Manager, Brand Partnerships, Women's Basketball

Excel Sports Management is an industry-leading sports agency representing top-tier talent, blue-chip brands and marquee properties. We focus on team chemistry, collaboration, strong relationships, valuable networks, and ambitious ideas to deliver innovative solutions that keep our clients and agency ahead of the curve.

Requirements

• Deliver Women’s talent endorsement sales, including prospecting, outreach, pitching and closing deals.
• Directly generate revenue for clients, including local, national and global deals
• Work with the head of the group to create short and long-term goals and sales priorities, including significant coordination with player agents and marketing managers.
• Own and call on an established set of key companies, media agencies, sports agencies and talent buyers, from which to cultivate ongoing business.
• Collaborate with player agents, marketing managers, creative and public relations in delivering talent sales deals and across recruiting efforts.
• Creatively package and market talent utilizing effective storytelling and a solutions-oriented approach for brands.
• Work in a highly collaborative manner with other sales leaders as part of a team-oriented selling environment; sharing leads, ideas and opportunities to generate revenue across ESM’s sales portfolio.
• Be able to juggle and navigate the big and small - securing both the high-profile, endorsements while also delivering trade agreements in local markets for key clients.
• Serve as a positive culture contributor within a fast-growing, high-paced and entrepreneurial environment.

Benefits

• Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
• Discretionary bonus