Corporate Partnership Coordinator

This is a Full Time Job

The Corporate Partnership Solutions team is a new function within the overarching Corporate Partnerships department at the Washington Nationals, helping the organization with its partnership sales, retention and renewal efforts. The Solutions team serves as an internal agency for the department, responsible for crafting the strategic approach to partnerships, building compelling partnership stories, identifying new commercial opportunities, creating impactful marketing solutions for prospects and partners and measuring ROI against KPIs and other valuation metrics.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Corporate Partnership Solutions, the Coordinator, Corporate Partnership Solutions supports the entire Corporate Partnerships department, both Sales Service, and Solutions through the execution of administrative duties and the completion tasks as assigned.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Administrative Support
• Assist departmental leadership with the general business operations of the collective Partnerships Department.
• Provide general administrative support such as preparing correspondence, forms, and reports, arranging meetings, processing confidential reports and documents, filing electronic and hard copies, tracking deadlines and internal approval paperwork/contracts and taking meeting notes as needed.
• Manage certain external vendor relationships as well specific internal cross-functional relationships, assist in budget tracking management and revenue reporting.
• Develop, coordinate, and assist with special projects including game day hospitality, external events, and department outings.
• Support departmental leadership by maintaining daily appointment calendars, processing expense reports, and any travel and lodging arrangements as required.
• Participate and contribute to weekly sales, service, solutions and/or department team meetings and training sessions.
• Manage department accounts payable (i.e., invoicing, follow up, purchase requests, vouchers, etc.).
• Assist in the development and preparation of department presentations.

Activation Team Support
• Assist the Activation Team with the execution of sponsorship activations.
• Manage multiple small service partner accounts, ensuring that all contractual sponsorship elements are fulfilled including tickets, signage, F&B, and merchandise.
• Coordinate partner and department suite menus and serve as main point of contact with F&B vendor.
• Assist at games with suite visits and other special events and functions as required.
• Provide clients with superior service in a timely and efficient manner relative to suite, ticket and event marketing requests.

Sales Team Support
• Assist the Partnerships Department with research, prospecting and lead generation, sales reports, and expense reports.
• Assist with the building of sales proposals through PowerPoint.
• Assist with the preparation of sales contracts and sales planning.
• Coordinate other activities with sponsorship sales team as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

ExperienceRequired
• • Must successfully clear a background check.
• • Must have U.S. work authorization.
• • Gameday: Job requires employee to function in a high activity and heavily crowded outdoor professional sports venue. May work at heights. Employee will be exposed to inclement weather of varying degrees. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand for long periods of time, walk long distances, and climb up/down stairs. The employee is required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or sit and must lift and/or move up to 45 pounds.
• • Office: Working conditions are normal for an office environment. Work may require occasional weekend and/or evening work.
• • Strong work ethic and a desire to build a career in professional sports.
• • Must be able to work flexible hours including evenings, weekends and holidays as needed.
• • Ability to travel around the ballpark visiting clients during home games.
• • Proficient with basic budget management and calculations.
• • Competency in Power Point and presentation building skills.
• • Computer proficiency and technical aptitude with the ability to utilize MS Word, Excel, Salesforce CRM and the Internet.
• • An effective communicator both orally and written with excellent interpersonal skills.
• • Understands the need for data integrity and pays attention to maintaining accurate and timely data.
• • Excellent organizational abilities to handle multiple tasks, establish priorities, and consistently meet deadlines.
• 1 - 2 years: • Minimum of 1-2 years of related experience preferred.

EducationRequired
• Bachelors or better in Marketing or related field