Freelance Partnership Manager

Description

Intro from the Manager - Alena Johnson

Hi, I’m Alena, Head of Supply Partnerships at Toloka, I’m looking for a new team member, initially on a freelance basis to help us grow our partnership network globally. The mission will be to seek out potential new partners. These partners are normally specialist BPOs or similar service providers that can deliver high quality data for our GenAI projects. You’ll make first contact, build the relationship and evaluate new service providers, taking the partner companies into our pilot testing phase and managing a smooth handover of the supplier to other team members for long term relationship management. The role does not need to be full time, we estimate working time to be around 25 hours per week.

Company Intro

Toloka AI is a global tech company that offers end-to-end AI solutions based on the effective combination of Crowd+Experts+Tech. Our solutions are powered by the most diverse global crowd from 100+ countries speaking 40+ languages, including experts in more than 20 different domains, from doctors and lawyers to physicists and engineers. 

We bring together experts from all over the world to form our growing team of more than 200 people. Our team is globally distributed and works from several locations, including the USA, UK, the Netherlands, Israel, Czech Republic, Serbia, and more. Working at Toloka unlocks the door to being able to work on global projects and our commitment to personal and professional growth.

Responsibilities

Key Tasks

• Research and identify potential new partners for specialist, niche data supply
• Make first contact, create and send out RFIs/RFQs.
• Build relationships with suppliers and present a clear understanding of Toloka and our needs.
• Seek to create a global network of reliable partners.
• Work with other members of the Partnership team to agree terms, test and evaluate services and hand over to partnership delivery managers.

Requirements

Our Needs

• Willing and able to work as a freelancer/contractor.
• Previous experience in vendor management, partnership management, ideally with experience of working with suppliers from several different countries.
• Able to work independently, owning your process.
• High level of professional communication skills in English, both written and spoken.

Benefits

Why join this project

Collaborating with Toloka gives you an amazing opportunity to experience how AI is being trained and developed. You’ll be cooperating with a team of real experts pioneering GenAI development.

This role can be done remotely and with some degree of flexibility.