Partnerships Executive

Two Circles is a Sports & Entertainment Marketing business focused on growing audiences and revenues for clients by understanding fan behavior. This Partnerships Executive role involves managing existing partner portfolios for a cricket client, collaborating with commercial partners to deliver innovative and effective partnerships, coordinating with internal teams for campaigns, overseeing player content, attending matches, managing budgets, and supporting partner evaluations.

Must Have

• Collaborating with clients' key commercial partners to deliver innovative and effective partnerships.
• Working alongside Partnership Managers, partners and their agencies to set partnership objectives and KPIs.
• Developing and implementing annual activation plans, measured accurately via an agreed framework.
• Coordinating with Marketing, Digital, Events, and Communications teams to support partner campaigns.
• Overseeing player content and appearances to achieve partner and client objectives.
• Attending matches throughout the summer as part of the event delivery team and hosting partners.
• Managing partner servicing budgets.
• Supporting on the development and delivery of objective-led partner evaluation presentations.
• Dedicated to providing outstanding client service to partners.
• Experience in executing high profile partnerships.
• 1-2 years' experience in a client facing role, ideally working on major partnerships and activating.
• Understanding of core marketing principles, digital and fan engagement.
• Strong interpersonal skills, fostering excellent relationships.
• Highly organised, flexible and pays great attention to detail.
• Project, planning, time management and multi-tasking skills with the ability to work under pressure.
• Excels at collaborating with various stakeholders across the business.

Perks & Benefits

• Renowned Team Days often throughout the year
• Summer Away Days
• 23 standard days of holiday (+ 1 Birthday, +2 for a ‘Big Life Event' and +1 Admin Day), closure of office over Christmas (plus Bank Holidays)
• Discretionary Bonus based on company performance
• Performance Reviews every 6 months with discretionary salary increases
• Private healthcare (Vitality) and/or Health Care Plan (Medicash)
• Mobile phone contribution
• Sport Challenge contribution
• Gym membership contribution
• 2x annual kit drops

Description

We are Two Circles. We are a Sports & Entertainment Marketing business. We grow audiences and revenues. We do that by knowing fans best. We work with clients to help them understand & influence what their fans are doing – the way fans spend their money, the events that fans attend, the channels fans respond to, the content fans watch and more. And we use the understanding this gives us to help our clients grow. Grow their audiences and grow their revenues - both direct to consumer and business to business revenues. Our platforms and services are trusted by over 1000 clients globally, including the English Premier League, Red Bull, UEFA, VISA, the NFL, Nike and Amazon. We are over 1000 people, based out of 15 offices, and we deliver work for sports and entertainment businesses of all shapes and sizes all over the world.

Join Our Dynamic Team as a Partnerships Executive!

We have an exciting opportunity for a Partnerships Executive to join us! This role will be working closely with one of our longest standing cricket clients, to help manage their existing portfolio of partners.

Requirements

What you'll be getting up to:

• Collaborating with our clients' key commercial partners to deliver innovative and effective partnerships.
• Working alongside Partnership Managers, partners and their agencies to set partnership objectives and KPIs, develop and implement annual activation plans, which are all measured accurately via an agreed framework
• Coordinating with our clients Marketing, Digital, Events, and Communications teams to support partner campaigns, ensuring alignment with departmental strategies, partner objectives, and engagement with target audiences.
• Overseeing player content and appearances to achieve both partner and client objectives.
• Attending matches throughout the summer as part of the event delivery team and hosting partners
• Managing partner servicing budgets.
• Supporting on the development and delivery of objective-led partner evaluation presentations.

Requirements:

• You are dedicated to providing outstanding client service to partners and have experience in executing high profile partnerships.
• You have 1-2 years' experience in a client facing role, ideally working on major partnerships and activating, and you possess an understanding of core marketing principles, digital and fan engagement which in turn deliver against collaboratively set partner objectives
• You exhibit strong interpersonal skills, fostering excellent relationships at day to day levels within stakeholder organisations.
• You are highly organised, flexible and pay great attention to detail.
• Project, planning, time management and multi-tasking skills with the ability to work under pressure.
• You excel at collaborating with various stakeholders across the business, both internally and externally.

Benefits

• Renowned Team Days often throughout the year
• Summer Away Days
• 23 standard days of holiday (+ 1 Birthday, +2 for a ‘Big Life Event' and +1 Admin Day), closure of office over Christmas (plus Bank Holidays)
• Discretionary Bonus based on company performance
• Performance Reviews every 6 months with discretionary salary increases
• Private healthcare (Vitality) and/or Health Care Plan (Medicash)
• Mobile phone contribution
• Sport Challenge contribution
• Gym membership contribution
• 2x annual kit drops