Partnership Strategy Executive

YOUR NEW JOB… 

This is a role for someone building their career in a creative, strategic role within sports marketing. You will join our UK Partnership Strategy team, reporting into a Partnership Strategy Manager. The team works across three core areas: brand advisory & consultancy, rightsholder sales & solutions, and talent marketing. You will get hands-on exposure to all three. This role will entail building the research foundations, frameworks and materials that underpin our advisory output.  Over time, as you demonstrate strategic and creative growth, you will be given increasing responsibility to contribute to briefs, client conversations and proposition development.  

AS OUR PARTNERSHIP STRATEGY EXECUTIVE, YOU WILL... 

• Build brand audits, competitor landscapes and audience analyses that feed into client briefs and advisory work 

• Monitor developments across the rightsholder and media landscape - new properties, emerging sports, shifting audience trends 

• Maintain an up-to-date picture of partnership activity across key categories and sectors 

• Support the team's business intelligence needs, liaising with internal insight functions where relevant 

• Help develop partnership propositions and frameworks - translating brand marketing objectives into viable sports partnership routes 

• Support the production of strategy decks, pitch documents and activation concepts to a high standard 

• Assist in distilling complex commercial and marketing information into clear, compelling narratives 

• Support the management of rightsholder relationships - tracking deliverables, coordinating communications and maintaining process 

• Assist with talent brokerage activity, including rights tracking, scheduling and relationship touchpoints 

• Help prepare materials for client and rightsholder meetings, ensuring everything is accurate, on-brand and well-presented Coordinate across internal teams (creative, commercial, insight) to pull together inputs for pitches and proposals 

• Take ownership of administrative and operational tasks that keep the team running efficiently 

WHAT YOU'LL BRING...  

• Strategically and creatively minded - you think about the 'why' behind ideas, not just the 'what', and you have the imagination to bring concepts to life 

• Highly organised - you can manage multiple workstreams effectively

• Genuinely passionate about sport - you understand the landscape, follow developments closely, and care about the industry you are entering 

• A degree ideally within marketing, business, sport, communications or a related field 

• 3-5 years experience exposure to sports marketing, brand partnerships, agency life or sponsorship - through work experience, internships or early career roles 

• Clearly demonstratable interest in brand strategy and commercial marketing 

• Experience creating presentations, written reports or research documents to a professional standard 

• A keen interest and familiarity with the sports landscape  

Don’t fit all the criteria? Don’t worry! Our job adverts give you a flavour of what you can expect in the role, but you don’t have to tick every box. We put a lot of focus on the importance of developing our people, so if you think you’d be a great fit for us then hit apply.  

WHAT YOU’LL GET FROM US...  

As well as the opportunity to join an organisation that invests in and rewards its staff, provides an enjoyable working environment, and offers genuine responsibility and scope to shape a role and add real value, you’ll also get...  

• 25 days annual leave + an additional gifted day over the Christmas period    

• Full Vitality health cover including dental, optical and mental health support     

• Enhanced family leave entitlements   

• Salary sacrifice pension scheme  

• Electric car scheme   

• Cycle to work scheme  

• Hybrid, flexible working model  

• A day off for moving house or getting married   

• Regular social events such as summer and Christmas parties    

• Life assurance at x4 annual salary    

• Employee Assistance Programme