Account Manager - Sports

JLB; England; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sports and entertainment agency in the UK is seeking a Principal Consultant EMEA. The role involves managing sponsorship campaigns and liaising with clients to ensure effective delivery of partnerships. Candidates should have agency experience, strong interpersonal skills, and a creative approach to account management. This position offers the opportunity to work with flagship accounts in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Agency or in-house experience is a must.
• Experience in marketing and partnerships is preferred.
• Strong interpersonal and client servicing skills required.

Responsibilities

• Assist Account Lead with day-to-day operations.
• Plan campaigns and generate ideas.
• Manage partnership rights and ensure full delivery.

Skills

Agency or in-house experience

Marketing and partnerships experience

Strong interpersonal skills

Experience managing experiential activations

Creative flair

Confident presentation skills

Job description

Principal Consultant EMEA at JLB | Sports, Media & Entertainment

THE OPPORTUNITY

Our client, a world leading entertainment and sports agency, is seeking a capable and confident partnerships operator. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate their understanding and capabilities managing 360 sponsorship campaigns across a range of disciplines including rights management, experiential, digital, content and communications.

This is an exciting role servicing two flagship accounts with partnerships across entertainment, lifestyle and sport. Working alongside an Account Director, the Account Manager will need to draw upon their knowledge and experience in sports and entertainment marketing, to help advise and guide the client from partnership strategy to creative and impactful activations.

They are looking for someone that can not only demonstrate the requisite organisational skills and attention to detail to manage an account but also has the confidence and passion to bring fresh and innovative ideas to the table that will help capture the attention and imagination of the relevant audiences. The successful candidate will join their award winning London team and support across partnerships for key clients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assisting Account Lead with day-to-day operations of account
• Campaign planning, research and idea generation
• Effective management of partnership rights ensuring they are fully delivered, activated, and measured
• Event management and logistics including experiential, content shoots and supporting the talent and advocacy team with appearances and integration into activations and campaigns
• Marcomms including socials management
• Account administration, budget tracking and client reporting
• Client, stakeholder and supplier liaison
• Support Global markets on best practice activation of the partnership
• Monitoring latest trends in brand activation, sustainability, digital and technology to drive forward the accounts
• Networking events and supporting with business development when required

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

• Must have agency or in‑house experience
• Marketing and partnerships experience is preferable, including exposure to strategic decision making, campaign planning, communications, asset development and amplification, hospitality and event management
• Experience managing experiential, on the ground activations and events preferred
• Strong interpersonal skills and best in class client servicing, account handling and project management
• Global experience liaising with markets is advantageous
• Must have an organised and detail-oriented approach with the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Team player with the ability to work autonomously
• Creative flair with a passion for ideas and innovative thinking
• Confident presentation skills, verbal and written with a strong attention to detail