Senior Manager, Hospitality

Wasserman operates at the epicenter of sports, music and entertainment, serving talent, brands and properties on a global scale. Our brands and properties division works with iconic brands and rights holders, supporting business growth through all marketing disciplines. We're a trusted partner to every major league, team and venue, building meaningful connections between brands, properties and fans.

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A key role within our Motorsport team taking on responsibility for developing and implementing events, hospitality programmes and brand experiences, at and away from track, as well as ad hoc experiential non-motorsport events for a leading F1 sponsor.
This is a role suited to someone who thrives working on a fast-paced account, can manage multiple projects simultaneously and consistently deliver exceptional experiences for a discerning client.
The ideal candidate will be equally comfortable delivering motorsport programmes as well as high-end luxury lifestyle and corporate events, bringing creativity, precision and commercial awareness to every project.
This role will be reporting to the Associate Director, Motorsports on the account.
 

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:
General account responsibilities include:

• Partnership events and hospitality planning, aligned to client requirements in terms of audience/guest profile, objectives, budget parameters, and performance KPIs.

• Implementation of partnership events and hospitality programmes, in conjunction with rights holder and sister agencies, and general account management o suppliers, budget and client reporting.

• Reporting and evaluation, including interpretation of results and recommendations to clients.

• Planning and oversight of all events-related deliverables across other areas of partnership activation and account management

• Responsibilities across core partnership management deliverables, including management of merchandise/collateral, contractual asset monitoring and status reporting – ensuring contractual asset usage is maximised and tracked.

Role specific responsibilities include:

• Oversee development and end-to-end delivery of multiple motorsport and ad hoc non-motorsport events and activations concurrently.

• Deliver best-in-class client motorsport hospitality events and activations, pulling through core client narrative to all touch-points.

• Source, brief and manage external expert suppliers and specialists such a production partners, talent, chefs, florists and luxury experience providers

• Strong relationship building with relevant client stakeholders, rights holders and suppliers.

• Strive to meet client KPIs and ensure activity is effectively measured.

• Work across additional client programmes and activations as required, including non-motorsport specific events

• Budget management: Pre-event budget setting, forecasting, live tracking and post-event reconciliation; thorough understanding of client budget parameters; continually looking for cost saving measures and opportunities

• Team management: Manage team members, ensuring that tasks are bein completed correctly, ef