Bring your professionalism and experience to our team, working in the exciting environment of professional sports sponsorship! As a Partnership Activation Account Manager, you will collaborate on projects to meet and exceed the expectations of our sponsors and uphold the integrity of the Thunder brand. You will provide support in the creation, development and execution of various sponsored initiatives, community relations programs and marketing events, working closely with colleagues across the organization to meet due dates.
The Oklahoma City Thunder's partnership team has a high success rate of building lasting relationships with a wide variety of successful companies. This level of excellence is due in great part to the passion, creativity and intentionality of our outstanding team of account managers.
In this role you will:
Understand the business goals and objectives of each of your portfolio accounts and strategically provide ideas and recommendations to grow their business
Generate ideas for new sponsorship opportunities including but not limited to in-game elements, retail promotions, events, website and media features, signage and meaningful community relations initiatives
Present information to sponsors and internal representatives and respond to questions from managers, clients and the members of the public
Act as a marketing and advertising consultant to sponsor contacts to ensure effective campaigns are crafted and executed using Thunder inventory
Collaborate closely with internal departments such as Broadcasting, Interactive Media and Marketing to drive effective and timely promotional content
Use an established budget to ensure that promotional activations are crafted within the sponsor's fiscal parameters
Successfully collaborate with other Thunder departments to organize and execute special hospitality events at Chesapeake Energy Arena and other locations while adhering to budget guidelines
Play a vital role in maintaining collateral, articles, photographs, newspaper clippings, press releases, statistics, etc. for use in preparing and presenting sponsor recaps to key decision makers during the contract renewal process
Effectively comprehend, organize, and present syndicated research internally and externally for the benefit of partnership development
Serve as an asset to department account executives on daily partnership proposals, implementation and maintenance
Work Thunder game nights and other Thunder events as assigned to execute and monitor sponsor promotions and activities
Manage and track all account history, relationship details and partnership activation details in CRM on a consistent basis
Maintain good attendance and punctuality
Other duties as assigned
Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or Advertising preferred
Minimum 5 years working in sponsorship preferred
Experience in or general knowledge of sales tactics and client relations
Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
Ability to balance multiple tasks with strong attention to detail and listening skills
Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including PowerPoint
Experience with Photoshop is preferred
Bi-lingual fluency in Spanish and English highly beneficial
Phenomenal teammate and can optimally work with many different personality types
Strong time management and administrative skills
Self-motivated and highly dependable with the ability to work independently or collaborate to meet department goals
Additional details:
Work schedule will include office hours as well as evenings, weekends and holidays. Physical requirements of the job may include working long shifts, lifting and carrying boxes, and working games or events that include loud crowd or background noise and flashing lights. This is a full-time, non-exempt position reporting to the Director, Corporate Partnership Activation.