Senior Account Manager (F1)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drive the day-to-day delivery of a high-profile F1 partnership on a global and regional scale.
• Support partnership activations
• Translate Mastercard’s strategic objectives into clear partnership plans and activation frameworks.
• Support the Account Director with the management, optimisation, and tracking of all partnership rights and assets.
• Ensure the team delivers high-quality client servicing, operational excellence, and proactive solutions.

Team Management

• Line manage and nurture the Account Executive: , providing coaching, delegation, and development opportunities.
• Drive a high-performance culture built on accountability, collaboration and initiative.
• Oversee quality control across all team outputs, ensuring consistency, accuracy and timeliness.

Operational Excellence

• Lead the planning and execution of seasonal activation programmes, toolkits, content rights usage, and campaign support.
• Oversee internal tools—including rights trackers, processes, request logs, status documents and activation calendars.
• Coordinate workflows across internal teams and suppliers to ensure seamless delivery and alignment.
• Anticipate challenges and proactively problem-solve to keep projects on track and on budget.

Client & Stakeholder Management

• Act as a trusted partner to the client, delivering confident recommendations and clear strategic counsel.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with the client team, McLaren stakeholders, and internal [Employer hidden] specialists.
• Represent the agency professionally across all meetings, calls, and communications.

Continuous Improvement & Leadership Contribution

• Identify new opportunities to elevate partnership performance, improve processes, and showcase value.
• Contribute to wider agency thinking, including new ideas, best practices and innovation in partnership management.
• Uphold and champion [Employer hidden]’s ambition to create work that earns attention.

REQUIREMENTS

• 3–5+ years’ experience in partnership management, sponsorship, marketing, or sport/entertainment activation.
• Proven experience owning client relationships and leading day-to-day account delivery.
• Strong leadership skills, with experience managing or mentoring junior team members.
• Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to handle multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Confident communicator with strong presentation and writing skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially PowerPoint and Excel); Smartsheet experience is a plus.
• A genuine passion for sport—particularly Formula 1—and brand partnerships.
• A forward-thinking, dynamic mindset with the ability to be both proactive and reactive in a fast-paced environment.

BENEFITS

We’re pleased to offer wide range of benefits, including but not limited to the following:

• Core benefits (available from start date) – unlimited holiday allowance, AXA private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection, pension scheme with 4.5% employer contribution, Employee Assistance Programme, Perkbox
• Flexible benefits (available after probation) – Gymflex, dental insurance, travel insurance, health cash plan, Cyclescheme, interest-free season ticket loans
• A Flexible Workplace – we have a number of initiatives in place to ensure that our team have the flexibility to balance work with their lives, this includes unlimited holiday and flexible working options

We also run a number of internal programmes to support physical and mental wellbeing, alongside learning and development opportunities to support career development and progression.