VP, Experiences

Agency:

Octagon

Job Function:

Consulting

Job Subfunction:

Sponsorship and Talent Consulting

Job Description:

We’re looking for a dynamic and experienced VP to sit within the leadership team of our Experiences team.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to client activations that bring partnership objectives to life globally with a particular specialism around motorsports. You will be called upon as a subject matter expert and lead and represent this specialism and across our agency network.

Key skills we’re looking for:

· Sponsorship Activation · Hospitality · Leadership · Project Management · People Management · Operations and Process · · Event Delivery · Strategic and Creative Thinking · Rights Management · Partnership Marketing · Process Management

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has 15+ years’ experience in a sponsorship activation role with agency or brand marketing experience.
• Is a strong people person and able to guide and lead a large team across our experiences specialism.
• Enjoys working and being part of a fast-paced big team and is able to communicate requirements, ideas and expectations at all levels.
• Has multiple years of experience working in sports events, specifically motorsports.
• Can clearly present ideas, creative solutions and address challenges / obstacles head on.
• Has the ability and flexibility to work some weekends and travel internationally as necessary.
• Is a keen collaborator, able to work across multiple functions and obtain optimum output from teams.
• Is used to be the senior point of escalation for internal client teams, solving problems and advising on best strategies forward.
• Ability to travel internationally when required

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead an experiences focused team across our European network to implement and deliver on multiple client global activation plans across a multi-motorsports calendar.

• Work with cross-functional teams to establish best-in-class collaboration and identify efficiencies in delivering work across our client base.

• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior members of the team and less experienced account teams. Provide senior insights on motorsport industry trends and best practices, leveraging insights and industry knowledge to drive results internally, whilst continuously seeking opportunities for innovation and improvement.

• Nurture and developbest practice, driving efficiencies across the team, providing counsel and strategic insights and recommended ways of working.

• Provide oversight and direction of execution for the experiences team for best-in-class delivery.

• Working closely with the finance and legal leads to implement commercial processes that mitigate risk with both supplier and client contracting.

• Manage new and existing scoping conversations with clients, including proposals/costings, resource planning (internal), and ongoing tracking and reporting.

• Establishing and building key working relationships across the Octagon and Omnicom network.

• Build strong relationships with clients and rights holders at a senior level.

• Help shape, set and drive the agenda for the wider experiences group across the regionas part of the department’s senior leadership team.

• Line management of of multipledirect reports, providing day to day oversight, guidance and career development opportunities for the wider team.

About Octagon:

Octagon is a global creative agency, with a specialty in sport and entertainment partnerships. With over 800 team members around the world, we work with brands to create big ideas that fans love and want to engage in, because it’s built in and around their passion. Where others see complexity we see possibility, and we believe in pushing authenticity, creativity, and longevity to do great things in the industry that lead the market. Octagon is now part of the Omnicom https://www.omc.com/

It’s a great space to play – in the world of culture, content, and events – and if you’d like to be a part of it, we would love to hear from you.

Our Values

Our values: empowerment, intelligence, inclusivity, innovation, and impact, guide our behaviours as people and shape the way that we operate as a team. As a senior member of the organisation, you will find ways to embody these in your own job as well as provide leadership and oversight on how those values come to life in all our staff and how we collectively operate.

Benefits

Core Benefits

Fixed term contract – employed via Atrium (our contingent worker provider)

Holiday - 25 days contractual leave per annum

Pension - employer contribution 4.5%

Statutory Sick Pay

Statutory Maternity / Paternity Pay

We’re pleased to offer wide range of benefits, including but not limited to the following:

·       Core benefits (available from start date) – flexible holiday allowance, AXA private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection, pension scheme with 4.5% employer contribution, Employee Assistance Programme

·       Flexible benefits (available after probation) – Gymflex, dental insurance, travel insurance, health cash plan, Cycleshceme, interest-free season ticket loans

·       A Flexible Workplace – we have a number of initiatives in place to ensure that our team have the flexibility to balance work with their lives, this includes flexible holiday and flexible working options.

·       We also run a number of internal programmes to support physical and mental wellbeing, alongside learning and development opportunities to support career development and progression.

Octagon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Octagon is committed to building a culture where all employees are seen as equal, are respected and where all opinions are heard. We take pride in our inclusive hiring, as well as our diverse workforce and we welcome applications from all qualified candidates.

Important Note: This job description serves as a guide to the scope and range of activities that may be required of the incumbent and may change at any time according to the needs and priorities of the Company.

The Bigger Team You’ll Join

Octagon is the global sports, entertainment, and experiential marketing arm of the Interpublic Group.

We take pride in being Playmakers – finding insightful, bold ways to create play in our work, our lives, and in the world. We believe in the power of play to create big ideas and unlock potential for our clients and talent.

We can put ourselves in the shoes of fans because we ARE fans – of sports, entertainment, and culture at large. This expertise allows us to continually evolve the fan experience across sports and entertainment alongside some of the biggest brands and talent in the world.

The world needs play more than ever. Are you a Playmaker?

Octagon is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

We also run a number of internal programmes to support physical and mental wellbeing, alongside learning and development opportunities to support career development and progression.

You will also need to have:

• Solid Agency experience working in a similar role, ideally with experience in F1.
• High level Power Point Skills, Excel and Outlook and a confidence to present internally and externally.

It’s not essential but will be advantageous if:

• You are fluent in any other languages.

Competitive

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

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