EU remote
Director of Partnership Strategy
About this role
We are Two Circles. We grow audiences and revenues. We do that by knowing fans best. We work with clients to help them understand & influence what their fans are doing – the way fans spend their money, the events that fans attend, the channels fans respond to, the content fans watch and more. And we use the understanding this gives us to help our clients grow. Grow their audiences and grow their revenues - both direct to consumer and business to business revenues.
Our platforms and services are trusted by over 900 clients globally, including the English Premier League, Red Bull, UEFA, VISA, the NFL, Nike and Amazon. We are almost 1000 people, based out of 14 offices, and we deliver work for sports and entertainment businesses of all shapes and sizes all over the world. Our Rights Management division acts as a commercial sales resource for iconic sports and entertainment brands globally.
A pioneering rights-sales capability, successfully marketing the unique emotion of sport to drive commercial results for rights-owners and record impact for brands. We have led and closed over USD 3bn in sponsorship rights for some of the world's biggest sports properties, including recent record-breaking deals for UEFA Women’s Football, Mercedes Formula 1, Arsenal Football Club, the Kentucky Derby, Philadelphia Phillies, Seattle Reign and more.
We aim to optimize revenues for our clients while allowing each to avoid the long-term fixed costs associated with maintenance of large in-house sales teams. We are focused on solving problems and not selling assets, and we are ambitiously expanding our clients, geographies and our sponsorship sales team. ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES We're looking to hire a Director of Partnership Strategy who will work with an NFL client to support their sponsorship team through the implementation and execution of a sales support remit.
Who you are: -Ideal candidates have 5+ years of relevant experience in a sports, marketing, partnerships, sales or business development setting and a track record of building strong internal & external relationships. -Strong understanding of the sports industry, and particularly the sponsorship environment. -Experience working within a team setting and balancing multiple projects/responsibilities/deliverables for our client at once is crucial for the role.