Partnerships Manager

About Us: At GiLo, we are building India's first Low GI staples brand focused on improving everyday food without changing eating habits. We are backed by a well-known global celebrity as a co-founder, who is actively involved in building the brand and business. We are in the early stage of building the company across sourcing, product, supply chain, and distribution. The focus is on building strong fundamentals and executing consistently in a fast-moving setup.

We're an early-stage company building our product, sourcing, supply chain, and distribution functions from the ground up. If you're excited by ownership, fast execution, and building something meaningful, we'd love to meet you.

Working Model: On-site

Location: Bangalore, HSR Layout

Work Week: Monday to Saturday

Timings: 12pm - 8pm

Budget: 5-7 LPA (depending on experience & role fit)

Experience: 2 to 4 years

About the Role: A low-GI claim lives or dies on credibility. The people India trusts on food — nutritionists, dietitians, diabetes educators, fitness and health creators - need to know us, test us, believe us, and talk about us. Nobody owns that today. You will, from scratch.

This isn't an influencer-marketing-by-spreadsheet where you blast 500 DMs with a discount code. It's the opposite: research the right 50 people, understand what each one cares about, craft a collaboration that's genuinely good for their audience AND our brand, negotiate it smartly (barter first, budgets when earned), and execute it so well they want round two.

Key Responsibilities:

• The database: build India's best-mapped network of nutritionists, dietitians, health experts, and credible food/fitness creators. City by city, from zero.
• The outreach: first conversations that don't feel like cold pitches. You open doors with relevance, not templates.
• The deals: barter structures, collaboration terms, deliverables, timelines. Win-win or no deal. You negotiate well and keep it warm.
• The creative fit: every collab is shaped so it's authentic to the creator and right for the brand. No forced ads. No cringe.
• The execution: from the first DM to live content to thank-you note. Full ownership, structured pipeline, real follow-through.
• The field: expert tastings, partner visits, community events. Roughly 20% of this job happens outside the office, meeting people. That's the fun part.

Requirements:

• You have 2–4 years in partnerships, BD, alliances, or creator collaborations - ideally in food, FMCG, health, wellness, or consumer.
• You're a researcher first. You find the right person, not the loudest one.
• You negotiate with confidence and close with warmth. People enjoy doing deals with you.
• You execute. Conversations become calendars, calendars become content.
• You're comfortable being on the ground - meetings, visits, events, tastings.
• A nutrition/dietetics background, certification, or genuine health-science fluency is a big plus.