Director, Athlete Marketing

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🔥 12 hours ago

🇮🇹 Italy – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🎡 Marketing

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Wasserman

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2002

🏨 Hospitality

✈️ Travel

⚽ Sports

Hospitality • Travel • Sports

Wasserman is a global company operating at the intersection of sports, music, entertainment, and culture. With its headquarters in Los Angeles and a presence in 28 countries, Wasserman serves talent, brands, and properties worldwide. The company is involved in talent representation, marketing, live events, and brand partnerships, managing major events and providing hospitality services. Wasserman is known for its comprehensive approach to sports and media, working with talents in various fields such as baseball, basketball, and global football. The company also engages in music and entertainment by partnering with artists. It is a significant player in enhancing brand experience through innovative marketing strategies and events.

📋 Description

• Identify and develop endorsement, sponsorship and commercial partnership opportunities for football clients • Build and manage a strong pipeline of opportunities across relevant brands, categories and markets • Develop partnership strategies, pitches and proposals for prospective partners • Lead negotiations on commercial partnerships, delivering positive outcomes for clients and brands • Grow existing relationships and identify opportunities to create sustainable, year-on-year revenue • Use industry relationships and market knowledge to develop new business opportunities • Act as a senior commercial partner to clients, providing strategic counsel on positioning, marketability and long-term partnership opportunities • Develop personalised commercial and marketing plans that strengthen athletes' brands and partnership potential • Build trusted, long-term relationships with clients and their wider teams • Work with brands and partners to develop talent-led solutions for campaigns and activations • Identify partnerships that authentically align with each athlete's profile, interests and ambitions • Build and maintain senior-level relationships with brands, agencies and stakeholders across sports, entertainment and marketing • Represent the business at relevant industry events, conferences and meetings • Facilitate introductions and connections between clients and potential partners • Serve as a senior representative of the business across Italy and international markets • Maintain a strong understanding of developments across football, sports marketing, sponsorship and licensing • Stay informed on consumer, cultural and marketing trends to identify relevant opportunities for clients • Provide strategic insights to inform client positioning, partnership strategies and new areas of opportunity • Collaborate with creative, digital, communications and client teams to develop integrated partnership and marketing strategies • Provide strategic oversight of partnership campaigns and activations, ensuring alignment with client and brand objectives • Review partnership performance and apply learnings to future strategies and opportunities • Provide senior-level commercial expertise across the Partnership function • Collaborate with international offices to develop opportunities across markets • Contribute to the broader growth of the football partnerships business

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience across sports marketing, partnerships, sponsorship, talent representation, sales or a related commercial field • Proven experience developing, negotiating and closing athlete endorsement and brand partnership deals • Strong relationships across brands, agencies and the wider sports marketing industry • Experience managing senior client and stakeholder relationships • Deep understanding of football, athlete marketing and the broader partnership landscape • Strong commercial, business development, negotiation and sales skills • Excellent relationship-building, communication and presentation abilities • Strong strategic thinking with the ability to translate ideas and relationships into commercial opportunities • Ability to manage multiple priorities and relationships in a fast-moving environment • Strong understanding of contemporary marketing, digital platforms, culture and consumer trends • Must be fluent in English and Italian • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Sports Management or a related field is advantageous but not a prerequisite

🏖️ Benefits

• Employment opportunities and benefits • Non-discrimination protections in provision of employment opportunities and benefits