Manager, Brand Consulting

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're a trusted partner to every major league, team and venue, building meaningful connections between brands, properties and fans.

Job Overview:
Wasserman Marketing is looking for a motivated individual to join the Brands Retainer Client team in Chicago, IL. This position is responsible for leading, developing and managing a variety of current and prospective business relationships, sponsorships, and other partnerships in order to ensure client satisfaction. This position is expected to consistently provide excellent customer service to accounts, as well as represent client needs and goals within the organization to ensure quality.

What You’ll Do:

• Supports in the day-to-day management of the integrated partnerships vertical for a portfolio of brands, under the supervision of the Associate Director and other team members.
• Leads integrated partnership efforts, inclusive of new and existing talent and property partners, with a steadfast commitment to exceptional deliverables, including project-based work and/or retainer-based work as applicable.
• Lead and facilitate strategic brainstorming sessions to develop innovative activation campaigns that drive measurable impact
• Perform research and analysis of various demographics and statistics to help inform strategies and initiatives.
• Translate data into actionable insights and present those findings across the organization to a variety of audiences.
• Manage the full creative approval process for brand sponsorship programs, ensuring all partner assets adhere to brand standards while maintaining talent’s integrity and image.
• Monitor 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.
• Develop a mastery of core services including partnership, audience, and go-to-market-strategy focused on creators and talent within sports and entertainment industries. Mastery includes being familiar with necessary tools, ability to execute project from end-to-end, explain methodology, and improve current capabilities.
• Perform various tasks as needed by internal team members such as research, reports, daily updates, editing of materials, etc.
• Build a strong working relationship with clients to ensure they receive appropriate attention, support, and project objectives are met.
• Maintain deep knowledge of client products and services to deliver compelling presentations and partnership proposals.
• Learn and manage client-facing project management systems and legal processes for the purposes of supporting the creation and approval of different project documents.

What We’re Looking For:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree.
• 4+ years of relevant experience with minimum 2 years of direct experience in account and project management (preferably at a creative agency, with an emphasis on sports and entertainment talent partnerships).
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Suite, particularly with PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
• Possess exceptional communication skills, both orally and in writing, can adapt to various situations and personalities and is capable of executing in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be able to multi-task and self-manage to meet deadlines and handle multiple priorities.
• 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.
• Ability to travel for partner programs or activations as required.

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.

Wasserman is proudly an equal opportunity employer. We are always searching for the most passionate and talented people from all backgrounds and experiences to join us.

20 years into our evolution, we continue to expand services and geographies across the exciting and extraordinary worlds of sports, music, entertainment and culture.

We are committed to making a meaningful difference and driving real change when it comes to diversity equity and inclusion — not only among our employees, but in how we serve clients and push the industry at large.

If this sounds like a place you’d like to work, let’s talk!

Wasserman is a global leader in sports, music and entertainment. Founded in 2002, Wasserman represents many of the world’s most iconic sports and entertainment figures, musical artists, brands and properties, empowering them to shape culture and captivate audiences worldwide.