Athletes Marketing Specialist

The Athletes Specialist assists the Athletes Manager in selecting and managing a national relevant top quality athlete's portfolio.

He/she understands the athletes' needs and challenges in performance, marketing and communications and provides professional support where needed and which is useful to the personal set up of athletes.

He/she tracks the positive impact of the partnership for our brand. He/She takes self-responsibility for selected projects.

ATHLETES PROGRAM

Be the main POC for specific playgrounds and athletes within the Athletes Program. Support and supervise each athlete with the optimal individual package, consisting of marketing (tools, salary, bonus, etc.), communications and sportive performance, assuring top professional relation with each athlete personally and perfect scene-impact, strong credibility and high efficiency (target setting/control).

Daily Athlete management tasks: handle relationships with some Athletes and/or their managers; contract / budget; scout for potential new talents in the playground.

MARKETING ACTIVATION

Development of a 360° activation plan around these playgrounds/sports and athletes.

Optimize impact and efficiency via professional target setting.

Bring to life projects and activations of these playgrounds/athletes.

Support activation of 3rd Party events.

SPECIAL PROJECT

Support the Athletes team on key projects; especially with winter sports.

Support the execution of winter sports and athletes plan.

Be POC for athletes activities; support international requests and post event debrief.

Be key contact person to peers functions: Brand Team for Consumer Activation / Field Marketing for logistic and field activities / On Premise for on-site consumer facing activities and Media Network for all athletes activations.

At least 3 years of work experience in the sports industry, sport-, events- or marketing agency, sport institution or federation.

Experience in working personally with athletes’ topics such as personal athletes marketing, agencies or institutions, will be a plus.

Effective communications skills, sporty, well-organized, structured and good team player.

Excellent project management skills.

An understanding/specialist knowledge/experience of sport performance.

Fluency in Italian and English, written and spoken.

Red Bull S.r.l. is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion.