Coordinator, Brand Marketing

$60,000 - $65,000/Yr

Excel Sports Management - Charlotte, NC

Full-time - Entry Level

Charlotte, NC

Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

About the position

Excel Sports Management is an industry-leading sports agency representing top-tier talent, blue-chip brands, and marquee properties. Our success is rooted in our people, our high character reputation, and our commitment to creating a diverse and welcoming workplace. 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. Excel Sports Management is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). The Coordinator, Brand Marketing will play a crucial role in advising a key corporate client on their professional golf sponsorship and other sports marketing investments. This position involves providing end-to-end solutions, including strategy, negotiation, activation, implementation, event management, and measurement. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating meaningful, strategic, and inspiring brand concepts, ideas, stories, and experiences for our clients. This role will be based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and will require a proactive approach to managing client relationships and ensuring the successful execution of marketing initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Support the day-to-day management of Excel Sports Management (ESM) Brand Marketing clients across all sponsorship marketing and activation initiatives with an emphasis on professional golf.
• Build and maintain positive client relationships that result in enhanced partnerships and increased ESM opportunities.
• Facilitate and support the daily client interaction across brand, property and agency partners to support the sponsorship function and associated programming.
• Support the development of creative platforms and new consumer engagement activations across current and future client sponsorship opportunities.
• Coordinate client-vendor relationships and necessary activation deliverables on behalf of clients.
• Create activation briefs, recaps, event itineraries and staff plans.
• Plan and support client status calls which include scheduling, preparing agendas, and creating/maintaining status documents.
• Support the Brand Marketing team by reconciling budgets and providing on-going client updates.
• Support teammates across the group to ensure flawless client-service and a second-to-none agency experience.
• Conduct research, analysis and provide recommendations to gain greater knowledge of our industry.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 1-2 years of experience in sponsorship or brand marketing strategy and activation at a brand, property or agency preferred.
• Golf knowledge and experience desired.

Nice-to-haves

• Passionate about truly disruptive brand campaigns and enthusiastic about supporting the creative ideation process and developing engaging brand platforms.
• Tenacity, curiosity, and ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team environment.
• Superior organization skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate to a wide range of audiences, both written and verbally.
• Possesses self-awareness and is coachable, confident, curious, inquisitive, flexible and genuinely interested in learning a little more each day.
• An action-oriented, self-starter who loves being a part of a dynamic team, but also can generate a solid work product on their own.
• High expectations for our work and a strong sense of ownership, driving exceptional client outcomes.
• Ability to think strategically and creatively while identifying client needs and embodying a proactive, problem-solving approach.
• Must exude emotional intelligence along with the ability to communicate and connect effectively and personably, recognizing the need to adjust communication styles based on the audience and situation.
• Proactive and productive, recognizing opportunity and implementing procedures to enhance efficiencies across the team.
• High level of commitment to quality work product and organizational ethics, integrity and compliance.
• Proficient in PowerPoint, Excel, Word and Outlook with the skill and ability to build and lead the development of engaging client and new business presentations.

Benefits

• Eligible for benefits and discretionary bonus.