Account Manager, Brand Consulting - Sports and Entertainment

This is a Full Time Job

Job Description

Position Summary:

This individual will work as an Account Manager in the Brand Consulting department supporting multiple brand accounts. This position focuses on securing entertainment and talent partnerships for brand clients and helping manage projects from strategy and ideation to ongoing partnership management.

Essential Functions:
• Contribute to entertainment, talent and cultural partnership strategy, including brainstorming and developing ideas that respond to client objectives and briefs
• Help manage day-to-day celebrity and talent partnership work across multiple accounts on behalf of brand clients. Research and identify celebrity, athlete and creator talent based on client objectives, audience, cultural relevance and budget
• Support with talent recommendations, POVs, strategic thinking and client-facing presentations including project plans, decks and workback calendars
• Support team with key deal terms on behalf of brand clients and help manage talent partnerships from contracting through execution, ensuring deliverables and timelines stay on track
• Identify relevant opportunities across film, television, music and broader entertainment and culture including product placement and co-promotional opportunities. Relationships /outreach to key personnel including promotional teams at the studios, networks, streamers and production resource teams, etc.
• Stay up to date on upcoming films, television series, music releases, tours, emerging talent and cultural moments, and proactively identify opportunities for clients
• Serve as a day-to-day client contact across assigned multiple projects and workstreams
• Manage project timelines, finance trackers, workbacks, budgets, deliverables for both client-facing and internal communications

Requirements:
• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Communications or similar discipline
• 4–6 + years of relevant experience in entertainment marketing, talent partnerships, brand consulting, agency, or related field
• Strong knowledge of and genuine interest in celebrity, film, television, music and pop culture
• Experience supporting talent negotiations or partnerships and TV/film opportunities on behalf of brands
• Ability to contribute strategically and creatively, not just execute against an existing plan or idea
• Strong project and account management skills with attention to detail and ability to manage multiple fast-moving projects and priorities at once
• Good instincts around talent and culture and an understanding of what makes a partnership relevant and authentic
• Proactive, quick thinking, collaborative and comfortable taking ownership of day-to-day workstreams

Preferred Skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, highly organized with attention to detail and ability to manage complex projects
• Proficient in Microsoft excel, PowerPoint
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to adapt quickly to new responsibilities

Location

This role will be located in our Los Angeles or New York office. The Brand Consulting department offers a flexible work schedule and requires a minimum three days per week on-site.

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