and demo materials, without owning the strategic design of these tools.
• Stay up to date on cultural moments, partnership activity, and market trends to help inform team discussions.

Skills To Create Thrills

• Experience in project coordination or project management within marketing, partnerships, or related fields.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to coordinate complex, cross-functional workflows.
• Experience managing external partners, agencies, or vendors.
• Excellent communicator who thrives on clarity, collaboration, and problem-solving.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment with shifting priorities.
• Analytical mindset with experience tracking performance and building reports.
• Ability to work independently on day-to-day delivery while escalating strategically when needed.
• A proactive, solution-oriented approach and strong sense of ownership—but without expectation to set broader strategy or manage a team.
• Comfortable working behind the scenes to make partnerships land flawlessly.
• Bonus: experience in entertainment, gaming, sport, music, lifestyle, CPG, licensing, experiential marketing, or sponsorship delivery.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.

Key skills/competency

• Project Management
• Brand Partnerships
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Operational Excellence
• Performance Tracking
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Logistics Management
• Vendor Management
• Marketing Delivery
• Cultural Relevance