Partnership Marketing Manager, Americas

City Football Group Limited•New York, NY

2d•$75,000 - $85,000•Onsite

About The Position

This full-time, permanent role, based in New York City, will focus on driving the activation and growth of Manchester City’s partnership portfolio across the Americas. The position involves connecting global partners to the Club’s rights and assets, shaping integrated campaigns to create value for fans and partners, and supporting the development of scalable marketing platforms for the region. The Partnership Marketing and Operations team works across regions to bring Manchester City’s partnerships to life in authentic, commercially effective, and memorable ways for fans. This involves close collaboration with colleagues across City Football Group to build scalable marketing platforms, create high-quality partner experiences, and enhance the impact of the partnership portfolio in the Americas. The role is central to activating and growing the partnership portfolio, ensuring partners understand the value of their rights and creating opportunities to bring those rights to life through integrated marketing activity. It requires building trusted relationships with partners, agencies, and regional offices to deliver campaigns that align with partner brand and business goals. The position also involves shaping scalable platforms across City Football Group, aligning stakeholders, and monitoring performance to continuously improve partner activity. It is a hands-on role that requires collaboration, ownership, and the ability to manage planning, activation, and evaluation. Domestic and international travel may be required.

Requirements

Experience in partnership marketing, sponsorship, brand marketing or a related agency or commercial environment.
Proven ability to build and manage partner, brand or agency relationships with a clear understanding of business objectives.
Experience developing integrated marketing campaigns or activations across multiple touchpoints.
Ability to work collaboratively across global teams and balance input from a range of stakeholders.
Comfortable managing projects from concept through delivery with a proactive, practical approach to problem-solving.
Experience using performance insight or reporting to evaluate activity and inform future improvements.

Responsibilities

Drive the activation and growth of Manchester City’s partnership portfolio across the Americas.
Connect global partners to the Club’s rights and assets.
Shape integrated campaigns that create value for fans and partners.
Support the development of scalable marketing platforms for the region.
Ensure partners clearly understand the value of their rights.
Create opportunities that bring partner rights to life through thoughtful, integrated marketing activity.
Build trusted relationships with partners, agencies, and regional offices.
Support the delivery of campaigns that reflect each partner’s brand and business goals.
Educate partners on their rights.
Identify new activation ideas.
Turn strategy into practical, high-impact delivery.
Shape scalable platforms across City Football Group.
Align stakeholders.
Monitor performance so that partner activity continues to improve over time.
Manage projects from concept through delivery.
Problem-solve with a proactive, practical approach.
Use performance insight or reporting to evaluate activity and inform future improvements.