Job Number: R50012892
Brand: Fox Sports
Job Type: Sales, Strategy & Business Development
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Job Posting Date: November 23, 2020
Home Team Sports is seeking a Vice President of Partnership Development to join our team in Chicago. As Vice President, you will be directly in charge of generating new or incremental revenue, through client direct contact at senior levels by articulating and prophesizing the Home Team Sports value proposition. You will partner, collaborate, ideate, prospect, strategize, target, and execute sales plans with other VPs of PD, VPs of Sales, our VP of Creative Partnerships, and Account Executives with the sole accountability of new revenue generation for Home Team Sports. You will also be responsible for managing sales efforts and achieving budgeted accountabilities for specific sports verticals or product categories assigned by the SVP and EVP of Sales. You will be expected to utilize the latest prospecting tools, research data, market and media knowledge, along with excellent presentation skills to articulate and monetize concepts, in order to generate revenue from new, traditional and non-traditional sources. Finally, you must provide exceptional vision, motivation and guidance to the traditional sales teams, for target account development and once new accounts are developed, you will be expected to successfully transition these new clients to the traditional sales teams for day to day account management.
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DIVISION DESCRIPTION
Home Team Sports is a unique sports marketing company that offers brands fully customizable and scalable branding and partnership opportunities across wherever home team sports fans can be found. We give brands unparalleled access to the most passionate home team fans across the country. The fans who, rain or shine, win or lose, are always there – standing by their teams until the very end. This enduring passion and support isn’t just another hobby for fans...it’s a part of their identity. Home Team Sports gives brands the unique and powerful opportunity to be a part of this phenomenon – to gain access to and engage with the most passionate fans in sports. We help fans extend their love for their home teams to the brands that associate with and support them.
Home Team Sports is a complete sports marketing solution, providing full access to fans on a local, regional or national scale through customized brand integrations, branded-content platforms, live-game streaming, exclusive highlights, custom creative/advertising production, VIP hospitality experiences and more. Through our proud representation of ALL regional sports networks across the country, we provide game coverage of all MLB, NBA and NHL home teams in the U.S., reaching over 90 million homes across our television and streaming platforms. Home Team Sports’ wide-ranging and expanding portfolio also enables advertisers to connect with fans through our exclusive media rights in major college conferences (B1G, Pac-12 Networks, the ACC and the Big 12), FOX Sports College Properties-owned multi-media rights across major universities/venues, and high-profile naming rights, title sponsorships and other major sponsorship platforms via highly-regarded sports marketing agency, Impression Sports & Entertainment.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.