Toronto Blue Jays
Senior Manager, Partnership Marketing (18-month Contract)
Toronto Blue Jays - Manager
Toronto · ON · Canada
Corporate Partnerships
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Are you interested in joining the Toronto Blue Jays Partnership Team? This is your chance!
The Toronto Blue Jays are looking for a Senior Manager, Partnership Marketing, on a 18-month contract.
The Toronto Blue Jays are looking for a Senior Manager, Partnership Marketing, on a 18-month contract.
Overview
We are looking for a passionate, client-centric marketing professional to join the Toronto Blue Jays Partnerships team. Reporting to the Director, Partnership Marketing, this contract position is responsible for leading a portfolio of the Club’s corporate partnerships with industry-leading brands.
Please note, this is a 18-month contract position.
This role may be for you if:
- You enjoy motivating, energizing, and inspiring others
- You are hands-on and unafraid of taking on new challenges
- You thrive in fast paced high-volume working environments
- You love the Toronto Blue Jays!
Responsibilities:
- Lead the day-to-day management of a portfolio of the Club’s corporate partnerships.
- Build trusting relationships with peers across the organization, senior leaders at our corporate partners and with other stakeholders such as agencies, vendors, and consultants.
- Develop a strong understanding of each of your partner’s businesses and industries to help deliver exceptional partnership results.
- Lead the planning, development, and execution of partnership assets and campaigns from start to finish.
- Use data and insights to develop partnership strategies and execute integrated marketing campaigns that achieve our partner’s business objectives and help grow the Blue Jays brand.
- Collaborate with key internal stakeholders to help bring our partnerships to life and enhance the experience of Blue Jays fans at Rogers Centre and across Canada.
- Develop, manage and be accountable for partner workback schedules and annual budgets.
- Work alongside the Partnership Development & Strategy teams to seamlessly onboard new partners to the organization, identify partner KPIs, measure key metrics throughout the season, and present results on an annual basis.
- Lead the development and presentation of year-end recap reports for your portfolio of clients.
- Support the Partnership Development and Strategy teams in the partner renewal process.
- Identify potential internal and external commercial issues and proactively develop solutions in a collaborative fashion.
- Proactively identify trends and best practices in the sports marketing/sponsorship industry to incorporate within our business.
- Organize and manage key departmental functions such as gameday roles and responsibilities, partner events, road trips, etc.
Qualifications:
- 8-10 years of Marketing, Strategy, Partnership, Sponsorship and/or Client Management.
- University Degree (Marketing and/or Business specialty preferred).
- Proven experience and success with client servicing is required.
- Ability to train, motivate, and effectively delegate responsibilities.
- Strong team player. Open to perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned to deliver exceptional client experiences and support your peers on the Partnerships team.
- Ability to function in a fast-paced environment and effectively multi-task with attention to detail and sound judgment.
- Strong relationship skills required to work with top-tier clients and internal leaders.
- Critical and strategic thinker; ability to be proactive and offer solutions internally and to clients.
- Effective budgeting and financial management skills.
- Strong and clear written and verbal communication
- Strong time management skills; required to work under pressure and rise to creative challenges under tight deadlines.
- Over-communicates the necessary information.
- Assets we are looking for: Creative design & presentation skills, brand management experience, experience leveraging social & digital marketing tactics, familiarity with experiential activations.
- Hours outside of a typical workday are required to work games and events (can include evenings, weekends and holidays).
- Ability to travel to destinations across North America on occasion (up to 10%).
- Ability to work from Rogers Centre.
Applicants must be willing and able to work non-traditional hours, including evenings and weekends and holidays as required.
Salary: The anticipated base compensation range for this role is $90,000 - $105,000. Actual base pay offered within this range may differ based on a range of factors, including individual experience, education, skills, and organizational needs.
Position Status: Vacancy
Blue Jays has a strong commitment to diversity, accessibility, and inclusion. Everyone who applies for a job will be considered. We encourage individuals from underrepresented groups to apply and join us in shaping the future of our club. Together, we will build a team that reflects the richness of the game and the communities that we represent.
Throughout the recruitment process, we are dedicated to working with candidates who have accessibility needs to ensure they have the necessary support to perform at their best. Questions regarding accessibility throughout the recruitment process can be directed to [email protected].
