Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a comprehensive activation plans for athlete partners for ongoing engagement around milestones, key brand moments, global events, product launches and seasonal priorities.
• Resolve conflicts and troubleshoot issues quickly, maintaining strong partner satisfaction and retention.
• Proactively manage up by keeping leadership informed of partnership plans and requests, aligning expectations, potential risks and providing timely updates on key initiatives.
• Collaborate with Product, Global Marketing Teams, Global Business Units, Regional Account Marketing Teams, Creative Channels and Communications to operationalize and scale partner initiatives.
• Work with integrated marketing channels to formulate the consumer journey, media plan, retail strategy and social rollout for signature collections and player capsules to internal and external stakeholders.
• Formulate detailed recaps with internal channels to communicate campaign wins and growth opportunities in connection to signature franchises, key initiatives and events.
• Led the day-to-day partnership management with PUMA Basketball athletes. This includes but is not limited to:
• Ensure athletes have a constant flow of the right product. This includes both on court and off court product.
• Work with each athlete to understand their performance basketball product needs as well as their off the court style preferences.
• Build and maintain relationships with talent management representatives and industry contacts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field of study
• 5+ experience in sports marketing, athlete servicing, partnerships, etc. in high-growth or global brand environments
• Strong organizational, problem solving, time management skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects effectively and with desired end results is important
• Proven leadership experience with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; strong executive presence and stakeholder management experience with athletes, agents, and senior leaders
• Extensive knowledge on the basketball community—from grassroots to professional
• Passionate about sport and sport culture
• Domestic & International Travel - 40%

Benefits

• Bonus
• Benefits