Account Executive, Partnerships (entertainment – Music, Art, Fashion & Design)

Account Executive

The Account Executive is an instrumental part of our dedicated agency partnerships team responsible for managing, servicing, and supporting the growth of the client's partnerships. This role focuses on building strong client relationships, supporting the execution of partnership activations, and ensuring maximum value. The Account Executive will oversee and manage contractual deliverables with the client's regional markets, track performance, work with cross-functional teams and support strategic recommendations to enhance partnership performance. The ideal candidate has strong communication skills, a strong understanding of sports marketing, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, global environment.

Day-to-day management of the international client's global partnership portfolio, with a focus on entertainment properties in music, art, design and fashion.

Engage with and manage multiple properties in these spaces to develop and execute comprehensive partnership programmes in global markets.

Ensure all partnership programme rights are leveraged to best effect, to drive best outcomes for the client.

Manage multiple internal stakeholders (PR, strategy, experiential, content, etc.)

Assist with the creation and implementation of materials to support partnerships and client strategy, including preparing presentations, guideline documents and other items to be presented to the client, partners and relevant stakeholders.

Manage the partnership approvals process with the client and their partners/rightsholder, by having an in-depth knowledge of activation guidelines and objectives.

Track, manage, update and recap activations, approvals, and deliverables.

Manage finance processes, including, but not limited to, partnership invoices, client POs, vendor forms.

Coordinate with internal teams, including strategy, creative, experiential, content to ensure client is accurately represented and standards are upheld.

Provide and incorporate general insight and industry best practices.

A minimum of 2 years of agency or client-based sponsorship account management experience.

Cultural curiosity, with an interest in and knowledge of culturally resonant platforms.

Proven experience in developing and managing partnerships in the entertainment space, ideally across music, art, design and fashion on behalf of a client or company.

Comfortable managing multiple stakeholders and partnership programmes simultaneously.

Participation in partnership contract negotiations.

Superior client relationship and handling skills, with experience in managing day to day relationships with client.

Prior experience managing day-to-day relationships with agency(s) and vendors.

Highly organised, with strong project management skills and attention to detail.

Ability to think both strategically and creatively.

Ability to problem solve independently and in groups.

Excellent time management, written and oral communication skills.

Ability to travel 30% of the time (estimated).

Proficient in MS Office Suite.

Understanding of the business of partnerships is a plus.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Team player.

Ability to problem-solve independently and in groups.

Strong work ethic with the flexibility to navigate change in a fast-paced environment. Master of multitasking.

Excellent time management skills, ability to work calmly under pressure whilst meeting deadlines.

Understanding and interest in sports and sporting culture.

Creative problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying opportunities.

High attention to detail and organizational skills.

WME Group is at the center of sports, media, entertainment, and fashion and is a largely relationship-based business. To foster an environment of collaboration, develop our future talent, and build on relationships across leadership, peers, and teams, we work from the office 4 days per week. We see immeasurable value internally and throughout the core of the businesses we support.

Don't meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.