About the Role
The Role and What You'll Do:
Responsibilities:
• Oversee all WME Golf's interests throughout Asia, Australia and New Zealand, serving as the face of the group in the APAC region
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, tours, governing bodies, brands, equipment companies and other key stakeholders
• Manage 3-person golf leadership team in the APAC region
• Identify, evaluate and recruit promising golf talent to the agency, working in collaboration with the global team.
• Assists in client service, partnership management, general relationship development, and project coordination.
• Develop, manage and nurture new business partnerships to accomplish revenue goals.
• Ability to handle client agreements, travel and additional responsibilities of client services.
• Act as a representative for a client when negotiating a new contract, contract extensions, or endorsement signings.
• Work closely with existing agents to explore and capitalize on client marketing opportunities.
• Able to work across various lines of businesses and agents to present opportunities to our existing client roster.
• Supporting key golf executives as needed as the key account back up and day-to-day on a variety of client services, can include administrative and financial book-keeping.
• Originate, direct, develop and implement marketing schemes, methods, and strategies through the use of our existing client roster.
• Works on strategies, programs and insights for long-term client projects.
You Have These:
• 10+ years of experience in golf industry (agencies, governing bodies, or other related work)
• Fluency in English is required; fluency in Japanese, Mandarin or Korean is a plus
• Strong global and regional relationships with senior level executives across brands, agencies and golf-specific organizations (Federations, Tours, governing bodies, Universities)
• Proven experience leading and negotiating marketing, sponsorship or endorsement agreements
• Must have strategic agility, organizational ability, and successful track record for building effective relationships
• Broad knowledge of marketing, sales principles and practices, in sports and entertainment
• Effective communicator who has proven selling and relationship skills with internal and external constituents at all levels, including understanding of building client-facing marketing materials Reference: ECNJOBID-66-249-70-97 in the application