Senior Account Manager (Soccer Partnerships) (Financial Services Client)

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$65K/yr – $75K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the day-to-day strategy, activation planning, and measurement for the FIFA program partnerships, coordinating across clients, agency teammates, partners, and vendors to drive programs from planning to execution.

  • Develop strategic plans, activation recommendations, budgets, and scopes of work
  • Lead cross-functional collaboration with Experiences team and external partners
  • Monitor metrics and show program impact across multiple constituencies

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the day-to-day strategic planning, program development/execution, and measurement for our client's various club team partnerships
  • Support the development of strategic plans, activation recommendations, finance trackers, budgets, and competitive documents, and support the development of clients’ scopes of work
  • Contributing member to a fully integrated team, dedicated to the development of our client’s FIFA program (including implementation/evolution of management routines across multiple constituencies including clients, internal agency teammates, cross-agency partners, property partners, and vendors)
  • Work closely with our Experiences team to develop/activate programs in support of clients’ goals and objectives
  • Manage documents such as budgets, status reports, inventory tracking, and meeting agenda and notes

Requirements

  • 5-7 years of work with an agency, brand, or property on the development of integrated brand campaigns, specifically within global sports
  • Superior verbal and written communicator able to scale and adapt communications for a variety of audiences to optimally and succinctly articulate agency positioning and expertise
  • A strategic, collaborative approach to solving problems with ideas – build relationships and influence a range of teams.
  • Track record of success at cultivating positive agency, client, vendor, and property relationships
  • Strong organizational and leadership skills
  • Strategic problem solver - can see possible impacts of a decision on many projects
  • Flexibility and willingness to travel domestically (and internationally) and work weekends or holidays as needed. Anticipated travel amount: (20-45%). As such, a valid US passport will be required
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