Associate, Partnerships

Momentum • New York, NY

21h • Hybrid

About The Position

Momentum Worldwide is looking for an ambitious, critical thinker with sponsorship marketing experience and passion for pursuing meaningful insights to impact brand communications. Our Associate, Partnerships will be responsible for providing strategic counsel to guide clients’ sponsorship investments within the world of sport, entertainment & lifestyle. This is an exciting opportunity for innately curious individuals looking to hone subject-matter expertise as part of the fast-growing strategy discipline in an award-winning creative brand experience agency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; preferably in Marketing or a related field of study.
• 1+ years of client leadership/client management and sponsorship experience.
• Knowledge of or desire to learn the sponsorship landscape as it relates to sports, music & entertainment or arts & culture.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Suite, particularly with PowerPoint and Excel.
• Strong verbal & written communication skills; adept at communicating effectively and influencing clients and internal stakeholders.
• Experienced in strategic thinking and ability to see, articulate, and drive to the big picture.
• Passion and solution-orientated approach to problem solving.
• Capacity to storytell through the use of data and insights.
• Ability to perform well in a fast-changing environment with multiple priorities; ability to prioritize and multitask accordingly.
• Displays natural intellectual curiosity – always seeks to understand the “why”.
• Supports Momentum’s “Be One” values – seeks to be a good teammate.
• Contribute to an environment that facilitates mutual respect and partnership across functions, and facilitates innovative thinking, appropriate risk taking, and open lines of communication.

Nice To Haves

• Agency or other relevant sponsorship experience preferred, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Support client deliverables related to sponsorship consulting and industry research & insights.
• Deliverables include: strategic POVs, sponsorship evaluations, property analyses, competitive audits, landscape overviews, and other related work.
• Interpret relevant first and third-party data sets, inclusive of research, and uncover key insights for client consumption.
• Ability to distill findings into digestible takeaways and present recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Liaise and cultivate relationships with client counterparts on any day-to-day work that arises.
• Serve as a point of contact for Business Leadership and other internal stakeholders.
• Identify and support areas of sponsorship tool development or methodological enhancement.
• Support thought leadership initiatives, conducting research and monitoring the industry and landscape based on key advancements and innovations.
• Engage in trend spotting, looking for correlations or relationships between performance factors and outcomes across the sponsorship space.
• Assist various internal and external projects related to both existing clients as well as any growth-focused initiatives (e.g., RFP responses, pitches, presentations).

Benefits

• challenge ourselves professionally
• encourage each other personally
• make our differences matter
• culture where everyone can be their authentic self and speak in their voice
• give each other permission to get things wrong, so we can learn to make them right
• celebrate the bravery of our peers
• collectively responsible
• choosing the sustainable option
• designing waste out from the start
• working with the right materials
• Sourcing locally
• innovating off-the-shelf solutions
• reusing and repurposing
• powering smarter
• Travelling less
• working with vendors who do the same
• becoming the first experiential agency in the world to receive 2 ISO certifications
• value diversity and the uniqueness of all people
• thrive in an inclusive environment
• recruit, hire and promote without regard to race, gender, age, color, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, ethnic or national origin, citizenship, religion, sexual preference, military or veteran status, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability – or any other legally protected categories as set forth in the applicable state, federal or local laws
• This policy applies to all aspects of employment including training, compensation, benefits and all other privileges of employment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level