Associate Consultant - Sports Advisory

The Role

Are you passionate about sport, curious about the business behind it and ambitious to build a career working with some of the biggest brands and rights holders in Irish and international sport?

This is an exciting opportunity to join Teneo Sports Advisory, Ireland’s leading sports sponsorship advisory team and three-time European Sponsorship Agency of the Year.

Based in Dublin, you will join a high performing team advising leading brands and rights holders strategic communications, sponsorship strategy and activation and commercial strategy.

We are looking for someone early in their career who combines a genuine passion for sport with curiosity about the world around it. You will be ambitious, commercially minded, have strong attention to detail, eager to learn and want to do great work as part of a collaborative, high-performing team.

Responsibilities

As an Associate Consultant, you will support the development and delivery of strategic communications and sponsorship programmes for some of the biggest brands and rights holders in Irish and international sport.

You will:

• Support the development and delivery of communications, sports sponsorship and activation strategies and campaigns.
• Undertake research and analysis across sport, sponsorship, brands, audiences, media and wider commercial trends.
• Produce high-quality client materials, including presentations, research, reports, communications materials and campaign evaluations.
• Contribute to creative campaign development, bringing fresh ideas and an understanding of sport, culture and audiences.
• Support the planning and delivery of sponsorship activations, PR campaigns, events and other client programmes.
• Monitor the sports, media, business, digital and creator landscape, proactively sharing opportunities for clients.
• Support measurement, reporting and evaluation to demonstrate the impact of client activity.
• Develop a strong understanding of our clients, their businesses, audiences and sectors.
• Build strong relationships with clients, colleagues, partners and other stakeholders.
• Contribute to new business opportunities, including research, proposal development and pitch presentations.
• Apply exceptional attention to detail and consistently high standards to everything you produce.
• Positively contribute to the culture and continued success of Teneo Sports Advisory and Teneo Ireland.

Requirements

We are looking for someone who has:

• Circa one year’s professional experience in a relevant professional environment such as strategic communications, public affairs, marketing, rightsholder, digital comms
• A genuine passion for sport and a strong interest in the business of sport, sponsorship and the business of sport.
• A strong interest in news and current affairs, consuming news and analysis from a diverse range of sources.
• A third-level qualification
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of projects.
• Strong research and analytical skills.
• Strong Microsoft Suite skills and the ability to produce polished, accurate work.
• Excellent organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
• Exceptional attention to detail and pride in producing work to a high standard.
• A proactive, self-motivated approach and the confidence to take responsibility.
• Creativity, collaboration and the confidence to contribute ideas and new perspectives.

What We Can Offer

• 25 days annual leave
• Competitive base salary with annual salary reviews

• Fully subsidised life insurance via a group scheme

• Health insurance contribution
• Benefit in Kind reimbursement for gym, fitness classes, sports clubs’ memberships
• PRSA contributions available via payroll
• Early finish Fridays
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program for you and your family
• Hybrid working and flexible working
• Annual flu vaccine
• Bike to Work
• TaxSaver scheme
• Overseas secondments available with the Teneo Global Mobility Plan
• Community and Personal Development
• Company CSR program
• Fully subsidised access to our online learning program
• Employee resource groups for underrepresented groups and their allies

About Teneo

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future.

Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions and organisations.

 Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organisational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance and ESG.

Teneo has more than 2,000 employees located in 50+ offices around the world.

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