Motorsport Partnerships Senior Account Manager – 37345673 (1299)

An exciting opportunity for a Motorsport Partnerships Senior Account Manager to join a world-class motorsport team in Warwickshire, managing high-profile commercial partnerships and delivering innovative sponsorship activation programmes across global racing events. This role focuses on partner relationship management, marketing activation, PR and communications, hospitality, events, campaign delivery, and performance reporting, ensuring maximum value for partners and stakeholders. Ideal for candidates with experience in motorsport sponsorship, sports marketing, partnership management, brand activation, and commercial account management within a fast-paced sporting or motorsport environment.

Location: Warwickshire

Duties:
The role is a 12-month maternity cover for a Partnerships Senior Account Manager position, who will have responsibility for management of existing partners and their marketing activation planning, execution and measurement.

Duties will include:

• Management and responsibility for commercial partnership activation within the Motorsport function including marketing, communications, PR, experiential and hospitality activity.
• Responsibility for regular partner status/planning meetings and workshops, including facilitation of senior review meetings
• Partner marketing campaign development and associated PR/Communications activity, including working with Motorsport PR & Communications department on media programmes and partner content development
• Partner brand approvals process management and ongoing review process
• Delivery of partner events and hospitality both at race and away from race environments, working with the Motorsport Events team.
• Annual Rights tracking and management against contractual deliverables for all partners
• Measurement and evaluation, including partner reporting, utilising agency strategy and consultancy team support
• Activation programme and rights fees finance management, invoicing and reporting
• Core process management for partner rights delivery e.g. asset hubs, approval processes
• Support of partner activation including showcars, senior management / driver / team appearances and asset requirements at race and out of race events

• Proven excellent experience in sports/motorsport sponsorship industry
• Excellent communication skills - both spoken and written
• Experience of successful stakeholder management
• Experience of financial planning, budget management
• Experience of successful strategic partnership campaign development
• Strong ability to prioritise a pressured workload to meet tight deadlines
• Proactive, responsive and flexible approach, with the ability to operate outside sphere of prescribed role if required
• Commercially astute - used to working in a global motorsport and sport business environment
• Highly developed negotiation skills
• Experience in communications, PR, social media and/or events and hospitality delivery
• PC Skills & Web-based knowledge
• Ability to drive in the UK