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

• Experience in global football strongly preferred.
• International business experience and cultural fluency strongly preferred.
• Multilingual strongly preferred.
• Love of sport.