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Corporate Sponsorship Strategist, Director

Prudential

Newark, NJ

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Job Description

Posted On: October 28, 2021


Prudential’s Marketing Organization is integral to the growth of the company, driving deep understanding of customers and delivering experiences that achieve exceptional business outcomes. Come be part of a diverse team of marketers who are passionate about putting customers at the center of everything we do and making their lives better by solving the financial challenges of a changing world.


Sponsorship Strategy:

  • Ability to build out sponsorship and activation strategy framework
  • Develop deep understanding of Prudential’s business and marketing needs to deliver confident recommendations that engage and inspire
  • Knowledge of social and branded content best practices, trends and understands ways to meaningfully incorporate into executions
  • Create a constant stream of insights and thought starters through thoughtful analysis of business/brand, category, consumer and cultural trends that highlights opportunities for Prudential and inform actionable experiential activations
  • Provide strategic multicultural guidance
  • Participate in, and contribute to, brainstorm discussions to identify tactics that effectively communicate with target audiences and support strategy
  • Collaborate with Sponsorship team on internal briefing development, research and reporting
  • Show initiative and add value throughout projects and across various marketing teams
  • Proven success in working on purpose-drive campaigns and sponsorship initiatives
  • Assist with the setup of sponsorship proposal intake technology to select new partners: creating questionnaires, developing criteria and reporting model
  • Participate in RFP creation and responses
  • Create data-driven point-of-view evaluations and overall recommendations on potential partnerships


    Enterprise-wide Sponsorship Strategy Support:

  • Contribute to and support Prudential’s sponsorship strategy development across the enterprise
  • Forge strong working partnerships with key cross-functional stakeholders that can include internal Brand, Marketing, Creative, Inclusive Solutions, Corporate Communications and Analytics teams to complete cross-team projects successfully


    Measurement / Performance:

  • Ability to conceptualize and execute analytical approaches to sponsorship measurement
  • Collaborate with Vice President and Director Corporate Sponsorship in creating an on-going performance model to assess the effectiveness and impact of current partnership
  • Develop and deliver insightful analysis around event and overall sponsorship performance to drive optimization and negotiation / renewal conversations
  • Create and present weekly, monthly and quarterly reports


    Required Skills

  • A minimum of 5-7 years relevant marketing, agency or sponsorship strategy experience
  • A minimum 3-4 years working on multicultural brands or campaigns
  • Bachelor's degree in a related discipline or equivalent work experience
  • Proficient at communicating objectives, and guiding peers to successful resolutions
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Ability to handle several projects at a time, at various stages of progress
  • Experience with market research tools and data with skills to translate into insights and business narratives
  • Proven marketing success in creating new sponsorship platforms to support brand and business objectives
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate clearly and effectively with senior level stakeholders
  • Experience in developing creative sponsorship strategies and presentations including, but not limited to, an eye for design and understanding how to communicate visually
  • Be curious, with a thirst for understanding human behavior and the influences that shape consumer choice
  • Knowledge of social/digital media marketing is ideal
  • Ability to work in a virtual environment
  • Some travel will be required once travel restrictions are lifted and we return to in person events
  • Proactive self-starter with ownership mentality
  • Out-of-the-box thinking to grow brand awareness and affinity