Sales and Brand Partnerships Manager

Job Description

Creative Artists Agency (CAA), is the world's leading full-service entertainment, media, and sports agency. We represent many of the most successful professionals working in television, film, music, theatre, video games, sports, and digital content. We also provide a range of strategic and marketing consulting services to corporate clients.

The Role

We are seeking a Sales & Brand Partnerships Manager who is a highly-motivated, creative, and entrepreneurial professional to join our rapidly growing agency.

The ideal candidate...

Will:
• Support the Partnerships team by spearheading research efforts across different industries, clients and categories.
• Ideate and build incremental revenue streams with existing clients.
• Monitor news and developments relating to, or impacting, clients and key partners/prospects.
• Research, identify and report on social and business trends to help strategize and produce the creative strategy for each client. Present quantitative and qualitative findings in briefs, infographics or reports.
• Utilize strong prospecting skills to source new partnership opportunities for clients.
• Conduct initial outreach to prospective brand partners, track communications and handle follow ups.
• Identify and present client's unique value proposition to brands.
• Concept with Tandem creative & management team on partnership ideas, development of pitch decks and partnership activations.
• Report and track all communications, interactions and deal activity.

Is...
• Excellent at learning on the fly and willing to push the limits of your abilities for the sake of the team
• Eager to learn the branded and entertainment industry leaders and to find ways to reach these individuals for future business opportunities
• Passionate about what's happening in the world of entertainment and excited to find creative ways to activate around what is current and relevant
• Highly organized, strategically minded, extremely resourceful and an exceptional communicator (both verbal and written)
• Someone with an entrepreneurial mindset and approach to everything they do: self-motivated, resourceful, innovative, forward-thinking, accountable, and committed
• Highly detailed with some knowledge of marketing and entertainment trends, emerging media, consumer insights and the latest digital/social/mobile/video/interactive technologies and activations
• Flexible and enthusiastic to work within a fast-moving and ever-changing organization
• Persistent and calm under pressure

Has...
• 4+ years experience in entertainment and / or the agency world
• Experience in sales, branding, advertising or marketing
• Understanding of brand partnership deal making and sales lifecycle
• Ability to engage & communicate effectively with senior level decision-makers
• The ability to create and/or update presentation materials as needed
• Stellar interpersonal, analytical and organizational skills
• Insight into the high paced life of a start-up and the creativity to make a difference every day

Success requires that…
• You have a sense of humor
• You love to win
• You like getting your hands dirty
• You solve problems
• You are a team player
• You are entrepreneurial, smart, and passionate
• You know the acronyms but speak in plain English
• If you don't know something, you say so. Then go figure it out quickly
• You naturally go the extra mile
• You thrive in a fast-paced work environment, readily adapting to continually changing priorities and aggressive project timeframes
• You take your work seriously but not yourself

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rjv4bw-3-17-79-60-42 in your application.