About the Role
The Manager of Global Partnerships Strategy supports the NFL’s Global Partnerships organization by conducting strategic analysis, preparing business plans, and managing communication materials. This role partners with leaders across various departments to support the League’s Commercial businesses through data analysis, communication development, and research-driven decision-making. The position offers exposure to senior leadership and opportunities to influence the NFL’s commercial revenue.
Responsibilities
- Support annual business planning and long-range forecasting across core revenue-driving departments.
- Conduct market research, category assessments, and competitive analysis across the Sports and Entertainment landscape.
- Create business cases (e.g., models, presentations) to build support for new commercial opportunities.
- Build data-based and well-researched financial models and scenario analyses.
- Translate complex data into insights and actionable recommendations leveraging Excel and other data visualization programs.
- Own modeling and scenario analyses around annual business planning and long-range planning.
- Partner with Consumer Insights to create materials to communicate key insights/trends.
- Leverage derived insights to build compelling data-backed storylines.
- Maintain category intelligence across priority industries for the NFL and its partners.
- Support strategic projects by building key materials to communicate the opportunity for new revenue growth.
- Attend cross-departmental working groups focused on League-wide strategic initiatives.
- Support International commercial teams in interpreting market data, dynamics, and feedback.
- Develop executive presentations for League leadership, ownership meetings, and commercial reviews.
- Prepare briefing materials to inform and influence NFL leadership’s strategic recommendations and approach.
- Present findings to Senior Leaders across the Global Partnerships team as needed.
- Support Leadership decision-making through concise storytelling and data visualization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum 5 years of experience in strategy, consulting, or internal strategy/operations function
- Experience working autonomously with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced and collaborative environment
- Experience supporting executive-level projects and priorities, including working with C-level executives and cross-functional leadership
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including advanced PowerPoint skills and ability to create compelling written communications for executive audiences
- Business case modeling experience with solid understanding of financial concepts
- Desire to work in a fast-paced environment with the ability to deliver accurate work on tight deadlines
- MBA preferred
- Solid understanding of the marketing, media, technology, and sports industries
- Extensive background in strategy, banking, private equity, or management consulting working across various sectors
- Management experience leading a team of direct reports
- Experience with long-range planning and annual business planning processes
- Superior PowerPoint and Excel modeling
- Excellent attention-to-detail
- Proactive
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
- Superior problem-solving abilities and resilient nature
- Must be highly resourceful and adaptable
- Ability to tell a meaningful story through data
- Experience negotiating deals and/or managing strategic partnerships
- Effective collaboration, interpersonal, communication and influencing skills
- Diligent, persistent, and enthusiastic
Skills
- Strategic analysis
- Business plan preparation
- Communication materials management
- Data analysis
- Strategic thinking
- Market intelligence
- Financial analysis
- Structured problem-solving
- Excel
- Tableau
- R
- PowerPoint
- Microsoft Suite
Location
- Onsite at an NFL office or stadium location
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Manager
- Minimum 5 years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree
- MBA preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $95,000—$110,000 USD
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits offerings
About the Company
- The NFL is committed to building an inclusive work environment that reflects our incredible fan base.
- NFL Core Values: Respect, Integrity, Team Responsibility, Resiliency.
- NFL Leadership Attributes: Build Talent, Execute, Inspire, Live Our Values, Know the Business, Think Big.
Equal Opportunity
- We provide an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all employees and applicants without regard to status as protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.
