Description:

Allied Sports is hiring an Account Executive to join our fast-growing team. Built by a team of trusted industry leaders and backed by a full suite of integrated marketing solutions, Allied Sports is a rising agency committed to helping modern marketers accelerate the shift from Sponsor to Storyteller.

We are looking for a motivated, dedicated, and enthusiastic person to join our fast-paced team and assist with the ideation, execution, and day-to-day management of C-Suite customer hosting programs for a technology client invested in Golf and the NFL. This person will report into the Sr. Account Manager and will be responsible for supporting event planning and execution of exclusive and memorable customer hosting experiences, and agency business initiatives.

Responsibilities:

The position of Account Executive is client and C-Suite executive facing. The role’s primary objective is to keep all event and program deliverables on track, ensuring a successful customer hosting program through deliverable creation, asset management, tier-1 hospitality and hosting, customer registration and communications, project management and onsite event execution.

• Responsible for assisting with the day-to-day and onsite management of a client and their respective sports and entertainment customer hosting portfolio.
• Effective in ideation, creation, development, and execution of customer hosting programs. This will include, but is not limited to: preparing presentations, event materials, communications, and event briefings, recaps/reporting to be distributed to a C-Suite level audience, the client, agencies, vendors and/or other counterparts.
• Work with various stakeholders, including client, agency partners, and vendors to bring these customer hosting programs to life. This will include but is not limited to: research, hotel management, transportation management, curated gifting experiences, customized registration and communications, signage, design of hospitality suites, event logistics and operations, client and vendor calls, agendas/notes etc.
• Manage vendor relationships and coordinate necessary deliverables on behalf of client.
• Support finance and billing processes including budgets and vendor payments.

Qualifications:

• Experience in related field (client-based events / executive hosting experience preferred; specific disciplines could include C-Suite Communications, Event Registration, Audience Acquisition, Customer Hosting, Event Marketing, Event Planning, Experiential Marketing).
• Demonstrated ability to effectively project manage multiple deliverables under tight deadlines, work effectively under pressure while working as both part of a team as well as independently
• Ability to handle precise asset management records, allocation, tracking and reconciliation
• Ability to think strategically and creatively; can problem solve independently
• Exceptional organizational skills
• Experience with on-site event management, event execution, and vendor management
• Desire and confidence to present materials to clients and C-Suite executives
• Excellent time management, written and verbal communication skills to communicate clearly, concisely, and professionally
• Ability to travel approximately 30% of the time; occasional weekend work
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (in particular PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
• Able to work weekend, holiday and non-traditional hours, as required
• “All in this together, and get your hands dirty” type of demeanor required