Senior Manager, Commercial Strategy

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🕒 September 25

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $85k - $95k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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LOVB Minnesota

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2 - 10 employees

⚽ Sports

📚 Education

Sports • Education

LOVB Minnesota is the Minnesota club and market presence of LOVB (League One Volleyball), a national volleyball organization that operates junior clubs, youth tournaments, and a professional pro league launched in 2025. LOVB Minnesota kicked off its inaugural season with a roster combining Minnesota standouts and international players; it sits within a larger network that runs 90 clubs, 105 locations, training centers, thousands of teams, players, and coaches. The LOVB organization also operates a foundation to increase access to volleyball, sells tickets and merchandise, and produces media/insider content for fans.

📋 Description

• Serve as a strategic commercial advisor to LOVB Pro teams, focusing on ticketing and sponsorship performance • Develop and strengthen sales strategies across pricing, inventory management, sales sequencing, lead generation, retention, renewals, and customer acquisition • Analyze League-wide ticketing and sponsorship performance, pacing, sales, attendance, gate receipts, pipelines, and commercial data • Establish ticketing and sponsorship KPIs, benchmarks, dashboards, scorecards, forecasts, and performance reports • Lead ticketing and sponsorship strategy deep dives with teams and develop actionable plans to track progress • Advise teams on ticket sales staffing, sales processes, pipeline management, resource allocation, sponsorship packaging, pricing, positioning, category strategy, and prospecting • Identify successful approaches and create scalable best practices, tools, templates, case studies, and resources • Diagnose commercial challenges and provide practical, measurable action plans • Provide hands-on support during ticket sales launches, renewal campaigns, and major sponsorship initiatives • Conduct market visits and work alongside team commercial staff • Lead League-wide ticketing and sponsorship working groups and support training and professional development • Collaborate with League Marketing, Partnerships, Data & Analytics, Finance, Merchandise, Venue Operations, and other functions

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required • 7+ years of relevant experience in professional sports, entertainment, live events, or a related commercial environment • Significant experience in ticket sales, sponsorship sales/strategy, revenue strategy, or commercial operations, with deep expertise in at least one of ticketing or sponsorship • Experience developing sales strategies, evaluating pipelines, establishing KPIs, and measuring performance against revenue goals • Experience partnering with senior business and commercial leaders • Demonstrated experience using commercial data and insights to influence business decisions and revenue performance • Strong expertise in professional sports ticketing, sponsorship, revenue strategy, or commercial operations • Strong understanding of ticket sales, sponsorship sales, pipeline management, pricing, inventory, and revenue-generation strategies • Strong analytical capabilities and ability to work with commercial data, dashboards, forecasts, KPIs, and performance reporting • Ability to establish benchmarks and translate complex data into clear recommendations for senior leaders • Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships and influence leaders without direct authority • Ability to operate as both a strategic advisor and hands-on problem solver • Exceptional communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills • Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage priorities across multiple teams and workstreams • Experience with ticketing platforms, CRM systems, sponsorship pipeline tools, and commercial reporting systems preferred • Passion for LOVB's mission and commitment to helping teams build sustainable, high-performing businesses

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work environment • Occasional travel to team meetings, planning sessions, business events, and league-related activities • Professional development and training opportunities for team ticketing and sponsorship staff