Global Partnership Manager

4 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom European Sponsorship Association Full time

Job Title – Partnership Manager

Location – Stamford Bridge

Hours – Permanent – 35 hours a week (Any 5 of 7)

About Us:

As a member of the Chelsea team, you will become part of a long and proud history in the heart of iconic west London, which dates back to the club's founding in 1905. Since that time, the club has won every major domestic and international trophy, being crowned English, European, and world champions in the process.

Chester are a club that proudly strives to be the best in everything we do, on and off the pitch, as shown by the further success of our Women's and Academy sides, as well as the excellent work in the community undertaken by the Chelsea Foundation, while engaging with our many supporters from a wide range of backgrounds at home in the UK and around the world.

If you're motivated and want to help us win more trophies, you've got a place here at Chelsea.

What We're Looking For:

Chester FC are looking for someone to provide world-class management of Club Partners; delivering industry-leading servicing, maintaining excellent relationships, and delivering against business objectives, ensuring proactive and positive partnerships.

Brief description and duties:

Management of Club Global and Regional commercial Partnerships (accounts to be defined) in line with their business objectives and partnership KPIs, ensuring all contractual rights are delivered in a timely manner and to the highest standard.

Planning, implementation, and evaluation of effective partner campaigns using Chelsea assets and IP. This includes a proactive approach to agreeing objectives and KPIs, campaign ideation, collaborating with the Club's Marketing department to deliver best-in-class both digital and physical campaigns, with detailed reporting and analysis.

Work with the Club's Player Activation team to deliver partners' contracted appearances with the Men's and Women's teams (such as meet & greets, filming/photo shoots, and official Club events).

Managing contracted legend appearances working closely with the Senior Player Activation Manager.

Delivery of relevant partners' activations domestically and in global markets, including CSR programmes, match day experiential, pitch events, and pre-season tours.

Support Partnerships Strategic Lead in building strong partner relationships through a variety of hosting opportunities and encouraging networking and collaboration between partners where relevant.

Work with Partnership representative in international offices to ensure consistency of partner servicing across all territories.

Work with the club's monitoring agency and internal Insights Team and utilize evaluation tools to track partner return on investment and extract insights to advise partners on best use of branded assets and content.

Work with Partnerships Strategic Lead to build best-in-class case studies for use across the Club's Commercial function.

Develop and maintain excellent relationships with all internal stakeholders to ensure partners are successfully integrated across the Club, including partner integration into club marketing campaigns, events, pre-season tours, CSR projects, and player endorsements.

Demonstrate expertise on relevant partners, their industries, and competitors within their category through consistent research and monitoring.

Lead meetings with internal stakeholders, Club partners, their agencies, and other external parties.

Attention to detail when it comes to offering world-class servicing to Club partners, including creating unique experiences and going the extra mile for partners.

Identification of relevant industry news & insights and communication of them to the department.

Support Partnerships Strategic Lead on special projects, partnership events, and in identifying and maximizing commercial opportunities with current and prospective partners.

Must Haves/qualified by demonstrable experience to the level required:

Minimum 3-4 years' experience within the sponsorship/sports marketing industry.

Experience of account managing brands on a global scale.

Experience of activating brand campaigns across social media and digital platforms, with strong knowledge of digital marketing optimization.

Strategic & analytical capability.

A commercial, results-driven individual with entrepreneurial capabilities.

Excellent communication, presentation, and influencing capability.

Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

A proven team player who is calm, professional, works well under pressure, and is diligent and detail-oriented.

Attention to detail is essential.

Willing to work between locations and to be flexible with working hours (including working weekends and international travel).

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion:

At Chelsea, we recognize that the diversity of our people is one of our greatest strengths, and we are taking positive action to ensure our existing colleagues and job applicants can fully be themselves and bring their own unique experiences and perspectives to Chelsea FC. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.

If you need reasonable adjustments made to the recruitment process, please reach out to your recruiter, who will be able to advise and support you.

Chester FC and the Foundation is fully committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of all children, young people, and adults at risk (vulnerable groups). We therefore require all successful applicants to complete a DBS Check prior to starting employment. Depending on the role, successful applicants may also be required to undergo other child protection screening where appropriate.



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