Commercial Designer, Global Partnerships

Description

The IRONMAN Group operates a global portfolio of events that includes the IRONMAN® Triathlon Series, the IRONMAN® 70.3® Triathlon Series, 5150™ Triathlon Series, the Rock ‘n’ Roll® Running Series, IRONKIDS®, World Triathlon Championship Series, Epic Series™ mountain bike races including the Absa Cape Epic®, road cycling events including UTMB®, and other multisport races.

The IRONMAN Group is the largest operator of mass participation sports in the world and provides more than a million participants annually with the benefits of endurance sports through the company’s vast offerings. Since the inception of the iconic IRONMAN® brand and its first event in 1978, athletes have proven that ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE® by crossing finish lines around the world. Beginning as a single race, The IRONMAN Group has grown to become a global sensation with hundreds of events across 55+ countries. For more information about The IRONMAN Group visit: www.ironman.com. 

At The IRONMAN Group, our mission is to celebrate the power of the human spirit, fulfill dreams and uplift communities by organizing world-class events and extraordinary VIP athletic experiences, globally. We accomplish this through our amazing staff across the globe who are committed to our core values - Heart, Excellence, Ambition, Respect and Teamwork (HEART).

Job Summary

The IRONMAN Group is looking for a creative and analytical, left and right brain thinking, dual threat to join our Global Partnerships team, helping to bring to life our business development process and materials through graphic design, research, and producing materials. 

Reporting to the VP, Business Intelligence, Strategy & Analytics, and supervised by the Sr. Manager, Partnership Programs, the Commercial Designer is responsible for supporting the business development initiatives of the organization, prioritizing Host City Partnership Development and Global Partnership Sales, through the creation and provision of tools, presentations, and resources to support sales efforts.

That support includes: 

• Designing and producing sales and partnership services decks (presentations), templates, informational event materials, and more.
• Assisting with the development, educating, and maintaining of team processes for accessing and utilizing business development tools and resources. Current tools/resources include: Bylder (a web based dynamic presentation software), Planner (Project Management Tool), and various data sourcing platforms.
• Fulfilling requests for materials and resources made by Event and Partnership Business Development teams
• Internally sourcing, gathering, organizing, and verifying data to develop sponsor programs and sales materials that articulate a quantitative and qualitative narrative about how we will deliver on client KPIs.

Key Responsibilities

1 – Development and graphic design of brand-consistent business development resources 

• Collaborate with the Sr. Manager, Partnership Programs and Global Partnerships Department leadership team to plan and design templates for event and partnership sales presentations (decks), event statistics, info-graphics, and additional sales and partnership related design requests.
• Graphic designed support of Partnerships Department event collateral, including but not limited to signage, invitations, and informational materials.
• Design and development of creative assets for use in social media and digital media.
• Provide team and individual graphic design support to salespeople and partnership services team through customization and tailoring of sales tools and presentations to specification.

2 – Partnership programming

• Stay informed on company commercial practices, operational procedures, and event execution, for the purposes of understanding the mechanical and aesthetic details of integrating partners into our events and platforms.
• Source best practices and latest trends from sports sponsorship and activations, marketing, and broader sponsorship industry to support and lead the development of up to date, on-trend programming for current and prospective clients.
• When requested, support sales and partner services team in sales pitches and client meetings to perform discovery on prospective clients and assist with selling the programs that have been developed for that client.

3 – Management and regular maintenance of standardized team resources and contents 

• Assist with managing and maintaining annual, monthly, and weekly updates to standard generic resources, like our Global Portfolio presentation (deck).
• Source and organize internal metrics for updating our presentations, and for our busi