Sr. Director, Sports Marketing

Responsibilities

• Account leadership and day-to-day program support
• Facilitate engagement with activating markets and centralize oversight of all engagement for global client team.
• Lead 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)
• Create, evolve, and update partnership strategy, overview resources and tools for client activating stakeholders.
• Develop approach to partnership education tools and ongoing training of new activating stakeholders, client and agency partners
• Present strategy recommendations, education, and training tools to client teams
• Identify and manage scope of work process, both tracking against current agreements and creating project agreements for new opportunities.
• Support oversight of Olympic and Paralympic rights activation process on behalf of client
• Remain hungry for building of ongoing expertise in Olympic & Paralympic activation guidelines (with aim of being a foremost expert within the agency)
• Define 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.

Requirements

• 10-12+ years in sports marketing, and agency side client servicing.
• Experience working in complex, highly matrixed organizations
• Demonstrated success working simultaneously with numerous client business units; managing competing priorities.
• Exceptional executive presence, calm demeanor under high-pressure Games-time environments, and strong cross-functional leadership.
• Trusted relationship management.
• Travel for business meetings and/or client execution may require nights/weekends
• An extended on-site role in Los Angeles for the Olympic and/or Paral Paralympic Games is expected in July/August of 2028
• Support of stakeholders in multiple time zones may require work beyond traditional EST hours

Preferred

• Proven experience leading teams in support of high-profile sports partnerships (Olympic and Paralympic and/or global partnership experience is preferred)

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.