Sports Sponsorships and Partnerships Marketing Manager

The Role

This role reports to [Employer hidden]’s Chief Marketing Officer and is responsible for identifying and managing [Employer hidden]’s partnerships to drive revenue, brand awareness, and engagement campaigns. The role is responsible for negotiating contracts, activating sponsorship deliverables and ensuring [Employer hidden]’s commercial objectives are met.

Job Responsibilities

• Strategy & Sales: Develop, pitch, and execute sponsorship strategies to attract new partners and retain existing ones, ensuring mutual value.
• Relationship Management: Build and maintain relationships with partners, acting as the primary liaison for needs, enquiries, and contract fulfilment.
• Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders including Financial advisers, compliance and finance to ensure sports sponsorship and partnerships initiatives are understood, supported, and successfully delivered.
• Marketing & Content: Create sponsorship collateral, proposals, and marketing assets tailored to different audiences as part of the brand activation.
• Campaign Management: Execute targeted marketing campaigns (digital, email, social) to support sponsorship goals and boost visibility.
• Operational Execution: Oversee logistics for sponsored events, including asset activation, on-site presence, and post-event reporting.
• Budgeting & ROI: Manage sponsorship budgets and analyse performance metrics to measure ROI.
• Other: Supporting the Marketing and broader [Employer hidden] team with ad hoc projects.
• Adhere to all FCA regulations including consumer duty.

Requirements & Skills

• Experience: Proven experience in marketing, sponsorship sales, or partnership management. Ideally 5 years plus experience in a similar role within Financial Services, plus experience in managing partner relationships and overseeing budgets.
• Communication: Exceptional negotiation, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Project Management: Strong organisational skills to manage multiple projects, timelines, and stakeholders.
• Analytical Skills: Ability to analyse ROI and use CRM tools (HubSpot).
• Creativity: Ability to develop compelling, tailored content relevant to Partner audiences.
• Collaboration: This role is highly collaborative, working with internal sales, marketing, and design teams, as well as external partners.
• Stakeholder management: Strong influencing capabilities and effective at managing senior stakeholders, with a proven track record of navigating complex organisational environments.

About [Employer hidden]

[Employer hidden] is a fast-growing wealth management business, both in the UK and internationally. It has evolved a fairer, more efficient and effective business model, structured to deliver leading advice-led wealth management services, giving financial advisers and their clients the best opportunity to fulfil their dreams and ambitions.

[Employer hidden] is a fast‑growing, fully integrated wealth management business with a clear purpose to deliver more efficient and effective advice‑led services for individuals, financial advisers, institutions and employers. Founded in 2021, the business brings together funds, technology, investment management, custody, and financial planning into one seamless structure designed to ‘power ambitions’ by overcoming the fragmentation traditionally seen across the sector.

With more than £45bn in assets under management and over 1,400 employees across eight countries, [Employer hidden] provides a client‑centric model focused on transparency, long‑term growth, and consistently better outcomes for advisers and their clients.

Our Values

Our employees are talented people, distinguished by excellence. You will be able to demonstrate a willingness to embrace the Company values of:

• Creativity – we recognise we need new ways of thinking, learning and doing to both improve our own productivity and efficiency as well as to help us stay ahead of competitors.
• Commitment – we are a team with the willingness to put time, effort and energy into driving change in the organisation, going the extra mile.
• Collaboration – we need teamwork amongst ourselves and with partners to generate more innovative, efficient and effective solutions and thereby a greater sense of achievement.

Terms & Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Attractive Employee Pension Scheme (7.5% employer & minimum 3% employee)
• 25 days Annual Leave + public holidays
• Buy and sell holidays up to 5 days
• Office Christmas close (3-days)
• A range of benefits which includes private medical insurance, Group life insurance, and income protection insurance.
• Hybrid working
• Further education and training support
• Discretionary performance related bonus
• Confidential Employee Assistance Programme
• 2 days per year for voluntary work
• And lots of flexible benefits to choose from!

Diversity & Inclusion

The [Employer hidden] Group is firmly committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for everyone who works with us, regardless of their race, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, physical ability or disability, or political affiliation. We believe that having a diverse team allows us to create the best possible outcomes for our clients and team members. We strive to provide equal opportunities in all aspects of the workplace with respect to recruitment and career advancement, pay and benefits, training and development opportunities and other job-related activities.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.