Project Manager, Partnerships

Deep Blue Sports & Entertainment•New York, NY

3d•$75,000 - $90,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Deep Blue Sports + Entertainment is a pioneering firm dedicated to advancing the business of women’s sports. We are looking for a Project Manager sitting within the firm’s Agency Services vertical, who is passionate about helping brands expand their investments by managing projects and activations for brands to engage in the growing world of women’s sports. As Project Manager you will lead as the primary builder between internal teams and clients to ensure seamless project execution. The ideal candidate is a go-getter with high expectations for themselves who is hungry for the next opportunity to learn and grow. They are looking for ways to make client account operations stronger and structured, while running projects efficiently. This role demands a unique blend of project management, agency operations, and a passion for women's sports to help drive measurable results for our clients. You will work across a number of projects, likely over one to two brands, spanning from strategy and sponsorship opportunities, to more traditional brand campaigns and partnership activations that position our clients as leaders in the dynamic space of women’s sports. This role will be working out of our NY office two (2) days a week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Requirements

2+ years of experience managing projects in a fast-paced environment (e.g. start-up, advertising agency); additional experience in sports marketing is a plus.
Ability to foster trusting relationships with clients and teammates across functions.
Experience in presenting and owning conversations with clients both directly and as part of an inter-agency environment.
Resourceful, proactive and buttoned-up management skills; comfortable with delegation.
Acute attention to detail.
Effective written, verbal, and visual communion.
Excellent interpersonal skills that encourage cross-coastal team collaboration, and foster trust with clients and teammates.
Familiarity with Google Suite, Slack and Microsoft Office
Open to travel as necessary

Nice To Haves

Experience working on fully-integrated campaigns.
Love ‘never-done-before’ challenges, shifting deadlines and wearing multiple hats.
Genuine desire to learn.
Familiarity with professional women’s sports leagues, NIL, and the key drivers of growth in the industry.

Responsibilities

Manage projects as the central point of communication across all cross-functional teams (internal and external) to help team members prioritize workloads to meet deadlines, and communicate with clients accordingly.
Support Partnerships Manager, Strategy Director and team with day-to-day brand client relationship management and identify and streamline project workflows.
Plan, coordinate, manage and facilitate the workflows of multiple projects to ensure completion on time and within budget.
Develop project timelines based on client milestones and team bandwidth realities, while managing timeline shifts and communicating impact to work streams internally and externally.
Coordinate project meetings and reviews, ensuring clear next steps for clients and internal teams.
Track and update decks and proposals, coordinating with internal teams
Manage the finance process, in partnership with our finance team, across all projects ensuring projects are invoiced and billed on a timeline manner.
Manage and co-develop a process to help work get executed at the highest quality standards.
Ensure the integration of other departments and resources at necessary milestones during the development process (e.g. production, business & legal affairs, etc).
Monitor and enforce project constraints (schedule / scope / resources), raising issues to the Managing Director and Leadership as needed.
Lead and maintain client and internal status meetings and necessary documentation across all project tasks
Co-manage the administrative setup required to establish projects within our systems.
Maintain upkeep of client or project folders and Slack channels.
Keep teams highly motivated.
Keep a pulse on women’s sports industry trends and share finding thoughts with internal teams.