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

Responsibilities

• CLIENT SERVICES / Responsible for leading Octagon’s client business and day-to-day management of client programs.
• Our headquarters are in Stamford, CT, but the location of this position can be flexible with a priority given to candidates open to hybrid work (3 days a week in the office) in one of our office locations - Stamford, CT, New York, NY, Charlotte, NC, Los Angeles, CA, Chicago, IL, Miami, FL or Atlanta, GA. East Coast working hours are a prerequisite.
• In this role, you will support a team responsible for the strategic program development of our client’s global soccer partnership portfolio, including NWSL, MLS, USL clubs, and US Soccer Federation.
• 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