Sponsorship & Strategic Partnerships Manager

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

About the Team

The Yahoo Sponsorship and Strategic Partnerships team is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with key industry organizations, as well as overseeing Yahoo’s portfolio of sponsorships. The team is focused on partnerships that help achieve Yahoo’s B2B and B2C strategic goals.  

Position Overview

The Sponsorship and Strategic Partnerships Manager is responsible for managing our national and regional industry partnerships with various advertising trade organizations as well as our brand partnerships/sponsorships in the sports and entertainment industries. The role will be focused on day-to-day partnership management with the goal of maximizing the value of our assets. In addition, this role will work to build meaningful connections with internal stakeholders to use the partnerships to grow our business.  

Ideal Candidates

Ideally, you're local to New York to team up and partner with our fantastic teams 1-2 times a week. The right person for this role should be an excellent communicator, in both presenting (in meetings and on conference calls) and in writing (over email, slack, and through document creation). The person should be a creative problem solver, collaborative, passionate about building and growing partnerships, and come with a positive and proactive attitude. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Partnership asset tracking and day-to-day partner communications.

• Assist in development of strategic and activation plans, including but not limited to: internal emails and other communications; digital marketing extensions (social, email); and executive talking points and speaker briefs. 

• Effectively partner with cross functional teams including PR, product marketing, events, digital and sales to understand and execute against key business goals and overall project success.

• Research and identify new potential partners that help achieve our business and brand goals.

• Ability to analyze performance data and ROI to better optimize marketing plans and budgets year-over-year.

Qualifications:

• 7-10 years of demonstrated success in marketing (B2B and/or B2C).

• Deep understanding of media and/or technology

• Experience in leading large scale projects, ability to lead end-to-end marketing programs, and delivering ROI across a diverse slate of industry and customer experiences

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to lead strategic conversations with senior leaders. 

• Ability to process a vast amount of information and understand and prioritize competing business needs

• Highly organized with outstanding attention to detail and tried project management skills and experience, leading cross-functional teams and projects simultaneously 

• A hardworking self-starter with the capacity  to manage multiple concurrent and fast paced projects

• Creative problem solver and passionate marketer that can help bring people together

• Strength in working collaboratively and cross-functionally to produce great work

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