Beyond Sport Is Hiring A Partnerships Manager
Passionate about the world of sport and making a difference?
Then take this opportunity to join Beyond Sport as a Partnerships Manager!
Location: New York - with international travel required in order to fulfil work related duties
Start date: February 2020
Type: Full time
Beyond Sport’s Partnerships Manager will be responsible for supporting senior management on the management of all Beyond Sport partners, sourcing business development opportunities, partnership activations and ideations and delegate sales strategies for Beyond Sport events and network concepts.
In addition, they will be responsible for helping develop sales strategies for all events relating to sponsorship and ticket sales.
From a wider business development perspective, they are responsible for leading on the development of new event concepts and joint ventures, alongside the Director of Programming and Development and the Managing Director.
Partnership Management
- Supporting senior management in managing all Beyond Sport partners, including support in acquiring, on-boarding, activations and renewals
- Supporting senior management in developing strategy to and executing management of all existing commercial partners from start to end of agreement period, continuously monitoring, measuring, and improve the effectiveness of partner interactions.
- Supporting senior management in developing strategy to, and execute management of all newly acquired clients from start to end of agreement period, continuously monitoring, measuring, and improve the effectiveness of client interaction
- Creating a process for management of all databases and support other relevant departments in on-going execution
Business Development
- Help achieve outlined sponsorship targets for individual event properties throughout the Beyond Sport calendar year
- Help develop sponsorship strategies for all Beyond Sport events.
- Help develop delegate sales strategies for all Beyond Sport events alongside Beyond Sport’s senior management team
- Work with Beyond Sport’s designer to build sponsorship proposals both generic and tailored for each of Beyond Sport’s events and partners in good time to go to market
- Work with Beyond Sport’s designer to build partner reports both generic and tailored for each of Beyond Sport’s partners and events
- Work with the Head of Communications & Campaigns to stream partner coverage and social media requirements into Beyond Sport’s overarching social media strategy
Concept Development
- Support on the development of new event concepts and joint ventures for Beyond Sport to pitch to senior management
- Build strong working relationships with other Benchmark companies to identify opportunities for mutually beneficial initiatives and activities
- At least 3 years of experience working in either the sport or similar industry and/or in social impact/purpose
- An existing North American network of contacts across sport and business sectors
- Excellent networker
- Excellent pitching skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong ability to think strategically and develop implementation plans to deliver key objectives
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work efficiently, quickly and to deadline – there is an immediacy to our office that runs through everything we do
- Action orientated and goal focused
- Ability to work independently and without micro-management as well as collaboratively
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About Us
Beyond Sport is a global organization that promotes, supports and celebrates the use of sport to address social issues in communities around the world. We do this through convening, supporting and advising the worlds of sport, business, government, and development on how sport can be used as a tool to achieve both social and business objectives.
Convene: Since 2009, Beyond Sport has held major events in London, New York, Chicago, Cape Town, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Glasgow and Johannesburg on key social issues where sport can play a major role, from ground-breaking action in child protection, girls education, urban communities, sustainability, STEM education and sport’s role in supporting refugees. Events range in audience, style, structure, constantly innovating, growing and experimenting.
Support: The Beyond Sport Foundation has provided over $5.5 million worth of funding and support to projects through the Beyond Sport Awards across five continents addressing a range of social issues. Funders include Comic Relief, ESPN, Swedish Sports Foundation, and The Gates Foundation.
Advise: Since 2013, Beyond Sport has been advising brands, charities, governing bodies and charities through our consultancy arm thinkBeyond, delivering strategies, content and activations all over the world. Clients have included prestigious brands including the IOC, SAP, Virgin Sport, ESPN and BT.
Beyond Sport works on a partnership model, and thinkBeyond on a client-based model. Beyond Sport event partners receive bespoke deliverables that typically include content, hospitality, brand warmth and employee engagement. thinkBeyond clients typically require the development of strategies and narratives, the identification of partners and implementation models and project management.