Senior Account Manager - Brand Consulting

The Senior Account Manager will lead the strategic management and activation of Olympics partnerships across a portfolio of beauty brands within CAA Brand Consulting. The role operates at the intersection of beauty, sports, entertainment, culture and consumer marketing, shaping high-impact Olympic programmes from strategy through execution. The postholder will interface daily with brand clients and senior stakeholders and partner closely with internal and external vendors, agencies, properties and rights holders across the Olympics ecosystem.

• Lead strategic and day-to-day management of Olympics partnerships, serving as a senior point of contact across CAA, client teams, properties, rights holders and external partners.
• Own complex activation workstreams across campaigns, events, content, hospitality, talent, retail, social, PR and experiential programmes.
• Develop integrated sponsorship activation strategies that align Olympic partnership rights with brand objectives, consumer insights and cultural moments.
• Manage multiple concurrent brand and property-specific programmes, including project plans, timelines, budgets, approvals, deliverables, contractual assets, promotions and event execution.
• Provide proactive strategic recommendations and clear points of view that influence client decision-making and advance business priorities.
• Oversee internal coordination across Legal, Finance, Procurement, Data & Analytics, Creative, Talent and other CAA teams to ensure seamless execution.
• Identify emerging trends across beauty, sports, entertainment, culture and consumer marketing, and translate them into relevant Olympic partnership opportunities.
• Support measurement planning and performance evaluation in partnership with Data & Analytics, translating results into actionable client recommendations.
• Contribute to organic growth and new business efforts through insights, research, strategic thinking, proposal development and pitch support, and develop and deliver polished communications, presentations and status materials for internal and external stakeholders.
• Build strong relationships across CAA to identify new opportunities, resources and cross-functional support for clients, and mentor junior team members through guidance, feedback, best practices and day-to-day oversight on assigned workstreams.

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Communications or similar discipline.
• 6-8+ years of relevant experience in sports marketing, sponsorship activation, brand consulting or an integrated agency environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing Olympics, large-scale sports, entertainment or global brand partnerships.
• Experience working with global brands, complex brand portfolios and multi-market stakeholder groups.
• Familiarity with Olympic, LA28, Team USA, NGB, athlete, talent or rights-holder approval processes.
• Proven ability to independently lead complex integrated marketing programmes from strategy through execution.
• Strong client management skills, including the ability to build trust, manage expectations and communicate with senior stakeholders.
• Experience developing executive-ready presentations, strategic points of view and client-facing recommendations.
• Experience overseeing budgets, timelines, approvals, vendor relationships and cross-functional workstreams.
• Ability to travel and be onsite at events, including outside normal business hours.
• Strong knowledge of sponsorship activation, rights management, experiential marketing, content, social, PR and consumer engagement.
• Established relationships across sports, entertainment, beauty, lifestyle or consumer marketing industries.
• Solutions-oriented and resourceful, with a strong network of vendor and partner relationships.
• Strong negotiation, executive-ready presentation, written communication, PowerPoint and Excel skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and project components simultaneously on tight timelines.

• Beauty, fashion, luxury, consumer products or lifestyle marketing experience.

• Will be located in the New York or Los Angeles office.
• The Brand Consulting department offers a flexible work schedule and requires a minimum of three days per week on-site.

• Eligible for a discretionary bonus.

• Company-paid benefits at 80%-100% of cost include medical insurance, basic life and AD&D insurance, telemedicine, employee assistance and mental health counselling in person, virtually or by text, paid vacation and holidays, paid sick time, paid parental leave and other paid leaves of absence, NICU leave, bereavement resources, adoption benefits, educational assistance
• Mental health resources and an employee assistance plan.
• Voluntary benefits include dental and vision insurance, a 401K plan, flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent care, a health savings account, and voluntary life and AD&D insurance.
• Commuter benefits are offered as an employee perk.
• Other statutory mandated benefits are also offered.

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is the leading entertainment and sports agency, with global expertise in filmed and live entertainment, digital media, publishing, sponsorship sales and endorsements, licensing, media finance, consumer investing, fashion, trademark licensing, and philanthropy.