Responsibilities

• Identify, recruit and develop relationships with relevant brand partners in the UK and internationally
• Own and manage a full sales pipeline from lead generation through to conversion
• Develop and sell sponsorship, event activation and race-entry opportunities
• Create commercial partnership proposals and campaigns for brands
• Identify new monetisation opportunities across realbuzz's owned channels, website and event partner inventory
• Collaborate with marketing, operations, influencers and charity partners to deliver campaigns
• Negotiate commercial agreements and partnership terms
• Monitor and report on partnership performance
• Stay up to date with developments across sponsorship, brand partnerships and sports marketing
• Attend selected offline event activations, including occasional international travel

Requirements

• At least 3 years' experience managing brand partnerships within an event or sponsorship environment
• Experience developing and selling experiential and offline activations to brands
• Strong commercial acumen and a track record of generating revenue through partnerships and sponsorships
• Experience owning and converting a sales pipeline
• Excellent relationship management and negotiation skills
• A confident, personable and collaborative approach
• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
• You'll suit this role if you're commercially driven, enjoy developing relationships from the ground up and want the opportunity to help shape a growing brand partnership proposition.

Preferred

• Experience working with sports, running, fitness or active-lifestyle brands would be particularly valuable, although isn't essential.
• You'll suit this role if you’re commercially driven, enjoy developing relationships from the ground up and want the opportunity to help shape a growing brand partnership proposition.

Benefits

• Hybrid working from our Manchester Piccadilly office
• 22 days' holiday, plus your birthday and bank holidays
• Opportunity to earn additional holiday through our attendance and length-of-service schemes
• Company stakeholder pension scheme
• Gym membership subsidy
• Group Life Assurance and Income Protection after qualifying periods
• Race entries for selected major destination running events
• The opportunity to join an organisation that's helped raise more than £1bn for charity
• realbuzz is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community