Brand Partnerships Manager
Job description
About the Position
Why Join DAZN?
Joining DAZN in London means working at a global sports streaming business from one of the UK’s fastest-growing digital hubs. You’ll collaborate with smart, passionate people, move quickly, and help connect millions of fans to the sports they love. If you’re excited by working with a business growing at scale and the pace of live sport, DAZN is a great place to grow your career.
The Role
Join DAZN's Brand Partnerships team and play a key role in developing and delivering partnership opportunities that connect brands with sports fans. You'll manage brand partnership briefs from initial response through to delivery, working closely with planning, creative strategy and activation teams to develop strong narratives, high-quality proposals and impactful partnership solutions. Building trusted relationships with brand and agency stakeholders, you'll help manage timelines, coordinate internal teams, deliver against commercial targets and identify opportunities to build partnerships that can be renewed and scaled.
Responsibilities
- Develop and manage brief responses for brand partnerships, collaborating with the planning team to source insights and develop strong narratives aligned with client objectives, KPIs and challenges.
- Build trusted relationships with brand and agency stakeholders, acting as the primary point of contact for brand brief responses.
- Manage timelines, feedback and internal coordination with partner teams to ensure smooth delivery of partnership responses.
- Brief creative teams effectively and lead the planning and delivery of partnerships with the Activation team.
- Ensure all responses are on brand, high quality and compliant while managing campaign costs to meet commercial targets.
- Identify opportunities for partnerships to be renewed and built at scale.
- Work with the Creative Strategy Lead to align on measurement success and partnership performance.
- Keep updated with competitor partnerships and formats, ensuring strong alignment when briefing creative and execution teams.
Requirements
- Experience in brand partnerships
- Strong relationship management
- Industry learning and development amongst creative network
- Exceptional presenting skills
- Diligence in project management
- Proactive mindset in creating opportunities
- An all-around good human
We Offer
Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.
About the Company
At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be.
As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop.
DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO:
- Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen.
- Prioritising what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact.
- Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One.
At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities.
If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.
Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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This role's hiring manager:
Lou Emmerson
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Sports Entertainment
About the Company DAZN is a global company dedicated to transforming the way the world consumes sports entertainment. They focus on bringing fans closer to their passion through the best technologies available. The company operates as a global community where every opinion and idea can make a difference, emphasizing team spirit and collective ambition to achieve what others might consider impossible. Products, Services & Tech Stack Core Solutions Sports Streaming: DAZN provides streaming services for various sports events, bringing them directly to fans. Technologies & Frameworks Platforms: The company utilizes various platforms to deliver its services, although specific platforms are not detailed in the provided information. Project Scope & Target Clients Client Base Global Sports Fans: DAZN serves a wide range of sports fans globally, providing them with access to live sports events. Engineering Scale Global Operations: DAZN operates on a global scale, with teams and projects spanning multiple countries including the United Kingdom, India, Japan, Germany, the United States, Italy, Spain, Israel, and more. The engineering projects vary in scope and complexity, reflecting the company's global presence and diverse operational needs.