Technical Partnership Lead

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Responsible for the long-term strategy and day-to-day activation and operational fulfilment of Chelsea’s Technical Partner, Nike, to ensure that contractual rights are maximised to deliver in a highly effective and efficient partnership across the entire Club (Men’s, Women’s & Academy).

• Focus on leading, developing and delivering our Technical & Performance Partnerships, with overall responsibility for their strategic direction, commercial success, and day-to-day fulfilment of contractual rights at both Stamford Bridge and Cobham training centre
• Extensive knowledge and working experience in the sporting performance and apparel sector is critical to the success of this role
• Leadership role that supports the development of a high performing team culture
• Manage one report, with the opportunity to grow and take on additional responsibilities
• This role requires occasional weekend work in the UK and international travel and consequently flexibility in working hours will be required

• Develop a deep understanding of our partner’s business operation, strategy, objectives, target growth areas, competitors and KPI’s / metrics that resonate when evaluating success
• Collaborate with sales, brand, marketing, Chelsea Women’s team, and product teams to develop and execute joint GTM campaigns with partners
• Create integrated partnership marketing strategies that successfully deliver the partners rights to an agreed set of KPIs that add value to the Chelsea brand
• Lead in the organisation and coordination of key asset delivery across the partnership marketing mix. This includes but is not limited to the delivery of core football rights, licensing and merchandise, internal events, asset bookings, player appearances and social media and digital assets
• Ensure all assets, rights and campaigns are delivered on brief and to the required standards
• Proactively pitch and track all asset usage and lead in keeping project status documents up to date and circulated to the relevant stakeholders
• Lead the development of a commercial business plan to help create and convert new, innovative opportunities
• Set the example for partnership best practices, processes, project management, budget management and client reporting
• Be pro‑active in initiatives that could strengthen the value of the partnership
• Develop and deliver a dedicated CFCW activation plan within the Nike partnership, with its own objectives, KPIs and reporting cadence, agreed annually with CFCW commercial leadership
• Champion the development and performance of the CFCW product range with Nike, including range depth, replica availability and retail presence, with merchandise reporting split by team
• Lead our Nike Principal Partner account across the entire club as well as our Player Operations team
• Support in the delivery and establishment of regular partner reporting procedures internally and externally to track delivery of partner KPIs
• Strong ability to work cross department and in cross-functional working groups – specifically with retail and licensing teams
• Maintain a dotted reporting line into CFCW commercial leadership, with regular updates on activation delivery, partner KPIs and commercial performance relating to the women's team
• Represent CFCW interests in all Nike planning, renewal and rights discussions, ensuring the women's team is positioned as a commercial growth driver rather than a delivery obligation
• Develop personal credibility by behaving with humility and in a confident manner
• Build internal reputation and knowledge of the wider business
• Always operate with our core values in mind – Bravery;
  Leadership;
  Unity;
  Edge

• Significant experience in a global marketing role is essential that includes successful delivery of sports performance and apparel partnerships, ideally in a sponsorship and or brand arena
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