Responsibilities

• Own sponsorship platform management, including strategic planning, event operations & hospitality, ensuring delivery aligns to partnership priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Lead contract and rights governance, including asset allocation decisions and fulfilment, balancing trade-offs across markets and client priorities.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year partnership strategy and roadmap, including performance objectives, activation principles and growth opportunities.
• Serve as the senior point of contact for rights usage governance, activation and approvals, including escalation ownership and risk management where needed.
• Lead complex matrix governance across Global/Regional/Local stakeholders, driving alignment, resolving priority conflicts, and maintaining accountability for outcomes.
• Lead cross-functional coordination to support product & solution integration across the Disney payment ecosystem, including acceptance and agentic commerce among other initiatives. Drive cross-functional alignment on priorities and ownership, and remove blockers to progress delivery.
• Own programme governance across workstreams, including milestone management, resource coordination across the matrix, and performance reporting cadence.
• Translate learnings and best practices from the Disney partnership into scalable principles (where relevant) to strengthen consistency and effectiveness across broader sponsorship activation in Europe.
• Sponsorship Marketing:
• Work collaboratively with Visa Brand & Content on the development of all consumer and partner communications including but not limited to: development of core creative idea, visual identity systems, promotions, digital strategy and plans including social media, on-the-ground activation at event time including onsite activation, advertising, media strategy, etc., ensuring strategic consistency and measurable outcomes.

Requirements

• Knowledge and experience in global sponsorships, specifically entertainment where possible
• University degree in marketing or relevant business curriculum
• Excellent project management skills
• Global sporting/entertainment related experience would be beneficial but not essential
• Self-starter, comfortable working independently, detail oriented
• Proven ability to prioritize workloads, manage multiple projects simultaneously and drive results
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with client management and relationship experience preferred
• Proven track record of driving revenue
• Demonstrated problem solving skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office

Preferred

• Global sporting/entertainment related experience would be beneficial but not essential