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Your role
We are looking for a Sports Marketing & Athlete Manager who will be responsible for scouting, contracting, and managing athletes to elevate brand visibility, while leading impactful sports events and activations. This role requires strong experience in athlete relationship management, negotiation, and cross-functional collaboration with Brand, PR, and Trade Marketing teams. The ideal candidate brings a deep understanding of the local sports landscape, a solid network within the industry, and the ability to drive brand advocacy through training, seeding, and strategic event execution.
Athletes management
- Be responsible for the selecting of athletes in the key sport verticals. Monitor and scouting upcoming stars. Align with Brand, PR, local TM teams on the candidates and overall list of the athletes
- Make a contract offer for the selected athletes (ambassadors) and negotiate with appropriate individual agent, association, teams
- Develop, manage relationships with the contracted and non-contracted athletes & make sure they provide relevant visibility for the brand
- Establish the relationships with key national sports organizations (e.g.NOC) and seek for the opportunities to provide additional visibility for the brand
- Plan and order products (Eyewear / Apparel /Accessories) following the brand direction and commercial needs. Ship it to the athletes in a timely manner.
- Provide regular seeding reports following the company's processes, communicate to internal stakeholders
- Plan and manage seeding budget; regular provide spending track
Events
- Propose and manage local sports events & activities in accordance with the brand direction/ local market needs
- Fully leadership the event / activations organization with the support of the trade marketing team, activate Oakley athletes in suitable events
- Follow the events / activations approval process through regional Oakley team
- Plan and manage events / activations budget
- Provide the reports
- From time to time participate in Global Sports events
Training EW + AFA
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders on the training needs, plan training calendar and make sure the calendar is approved by WHS/ RTL teams
- Collate materials and prepare content for the training sessions
- Participate in Brand immersions (1-2 times per year) and other local activities (new product launches)
- Track, monitor, generate reports and gather feedback
Requirements:
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Sports Management, Marketing, Business, or related field
- Experience: Minimum 5+ years in athlete management, sports marketing, or marketing
- Industry Knowledge: Deep understanding of the local sports landscape
- Data-Driven Mindset: Comfort with tracking seeding ROI, event metrics, and athlete performance
- Existing Network: relationships with athletes, teams and national sports organizations
