Intersport, a leader in sports, entertainment, and lifestyle marketing and media for more than three decades, provides expertise in the areas of:
Agency Services: brand consulting, creative, content production, digital, experiential marketing, field marketing, hospitality, performance marketing, social media marketing, and sponsorship consulting
Properties – owned-and-operated live sports and lifestyle events and media assets airing on broadcast and digital networks
Responsibilities
Intersport is seeking to add a smart and driven Coordinator, Strategic Partnerships to its Strategic Partnerships team, in support of Intersport’s Golf vertical. The Strategic Partnerships team leads revenue generation efforts through sponsorship, media, and ticket sales efforts.
The Coordinator will be responsible for generating revenue across Intersport’s portfolio of owned-and-operated live sports events, with a specific focus on the Golf vertical. The right candidate will have proven success in sponsorship sales, relationships with key clients nationally, and the ability to create new relationships among buyers. The right candidate must possess a consultative selling approach and be able to detail success in having sold high level sponsorship agreements.
Responsibilities
General
Embody and reflect Intersport’s performance-based culture
Commit him/herself to the highest standards of executional excellence
Business Development
Provide expertise in assigned properties, inclusive of comprehensive and detailed knowledge of a wide breadth of integrated rights and benefits (i.e. assets) and be able to conceptualize and sell-in creative activation concepts that meet the business and brand objectives of partners and prospective partners
Prospect, pitch, and close sponsorship and media agreements with clients and agencies nationally
Provide high-level, peer-to-peer executive level client engagement among signed partners
Team Management
Work collaboratively with all members of integrated team
Manage, train, and mentor junior-level staff in sales support and partner servicing roles
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree
Minimum of two (2) years’ full-time experience in sponsorship and/or media sales, preferably in basketball sales
Strong understanding of the sales process with a passion for pitching and closing new business
Ability to detail a history of having sold numerous six-, seven-, and eight-figure sponsorship and/or media sales agreements
Current key relationships with sponsorship and/or media buyers at clients and agencies nationally
Ability to develop new relationships with sponsorship and/or media buyers
Exemplary verbal and written communication skills with high-level presentation ability
Flexibility to work both independently and collaboratively in an entrepreneurial environment
Proficiency in PowerPoint, Word, Excel
Intersport is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Seniority level
Associate
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Marketing and Project Management
Industries
Marketing Services
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