Partnerships Senior Account Manager - 37053344 (1204)

Join a globally recognised automotive brand with a prestigious presence in international motorsport. As a Partnerships Senior Account Manager, you will play a key role in managing high-profile sponsorships and delivering impactful partner activation campaigns across global racing events. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of sport, marketing, and commercial strategy, driving partner engagement and brand visibility within a fast-paced, high-performance environment.

Location:
Gaydon

Outline of Role
Motorsport is part of a wider motorsport department and competes in the Dakar Rally and FIA World Rally-Raid Championship.
The Motorsport function sits within a central leadership structure and is responsible for all strategy, planning and delivery of successful motorsport activities across multiple automotive brands.

Within this function is the Motorsport Partnerships & Sponsorships department whose responsibility includes identifying, sourcing, activation and management of commercial partners.

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.

Main Responsibilities:

• 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 the 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 (ideally in managing top tier / title partnerships)
• 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