Sponsorships & Merchandising Manager

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Company Description

Evelyn Partners is the UK's leading integrated wealth management and professional services group, with over 186 years of experience in helping generations of people and businesses to thrive. We offer an extensive range of financial and professional services to individuals, family trusts, professional intermediaries, charities and businesses.

We provide an award-winning service for our clients by employing the best people. Join us on our mission to place the power of good advice into more hands because we believe that everyone deserves access to good advice, regardless of where they're at in their financial journey.

An exceptional track record of growth and innovation is driven by our core values of: Personal, offering advice based on a true understanding of what matters to our clients; Partnership, working with our clients in a joined-up, collaborative way; and Performance, demonstrating a breadth and depth of advice expertise to deliver first-class results.

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Job Description

Why Evelyn Partners London?

Our team operates from the Evelyn Partners head office, fostering collaboration among 1,600 colleagues in a modern environment.

We prioritise audit quality through regular training sessions and social events to encourage best practice sharing and teamwork. Additionally, our office is divided into smaller pastoral care teams to foster relationships and ensure a supportive culture, emphasising wellbeing.

What will you be doing?

We are on the lookout for a skilled professional to be part of our Marketing Team. The role entails collaborating with the brand and marketing team members to craft our Financial Services sponsorship and partnership strategy. Additionally, this position involves coordinating across the company to guarantee that all sponsorships and partnerships, whether sourced centrally or locally, align with our strategy and provide excellent value for money. They must also be implemented and activated according to brand and commercial best practices. Furthermore, the role includes managing and assessing our "national initiatives" hospitality properties and merchandise program to maximize their value to the business.

As a Sponsorship & Merchandising Manager, your responsibilities will include among others

• Working with the brand team to develop an FS sponsorship and partnership strategy
• Working with partners in the business to identify new sponsorship and partnership opportunities in line with priorities and evaluate those opportunities according to the agreed framework and budget
• Ensure sponsorships and partnerships are activated to deliver maximum value to the brand and the business, partnering and supporting colleagues to deliver that activation
• Manage ticketing for our owned hospitality initiatives (currently Lords, Twickenham, Wembley etc), building an improved framework for driving and measuring results from this activity
• Develop an improved approach to measuring the impact of our sponsorship and partnership activity and report on this activity with recommendations for improvements
• Review our catalogue of branded merchandise and identify the most effective and best value for money items to use.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you should

• Experience working with and managing sponsorship properties
• Marketing and brand strategy
• Sponsorship and partnership activation skills
• Budget management and a track record of improving effectiveness of marketing spend
• Substantial marketing or sponsorships experience

Desired Competencies

• Organizational, planning and stakeholder management skills
• Excellent communication skills are essential
• Senior stakeholder management skills - Experience working with senior stakeholders
• Relationship-building skills - collaboration with internal teams
• Results orientation - delivering to deadlines and targets
• Creative and strategic marketer

Professional Qualifications and Education

• Relevant marketing or industry professional qualifications desirable although not essential
• University qualification desirable although not essential

Additional Information

As a colleague here at Evelyn Partners, you will have access to benefits that include:

• Competitive salary
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Pension contribution
• Hybrid working model (role dependant)
• Generous holiday package
• Option to purchase additional holiday
• Shared parental leave

We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients. At Evelyn Partners we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we're delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation. It is our commitment to provide a workspace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, background, or circumstance, feel respected as individuals and feel that they can achieve their full potential and work in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment.

We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate for your needs throughout the application process. Please let your Recruiter know.