Job Description

Expleo is supporting a leading organisation within the global motorsport sector in recruiting a Senior Account Manager - Partnerships. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-profile partnership activations within a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

📍 Gaydon, UK

📅 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract (until June 2027)

The Role

As a Senior Account Manager, you will take ownership of managing key commercial partnerships, ensuring the successful planning, execution, and measurement of activation programmes across marketing, PR, communications, and events.

This position offers the chance to work at the cutting edge of motorsport, collaborating with internal teams and external stakeholders to deliver exceptional partner experiences both trackside and beyond.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the delivery of partnership activation programmes across marketing, communications, PR, experiential, and hospitality activities

Develop and implement integrated partner marketing campaigns

Build and maintain strong relationships with partners through regular meetings, planning sessions, and senior stakeholder engagement

Facilitate workshops and lead strategic review meetings with internal and external stakeholders

Collaborate with PR and communications teams to support media programmes and content development

Manage partner brand approvals processes and ensure adherence to brand guidelines

Deliver high-quality partner events and hospitality programmes both at race venues and off-site

Track and manage contractual rights and ensure all deliverables are fulfilled

Oversee budgets, invoicing, and financial reporting related to partnership activities

Measure and evaluate campaign effectiveness, producing insightful reports for partners

Support activation activities including vehicle display, appearances, and asset coordination

Key Skills & Experience

Proven excellent experience in sports/motorsport sponsorship industry

Excellent communication skills - both spoken and written

Experience of successful stakeholder management

Experience of financial planning, budget management

Experience of successful strategic partnership campaign development

Strong ability to prioritise a pressured workload to meet tight deadlines

Proactive, responsive and flexible approach, with the ability to operate outside sphere of prescribed role if required

Commercially astute - used to working in a global motorsport and sport business environment

Highly developed negotiation skills

Experience in communications, PR, social media and/or events and hospitality delivery

PC Skills & Web-based knowledge

Ability to drive in the UK