Associate, Partnerships at Momentum Worldwide | New York City, NY

Momentum Worldwide

Associate, Partnerships

New York City, NY (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableEntry Level1+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and shape sponsorship consulting by turning datasets and industry trends into clear client actions; manage client relationships and internal stakeholders; push tool development and contribute to thought leadership in the sponsorship space.

Interpret first- and third-party data to extract insights and craft strategic recommendations for sponsorship programs.
Serve as the primary liaison with client counterparts and internal leadership, translating insights into digestible takeaways and guiding next steps.
Support sponsorship methodology, benchmarking, and industry monitoring to spot trends and inform growth through RFPs, pitches, and client deliverables.

Job Description

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.
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”.

Preferred

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

Momentum Worldwide

People are no longer satisfied with simply "hearing" a brand's message. Now it's the actual experiences we have with a brand that define its relevance—emotionally, socially and when it's time to buy. That's why Momentum Worldwide helps brands imagine, create, curate and manage their Total Brand Experience. Our job is to create meaning and connections for our clients and their brands.And in today’s world, where people demand corporate transparency and increased sustainability, this approach-redefining all the ways people experience a brand in action-is more important than ever. We integrate sponsorship, shopper, design, technology, social, promotions, PR, digital, entertainment and more in a total brand experience for the modern consumer. Quite simply, our job is to help brands flourish – and we do this as one global agency (within the IPG family of agencies) with 30 offices on five continents and more than 1,300 amazingly talented people—all of us working together, eager to invent, challenge the norm and set the world on fire. To make that possible, we hire people who are ravenous for ingenuity and impatient with the status quo. The biggest asset we have is our talent, and we take that seriously. And it helps that our company works with some incredible brands such as American Express, Coca-Cola, Mondelez, Microsoft, Walmart and William Grant & Sons to name a few.Join us! You could be a member of a growing team of people who love to imagine, concept, create, sculpt, sing, emote and dream in the interests of our clients and communities. We think it’s a special kind of calling. You should answer.

Founded in 1987

New York, New York, USA

1.3K employees (441 in marketing)

www.momentumww.com