Sponsorship Strategy Consultant📣 إعلان

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	نوع العقد	عمل مؤقت
	طبيعة الوظيفة	بالموقع
	الموقع	الرياض

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About Elevate

Elevate is an award-winning global sports and entertainment agency established in 2018. The firm serves as a trusted growth partner for leading brands, properties, and experience-driven businesses worldwide. Through an integrated model, Elevate advises over 1,000 clients, assisting them in resolving complex challenges and achieving business objectives. Initially focused on sports, Elevate has expanded its platform to serve clients across culture, attractions, culinary, and hotels, combining operational expertise, data-driven intelligence, and creative solutions. Elevate operates with over 750 employees across 14 international offices.

The Role of Sponsorship Strategy Consultant

Elevate is seeking an experienced Sponsorship Strategy Consultant to join the team on a contract basis. This role involves supporting a diverse range of client engagements throughout the GCC and wider MENA region. The consultant will apply deep expertise in sponsorship strategy and brand partnerships, demonstrating a clear understanding of how sponsorship drives meaningful business and marketing outcomes for brands. The position requires operating effectively at both strategic and practical levels.

Key Responsibilities

Lead or support the development of sponsorship and partnership strategies for clients, aligning with broader brand and business objectives.
Provide expert advice to clients on sponsorship investment, including the assessment of properties, platforms, rights holders, audiences, and partnership opportunities.
Leverage brand marketing strategy knowledge to demonstrate how sponsorship can enhance brand awareness, consideration, engagement, reputation, and commercial impact.
Formulate sponsorship strategies, frameworks, and investment approaches, delivering clear recommendations and rationale to senior client stakeholders.
Evaluate potential sponsorship opportunities against defined strategic criteria such as brand fit, audience alignment, geographic relevance, strategic value, and commercial potential.
Contribute to the development of partnership propositions and activation strategies, ensuring sponsorship rights translate into meaningful experiences and brand value.
Create strategic recommendations and implementation roadmaps, guiding clients from high-level direction to practical activation priorities.
Establish appropriate KPIs, measurement frameworks, and methodologies for evaluating sponsorship effectiveness and ROI.
Integrate relevant market intelligence and benchmarks into client engagements, including insights on emerging trends, competitive activity, and consumer behavior.
Collaborate with internal Elevate teams across various disciplines, including strategy, partnerships, activation, creative, and commercial, to develop integrated client solutions.
Present recommendations and strategic insights to senior client stakeholders with confidence, simplifying complex issues and building compelling cases for investment.
Support business development and pitch activities by contributing sponsorship expertise, strategic thinking, and relevant market perspectives as required.

Candidate Profile and Qualifications

Demonstrated expertise in applying brand marketing and commercial strategy to enhance sponsorship effectiveness and measurable business impact.
A comprehensive understanding of the global sponsorship and partnership ecosystem, with particularly strong knowledge of the GCC and wider MENA market.
A proven track record of leading or supporting sponsorship strategy development projects for major brands, from initial strategic direction through to implementation planning and performance measurement.
Experience collaborating with a diverse range of rights holders, brands, agencies, and commercial partners, coupled with an understanding of varied perspectives within the sponsorship ecosystem.
Strong knowledge of the GCC sports, entertainment, cultural, and/or experiential sponsorship landscape, including key properties, rights holders, and market dynamics.
Ability to integrate strategic thinking with commercial pragmatism, ensuring recommendations are both compelling and realistic for implementation.
Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with the capacity to assess complex information and translate it into clear, actionable recommendations.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience in creating and presenting high-quality strategic deliverables to senior stakeholders.
Comfortable working autonomously on a freelance basis while effectively integrating into a broader consulting team and adapting quickly to diverse client requirements.
A strong professional network across the MENA sponsorship and partnership ecosystem is highly advantageous.

Work Arrangement and Location

This is a contract position, operating on a freelance basis. The role is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, supporting clients across the GCC and MENA regions. Salary for this position will be not disclosed.