Partnership and Activation Manager

Microsoft is building a Frontier marketing organization that activates smarter and delivers measurable outcomes. They are seeking a Partnership and Activation Manager to coordinate workflows across partners, agencies, and internal stakeholders while executing impactful storytelling that showcases innovation and achieves business impact.

Responsibilities

• Support external relationships with sports organizations ensuring effective delivery of partnership objectives
• Collaborate with internal engineering teams or agencies to deliver transformational technology with the partner
• Develop activation plans to drive awareness of partnership and build product consideration/adoption through storytelling and tech engagement
• Execute against rights and assets within partnership agreements
• Support the development and execution of partnership campaigns and activations from briefing to partner engagement to delivery and reporting
• Develop briefs and establish and maintain work back schedules
• Support creative reviews
• Facilitate internal and partner approvals
• Deliver assets to channels on time
• Support reporting and insights delivery
• Execute optimizations
• Support reporting by collecting inputs, tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) performance, and documenting learnings for optimization and greater impact
• Drive visibility internally of partnerships and establish regular cadence of engagement to ensure companywide utilization
• Manage budget ensuring adherence to all targets compliance with procurement policies, and efficient use of resources
• Embody our Culture and Values

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field OR equivalent experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 1+ year(s) integrated marketing (e.g., digital, relationship, social media, campaign, etc.), event management, marketing strategy, business planning, marketing operations, or related work experience OR equivalent experience
• 1+ year(s) sponsorship activation, integrated marketing (e.g., digital, relationship, social media, campaign), event management, marketing strategy, business planning, marketing operations, or related work experience
• Partnership or Sponsorship management experience
• Campaign development and execution experience with a focus on measurable impact analysis
• Project management experience
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally

Company Overview

Company H1B Sponsorship