Associate Director - Golf Consulting and Events

About the job

• Provide day-to-management, oversight, and delivery of marketing programs for our clients.
• Show a forward-thinking initiative to identity the best strategic opportunities and deliver world class solutions to the client.
• Develop and deliver polished deliverables in support client decision-making.
• Coordinate client and company programs through various tools such as email, phone calls, and conference calls.
• Help lead the day-to-day management of select partnerships, with responsibility for crafting, executing, and measuring key social, digital, and experiential programs.
• Act as subject matter expert on golf industry.
• Support the research and strategy work to help inform initiatives, program development, and sell in the value of sponsorship to client leadership.
• Take on specialized roles or projects, including working with third party vendors and partner agencies to execute client programs.
• Lead event logistics planning, implementation, and execution as applicable.
• Monitor media, trends and changing sports, entertainment, and cultural landscape to keep company executives and team members aware and to maintain Wasserman’s position as the most knowledgeable in the industry.
• Work creatively with client team members to develop decks and report materials.
• Perform various tasks as needed by internal team members such as research, reports, daily updates, editing of materials, etc.
• Stay up to date on client product / service offering and can thoughtfully present to potential partners.
• Learn and manage client-facing project management systems and legal processes for the purposes of supporting the creation and approval of different project documents.
• Maintain positive relationships with clients to encourage new and repeat business opportunities.

• Bachelor's degree, ideally in marketing, communications, business, or a related field.
• 4 – 6 years of relevant experience with minimum 3+ years of direct experience in account and project management.
• Specific experience working in golf in a sponsorship and/or activation capacity with preferred knowledge of golf’s governing bodies, the PGA Tour and LPGA.
• People-centric with outstanding interpersonal, written, and oral communications skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Suite, particularly with PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
• Must be able to multi-task and self-manage to meet deadlines and handle multiple priorities.
• Must be flexible and comfortable to assume multiple roles as needed by the team.
• Carries out responsibilities with minimal direction.
• Motivated, goal oriented, persistent.
• Strong attention to detail and highly organized.
• Ability to think creatively in a team environment.
• Must be flexible and react calmly under stressful circumstances.