Senior Director, Entertainment & Sports

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Formulate strategies for entertainment and sports partnerships tailored for healthcare, health, and wellness client accounts.

• Seek out and assess opportunities with properties, teams, leagues, talent, rights holders, and other industry collaborators.

• Convert client goals, audience insights, and cultural developments into partnership frameworks and activation concepts.

• Spearhead the sourcing of opportunities, valuation, proposal creation, rights packaging, negotiation, contracting assistance, and activation planning.

• Create business cases and recommendations that balance brand impact, audience relevance, budget considerations, risk, and measurable value.

• Collaborate with legal, finance, creative, strategy, experiential, influencer, social, and media teams.

• Supervise partnership activation and optimization, ensure compliance with contractual rights usage and brand requirements.

• Provide counsel to assigned client accounts and deliver partnership recommendations.

• Cultivate and sustain relationships within the entertainment and sports industries.

• Assist with new business pitches, proposals, and organic growth initiatives.

• Enhance entertainment and sports resources, partner networks, evaluation tools, case studies, and best practices.

• Represent Real Chemistry at industry events and share expertise with colleagues.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 12 years of experience in entertainment and sports partnerships, sponsorships, brand marketing, or a related field.

• Considerable experience on the agency or buyer side in developing, negotiating, and executing brand partnerships.

• Established, active relationships throughout entertainment and sports, including properties, teams, leagues, talent, agents, rights holders, and relevant intermediaries.

• Proficiency in rights valuation, deal structuring, negotiation, contracting processes, activation planning, and partnership measurement.

• Experience in healthcare, health, and wellness, or another highly regulated sector is highly preferred.

• Strong grasp of brand strategy, consumer audiences, culture, media, experiential marketing, social platforms, and talent-led initiatives.

• Exceptional client leadership, communication, presentation, and financial expertise, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders.

• Capability to manage multiple intricate partnerships and cross-functional teams in a dynamic agency setting.

• Entrepreneurial spirit, collaborative mindset, attention to detail, and enthusiasm for developing new capabilities and offerings.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package customized for the region.

• Generous holiday allowance and paid time off.

• Options for private medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• Assistance with future savings.

• Mental wellness coaching and support available.

• Access to over 13,000 online classes through LinkedIn Learning.

• Complimentary snacks in the office.

• Flexible work arrangements where applicable.

• Opportunities for collaboration, culture-building, learning, and team connection throughout the year.