Job title: Enterprise Growth & Advertising Partnerships Lead Job at Nationwide Basketball Affiliation (NBA)
Firm:
Job description: The Nationwide Basketball Affiliation (NBA) is keen about rising and celebrating the sport of basketball. By means of the depth of the sport and the wonderful athletic ability of our gamers, we ship pleasure to tons of of tens of millions of followers world wide.As a worldwide sports activities and media enterprise, the NBA is a lot extra. Whereas Basketball Operations runs the league’s on-court actions, different departments handle relationships with tv and digital media companions, develop advertising and marketing partnerships with a few of the world’s most recognizable corporations, oversee the licensing of NBA merchandise, and deal with a variety of duties that drive the NBA’s success.We’re recruiting to fill the place beneath:Job Place: Enterprise Growth & Advertising Partnerships LeadJob ID: 11078
Job Location: Lagos
Job kind: Full-time (In Workplace)
Class: Enterprise Growth and Companion AdministrationPlace Abstract
- This place performs a key function in producing new sponsorship income for NBA Nigeria.
- The worker implements the brand new enterprise improvement technique with a concentrate on new partnership improvement – prospecting, pitching, negotiating, and securing new advertising and marketing companions.
- The function requires frequent journey all through the African area and can work intently with the Advertising, Media, Occasions, and different teams to create and drive new income streams.
Main Obligations
Enterprise Growth:
- Drive the continued progress and growth of NBA enterprise and revenues.
- Develop and implement a brand new enterprise improvement technique for NBA, in session with the Head of NBA Nigeria and the NBA Head of Industrial.
- Construct relationships with senior-level choice makers at potential sponsors, related advertising and marketing businesses, occasion administration corporations, and promoters to generate new companions and different new enterprise alternatives.
- Create, current, promote, and execute built-in NBA packages and initiatives.
- Help the whole gross sales course of from proposal to deal memo submission and contract execution by liaising with different departments (Authorized, Finance, and so forth.)
- Adapt present NBA advertising and marketing packages and create new initiatives tailor-made to the NBA
- Determine fan engagement alternatives to facilitate larger fan acquisition and one-to-one relationships with the present fan base.
- Keep a working data of the gross sales and advertising and marketing actions of potential companions in addition to the overall promoting, advertising and marketing, and know-how panorama to grasp potential shopper options.
- Keep a database of extremely helpful targets and alternatives.
- Monitor the exercise of different sports activities and leisure properties within the area.
- Contribute to the event and implementation of the enterprise improvement technique for NBA Nigeria.
Inner Partnerships:
Partnership Sponsorship:
- Prospect, goal, pitch, and help securing NBA Nigeria sponsorship, occasion, and media partnerships
- Develop and maximize networking alternatives with potential and present sponsors
- Facilitate ideation by main cross-functional brainstorms to tell inventive options
- Liaise with colleagues globally throughout the NBA to uncover enterprise improvement alternatives
- Ship impactful on-brand and on-target partnership packages for brand new enterprise prospects
- Use storytelling to successfully sell-in partnership concepts to new enterprise prospects
- Develop, visualize, and current personalized partnership options for potential sponsors
- Keep a robust understanding of business advertising and marketing channels and applied sciences that shoppers might make the most of in activating an NBA Nigeria sponsorship
Inner Partnerships:
- Set up and develop shut relationships with all of the NBA NY world account groups, guaranteeing that they’re proactively knowledgeable about all NBA Nigeria plans, initiatives, and tasks.
- Develop and execute an in depth and coherent plan centered on participating the NBA NY world account groups with thrilling and constant displays, aiming to get them on board with all NBA Nigeria plans, initiatives, and tasks so these could be thought of as key elements for all world or regional new partnership alternatives and upsells.
- Characterize NBA Nigeria in world pitches and standing conferences, offering related info and insights in regards to the NBA Nigeria plan, initiatives, and tasks, whereas additionally outlining clearly how present and potential world companions would obtain worth via these.
Qualification and Expertise
- Candidates ought to possess a Bachelor’s Diploma required
- Minimal of 8 years of gross sales and/or enterprise improvement expertise
- Strategic thinker – in a position to form, develop and execute the technique for the NBA
- Sturdy persuading and negotiation expertise
- A reputable communicator, adept at working on the board degree
- Commercially minded and results-driven
- Glorious presentation expertise
- Capacity to work nicely inside a matrixed group
- A ardour for sports activities most popular
Required Expertise/Data:
- Profitable monitor report constructing enterprise in Nigeria; should have a robust understanding of the market and a community of relationships throughout all sectors of Nigeria advertising and marketing and media panorama.
- Artistic storyteller with the flexibility to promote conceptually.
- Excessive-level connectivity – client-side and sponsorship/advertising and marketing group on the whole
- Capacity to realize and exceed targets.
- This could contain delivering built-in packages that embody media, print, interactive, and event-based belongings.
- Entrepreneurial strategy with a robust understanding of enterprise fundamentals.
- A monitor report of securing sponsorship contracts for rights holders in sports activities.
- Data of TV and digital gross sales, merchandising, and communications.
- Capacity to develop inventive options which is able to meet the targets of potential companions.
- Expertise in working inside a structured company atmosphere.
- Enterprise data – being updated with enterprise/market/business tendencies.
- A radical understanding of the sports activities panorama (basketball and NBA data preferable).
Anticipated wage:
Location: Nigeria
Job date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00:50 GMT
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