Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.
Strategic Marketing Lead, Professional Sports (London)
Who We Are:
Orion Innovation is a leading, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Our mission is to be a trusted partner to inspire and accelerate digital innovation.
We provide business solutions rooted in Digital Strategy, Experience Design, and Engineering, that are transformative for our clients. We’re a partner to some of the world’s top companies across financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, high-tech, professional sports and entertainment and healthcare and life sciences (our core verticals).
Our global headquarters are in Edison, NJ, USA, and our European headquarters are in Zurich, Switzerland. We have a team of over 6,400 associates across North America, Europe, APAC and LATAM. Founded 30 years ago, we bring to our clients a unique combination of agility, scale and maturity for their digital initiatives.
About the Role:
We are looking for a dynamic Strategic Marketing Lead for our exciting Professional Sports vertical. Orion provides digital transformation services to many of the top professional sports leagues across the world. This person will be pivotal to leveraging our sports partnerships for corporate branding opportunities, elite networking events, and other creative marketing programs to drive lead generation across all our verticals for our digital transformation services.
The Strategic Market Leader, Professional Sports will work closely with the Professional Sports & Entertainment Vertical Leader on direction and KPIs and the Head of Marketing & Communications for support and guidance on executing on all brand, event and joint content opportunities.
Key aspects of this role include:
- Coordinate closely with our partner to leverage all marketing opportunities and develop a Master Marketing & PR Program including joint content to be produced, an events calendar, videos to be produced with sports talent, joint case studies, stadium advertising (stadium, broadcast), social media, PR
- Manage all content and ad creation and coordinate with our partner and Orion’s creative team to develop all digital assets
- Work closely with Orion’s vertical leaders and vertical marketing leads to produce and execute all exclusive events for their key targets, including guest speakers, and act as master of ceremonies where needed
- Track and report on all key strategic performance metrics
- Run campaigns and marketing activities
- Work collaboratively within the organization o devise ways for lead generation
- Brand development
Qualifications To Be Successful
- You must be a sports enthusiast
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, or related field
- Experience in top tier European football club will be a plus
- Experienced marketer with a track record of success in growing reach
- Expertise in sponsorship activation
- Proactive, with ability to self-direct through multiple concurrent projects
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Highly organized
- Creativity, vision and enthusiasm
Salary Range : £75,000 to £80,000
Benefits:
- Work-life Balance – Option to work remotely and flexible working hours.
- Pension Scheme
- Sales Incentive Plans
- Medical and Dental Insurance Plans
- Learning & Development – Access to L&D platform to further develop your skills, work with highly motivated experts, career opportunities for further professional improvement and development.
- Rewards & Recognition - Celebrate and recognize employees and teams that demonstrated Orion’s values while driving exceptional business results.
- 20 days Annual leave + bank holidays
- Maternity/Paternity/Sick leaves
Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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