Account Manager, Sports Marketing

Responsibilities

• Track engagement with activating markets and centralize oversight of all engagement for global client team. Capture ongoing activity to ensure client leadership team is informed of developments in real-time.
• Become an expert in Olympic and Paralympic marketing guidelines, advising stakeholders on partnership activation, guidelines, and submissions processes
• Review activation submissions within the “TRACK” system and coordinate communication throughout the end-to-end process of submission to approval
• Collaborate with International Olympic Committee and US Olympic and Paralympic Properties partners on ongoing feedback, submissions reviews, and issue resolution
• Manage, update, and monitor client tracking tools across all program activation
• Support the team as a center of excellence “one stop shop” on the specifics of the partnership (commercial activation guidelines, contract/category rights, industry trends and developments)
• Update training materials with an eye on continual education and simplifying activation
• Identify best practices in support of stakeholder activation from concept to approval; creating, aligning and managing the education, training, tools, processes and management of the rights activation discipline.
• Create, build, and grow strong mutually beneficial working relationships with partner rightsholders (US Olympic & Paralympic Properties, the IOC and IPC)
• Serve as point of contact for select markets/activating stakeholders

Requirements

• 2-4+ years of related experience in sports marketing (agency side client servicing preferred)
• Proven experience working in support of high-profile global and domestic sports partnerships (Olympic and Paralympic and/or global partnership experience is preferred)
• Experience working in complex, highly matrixed organizations
• Demonstrated success working simultaneously with numerous client business units; managing competing priorities in a deadline-driven environment
• Demonstration of high initiative, independent focus, and overall work ethic
• Excitement for working with partners, stakeholders and clients around the world
• Experience building and managing relationships on behalf of client or agency.

Preferred

• 2-4+ years of related experience in sports marketing (agency side client servicing preferred) is a minimum, but this section captures preferences? (Note: explicit requirements are elsewhere)

Benefits

• Working at SPORTFIVE provides a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision and retirement savings.
• Affordable employee medical premiums starting at $30.90 per month (highest deductible) to $165.77 per month (lowest deductible).
• Employees start at 10 vacation days per year (increasing with seniority) plus 20 paid holidays.
• 401(k) with matching up to $4,000 per year.