About the Role
Lead the development of commercial narratives, client-facing materials, and strategic business development initiatives to drive growth. This role collaborates with various teams to transform client opportunities into compelling, commercially driven solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead the strategic development of pitches, proposals, and client presentations.
- Translate client objectives into compelling, commercially viable solutions.
- Collaborate with agents, business development, creative services, specialists, and executive leadership.
- Shape strategic recommendations, business objectives, positioning, and client narratives.
- Bring a deep understanding of culture, entertainment, talent, media, and brand marketing.
- Proactively identify opportunities to strengthen client recommendations and business development efforts.
- Lead enterprise positioning across the department, including strategic narrative, presentation approach, flow, and executive messaging.
- Serve as a strategic partner in client meetings, pitch presentations, and business development discussions.
- Shape opportunities, strengthen relationships, and drive commercial outcomes.
- Partner with Creative Services to ensure excellence in design execution, quality control, and final deliverables.
- Design and continuously improve scalable workflows, intake processes, templates, and operating procedures.
- Increase efficiency, consistency, and visibility across the department's business development efforts.
- Maintain and evolve a centralized repository of pitches, proposals, case studies, strategic frameworks, historical work, and best practices.
- Repurpose insights and strengthen future pursuits.
- Act as a strategic thought-leader in building enterprise opportunities.
- Apply cross-category insights to improve recommendations and output.
- Operate with professionalism, discretion, emotional intelligence, and executive presence.
- Adapt to fast-paced and highly collaborative environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalent experience preferred.
- 6+ years of experience in entertainment marketing, brand strategy, business development, or related fields.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills with a collaborative style.
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels with strong oral, written, and presentation skills.
- Commercially minded with a clear understanding of how ideas translate into revenue.
- Strong understanding of the entertainment, media, and cultural landscape.
- Demonstrated cultural fluency and curiosity around emerging trends, creators, talent, IP, and brand partnerships.
- Experience managing complex business development workflows across multiple stakeholders, timelines, and competing priorities.
- Exceptional written communication, storytelling, and strategic thinking skills.
- Demonstrated experience translating complex business challenges into compelling commercial narratives, executive presentations, proposals, and client-facing materials.
- Experience partnering with creative and design teams.
- Experience building scalable systems, processes, templates, and operating models.
- Confident executive presence with experience presenting strategic recommendations in client-facing environments.
- Ability to build credibility with senior internal and external stakeholders.
- Highly detail-oriented with a commitment to accuracy, consistency, and quality.
- Resourceful, proactive, and solutions-oriented.
- Ability to synthesize information and adapt quickly to evolving business needs.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Keynote).
Skills
- Entertainment Marketing
- Brand Strategy
- Business Development
- Commercial Narrative Development
- Client-Facing Materials
- Strategic Business Development
- Strategic Recommendations
- Cultural Fluency
- Talent
- Media
- Brand Marketing
- Enterprise Positioning
- Executive Messaging
- Client Meetings
- Pitch Presentations
- Creative Services Partnership
- Workflow Design
- Process Improvement
- Template Development
- Operating Procedures
- Repository Management
- Storytelling
- Strategic Thinking
- Microsoft Office Suite
Location
- Office (4 days per week)
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 6+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- $112,500 - $150,000 annually
Benefits
- Health care
- Retirement
- Vacation
- Paid time off
- Additional offerings
About the Company
- WME Group is at the center of sports, media, entertainment, and fashion.
- It is a largely relationship-based business.
- Fosters an environment of collaboration, develops future talent, and builds on relationships across leadership, peers, and teams.
Equal Opportunity
- Dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, authentic workplace.
- Encourages applications from candidates whose past experience may not align perfectly with every qualification.
