Account Manager, Sports Marketing

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SPORTFIVE utilizes the unique emotional power of sports to create and enable pioneering partnerships in sports. By delivering responsible commercialization, full-service solutions and long-term value for all stakeholders in sports, SPORTFIVE strategically and creatively connects brands, rights holders, media platforms and fans by leveraging a global network paired with decades of experience and entrepreneurial spirit. As a market leader with customer centricity and vast data intelligence at its core, SPORTFIVE leads the sports business into the future through its digital solutions and aims to be the most progressive and respected partner in sports.

SPORTFIVE is one of the largest global sports marketing agencies, with 1,200 local experts based in 15 countries active in football, golf, e-sports, motor sport, handball, tennis, American football, World Cup, Olympics and many more.

Job Title :
Account Manager, Sports Marketing

Reports To: VP, Olympics & Major Events, Brand Solutions

Primary Work Location :
New York, NY strongly preferred.

The Account Manager in this role is a member of the SPORTFIVE LA 2028 Global Brand Solutions team. This role is a key integrator, communicator, activator, and rights manager in support of the client’s sports marketing partnership activation. The successful candidate is excited to work with clients and stakeholders around the world as part of Olympic and Paralympic sports marketing activation and demonstrates the ability to operate in a complex working environment with multiple competing priorities.

• Track engagement with activating markets and centralize oversight of all engagement for global client team. Capture ongoing activity to ensure client leadership team is informed of developments in real-time.
• Become an expert in Olympic and Paralympic marketing guidelines, advising stakeholders on partnership activation, guidelines, and submissions processes
• Review activation submissions within the “TRACK” system and coordinate communication throughout the end-to-end process of submission to approval
• Collaborate with International Olympic Committee and US Olympic and Paralympic Properties partners on ongoing feedback, submissions reviews, and issue resolution
• Manage, update, and monitor client tracking tools across all program activation
• Support the team as a center of excellence “one stop shop” on the specifics of the partnership (commercial activation guidelines, contract/category rights, industry trends and developments)
• Update training materials with an eye on continual education and simplifying activation
• Identify best practices in support of stakeholder activation from concept to approval; creating, aligning and managing the education, training, tools, processes and management of the rights activation discipline.
• Create, build, and grow strong mutually beneficial working relationships with partner rights holders (US Olympic & Paralympic Properties, the IOC and IPC)
• Serve as point of contact for select markets/activating stakeholders
• Monitor and maintain tracking of client’s global athlete partnerships
• Collaborate with existing agency teams across all stakeholders, respecting current responsibilities and identifying ways to amplify agency support
• Be an active participant in agency culture, creating strategies to “go beyond the screen” to help solve for gaps in working with colleagues remotely
• Build relationships, collaborate and support international SPORTFIVE colleagues in future Games Host Markets, as well as contributing to new business prospects as relevant.

• Travel for site visits to client headquarters and/or alternate locations as client meetings require.
• Develop…