Corporate Partnerships - Spring Intern

Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (Smi)•Concord, NC

About The Position

This internship opportunity is for individuals who have a strong passion for gaining corporate partnership activation and service experience in a high-pace, motorsports and events-oriented environment. This position will be responsible for assisting the Corporate Partnerships team with relationship building, execution and overall management of the team s corporate partnerships throughout their semester. Interns may work during weekends and potentially travel to either help promote CMS events or help our sister tracks events. The Corporate Partnerships department involves working with clients and sponsors on a national, regional and local level. The department focuses on fully developing integrated marketing partnerships between the client and the speedway. This department seeks 2-3 individuals who are outgoing, creative, highly motivated, can-do individuals and embody our company principles; 1. Care for Your Teammates 2. Be Remarkable 3. Impact Your Community and 4. Continuously Improve. These individuals will partake in some of our many events which include two NASCAR weekends, Super Motocross, two NHRA weekends, World of Outlaws Dirt Racing World Finals, various Music Festivals, Monster Truck Bash, our annual AutoFair and Heritage Car Show, Speedway Christmas and many other ancillary events. Our annual event schedule can be found on our website. Interns must be able to work a minimum of 25 hours per week, plus all events held during their semester. You will be subject to overtime during event weekends.

Responsibilities

Assist Business Development Executives with sales proposals for existing and potential clients, research of companies and other possible sales opportunities
Learn alongside the Corporate Sales BDEs on prospecting, pitching and alongside the Client Services team in executing the partnerships
Support the Client Services team in activating VIP experiences for clients
Create end of event/partnership recaps showing current and potential partners their ROI alongside CS Team
Help execute non-traditional events/facility rentals with furniture and equipment set-ups
Be a key part in data management via our CRM, Salesforce, communicate marketing assets via Basecamp and update our internal Box database
Lead the CMS LinkedIn page via scheduled and organic social posts in partnership with the CMS Social Team
Participate in various weekly meetings and take meeting notes/minutes
Answering inbound phone calls that can potentially involve selling or routing to appropriate departments
All other duties as assigned