Associate Manager, Brands

Wasserman operates at the epicenter of sports, music, entertainment and culture, 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're 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 27 countries and more than 66 cities, including New York, London, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Toronto, Paris and Sydney. For more information, please visit www.teamwass.com.

Job Description

Wasserman is looking for a motivated, passionate analytical thinker to join our Brand Projects team. This team specializes in delivering insight and data-led partnership strategies, focused heavily in the areas of sponsorship, sport, entertainment, and culture. This position is responsible for managing and developing a variety of current and prospective projects, business relationships, sponsorships, and other partnerships in order to ensure client satisfaction. The ideal candidate will have an understanding of the women's sports space and a willingness to develop / maintain an understanding of the space at all levels.

Duties:

• Assists in the day-to-day management of multiple brands clients - under the supervision of the Managers and other team members.
• Build a strong working relationship with clients to ensure they receive appropriate attention, support, and project objectives are met.
• Develop competency in core services including partnership strategy, valuation, audience, and go-to-market-strategy focused on sports and entertainment properties. Mastery includes being familiar with necessary tools, ability to execute project from end-to-end, explain methodology, and improve current capabilities.
• Synthesize data from multiple sources to develop client-focused narratives and recommendations (e.g., market landscapes, audience segmentation, sponsorship valuations).
• Monitors media, trends and changing sports, entertainment and cultural landscape to keep company executives and team members aware while maintaining Wasserman's position as the most knowledgeable in the industry.
• Works creatively with client team members to develop decks and report materials.
• Performs various tasks as needed by internal team members such as research, reports, daily updates, editing of materials, etc.
• Stays up to date on client product / service offering and is able to thoughtfully present to clients and potential partners.
• Learns and manages client-facing project management systems and legal processes for the purposes of supporting the creation and approval of different project documents.
• Maintains positive relationships with clients to encourage new and repeat business opportunities.

Skills/Qualifications:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree
• Flexibility and knowledge to work with and understand objectives of clients across different areas of the sports and entertainment ecosystem.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Suite, particularly with PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
• Must be able to multi-task and self-manage to meet deadlines and handle multiple priorities.
• Proven account management skills in order to create, maintain and enhance customer relationships.
• Possess exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Carries out responsibilities with minimal direction.
• Motivated, goal-oriented, persistent and a skilled negotiator.
• Strong attention to detail and highly organized.
• Ability to think creatively in a team environment.
• Must be flexible and react calmly under stressful circumstances.

Wasserman does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.