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Music Partnership Executive - Internal only

Bury, England, United Kingdom
  • Job Title – Music Partnership  Executive
  • Location – BL9 8RR
  • Working rota – Monday - Friday
  • Working hours – 40 hours 
  • Working model – 4 days in the office

Role Overview:
The purpose of this role is to work with the Partnerships team, as well as other key stakeholders, to help deliver and activate the partnerships related to music & lifestyle as part of the JD marketing department. The role will assume responsibility for activations all agreed partnerships JD’s approach to music & lifestyle, including ownership of the activation calendars & executing plans around key activity across all channels engaging with other teams across the marketing department. All partnerships and sponsorships should be aligned to JD marketing strategy and be executed within an agreed yearly budget.  All activities will be monitored and reported upon based on agreed KPIs. Working directly with our activations team to bring these events to life for the consumer.

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

  • Ownership of a planned calendar of activity to maximise all Music & Lifestyle Sponsorships across Europe.
  • Ensure all agreed Partnership rights are activated across an agreed calendar and aligned with the objectives of the Partnership & Marketing strategy.
  • Manage day to day relationships with partners to utilise all aspects of the relationship in the best possible way
  • Liaise with wider marketing team to ensure any opportunity covers needs of wider business with particular focus on the European markets where applicable.
  • Collaborate with EU marketing teams to ensure local opportunities are maximised and contractually sound.
  • Collaborate with the JD marketing activations team, the PR team, the retail marketing team and the social media team to ensure 360-degree marketing mix coverage of partnerships and sponsorships.
  • Liaise with senior stakeholders to sign off all appropriate creative for partnerships.
  • Benchmark cost of partnerships and sponsorships with industry rates to ensure sponsorship and parentship budget is being utilised effectively.
  • Provide monitoring and reporting of activations to leadership team based upon agreed KPIs including all commercial benefits.
  • Continuously develop and refine partnership activation strategies through constant reviewing of our partnerships’ impact.
  • Assisting the Head of Partnerships & Sponsorship to review any new opportunities and support in presenting appropriate sponsorship and partnership opportunities to leadership team based on marketing strategy and calendar.

Skills/Experience/Knowledge needed:

  • Experience of planning & activating Partnership agreements.
  • Experience of working cross functionally within a marketing department.
  • Good knowledge of the music industry is key.
  • Strong interpersonal communication and presentation skills; superior verbal and written
  • Excellent project management skills and the ability to lead multiple projects within constrained resource environment.
  • Ability to work as part of a growing team in a fast moving environment.
  • Strong understanding of event reporting and analysis
  • Clear understanding of the JD Brand and wider corporate strategy
  • A willingness to work out of hours and travel where necessary.

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 90,000 colleagues over 4,500 stores across several retail fascia's in over 36 countries around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to engrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day to day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

  • Incremental Holiday Allowance
  • Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
  • Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
  • Discounted Gym membership
  • Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
  • Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

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