Senior Manager, Hospitality

Wasserman operates at the epicenter of sports, music and entertainment, serving talent, brands and properties on a global scale. Our brands and properties division works with iconic brands and rights holders, supporting business growth through all marketing disciplines. We're a trusted partner to every major league, team and venue, building meaningful connections between brands, properties and fans.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, Wasserman's presence spans 28 countries and more than 70 cities, including New York, London, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Toronto, Paris and Sydney. For more information, please visit

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WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

General account responsibilities include:

• Partnership events and hospitality planning, aligned to client requirements in terms ofaudience/guest profile, objectives, budget parameters, and performance KPIs.
• Implementation of partnership events and hospitality programmes, in conjunctionwith rights holder and sister agencies, and general account management o suppliers, budget and client reporting.
• Reporting and evaluation, including interpretation of results and recommendations toclients.
• Planning and oversight of all events-related deliverables across other areas ofpartnership activation and account management
• Responsibilities across core partnership management deliverables, including management of merchandise/collateral, contractual asset monitoring and status reporting – ensuring contractual asset usage is maximised and tracked.

Role specific responsibilities include:

• Oversee development and end-to-end delivery of multiple motorsport and ad hocnon-motorsport events and activations concurrently.
• Deliver best-in-class client motorsport hospitality events and activations, pullingthrough core client narrative to all touch-points.
• Source, brief and manage external expert suppliers and specialists such a production partners, talent, chefs,florists and luxury experience providers

• Strong relationship building with relevant client stakeholders, rights holders andsuppliers.
• Strive to meet client KPIs and ensure activity is effectively measured.
• Work across additional client programmes and activations as required, including non-motorsport specific events
• Budget management: Pre-event budget setting, forecasting, live tracking and post-event reconciliation; thorough understanding of client budget parameters; continuallylooking for cost saving measures and opportunities
• Team management: Manage team members, ensuring that tasks are bein completed correctly, efficiently and timely; monitor and approve spending of directreports
• Regular interactions with Associate Director and Account Director to ensure clientevents are managed consistently and delivered to the highest standards of quality,detail and brand alignment
• Support collation and management of Motorsport events documents, trackers,templates and planning materials
• Stay informed on luxury, lifestyle and hospitality trends, proactively introduce freshideas, partners and innovations to clients
• Develop clear and concise internal and external presentations and reporting
• Demonstrate appropriate behaviours, conduct and professionalism in all inter-personal, written and verbal communications
• Track time andfinancial expenses on a day-to-day basis

WHAT YOU NEED:

• Agency experience is strongly preferred
• Motorsport (F1) experience is preferred but not necessary
• Proven experience curating luxury, high-end event experiences including venuesourcing, entertainment, catering, styling and guest touch-points, with a strong eyefor detail and aesthetics
• Experience working with global brands and teams across multiple timezones
• Ability to multi-task; you will be working across a number of events with tight deadlines with client teams based worldwide
• Ability to anticipate problems / issues and suggest proactive solutions
• Strong operations and logistics management skills, including experience with hotel contracting, planning of shipments, transport and global travel
• Experience working with Google programmes including Google slides, sheets anddocs is highly desired.
• Budget management skills
• Presentation skills (verbal and written), internally and to clients/suppliers includinguse of Microsoft Powerpoint and Google Slides
• Excellent communication skills – verbal and written, internally and to clients suppliers
• Team management including the coordination of junior team members
• Creative thinking and awareness of event industry trends
• Attention to detail and proactive working attitude is critical
• Willingness to travel and work non-standard hours, including weekends, as requiredby event schedules