Senior Manager - Hospitality & Events

1 Month ago • All levels • Events

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Manager - Hospitality & Events role involves working on major sports and entertainment sponsorships, primarily focusing on global Formula 1 (F1) hospitality. Responsibilities include developing event strategies, planning and executing events, managing logistics, vendor relations, and client communication. The role requires frequent travel and flexible hours to accommodate different time zones. The Senior Manager will advise clients, manage budgets, and identify opportunities for business growth, ensuring exceptional corporate hospitality experiences. The role also involves managing on-site vendors, overseeing contractors, and enforcing company and client policies during execution and create client-ready event itineraries, staffing plans, and event recaps
Must have:
  • In-depth knowledge of the event industry and the wider events landscape.
  • Formula 1 experience and understanding of sport/sponsorship.
  • Experience in corporate hospitality management and vendor negotiation.
  • Experience managing and reconciling event budgets and finances.

Job Details

Job Description:

Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world’s leading organizations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, and now present in over 145 countries and regions, it has a proven track record of nurturing and developing innovations, combining the talents of its global network of leadership brands to develop impactful and integrated growth solutions for clients. Dentsu delivers end-to-end experience transformation (EX) by integrating its services across Media, CXM and Creative, while its business transformation (BX) mindset pushes the boundaries of transformation and sustainable growth for brands, people and society.

MKTG Sports & Entertainment is an important part of our world-class offering. MKTG Sports & Entertainment is a global integrated agency that harnesses the power of sports and entertainment to impact human behaviour through meaningful marketing solutions and experiences. Our key differentiator is “knowing people better than anyone else” and using deep consumer insights to establish powerful connections between sports properties and brands.

Across strategy, measurement, content, hospitality and events, we connect the sports and entertainment industry and companies around the work to deliver meaningful marketing solutions and experiences that are truly differentiated. The experiences that we create engage customers, build memorable brands and deliver value.

We are part of Dentsu Sports International, a newly formed global sports network comprised of MKTG Sports + Entertainment, dentsu Sports Analytics and dentsu Sports.

We’re hiring for a Senior Manager – Hospitality & Events to join our team in London

Purpose of the Role

As Senior Manager – Hospitality & Events you’ll work on major sports and entertainment sponsorships with a primary focus on global Formula 1 (F1) hospitality, supporting event strategy and all aspects of planning and successful execution for select Fortune 500 clients on our roster. This is an amazingly diverse position, and you will play an important role on a team that works with clients, external partners, and teammates to develop corporate hospitality across F1 on a global scale.

This role will see you work using your logistical knowledge to deliver against the client’s brief, working on behalf of a sponsor for Formula 1. You will be working as a key part of a wider project team, will work closely with the wider team in the US and have some on track events, so you’ll need to be comfortable and have the ability to travel frequently (both weekdays and weekends) and be flexible with hours of work to accommodate differing time zones.

Key Responsibilities

  • Advise clients on event strategies and project plan and manage all aspects of event planning including logistics, guest experience, venue research and contracting, suppliers, at track logistics, budgeting etc.
  • Planning and completing site surveys, preparing and managing line-item budgets and managing event branding, collateral, on-site materials.
  • Conducting onsite management of corporate hospitality events, with a primary focus on sports and entertainment-related events.
  • Managing on-site vendors, oversee contractors, and enforce company and client policies during execution and create client-ready event itineraries, staffing plans, and event recaps
  • Lead client conference calls, meetings, and design and prepare communications and presentations and manage and communicate project status with account leads, internal team and clients.
  • Identify opportunities for business growth and recommend new strategies to clients and company.

Qualifications + Skills

  • In-depth knowledge of the event industry with a good understanding of the wider events landscape.
  • Formula 1 experience is essential along with an understanding of sport and working within sport/sponsorship.
  • Demonstrable experience in project management and client servicing excellence.
  • Experience in corporate hospitality management; able to both negotiate and manage suppliers, including F&B, creative, signage, audio visual, transportation, etc.
  • A strategic and logical thinker who can provide counsel to our clients and suppliers in delivering best in class solutions.
  • Experience managing and reconciling event budgets and finances; fiscally responsible with success overseeing large budgets and costs in detail.

What we offer

This is a permanent role.

The team is based in our London office but operates under flexible working arrangements.

As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

Inclusion and Diversity

Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures. 

We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams. 

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Location:

London

Brand:

Mktg Sports

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent

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