Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Tailor your resume to this Sr. Director, Partnership Development role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against rEvolution Marketing's job description. Free.
Tailor your resume to this Sr. Director, Partnership Development role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against rEvolution Marketing's job description. Free.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Sr. Director, Partnership Development posting at rEvolution Marketing — free, in seconds.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Sr. Director, Partnership Development posting at rEvolution Marketing — free, in seconds.
About the Role
Drive revenue growth through the acquisition of new brand and rightsholder clients across global markets. Lead strategic business development initiatives, cultivate C-suite relationships, and develop and pitch integrated marketing solutions leveraging sports, entertainment, experiential, digital, and content platforms.
Responsibilities
- Identify, develop, and close new business opportunities with brands, rights holders, media partners, and event organizers.
- Consistently achieve and exceed annual revenue and sales targets.
- Build and maintain a robust pipeline of qualified prospects across priority industry sectors.
- Lead all aspects of the sales process, including prospecting, solution development, proposal creation, negotiation, and contract execution.
- Develop customized partnership strategies that align client business objectives with agency capabilities and assets.
- Use your network of Senior Marketing Director and C-suite industry contacts to generate meetings with prospective clients, turning meetings into RFPs and closing sales.
- Partner closely with strategy, consulting, activation, creative, analytics, and account teams to develop compelling client solutions and pitches.
- Collaborate with agency leadership to identify growth opportunities, market trends, and emerging categories.
- Drive best practices in sales methodology, CRM utilization, forecasting, and pipeline management.
- Maintain a strong understanding of the global sports, entertainment, and media landscape.
- Monitor industry trends, sponsorship investments, consumer behavior, and competitive activity.
- Identify emerging opportunities across sports properties, leagues, teams, athletes, venues, and media platforms.
Requirements
- 10 years of experience, including a proven track record of supporting business development for a sports marketing agency, professional sports team, league or entity in a senior-level role.
- A significant network of senior, marketing director and C-Suite industry contacts to generate meetings with prospective clients, turning meetings into RFP and closed deals.
- A deep understanding of the business of sports marketing, and direct experience with Formula 1 racing either working directly with a team or via a sponsor relationship.
- Excellent decision-making and negotiation skills.
Skills
- Sponsorship sales
- Sports marketing
- Brand partnerships
- Consultative selling
- Business development
- CRM utilization
- Forecasting
- Pipeline management
Location
- London
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior-level
- 10 years of experience
Benefits
- 25 days holidays per year plus national bank holidays
- Healthcare/Dental/Vision plan
- Company pension scheme
- Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave coverage
About the Company
- rEvolution is a leading global sports marketing agency.
- Founded in 2001 with a focus on representing brands in sports, we provide our clients with a full-service marketing approach, including sponsorship consulting, media planning and buying, creative production and design, experiential marketing, hospitality, public relations, social media and data & insights.
- At rEvolution, we pride ourselves on delivering award-winning business-building marketing, strategic consulting and media programs for our brand clients that are widely recognized throughout the global sports industry.