Sponsorship Manager

Job description / Role

• Leads corporate sponsorship benefit fulfillment and fosters long term engagement with corporate partners. Must have the experience and knowledge to fulfill and activate corporate partnerships.
• Develops sponsorship sales decks, brainstorms creative new assets and opportunities
• Solicits in-kind support from prospects and current partners
• Assists with meeting preparation and follow up.
• Oversees an ongoing prospecting database that identifies prospective sponsors in various categories and industries, tracking sponsor activity and competing properties' sponsor/advertiser activity in local, regional markets.
• Analyzes sponsorship results and produces sponsorship fulfillment reports.
• Reconciles revenue tracking with finance team.
• Provides some administrative support for corporate team, such as scheduling meetings, booking meeting rooms, creating agendas, and preparing handouts.
• Attends appropriate industry networking events.
• Coordinates and provides logistical and staffing support at corporate events.

Requirements

• Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, and research skills
• Ability to conceive, plan, and execute Corporate Sponsorship programs
• Creative thinker who is comfortable in front of people
• Knowledge of the local and national corporate community
• Excellent organizational skills and high attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, while meeting all deadlines
• Prior experience working in a performing arts organization highly desirable
• Knowledge and interest in the arts is a plus

About the Company

At Cheil we believe in creating Ideas that Move – people, brands and the world. Our clients choose us for our unique thinking and creativity driven by innovation. Integrated at an operational level, we are able to offer an alternative perspective in digital & programmatic media, retail experience and experiential & live communications. Steered by our fighting spirit of ‘TU:HON’ (achieving the impossible) we have established our largest client, Samsung Electronics, as the most valuable and desired brand globally, and within MENA.

In 2003 we opened our first MENA office in Dubai, UAE. Today, we have a strong local presence throughout the MENA markets and Cheil offices in Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Iran. Looking to the future, we will continue to challenge the status quo across the region’s marketing landscape with a passionate team committed to driving innovation on behalf of our clients.