About this role
Senior Manager, Sports Partnerships & Partner Events
Strategic Partnerships manages and grows the most significant enterprise relationships across American Express and ensures we represent Amex as a best-in-class partnerships organization. The team is responsible for defining multi-year partnership strategies, supporting key negotiations and projects, and driving new business opportunities globally with our largest Blue Box partners. It exists to deliver against three core objectives: (1) support and develop partner strategies that maximize value to customers and the enterprise, (2) bring the best of Amex to drive growth and innovation (3) foster and maintain external and internal relationships.
The Senior Manager, Sports Partnerships & Partner Events will partner across the Amex enterprise to bring strategic planning, relationship and negotiating expertise to key sports partners (e.g., USTA, AELTC) and lead the strategy, planning and execution of our marquee strategic partner event (Partner Summit), This role reports into the Vice President, Strategic Partnerships: Sports and Entertainment.
- Strategic thought leadership with focus on identifying opportunities, navigating highly matrix organization, implementing plans and issues resolution
- Proficient in building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and partners, and building followership
- Excellent written and verbal communication. Able to take complex ideas/materials and synthesize for different audiences. Comfortable engaging with and presenting to senior leadership.
- Strong collaboration and influence management skills, with the ability to align diverse stakeholder groups around common objectives.
- Highly motivated self-starter with ability to progress work autonomously, but also collaborate and partner to achieve results
- High degree of intellectual curiosity and comfort with ambiguity; able to bring structure to “blue sky” opportunities and operate effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Skilled in prioritization and project management
- Financial, analytical, and AI acumen; ability to translate data into insight.
- Experience in sports and entertainment partnerships, business development and strategy preferred.
- Event strategy, project management and execution required.
- Bachelor's degree required.
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.