Motorsport Partnerships Senior Account Manager

Job Title: Motorsport Partnerships Senior Account Manager – (phone number removed)
Location: Warwickshire
                   
Duties: 
The role is a 12-month maternity cover for a Partnerships Senior Account Manager position, who will have responsibility for management of existing partners and their marketing activation planning, execution and measurement.

Duties will include:

• Management and responsibility for commercial partnership activation within the Motorsport function including marketing, communications, PR, experiential and hospitality activity.
• Responsibility for regular partner status/planning meetings and workshops, including facilitation of senior review meetings
• Partner marketing campaign development and associated PR/Communications activity, including working with Motorsport PR & Communications department on media programmes and partner content development
• Partner brand approvals process management and ongoing review process
• Delivery of partner events and hospitality both at race and away from race environments, working with the Motorsport Events team.
• Annual Rights tracking and management against contractual deliverables for all partners
• Measurement and evaluation, including partner reporting, utilising agency strategy and consultancy team support
• Activation programme and rights fees finance management, invoicing and reporting
• Core process management for partner rights delivery e.g. asset hubs, approval processes
• Support of partner activation including showcars, senior management / driver / team appearances and asset requirements at race and out of race events

 

Skills:   

• Proven excellent experience in sports/motorsport sponsorship industry
• Excellent communication skills – both spoken and written
• Experience of successful stakeholder management
• Experience of financial planning, budget management
• Experience of successful strategic partnership campaign development
• Strong ability to prioritise a pressured workload to meet tight deadlines
• Proactive, responsive and flexible approach, with the ability to operate outside sphere of prescribed role if required
• Commercially astute – used to working in a global motorsport and sport business environment
• Highly developed negotiation skills
• Experience in communications, PR, social media and/or events and hospitality delivery
• PC Skills & Web-based knowledge
• Ability to drive in the UK

Education:          
University degree or equivalent preferred