Account Supervisor, College Athletics

About the role

Horizon Sports and Experiences (HS&E), part of Horizon Media, is looking for an Account Supervisor to support its brand consulting practice. Reporting directly to the Account Director, the supervisor leads an account team focused on college athletics, managing client projects, sponsorship activation and strategy and select new business efforts. The role sits in New York and is listed as hybrid.

Key responsibilities

• Business operations (40%): lead the account team in managing and implementing clients' marketing campaigns and portfolios, supervise creative and tactical development and execution of national and local deliverables (consumer promotions, sponsorship, social/digital, experiential/event activations), craft client briefs, oversee logistics and production timelines, delegate daily tasks, oversee financial execution of agreements and contracts, and build long-term relationships with clients, vendors and rights holders.
• Client management and strategic leadership (30%): build professional relationships with clients and partner agencies, coordinate day-to-day communication between client, rights holders and vendors, contribute to client strategies, seek new partnership solutions, analyze business metrics (ROI/ROO) and introduce measurement solutions, and keep client portfolios at the highest standard.
• Staff development (20%): manage the professional development of direct reports, set career goals, track performance, give real-time feedback, run staff reviews and quarterly check-ins, identify training needs and build team culture.
• Business strategy and development (10%): support new business efforts with strategic solutions and concept ideation, and build relationships with key Horizon stakeholders on brand strategy and activation teams.

Required profile

• Team-spirited and collaborative, able to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment on multiple partnerships and activations at once.
• Proven leader with experience managing a team.
• Previous experience working with college sports, including NIL, for a brand, team, college or MMRA.
• Bachelor's degree and minimum of 5+ years of advertising or marketing experience at an agency or brand with a proven performance record.
• Experience with sponsorship strategy, activation concepts and compliance; sponsorship measurement experience is a plus.
• Ability to conduct client-facing research, present to C-Suite level clients, and work nights, weekends or travel for client programs and events.
• Advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion.

Required skills

• High-level proficiency with Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Digital marketing experience and/or website design and development experience.
• Sponsorship measurement techniques.