Responsibilities

• Support client deliverables related to sponsorship consulting and industry research & insights.
• Deliverables include: strategic POVs, sponsorship evaluations, property analyses, competitive audits, landscape overviews, and other related work.
• Interpret relevant first and third-party data sets, inclusive of research, and uncover key insights for client consumption.
• Ability to distill findings into digestible takeaways and present recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Liaise and cultivate relationships with client counterparts on any day-to-day work that arises.
• Serve as a point of contact for Business Leadership and other internal stakeholders.
• Identify and support areas of sponsorship tool development or methodological enhancement.
• Support thought leadership initiatives, conducting research and monitoring the industry and landscape based on key advancements and innovations.
• Engage in trend spotting, looking for correlations or relationships between performance factors and outcomes across the sponsorship space.
• Assist various internal and external projects related to both existing clients as well as any growth-focused initiatives (e.g., RFP responses, pitches, presentations).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; preferably in Marketing or a related field of study.
• 1+ years of client leadership/client management and sponsorship experience.
• Agency or other relevant sponsorship experience preferred, but not required.
• Knowledge of or desire to learn the sponsorship landscape as it relates to sports, music & entertainment or arts & culture.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Suite, particularly with PowerPoint and Excel.
• Strong verbal & written communication skills; adept at communicating effectively and influencing clients and internal stakeholders.
• Experienced in strategic thinking and ability to see, articulate, and drive to the big picture.
• Passion and solution-orientated approach to problem solving.
• Capacity to storytell through the use of data and insights.
• Ability to perform well in a fast-changing environment with multiple priorities; ability to prioritize and multitask accordingly.
• Displays natural intellectual curiosity – always seeks to understand the “why”.
• Supports Momentum’s “Be One” values – seeks to be a good teammate.
• Contribute to an environment that facilitates mutual respect and partnership across functions, and facilitates innovative thinking, appropriate risk taking, and open lines of communication.

Preferred

• Agency or other relevant sponsorship experience preferred, but not required.