The company:
Williams’ core competencies are the design and development of racing cars to compete in the Formula One World Championship. As one of the world's leading Formula One teams, the company has secured 16 FIA Formula One World Championship titles since its foundation in 1977 and is now moving into an exciting era under new ownership defined by relentless innovation and living sustainable performance in every dimension.
Summary:
Working with a Senior Partner on nominated Partner accounts, to provide integrated, consultative and commercially viable support across the Williams’ partner portfolio in accordance with the Partnerships strategy.
To identify and leverage opportunities with sponsor-partners that support Williams Racing’s commercial and marketing strategies.
As a Partner Manager you will be:
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Creating bespoke Partnership Business Profiles for each Partner, ensuring Strategic Road Maps, Activation Plans, Stakeholder Engagement Mapping and Rights Matrices are continually updated with required insights to the Partner’s business and the performance of the Williams Racing Partnership.
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Defining clear and measurable Partnership business objectives that align with the Partner’s strategic aims.
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Understanding the Williams Racing brand proposition and implementing a consistent brand image across all Partner marketing and promotional activities, ensuring brand guidelines are adhered to.
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Collaborating with all Marketing departments to ensure the optimisation of the Williams Racing value proposition through fully integrated marketing & communication activations.
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Building robust, sustainable and effective professional working relationships with Williams Partners, agencies and other stakeholders.
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Working collaboratively with Partners to ensure maximum return on investment in line with contractual obligations, whilst ensuring a commercial benefit to Williams is achieved.
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Proactively engaging with various Williams stakeholders to build a robust knowledge of all business activities.
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Supporting on-event activity by coordinating and delivering Sponsor-Partner guest programmes at Races, Tests, Campus and other events, including guests' briefs, coordinating Driver & Team appearances, guest passes, guest tour times, lunches and other such activities where needed.
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Establishing regular correspondence with Partners (bi-weekly meetings, quarterly reports, face to face meetings etc.) in order to foster robust relationships and track Partnership performance.
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Implementing the effective and successful onboarding of new Partners, including coaching on all business processes and operations, ensuring a clear understanding of assets and how to best utilise them.
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Working with the Senior Partner Manager to define and improve processes and procedures across the Partnerships team.
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Supporting the Senior Partner Manager and Commercial team with valuable Partner activation and Rights & Benefits guidance.
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Supporting the Senior Partner Manager and Commercial team with incumbent Partner renewals and uplifts, by utilising the strength of relationships and identifying opportunities to grow the Partnerships.
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Assisting in the delivery of ad-hoc projects for the Partnerships team as required.
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Providing administrative support across the Partnerships team as required.
As a Partner Manager you’ll have:
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2 – 3 years’ experience in a Partner Manager / Account Manager role within the Sport or Entertainment industry, either directly or in an agency role.
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The ability to travel frequently (up to 60% of the time).
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A full clean Driver’s License.
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A valid Passport.
What can Williams offer?
The Williams Group is based in multi acre complex located in Grove, Oxfordshire. The Williams Group offers a competitive holiday package, staff events/open days, a subsidised restaurant on site and various car schemes. We have an on-site gym (open 24 hours a day) as well as various fitness classes including outdoors bootcamps, pilates and yoga free for all staff and contractors to use. Aside from these benefits we can offer free onsite parking and large open green spaces to unwind during breaks. We are a based just 30 mins from Oxford City Centre by bus.
Williams is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We are happy to discuss reasonable job adjustments