Senior Sponsorship Delivery Manager (Contractor)

GSMA; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Senior Sponsorship Delivery Manager to lead the execution of sponsorship agreements across a global events portfolio. This role offers a unique opportunity to work closely with diverse departments while ensuring client satisfaction and maximizing their investment returns. The ideal candidate will have a passion for client relations and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Join a team committed to innovation and excellence in delivering world-renowned events, where your contributions will directly impact success and growth.

Benefits

Flexible Working Hours

Professional Development Days

Competitive Compensation

Diverse and Inclusive Work Environment

Qualifications

• Experience in sponsorship management or partnership marketing.
• Strong project management capabilities with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end delivery of sponsorship rights and obligations.
• Serve as primary contact for key sponsors, ensuring satisfaction.
• Collaborate with various teams to integrate sponsorship elements.

Skills

Sponsorship Management

Client Relationship Management

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Communication Skills

Commercial Awareness

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Relevant Certification in Project Management

Tools

Salesforce

MS Teams

Asana

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

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Department: Strategy & Operations

Team: Elite Client Management & Sponsorship Delivery

Location: London

Position type: Contractor inside IR35 (from May/June until December 2025)

What The Hiring Manager Says

‘‘As we continue to grow and innovate our Sponsorship offering across our global events portfolio, I am looking someone who has a passion for working with clients and collaborate with multiple internal stakeholders on product delivery. This is a challenging and fast paced role and requires someone who is highly organised, has meticulous attention to detail, can learn quickly and be able to multi task. The successful candidate must have exceptional communication skills in order to coordinate across departments and manage external clients seamlessly. This role offers a dynamic opportunity to contribute to the success and growth of world renown events, by ensuring clients receive a return on their investment and supporting them in achieving their objectives.”

Rachael Clark, Head of Elite Client Management and Sponsorship Delivery

About The Team

The role would be part of a 9 person team but is uniquely positioned to work with a broad range of departments across the business on a day to day basis. The Elite Client & Sponsorship team is responsible for the management and delivery of revenue generating products across the MWC and M360 events portfolio.

Working closely with the Sales Team, Heads of Events and delivery teams, the team will ensure client satisfaction across current products and programmes and turn new concepts and into viable and continuous revenue generating activities. The team works proactively to help customers gain the most value from their investment by establishing long term relationships and acting as trusted advisors.

About The Role

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Sponsorship Delivery Manager to lead the execution and fulfilment of sponsorship agreements across our events portfolio. This role will work on two or three of our events and will be part of a 9 person global team. The role is uniquely positioned to work with a broad range of departments across the business on a day to day basis.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Sponsorship Fulfilment: Oversee the end-to-end delivery of all sponsorship rights and obligations, ensuring timely and high-quality execution
• Client Relationship Management: Serve as the primary point of contact for key sponsors, maintaining exceptional communication and fostering trust and satisfaction
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Collaborate with marketing, events, digital, content, legal, and finance teams to ensure sponsorship elements are integrated into wider business operations
• Team Leadership: Mentor junior team members, provide guidance on project management best practices, and contribute to a culture of excellence and accountability
• Reporting & Analysis: Track and report on sponsorship performance using KPIs, ROI metrics, and post-campaign analysis. Prepare presentations and reports for both internal stakeholders and sponsors
• Continuous Improvement: Recommend enhancements to sponsorship strategies, tools, and processes to improve efficiency, innovation, and partner value
• Ability to travel internationally for event delivery
  
  

About You

• Demonstrable experience in sponsorship management, partnership marketing, brand activations, or related fields, preferably in an events environment
• Excellent stakeholder management and client service skills, with the ability to manage high-profile relationships
• A can-do attitude and great team player who foster great relationships both internal and external
• Strong project management capabilities, with a keen eye for detail and deadlines
• Commercial awareness and ability to understand and interpret sponsorship contracts and deliverables
• Confident communicator with outstanding presentation, writing, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment with multiple concurrent priorities
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite; experience with CRM and project management tools (e.g., Salesforce, MS Teams and Asana)
  
  

Contract type

Short term Contractor

Worker type

Contingent Worker

What We Offer

Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.

In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.

To learn more about the GSMA, visit our career site, our LinkedIn page and our Twitter page.

Being You at the GSMA

We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We're keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The sucess of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.

GSMA Values

Our values not only drive our culture – they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.

Passionately driven

We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.

Insightful leaders

We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight and creativity so that we’re always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility and nuance.

Stronger together

We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us, embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own, fuelling each other’s successes and constantly asking how we can help.

Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we’re at our best – we are collaborative, considerate and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we aren’t at our best and the pressure is on – we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management and Information Technology

• Industries

  Telecommunications

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