Sponsorship Sales Lead

Two Circles is seeking a Sponsorship Sales Lead to manage high-profile sponsorship deals for global sports and entertainment brands. This role involves proactively sourcing and engaging potential sponsors, building relationships with decision-makers, and successfully negotiating and closing significant sponsorship agreements. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in delivering sizeable sponsorship deals within the sports or entertainment industry, demonstrating strong influence, persuasion, and negotiation skills.

Must Have

• Lead high profile sponsorship deals globally.
• Proactively source and engage potential sponsors.
• Manage and build trusted relationships with global brand decision makers.
• Influence senior business decision makers across sectors.
• Execute competitive processes and negotiate high-profile deals.
• Track record of delivering multiple sizeable sponsorship deals in sport or entertainment.
• High levels of influence, persuasion, and negotiation experience.

Description

We are Two Circles. We grow audiences and revenues for the world’s leading sports and entertainment businesses. We help our clients know fans best. From 15 international offices Two Circles manages billions of fan data interactions on behalf of over 950 clients around the globe, with more insight into fan behavior and desire than any other organization. Client's include NFL, Premier League, Wimbledon, World Rugby, EA SPORTS and UEFA.

Our Rights Management division acts as a commercial sales resource for iconic sports and entertainment brands globally. A pioneering rights-sales capability, successfully marketing the unique emotion of sport & entertainment to drive commercial results for rights-owners and record impact for brands.

We have led and closed over $2.5bn in sponsorship rights for some of the world's biggest sports properties, including recent record-breaking deals for UEFA Women’s Football, the All Blacks and Mercedes F1.

We aim to optimize revenues for our clients whilst allowing each to avoid the long-term fixed costs associated with maintenance of large in-house sales teams. We are focused on solving problems and not selling assets, and we are ambitiously expanding our clients, geographies and our sales team.

We're looking to hire a proven sponsorship sales professional into the position of Sponsorship Sales Lead.

Requirements

• In this role you will lead high profile sponsorship deals on behalf of premium rights holders globally.
• You will be required to pro-actively source and engage potential sponsors on behalf of clients across a range of categories and geographical regions; select and qualify prospects, securing in person meetings and build relationships
• You will manage and build trusted relationships with decision makers at global brands around the World
• Build relationships and influence senior business decision makers across different sectors and markets across the world.
• Successfully execute competitive processes, resulting in the negotiation and conclusion of high-profile sponsorship deals.
• We'd like the successful candidate to have a track record of delivering multiple sizeable sponsorship deals with premium global rights holders in sport or entertainment.
• We're looking for high levels of influence and persuasion, and experience in negotiation.