About the role

  • Account Manager in sports marketing building partnerships and overseeing program delivery across various stakeholders. Based in London with focus on client objectives, travel required.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a trusted day-to-day client partner, providing clarity, proactive communication, and confident guidance across all stakeholders.
  • Lead the planning and delivery of partnership activations and hospitality programmes, ensuring they are strategically aligned to business objectives and deliver measurable impact.
  • Champion full utilisation of partnership rights and assets, aligning activation plans to the client’s broader marketing and commercial priorities.
  • Develop and maintain clear activation roadmaps and tracking frameworks that ensure accountability, visibility, and performance reporting across programmes.
  • Oversee operational delivery with a focus on excellence and efficiency, ensuring guest experience, supplier management, logistics, and on-site execution meet premium standards while supporting long-term client value.
  • Manage timelines, budgets, and deliverables with strong commercial discipline, balancing flawless execution with profitability and resource efficiency.
  • Lead financial planning, cost control, and reconciliation processes, ensuring transparency and sustainable account performance.
  • Elevate creative thinking within the team, supporting the development of ideas, presentations, and post-event reporting that move beyond delivery to demonstrate insight and impact.
  • Lead internal and client meetings with confidence, ensuring alignment, momentum, and clear next steps across all workstreams.
  • Contribute strategic input into partnership planning, identifying optimisation opportunities, innovation areas, and avenues for organic growth.
  • Support senior leadership in strengthening client relationships, expanding scope, and positioning the team as strategic partners rather than operational executors.

Requirements

  • 4+ years’ experience in sports marketing, sponsorship, brand partnerships, or related fields. Prior experience in Formula 1 is desirable.
  • Proven experience managing major client accounts and delivering measurable business impact.
  • Strong client relationship management skills with the ability to communicate confidently and build trust at all levels.
  • Strong understanding of sponsorship rights, asset delivery, and contractual obligations, with the ability to translate them into actionable plans.
  • Demonstrable experience in budget management, supplier negotiations, and contract oversight.
  • Excellent project management and organisational skills, with the ability to lead multiple concurrent workstreams.
  • Experience coordinating on-site event delivery across international markets.
  • Strong attention to detail and the ability to deliver under pressure.
  • Commercially minded, proactive, and solutions-focused, with a passion for delivering exceptional hospitality and partnership experiences.
  • Skilled in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and project management tools.
  • A collaborative team leader with the ability to motivate and guide junior team members.
  • Willingness to work flexible work hours, including weekends, while planning for and balancing with deserved time away.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working
  • Flexible hours with core working hours between 10am – 4pm
  • Discretionary bonus scheme
  • Gym & Retail Discounts
  • Enhanced Employer Pension contribution
  • Mental Wellbeing Day & Volunteer Day in addition to annual leave
  • Sabbatical Leave in conjunction with long-service
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Private Healthcare
  • £500 per annum individual training budget
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Payroll giving
  • Season Ticket Loan
  • Work From Anywhere Allowance

Job title

Account Manager

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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