Senior Manager, Hospitality, Motorsports in London

Wasserman operates at the epicenter of sports, music and entertainment, serving talent, brands and properties on a global scale. Our brands and properties division works with iconic brands and rights holders, supporting business growth through all marketing disciplines. We are a trusted partner to every major league, team and venue, building meaningful connections between brands, properties and fans.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, Wasserman's presence spans 28 countries and more than 70 cities, including New York, London, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Toronto, Paris and Sydney. Wasserman is forever committed to serving our clients, colleagues and community with exceptional insight, influence and creativity, while making a positive and lasting impact. We support our employees’ professional aspirations, with a rich internal culture where curiosity is rewarded. We offer our people multiple learning and development programs throughout the world. What we do is fast-paced, exciting and rewarding which is why we love it and why you’ll love life at Wasserman.

The Senior Manager will take on a key role within our Motorsport team, with responsibility for developing and implementing events, hospitality programmes and brand experiences, at and away from track, with support from junior team members. This role will be reporting to Director, Motorsport Events.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Partnership events and hospitality planning, aligned to client requirements in terms of audience/guest profile, objectives, budget parameters, and performance KPIs.
• Implementation of partnership events and hospitality programmes, in conjunction with rights holder and sister agencies, and general account management of suppliers, budget and client reporting.
• Reporting and evaluation, including interpretation of results and recommendations to clients.
• Planning and oversight of all events-related deliverables across other areas of partnership activation and account management.
• Responsibilities across core partnership management deliverables, including management of merchandise/collateral, contractual asset monitoring and status reporting – ensuring contractual asset usage is maximised and tracked.

Role specific responsibilities include:

• Management of key relationships with clients, rights holders and suppliers.
• Oversee development and delivery of required events and activations.
• Deliver best in class client events and activations, pulling through core client narrative to all touchpoints.
• Strive to meet client KPI’s and ensure activity is effectively measured.
• Work across additional client programmes and activations as required.
• Thorough understanding of client budget parameters.
• Continually seek cost saving measures and opportunities.
• Pursue opportunities to grow business organically.
• Monitor and approve spending of direct reports.
• Manage team members, ensuring that tasks are being completed correctly, efficiently and timely.
• Promote conflict resolution amongst staff, and recommend and manage solutions.
• Regular interactions with Account Director to ensure client goals are managed consistently.
• Regular interactions with Director and Head of Events - Motorsport to ensure best practice delivered across all events and hospitality programmes delivered for clients.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Support collation and management of Motorsport events documents, trackers, templates and planning materials.
• Proactively identify and share relevant partner news.
• Relationship management with key events suppliers in F1 and motorsport network.
• Develop clear and concise internal and external presentations and reporting.
• Demonstrate appropriate behaviours, conduct and professionalism in all inter-personal, written and verbal communications.
• Track time and financial expenses on a day-to-day basis.

WHAT YOU NEED:

• Agency experience is strongly preferred.
• Motorsport (F1) experience is preferred.
• Experience working on large global brands is preferred, but not essential.
• Ability to multi-task; you will be working across a number of activities and clients with tight deadlines.
• Ability to anticipate problems/issues and suggest proactive resolutions to be put into place.
• Strong operations and logistics management skills, including planning of shipments, transport and global travel.
• Strong spreadsheet and budget management skills, including use of Microsoft Excel.
• Presentation skills (verbal and written), internally and to clients/suppliers including use of Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Excellent communication skills – verbal and written, internally and to clients/suppliers.
• Team management - management and coordination of junior team members.
• Creative thinking and awareness of event industry trends.
• Attention to detail and organisation critical.

Please Note: International travel will be required in the delivery of client activations and events.