Brand Partnerships & Business Development Executive

GogoKids is a kids learning platform that connects children and families with meaningful experiential learning programmes.

Through our School Outreach initiatives, we work with brands to bring educational experiences directly into schools — helping brands engage with children, parents and educators in a meaningful and relevant way.

We are looking for a Brand Partnerships & Business Development Executive to help us grow our network of brand partners and bring more exciting school programmes to schools across Malaysia.

1. Brand Prospecting & Outreach

• Identify and research brands that could benefit from school outreach and educational engagement.
• Build a pipeline of potential brand partners across FMCG, healthcare, financial services, technology, F&B, lifestyle, education and other relevant industries.
• Reach out to brand owners, marketing teams, agencies and decision-makers through email, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, calls and other channels.
• Arrange meetings and introduce GogoKids School Outreach solutions.

2. Brand Partnership & Sales

• Understand a brand's marketing objectives and propose suitable school engagement opportunities.
• Prepare and present partnership proposals, packages and campaign ideas.
• Follow up with prospects and manage the sales process from initial contact to closing.
• Negotiate partnership opportunities and coordinate with the internal team to ensure successful execution.

3. Develop Partnership Ideas

• Work with the GogoKids team to develop creative school outreach concepts for different brands.
• Turn a brand's marketing objective into meaningful educational activities for students.
• Explore new partnership models, sponsorship opportunities and long-term brand programmes.

4. Relationship Management

• Build and maintain strong relationships with brand partners.
• Look for opportunities to expand existing partnerships into additional schools, programmes or campaigns.
• Maintain an updated database and pipeline of prospects, leads and active partners.

5. Sales & Partnership Targets

• Achieve monthly and quarterly brand acquisition / revenue targets.
• Track outreach activities, meetings, proposals and conversion rates.
• Provide regular updates on pipeline progress and partnership opportunities.
  

We're looking for someone who is outgoing, confident and comfortable talking to businesses.

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 1–3 years of experience in Business Development, Sales, Partnerships, Sponsorship, Account Management or Marketing.
• Enjoy meeting new people and building business relationships.
• Are confident in communicating with marketing managers, brand managers and business owners.
• Are proactive and comfortable with cold outreach and follow-ups.
• Can understand a client's needs and turn them into a partnership proposal.
• Have good presentation, negotiation and communication skills.
• Are target-driven and motivated by closing deals.
• Can work independently while collaborating with a small, fast-moving team.
• Have an interest in education, children, brands, marketing or experiential learning.

Fresh graduates with strong communication skills and a strong interest in business development are welcome to apply.

This isn't just about selling advertising space.

You'll be helping brands answer:

How can we meaningfully engage children, parents and schools

You will have the opportunity to:

• Work with established brands.
• Develop creative brand partnership campaigns.
• Pitch ideas directly to decision-makers.
• Build partnerships with companies across different industries.
• See your campaigns come to life in schools.
• Grow GogoKids School Outreach network across Malaysia.
  

• Be part of a growing education & experiential learning company.
• Work directly on real brand campaigns and school programmes.
• Opportunity to work with leading brands across Malaysia.
• Performance-based incentives / commission.
• Fast-moving environment with room to take ownership and grow.
• Opportunity to shape how brands engage with the next generation.

If you love talking to people, discovering business opportunities and turning ideas into partnerships, we'd love to hear from you.