Brand Partnership Manager

**_This role will have the option of in-office, hybrid or remote working._**
- ** Department**:Sales
- **Internal Job Title**:Brand Partnership Manager
- **Reports To**:CEO ANZ
- **Country and Location**:AUS - Melbourne or Sydney
- **Employment Type**:Full time
- **Line Management Responsibility**:No

**_ ABOUT YOUR NEW ROLE_**

Sporting News Australia is seeking a creative and driven Brand partnerships Sales Manager. Your primary responsibilities will include:

- Generating new business by clearly communicating The Sporting News offering & its USP’s to potential advertisers.
- Managing a diverse portfolio of direct and agency clients across Australia and New Zealand.
- Driving digital sales, innovative content partnerships & event activations to meet revenue targets.
- Providing sales, business development and client management support to the commercial & editorial team.
- Working with the editorial team to develop sponsored content solutions on platform & social channels for brands.

**_DO YOU HAVE THESE ESSENTIALS?_**
- Extensive experience working in digital media with a particular focus on selling display, programmatic, branded content and/or social solutions, with 3-5 years in a similar sales role
- Excellent communication, client management and presentation skills.
- Natural ability to work collaboratively
- Strong attention to detail and personal management skills.
- Sound ability to create, develop and present proposals and report
- Ability to work autonomously & manage an entire market on your own.
- Ability to learn new roles and adapt in a constantly evolving industry

**_ NOT ESSENTIAL BUT GREAT IF YOU ALSO HAVE_**
- A passion for sports
- Social media management or content marketing experience
- Understanding of how to use audience data and tools to shape sale strategy

**_ BENEFITS INCLUDE_**
- 20 days Paid Annual Leave
- Personal/Sick Leave
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave
- 5 days Bereavement Leave
- Flexible working environment
- Competitive salary & generous commission structure

**_ABOUT SPORTING NEWS, THE COMPANY_**

The underlying ethos of The Sporting News is positivity and passion for sports. To help drive those tenets, we have three core objectives:

- Create the best media experience for sports fans. Wherever you are in the world, whatever device you choose, we want The Sporting News to offer the best fan experience possible through the creation of quality, interesting content.
- Develop a work experience that people want to be part of. We want to identify talented, motivated staff who work hard, enjoy their job, support their teamand have fun while doing it.
- Build a fantastic, growing business. We want to deliver for our brand and our partners while achieving our commercial goals, ultimately using our scale for good.
- At Sporting News, we celebrate the diversity of our employees and our leadership. Sporting News is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law._

**_
ABOUT SPORTING NEWS, THE BRAND_**

One of America’s most iconic sports brands, The Sporting News was founded in 1886 as a weekly U.S. newspaper. Later transitioning to a magazine, it became the dominant sports publication, acquiring nicknames like “The Nation’s Oldest & Finest Sports Paper” and “The Bible of Baseball.”

The Sporting News is now a dynamic digital publisher offering a trusted perspective across multiple sports and topics all over the world. It features localized editions in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Japan, India, Mexico, Spain and Argentina, with more territories and languages on the near horizon.

Trusted and reliable; imaginative and clever; timeless and crafted: Sporting News’ independence and credibility, along with its resilience amidst an ever-changing media landscape, makes it a leading multimedia destination for fans. That same approach creates a perfect partner for leagues and broadcasters/OTT to grow a qualified, engaged audience against their properties as well as deliver creative messaging for local and global advertisers.

Today, Sporting News is the official digital destination of the NBA across APAC, a premium publishing partner of DAZN, ESPN and Kayo, and the brand over 30 million users trust for their sports content every month.

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