Senior Account Executive - Threshold Sports

Threshold Sports UK

In 2025, our team successfully delivered over 50 mass participation events across the UK and as far afield as Rajasthan, empowering more than 60,000 people to discover what they’re truly capable of.

Along the way, these events raised over £16 million for charity.

2026 is set to be another significant year of growth with our public events in double-digit growth and multiple new brand partnerships and high-profile clients coming on board.

Who We Are Looking For

We’re looking for a passionate individual who is eager to make an impact in the Account Management team as a Senior Account Executive (m/f/d) 80-100%. This team hold the relationships and delivers events for some of our most prestigious corporate and charity clients such as Natwest, Vodafone and Macmillan, as well manage our sponsors and partners across our own event portfolio. 

If you are interested, and seeking a new challenge filled with enthusiasm and energy and you posses a strong sense of teamwork and culture, then read on for what the job involves and a quick snapshot of what life is like here.

Your main tasks

• With the support of an Account Director, deliver a portfolio of bespoke events for some of the UK’s biggest corporate and charity brands
• Build close relationships with a number of clients simultaneously, all with different requirements and event concepts to deliver
• Align both internal and client teams, creating project plans, leading weekly meetings and ensuring all actions and deliverables are kept to time
• Draw up contracts and participant T&Cs
• Lead on the participant journey, setting up online registration systems, managing inboxes, developing comms plans, writing participant comms emails and creating FAQ and event information guide documents
• On-event participant management leading on the information desk and participant registration desk, as well as client management dealing with incidents and informing them of event updates
• Help manage sponsors and create event branding, working with suppliers from brief to production and on-site event activation
• Managing event budgets with the Event Director, presenting any updates and reconciliations to clients
  

Your profile

• Organising and executing: Setting objectives, planning, managing time, managing resources and monitoring progress
• Delivering results and meeting client expectations: Focusing on client needs and satisfaction, setting high standards and monitoring and maintaining quality, working systematically and maintaining productivity levels to drive project results
• Adapting and coping: Flexing and responding to change, accepting new ideas, adapting interpersonal style, dealing with ambiguity
• Relating and networking: Building rapport, networking, relating across levels, managing conflict, using humour and humility to manage situations as they arise 
• These skills will also be useful:
• Experience in a similar role (events, mass participation sports, charities and corporate clients)
• Meticulous attention to detail
• A proactive and positive attitude, with the ability to motivate a team and make confident decisions

What we offer

THE CORE PACKAGE

Salary: £27k to £30k per annum
Bonus: Potential for performance and company-related bonuses
Holiday: 28 days (inc. bank holidays) plus time off between Christmas & New Year
Pension: 5% employer contribution
Location: Brighton
Reporting to: Senior Account Director – Client Events
Start date: January 2026

FLEXIBLE WORKING

• Remote working: 3 days a week in the Brighton office as a baseline
• Flexible hours: 9-5 pm with flexibility for early or late starts
• Extended breaks: Flexible time during the day to exercise or take time out
• Additional Holiday: Option to buy additional holiday at a discounted rate
• Time off in lieu: 1 extra day off for every weekend day worked on event
• Extended remote working: Option for additional days e.g. working abroad
• 4-day week: Open to discussion of reduced hours

LONG SERVICE

• 5yr & 10yr long service rewards with additional annual leave and and budget for adventure funding

WE LIKE BEING HEALTHY

• Vitality Healthcare, which includes: 
  • Up to 50% off a pair of trainers every year and free annual health checks
  • Subsidised gym membership, free coffees and cinema tickets

• £250 challenge fund each year to put towards a challenge of your choosing
• Free entry into Threshold events and discounts for friends and family
• Boot camps, pilates, yoga and energisers led by Thresholdians
• Free fruit, treats and a well-stocked top shelf bar in the office

WE LIKE BEING SOCIAL

• Annual 3-day business planning and celebration trip (fully funded)
• Programme of activities throughout the year from pottery to padel
• Welcoming and lively environment in a bright and social office
• We like to keep learning
• Internal training and opportunity for funding for personal development
• Mentoring opportunities both internally and externally

WE LIKE TO GIVE BACK

• Match Funding of up to £100 for any charity challenges you take on
• Volunteering days available each year upon request

*Please note that the benefits package is subject to change.

We look forward to receiving your online application and exploring the possibility of you joining our team.

Infront is an equal opportunities employer.