This position will assist ZTE USA's Sponsorship Marketing team leader in the development, coordination and implementation of marketing plans for the sport marketing and entertainment marketing programs. Moreover, this role will actively contribute to achieving the team's objectives and targets through supporting the administration, development and management of programs and campaigns in various sponsorships.
Responsibilities:
Assist ZTE USA's Sponsorship & Entertainment Marketing team leader in the implementation of marketing plans for sponsorship projects
Manages strategy of sports marketing program, working with outside partner (sports team, entertainment marketing agencies, public relations) and internal teams to ensure consistency and achieve measurable results in all aspects of the program
Provides daily management and oversight of ZTE Sponsored team and athletes, including: ensuring timely adherence to all contractual obligations such as social space content obligations, photo and video shoots, and trade show and event appearances
Assist in the execution of corporate sponsorship contracts, arranges and tracks payments
Assembles project and event reports by compiling, consolidating, formatting, and summarizing information, graphs, and presentations
Assist in creating marketing materials which include presentations, company newsletters,
Researches best in class in sports marketing, events and content. Including creative, future thinking
Works with ZTE marketing managers and events team to leverage partnerships for event
Works to leverage strategic partnerships for content and other benefits to ZTE marketing activities
Maintains partnership relationships
Minimum of 2-4 years’ experience working in athlete/ sports event management,
Rich experience in social media marketing (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc.)
Sound knowledge of how to best leverage social media channels to activate sports sponsorship
MUST be a Sports (basketball, golf, soccer, football, etc) lover
Experience with Athlete/Team management, Contract negotiations, Project management,
Bachelor’s Degree, Sports Management preferred
Sound knowledge of marketing principles, knowledge of sports and entertainment industry
Willingness to work evenings and weekends, Desire to work in the sponsorship and events arena
Ability to travel up to 40-50% domestically and internationally
Able to juggle a number of tasks at once and consistently to deliver high-quality work to timescale
Time management, fixing priorities, organizing skills, attentiveness, accuracy in performance
Exceptional ability to foster relationships, while simultaneously moving the business forward
Experience working effectively in complex global organizations, satisfying the needs of diverse constituents, and often working under the pressure of competing and sometimes conflicting priorities
Global business knowledge with cross culture agility
Proficient in Microsoft Applications
