Vp, Brand Solutions Consulting

**About SPORTFI**
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SPORTFIVE is a global sports marketing agency that delivers customer-centric solutions based on trust and transparency, deep industry experience and global relationships, digital intelligence and innovation. SPORTFIVE strategically and creatively connects brands, rights-holders, media platforms and fans to create and enable contemporary partnerships in sports. While creating and growing long-term value for all, SPORTFIVE often leads the sports business into the future through innovative digital solutions and strives to be the most progressive and respected partner in sports.

In the U.S., the agency provides a range of services to prominent professional sports teams and leagues, blue-chip brands marketing in sports and entertainment, and leading media outlets across all its business divisions, including Commercial, Brand Consulting, Digital, Esports and Gaming, Experiential Marketing and Production, Golf (talent representation and event management), and Media.

**Job Title**: Vice President, Brand Sponsorship Consulting

**Primary Work Location**: Charlotte, NC

**Team and Job Overview**

The Vice President will lead account teams across multiple platforms, including a technology client invested across multiple major golf sponsorships which includes a PGA TOUR event title partnership with multiple brand ambassadors. The Vice President will lead the account team leveraging multiple golf, motorsports, and other sports sponsorship assets to drive B2B and B2C client success. Experienced sponsorship expert to drive culture, integrations, and support our developing international sponsorship business. Based in CLT as senior lead in local office along with EVP, Consulting.

**Essential Job Responsibilities**
- Client & Project Management
- Serve as senior strategic and planning contact for partnership marketing clients. This includes, but not exclusive to, audience thought leadership and communication strategy development specific to access points
- Develop and execute asset optimization strategies
- Oversee technology integration opportunities and proactively engage partners for more opportunity.
- Analyze and synthesize relevant qualitative and quantitative program data that clearly demonstrates program performance relative to client objectives. This includes, but not limited to, managing team appropriately to develop comprehensive reporting that allows for measurable success from the outset of programs.
- Interface with client CRM products to build streamlined processes and systems for global activation
- Financials
- Understand and be an active participant in maintaining high-level agency financials (GPM goals, resourcing, ops budgets, staffing, etc.)
- Build and reconcile project-based budgets to achieve target profitability and ensure an efficient use of resources
- Forecast program financials for current program and future growth
- New Business (external & internal)
- Lead New Business development from a client services perspective through management of client relationship, client strategy, creative development, sales operations, and budget development
- Identify and develop business and product opportunities for agency to expand and diversify roster and capabilities

**Minimum Qualifications & Competencies**
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business or a related field
- 10+ years of related work experience, ideally in sports and lifestyle sponsorship marketing
- Knowledge of global sports landscape

**Preferred Qualifications & Competencies**
- People-centric with outstanding interpersonal, written, and oral communications skills
- Strong entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to thrive and stay organized in a fast
- paced setting
- Self-starter with experience balancing business acumen with creativity
- Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Experience working with Salesforce, Adobe Creative Suite, and project management tools (Asana, SharePoint, etc.) a plus

**Job Requirements**
- Domestic travel around 30%
- Works onsite at client events

This document is a guide only and should not be regarded as exclusive or exhaustive. It is intended as an outline indication of the areas of activity and will be amended in the light of changing needs of the organization.

All employees may be required to undertake any other duties as may be reasonably requested.

**Compensation**

**Salary Range: $125,000 - $145,000**
SPORTFIVE is providing the compensation range it might pay for this position. The rate of pay offered will be dependent on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and geographic location.

**Benefits**
Working at
** **SPORTFIVE provides a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision and retirement savings.

Affordable medical premiums starting at $29.43 per month.

Employees start at 10 vacation days per year (increasing with seniorit