Senior Account Manager - Partnerships

Expleo is supporting a leading organisation within the global motorsport sector in recruiting a Senior Account Manager - Partnerships. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-profile partnership activations within a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

📍 Gaydon, UK
📅 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract (until June 2027)

The Role

As a Senior Account Manager, you will take ownership of managing key commercial partnerships, ensuring the successful planning, execution, and measurement of activation programmes across marketing, PR, communications, and events.

This position offers the chance to work at the cutting edge of motorsport, collaborating with internal teams and external stakeholders to deliver exceptional partner experiences both trackside and beyond.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of partnership activation programmes across marketing, communications, PR, experiential, and hospitality activities
• Develop and implement integrated partner marketing campaigns
• Build and maintain strong relationships with partners through regular meetings, planning sessions, and senior stakeholder engagement
• Facilitate workshops and lead strategic review meetings with internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborate with PR and communications teams to support media programmes and content development
• Manage partner brand approvals processes and ensure adherence to brand guidelines
• Deliver high-quality partner events and hospitality programmes both at race venues and off-site
• Track and manage contractual rights and ensure all deliverables are fulfilled
• Oversee budgets, invoicing, and financial reporting related to partnership activities
• Measure and evaluate campaign effectiveness, producing insightful reports for partners
• Support activation activities including vehicle display, appearances, and asset coordination

Key Skills & Experience

• 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