Senior Client Manager, Sponsorship & Consultancy
Job Fit Check
Base Career helps you apply smarter for this job.
Key skills for this role
About the Role
Dentsu MKTG is seeking a Senior Client Manager to lead sponsorship and consultancy projects in Formula 1. The role involves managing client relationships, project delivery, and team coordination in Dubai.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Manage day to day CEMEA client relationships
- Own client connections and relationships
- Understand client’s business and wider industry competitor set
- Lead by example on client service excellence
- Have full ownership and accountability for client/account fees and activation budgets
- Oversee and direct client team to manage retained and project work including race day planning, branding, merchandise, events, and activations
- Hold overall responsibility for ensuring project delivers above client expectations
- Support Directors with management of resource and workloads across team
- Ensure timesheets for self and direct reports are completed on time and accurately
- Support new business function by participating in proposals and pitch processes
- Act as mentor and coach to direct reports
Requirements
- Resident in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Proficient in Arabic speaking, reading and writing
- Experience working with motorsport and specifically Formula 1
- Proven experience in marketing (agency, client, or rights holder side)
- Proven experience working on sport, ambassadors, music or entertainment sponsorships and activation programmes
- Demonstrable experience in project management and client servicing excellence
- Good understanding of brand ambassador management
- Good understanding of the wider marketing landscape
- Superstar project management skills
- Strategic and logical thinker
Full Job Posting
Role Overview
- We are looking for a Senior Client Manager to join the MKTG team to work on delivering and implementing collaborations in Sport and Entertainment, specifically Formula 1.
- As a Senior Client Manager in Sponsorship + Consultancy, you will lead in managing the client’s business and keep day to day activities running smoothly.
- This role will report into Client Director (based in London) and is based in Dubai.
Responsibilities
- Manage day to day CEMEA client relationships.
- Own client connections and relationships.
- Understand your client’s business and the wider industry competitor set.
- Lead by example on client service excellence.
- Have full ownership and accountability for client/account fees and activation budgets.
- Oversee and direct the client team to manage retained client work and project work including race day planning, branding, merchandise, events, and activations.
- Hold overall responsibility for ensuring the project delivers above client expectations.
- Be accountable for setting timelines, expectations, and meeting deadlines.
- Support the Directors with the management of resource and workloads across the team.
- Ensure timesheets for self and direct reports are completed on time and accurately.
- Oversee and be the key point of contact for finance related activities on the account.
- Support new business function by participating in new client proposals and pitch processes.
What we’re looking for
- Resident in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
- Proficient in Arabic speaking, reading and writing.
- Experience working with motorsport and specifically Formula 1.
- Proven, consistent, experience in marketing either agency side, client side or with a rights holder.
- Proven, consistent, experience working on sport, ambassadors, music or entertainment sponsorships and activation programmes.
- Demonstrable experience in project management and client servicing excellence.
- A good understanding of brand ambassador management.
- A good understanding of the wider marketing landscape.
- Superstar project management skills.
- A strategic and logical thinker who can provide council to our clients and suppliers.
- Acumen to look at business performance for our clients and how this can be measured.
- A team mentality, building high performing teams.
Why MKTG Sports + Entertainment
- MKTG Sports & Entertainment is a global integrated agency that help brands and rights holders move at the speed of fans.
- We are part of Dentsu Sports International, a global sports network.
Apply for this job in 1 click
Skip the repetitive application forms
Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.
Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career
More from this employer
More jobs at dentsu
Strategy Director
Riyadh, KSA
Dentsu Creative is seeking a Strategy Director to lead brand strategy, develop pitches, and inspire creative teams. The role requires strong strategic craft, experience in agency or consulting environments, and the abili
Director - Paid Social
Mumbai, QAT
Dentsu is seeking a Director of Paid Social to set strategic direction, manage a team of 100+ members, and ensure best practices across Meta, Snapchat, and TikTok Ads. The role requires strong expertise in paid social op
Social Media Manager
Riyadh, KSA
Dentsu is seeking an experienced Social Media Manager to lead social media strategy and execution for clients in the MENA region. The role involves developing social roadmaps, creating bilingual content in English and Ar
Senior Strategist
Riyadh, KSA
The purpose of this role is to work with strategy lead to craft strategic outputs including creative briefs, research reports and analyses, selling narratives, strategic POVS and go-to market plans Job Description: Role
Strategy Director
Riyadh, KSA
Job Description: Dentsu Creative is a global creative agency network designed to solve business problems and unlock exponential growth for clients through channel neutral ideation. Committed to Transformational Creativit