Manager, Global Partnerships Strategy

About the role

The Manager of Global Partnerships Strategy plays a central role in supporting the NFL’s Global Partnerships organization through conducting strategic analysis, preparing business plans, and managing detail-oriented communication materials.

Responsibilities

• Support annual business planning and long-range forecasting across core revenue-driving departments
• Conduct market research, category assessments, and competitive analysis across the Sports and Entertainment landscape including clubs, leagues, and top entertainment IP
• Create business cases (e.g., models, presentations) to build support for new commercial opportunities across new channels, categories, and international markets
• Build data-based and well-researched financial models and scenario analyses to help contextualize and influence decision-making across the business
• Translate complex data into insights and actionable recommendations leveraging Excel and other data visualization programs (e.g., Tableau, R)
• Own modeling and scenario analyses around annual business planning and long-range planning in collaboration with NFL Finance
• Partner with Consumer Insights to create materials (e.g., presentations, briefs) to communicate key insights/trends from focus groups, surveys, and market intelligence affecting the NFL Commercial businesses
• Leverage derived insights to build compelling data-backed storylines to help influence Strategic Leadership’s decision-making
• Maintain category intelligence across priority industries for the NFL and its partners, including financial market research and trends impacting NFL partner investment decisions
• Support strategic projects by building key materials to communicate the opportunity for new revenue growth opportunities for NFL Sponsorship business globally
• Attend cross-departmental working groups focused on League-wide strategic initiatives (e.g. International Expansion, Innovation, Flag Football Development) to aggregate insights, opportunities, and considerations that will shape the League’s Commercial Strategy
• Support International commercial teams in interpreting market data, dynamics, and feedback to problem-solve and develop new and relevant selling stories
• Develop executive presentations for League leadership, ownership meetings, and commercial reviews
• Prepare briefing materials to inform and influence NFL leadership’s strategic recommendations and approach
• Present findings to Senior Leaders across the Global Partnerships team as needed
• Support Leadership decision-making through concise storytelling and data visualization leveraging the complete Microsoft Suite including PowerPoint

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 5 years of experience in strategy, consulting, or internal strategy/operations function
• Experience working autonomously with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced and collaborative environment
• Experience supporting executive-level projects and priorities, including working with C-level executives and cross-functional leadership
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including advanced PowerPoint skills and ability to create compelling written communications for executive audiences
• Business case modeling experience with solid understanding of financial concepts
• Desire to work in a fast-paced environment with the ability to deliver accurate work on tight deadlines

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA preferred
• Solid understanding of the marketing, media, technology, and sports industries
• Extensive background in strategy, banking, private equity, or management consulting working across various sectors
• Management experience leading a team of direct reports
• Experience with long-range planning and annual business planning processes
• Superior PowerPoint and Excel modeling
• Excellant attention-to-detail