Elevate
Manager, Partnerships Insights
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About Elevate
Elevate is an award-winning global sports and entertainment agency founded in 2018 and the chosen growth partner for the world’s leading brands, properties, and experience-driven businesses. Through one integrated model, Elevate serves as the trusted advisor for more than 1,000 clients, helping them solve complex challenges and drive business wins.
What began in sports has evolved into a platform now serving clients across culture, attractions, culinary, and hotels. Today, Elevate brings operational expertise, data-driven intelligence, and world-class creativity together under one roof.
Elevate’s more than 750 employees sit across 14 offices around the world, from North America to Europe to Asia, and speak and write in 17 different languages. For more information, visit us at www.oneelevate.com.
Position Overview: Manager, Partnerships Insights
Elevate operates as a fully integrated partner for its clients, adding insight, expertise, and in-market marquee asset sales activity to accelerate and enhance revenue in collaboration with the client’s leadership, partnership teams and wider stakeholder landscape (e.g. marketing and brand, hospitality, technology, community, venue operations, etc.)
Elevate is seeking a passionate and talented individual to join our Strategy and Insights team within the International Partnerships department. The ideal candidate will have a deep interest in sports and a proven ability to research and analyse businesses across various industries. We value curiosity and seek someone who can methodically channel their efforts to deliver actionable insights that drive success across sponsorship sales projects.
The role requires creativity in aligning brands with sports properties and the ability to communicate ideas effectively through both written and verbal formats. The candidate will also play a key role in sourcing, managing, and leveraging data to build value for rights holders and venues. A flair for crafting innovative materials and creating compelling sales narratives to support our objectives is essential
This is a hybrid role, based in our London office.
What You’ll Do
- Identify and prioritise prospective partners across sport and entertainment, developing a clear, evidence-based view of which brands to approach and why
- Research brands’ business priorities, recent developments, geographic presence, marketing activity and sponsorship history, including available evidence of spend, to assess their suitability for specific partnership opportunities
- Build an understanding of each assigned property’s audiences, markets, assets and commercial proposition, ensuring brand recommendations reflect the opportunity
- Produce and maintain detailed brand lists, applying the existing research and scoring framework to organise findings, assess prospects and make clear recommendations for the project and sales teams
- Contribute to go-to-market planning by recommending priority categories, brands and the sequencing of outreach, combining responses to project briefs with proactive identification of opportunities
- Analyse Salesforce activity and outcomes to understand patterns in prospect engagement and refine research, scoring and targeting for subsequent waves of outreach
- Work with the EPIC platform team and internal colleagues to identify opportunities for AI and automation, helping translate research needs into practical requirements, test outputs and develop a scalable prospecting capability
- Produce concise industry, category and sponsorship reports for internal teams, explaining relevant developments and their implications for prospecting and partnership opportunities
- Collaborate with the US Partnerships Insights team to share research, trends and methods, drawing on collective knowledge and reducing duplication of work
- Maintain clear sources and supporting evidence for research, flagging estimates or gaps and contributing to the team’s review and auditing process
- Provide research and data inputs for client and project reporting, working with Strategy and Solutions colleagues to support accurate and timely delivery
- Manage day-to-day relationships with relevant data providers, making effective use of their services, resolving queries and coordinating renewals with internal colleagues
- Manage research priorities across assigned projects, communicating progress and deadlines and contributing ideas to improve the quality and efficiency of the existing process
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Who You Are
- Relevant experience in research, insights, business intelligence, consulting, marketing or a related discipline. Candidates with one to three years’ experience or more are welcome; we will also consider earlier-career candidates who demonstrate strong reasoning and research ability
- A genuine, informed interest in sport and entertainment, with curiosity about how brands engage with these areas
- A working understanding of sponsorship and why brands choose particular partnerships, with the ability to explain the fit between a brand’s objectives and a property’s audience, markets and opportunities
- Previous experience in a sports and entertainment agency, rights holder or similar environment is desirable. Candidates from other backgrounds should be able to demonstrate relevant understanding and commercial judgement
- Strong research and analytical skills, with the ability to bring together information from different sources, assess its relevance and develop a clear recommendation
- Ability to develop a thorough understanding of a client and its property, using that knowledge to identify and prioritise suitable brands on an ongoing basis
- Sound judgement when information is incomplete, with the confidence to put forward promising prospects while making assumptions and gaps in the evidence clear
- Ability to organise research and communicate the reasoning behind recommendations clearly, through Excel or another suitable format
- An understanding of how AI can support research, including the need to question and verify its outputs. Practical experience using AI to improve research quality or efficiency is highly desirable
- An interest in making research processes more efficient and scalable. Experience with automation, repeatable AI workflows or data structuring would be a significant advantage
- Experience cleaning, organising and analysing larger datasets to extract useful information is highly desirable. Familiarity with Salesforce or another CRM is an advantage
- Ability to manage research across multiple projects and deliver relevant, well-supported brand recommendations to an agreed cadence
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What Makes You Stand Out
- Curious and proactive in seeking knowledge, asking thoughtful questions and drawing on the experience of colleagues
- Comfortable developing an understanding of the task without relying on a detailed brief, taking initiative and seeking input where needed
- Open to discussing and testing recommendations with the team, listening to different perspectives and refining conclusions
- Actively seeks feedback and applies learning from colleagues and sales activity to improve future research and targeting
- Generous in sharing knowledge, findings and useful methods, contributing to an open and collaborative team
- Persistent in finding fresh, relevant prospects and motivated to improve the way recurring research is carried out
Benefits Overview
Insurance (Company‑Paid)
Elevate provides the following benefits, effective from your first day of employment:
- Medical - Elevate covers 100% of your premium. Dependants can be added at your own cost via payroll deductions
- Dental and Optician Reimbursement
- Travel Insurance - Elevate covers 100% of your premium. Dependants may be added at your cost
- Life Assurance - Fully employer‑paid, covering 4× your basic annual salary up to a free cover limit of £800,000
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - Fully employer‑funded
Time Off
- 33 days annual leave, inclusive of the 8 UK bank holidays
- Up to 10 days paid sick leave within a rolling 12‑month period
Pension
- 4% employer contribution
- 5% employee contribution (based on full salary via salary sacrifice)
The qualifications listed above represent the credentials necessary to perform the essential functions of this position. To be successful in this position, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This position is open to all qualified candidates. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability in connection with the application process, you may contact us at HR@oneelevate.com.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity/veterans/disabled/ LGBT employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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