Arena Partnership Strategy Manager

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Develop partnership concepts, valuation models, and custom sponsorship platforms.
• Create proposals, presentations, inventory summaries, and sales enablement materials.
• Collaborate with sales leadership to identify category opportunities and prospect strategies.
• Conduct research on industry trends, sponsorship benchmarks, and competitive properties.
• Assist in developing integrated partner marketing programs across arena assets.
• Manage, maintain and own asset matrix.
• Cook up with internal departments to gather inventory and package opportunities.
• Develop reporting tools and insights that support partnership performance and sales effectiveness.
• Lead category analysis and target development efforts.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Strong analytical, creative, and strategic thinking skills.
• Advanced PowerPoint and Excel capabilities.
• Experience building client-facing presentations and business cases.
• Excellent communication and project management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Complex reading, writing, math, and task completion skills are required.
• Must have the following skills: clerical, compiling, coordination, analyzing, supervising, following instructions, influencing others, memorization, problem solving, independent judgment, and decision making.
• Must be a minimum of 21 years of age.
• Flexible to work all shifts including holidays, nights, and weekend hours as business needs dictate.

Education And/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 4–6+ years of sponsorship strategy, partnership marketing, consulting, or sports marketing, or any combination of education, training, or experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Certificates And Licenses

• Must be able to maintain appropriate Alcohol Awareness card.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the team member is constantly sitting and standing, and occasionally walking during the duration of their shift.
• Must be able to occasionally push/pull 25lbs or less.
• The team member will occasionally have repetitive use of both hands.

Work Environment

• Work performed consistently indoors; alone and frequently with and around others.
• Team Member will perform work face-to-face including verbal contact with others on extended shifts around computer equipment.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate, and occasionally loud.
• Team Member may be exposed to odor and/or secondhand smoke.