Job Title: Partnerships Senior Account Manager
Location: Gaydon
Rate: £33.88ph via an Umbrella Company (Inside IR35) or £25.26ph on a PAYE basis
Employment Type: Contract (Currently financed until March 2027)
Hours: Standard 40 Hours Per Week
Reference: J37053344
Position Description:
Defender Rally is part of the Motorsport department and competes in the Dakar Rally and FIA World Rally-Raid Championship.
Motorsport and Defender sits within the CEO / Chief of Staff function and is responsible for all strategy, planning and delivery of successful motorsport activities for both our client’s brands.
Within this function is the Motorsport Partnerships & Sponsorships department whose responsibility includes identifying, sourcing, activation and management of our client’s Motorsport’s commercial partners.
The role is a 12-month maternity cover for a Partnerships Senior Account Manager position, who will have responsibility for management of existing partners and their marketing activation planning, execution and measurement.
Main Responsibilities:
- Management and responsibility for commercial partnership activation within the Motorsport function including marketing, communications, PR, experiential and hospitality activity.
- Responsibility for regular partner status/planning meetings and workshops, including facilitation of senior review meetings
- Partner marketing campaign development and associated PR/Communications activity, including working with Motorsport PR & Communications department on media programmes and partner content development
- Partner brand approvals process management and ongoing review process
- Delivery of partner events and hospitality both at race and away from race environments, working with the Motorsport Events team.
- Annual Rights tracking and management against contractual deliverables for all partners
- Measurement and evaluation, including partner reporting, utilising agency strategy and consultancy team support
- Activation programme and rights fees finance management, invoicing and reporting
- Core process management for partner rights delivery e.g. asset hubs, approval processes
- Support of partner activation including showcars, senior management / driver / team appearances and asset requirements at race and out of race events
Skills, experience and qualifications required
- Proven excellent experience in sports/motorsport sponsorship industry (ideally in managing top tier / title partnerships)
- Excellent communication skills – both spoken and written
- Experience of successful stakeholder management
- Experience of financial planning, budget management
- Experience of successful strategic partnership campaign development
- Strong ability to prioritise a pressured workload to meet tight deadlines
- Proactive, responsive and flexible approach, with the ability to operate outside sphere of prescribed role if required
- Commercially astute – used to working in a global motorsport and sport business environment
- Highly developed negotiation skills
- Experience in communications, PR, social media and/or events and hospitality delivery
- PC Skills & Web-based knowledge
- Ability to drive in the UK
Physical Demands
Flexible working location can be agreed, however will require primary office location to be at, Gaydon, Warwickshire for a minimum of 2-3 days per week.
This position requires some domestic and international travel to partner events, offices and
race events. Due to the nature of competing in a global championship, this role will require infrequent weekend work.
** THIS POSITION IS CONFIRMED INSIDE IR35**
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We are an independent highly-experienced recruitment consultancy dedicated to specialist markets within the Automotive, Aerospace, Agricultural & Construction Industries.
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