Manager, Sports & Entertainment

About the role

We're on the hunt for a Media Partnerships Manager to join our dynamic Sports & Entertainment Team at WPP Media. This exciting role involves managing and overseeing the production and execution of content partnership (AV, AFP, Publisher, Audio, Social & Digital) campaigns across the group, working with a diverse portfolio of high-profile clients and media partners. You'll enjoy; Diverse Projects: Work across a variety of exciting WPP Media clients and media partners, building strong relationships with key stakeholders and internal teams. Dynamic Team: Support and collaborate with a talented team in a fast-paced, creative environment. Cutting-Edge Work: Be at the forefront of delivering innovative media partnership and content solutions for an impressive client roster. What Success Looks Like You will need to quickly: Gain a clear understanding of how media partnership briefs are handled and delivered by the WPP Media Sports & Entertainment team. Build strong working relationships with Client Planning Leads and the Media Partnership Activation team . Confidently working across campaign delivery. Receive positive feedback from clients and colleagues for your contributions. Successfully help deliver multiple projects, ensuring high standards of client service.

Requirements

• Experience & Expertise
• Experience at Exec/Snr Exec level, in a media agency,media owner or similar.
• Good Knowledge of all media channels , including AV, publisher, audio, and digital.
• Clear understanding of content, partnerships, and production processes .
• Skills & Attributes
• Hyper-organised with excellent project management skills.
• Exceptional people skills, confident in managing clients and multiple stakeholder relationships.
• Growing commercial awareness , with experience in financial processes.
• Attention to detail and comfort working with numbers.
• Ability to prioritise workloads and juggle multiple projects simultaneously.
• A confident communicator, capable of leading client meetings and delivering presentations.
• Proactive, enthusiastic, and creative - a natural problem-solver and a "yes" person.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and to deadlines.
• Life at WPP Media & Benefits
• WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without

Benefits

Additional Information

About WPP Media WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships - all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open - we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth. WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working. For more information, visit wppmedia.com . 2012 - Manager, Sports & Entertainment Role Summary and Impact WPP Media is the UK's biggest media agency network. More clients choose to work with us than anyone else in the UK. This success is delivered via a clear, client centric vision - to be the most trusted growth partner for brands. WPP Media: Sports & Entertainment is our dedicated practice focused on the development of brand partnerships, sponsorships, branded entertainment and socially driven content solutions for brands. We work with the biggest and most impactful brands, platforms, IP, rights holders, talent and creators to drive our work. We passionately believe that Sports and Entertainment make modern culture. Across sport, music, fashion, gaming and entertainment, they fuel the communities and fandoms that drive audiences and power brand differentiation. The vision of our 100+ dedicated craft experts is simple - We make brands epic in culture .

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