Vice President, Sports Marketing Strategy

New York City, NY (On-site)

$193K/yr – $225K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 13 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and shape OSA's Sports Marketing practice by guiding executive advisory work, strategic practice development, and portfolio leadership across global sports and entertainment sponsorships.

  • Strategic vision and growth for the consulting practice.
  • Leadership of high-stakes sponsorship portfolios and executive negotiations.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Executive Client Leadership & Strategic Advisory
  • - Serve as the executive strategic advisor to C-suite clients across global sports, entertainment, and sponsorship portfolios.
  • - Lead enterprise-level partnership strategies that align sponsorship investments with broader corporate growth, brand, commercial, and business objectives.
  • - Advise executive leadership on investment decisions involving global rights holders, major sporting events, media partnerships, athlete/celebrity endorsements and emerging sponsorship opportunities.
  • - Lead executive presentations, board-level recommendations, and strategic planning sessions that influence high-value investment decisions.
  • - Provide counsel on complex partnership negotiations, governance structures, contract strategy, and long-term portfolio optimization.
  • - Build enduring executive relationships with senior client stakeholders, rights holders, governing bodies, agencies, and strategic partners.
  • Practice Leadership & Business Strategy
  • - Define and execute the strategic vision, service offerings, and long-term growth strategy for OSA's Sports Marketing consulting practice.
  • - Identify new market opportunities, industry trends, and innovative consulting capabilities that strengthen OSA's competitive position.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
  • 12–15+ years of progressive leadership experience in sports marketing, sponsorship strategy, management consulting, brand consulting, or agency leadership.
  • Demonstrated success leading large-scale global sponsorship strategies for Fortune 500 companies, international rights holders, or leading consulting organizations.
  • Extensive experience advising executive leadership teams and C-suite stakeholders on complex commercial partnerships and strategic investments.
  • Proven experience building, leading, and growing high-performing consulting teams and business units.
  • Strong commercial acumen with experience managing budgets, revenue targets, profitability, and business performance.
  • Deep understanding of global sports, media, sponsorship, entertainment, and consumer marketing ecosystems.
  • Exceptional executive presence with outstanding communication, negotiation, facilitation, and presentation skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead organizational change across complex global environments.
  • Experience in global football strongly preferred.

Preferred

  • MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
  • International business experience and cultural fluency strongly preferred.
  • Multilingual strongly preferred.

Benefits

  • medical/dental/vision insurance
  • employer-paid basic life and personal accident insurance
  • Annual Profit Sharing/Bonus Plan based on the company’s performance and your individual performance
  • 401(k)
  • Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
  • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
  • PTO
  • STD/LTD insurance benefits
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On Board Experiential

On Board Experiential (OBE) is a global award-winning, experience-led agency that believes an experience is any way a brand engages people. From proprietary events and pop-up retail to interactive technology and cut-through content (+ everything in between) — we help the world's leading brands make an impact. More than "just another agency," we are a team that solves the unsolvable, across the globe — and we're always ready to play. Visit our website to learn more.

Founded in 1995
Los Angeles, California, USA
210 employees (70 in marketing)

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