Partnership Insights Associate

We are Two Circles, a Sports & Entertainment Marketing business.

We grow audiences and revenues by knowing fans best.

We work with clients to help them understand & influence what their fans are doing - the way fans spend their money, the events that fans attend, the channels fans respond to, the content fans watch and more. And we use the understanding this gives us to help our clients grow. Grow their audiences and grow their revenues - both direct to consumer and business to business revenues.

Our platforms and services are trusted by over 900 clients globally, including the English Premier League, Red Bull, UEFA, VISA, the NFL, Nike and Amazon. We are almost 1000 people, based out of 14 offices, and we deliver work for sports and entertainment businesses of all shapes and sizes all over the world

 Our Rights Management division acts as a sponsorship sales resource for iconic global sports rights holders. We successfully market the unique emotion of sport, and rationalise the value of sport sponsorship using data, to drive commercial results for rights-owners and record returns for brands. We have led and closed over $2.5bn in sponsorship rights for some of the world's biggest sports properties, including recent record-breaking deals for UEFA Women's Football, New Zealand Rugby and Mercedes F1.

We aim to optimize revenues for our clients whilst allowing each to avoid the long-term fixed costs associated with maintenance of large in-house sales teams. We are focused on solving problems and not selling assets, and we are ambitiously expanding our clients, geographies and our sales team.

As a part of our Partnerships Strategy and Insights teamyour primary role is to support the sales team in driving incremental sponsorship revenue for our rightsholders.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identifying trends and opportunities within the broader sponsorship landscape and establishing the most effective strategy for approaching sponsorship prospects
• Collaborating with our Operations and Sales teams across all meeting touchpoints and reporting on process progress
• Creating written reports that summarise sponsorship activity at both industry and brand level
• Collecting and analysing data through a variety of sources, including conducting market research, to support sales conversations and articulate our propositions
• Using data and insights to support sales conversations and create compelling business cases for prospective partners
• Supporting on strategic projects to help shape Rights Holders' sponsorship programmes

Requirements

• Research-oriented, with a strong ability and genuine passion for generating data-driven insights that inform commercial strategy
• Good foundational understanding of the sponsorship landscape and why brands invest in sponsorship
• Highly diligent, with exceptional attention to detail
• Proactive self-starter, able to take initiative and work independently whilst knowing when to seek guidance to deliver tasks
• Client-centric, with a collaborative approach to working across departments and regional teams
• Demonstrates a strong growth mindset, actively seeking feedback and continuously learning
• Strong work ethic, demonstrated through academic achievement and extracurricular involvement
• Practical experience using Excel, with an understanding of how to organise and manipulate large data sets

Though these are the basics written down, as an entry-level role we will principally be recruiting for energy, values and commitment – both to Two Circles and to your career. Even if you feel you don’t tick 100% of the boxes but feel you could bring value to the role, we’d still love to hear from you!  

Benefits

What can we offer you?

We offer a benefits package to suit you and your lifestyle! Out of a core monthly budget, you can choose your own comprehensive benefit package

• Renowned Team Days often throughout the year
• Summer Away Days
• 23 standard days of holiday (+ 1 Birthday, +2 for a ‘Big Life Event’ and +1 Admin Day), closure of office over Christmas (plus Bank Holidays)
• Discretionary Bonus based on company performance
• Performance Reviews every 6 months with discretionary salary increases
• Private healthcare (Vitality) and/or Health Cash Plan (Medicash)
• Mobile phone contribution
• Sport Challenge contribution
• Gym membership contribution
• 2x annual kit drops

Two Circles is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

We value and want to have all types of candidates apply for roles at Two Circles. Therefore, we would love for you to fill out the Equality & Diversity Monitoring Form as part of your application. This form does not ask for your name or information that would make you personally identifiable.