Job Description

Join our dynamic team at Williams F1 Team as a Partner Manager. In this role, you will collaborate closely with a Senior Partner to manage and support our esteemed partner accounts. Your mission will be to provide integrated, consultative, and commercially viable solutions that align with our Partnerships strategy. You will also identify and leverage opportunities with sponsor-partners to enhance Williams F1 Team’s commercial and marketing initiatives.

As a Partner Manager, your main responsibilities will be:

• Creating bespoke Partnership Business Profiles for each Partner, ensuring Strategic Road Maps, Activation Plans, Stakeholder Engagement Mapping and Rights Matrices are continually updated with required insights to the Partner’s business and the performance of the Williams Racing Partnership.

• Defining clear and measurable Partnership business objectives that align with the Partner’s strategic aims.

• Understanding the Williams F1 Teams brand proposition and implementing a consistent brand image across all Partner marketing and promotional activities, ensuring brand guidelines are adhered to.

• Collaborating with all Marketing departments to ensure the optimisation of the Williams F1 Teams value proposition through fully integrated marketing & communication activations.

• Building robust, sustainable, and effective professional working relationships with Williams Partners, agencies, and other stakeholders.

• Working collaboratively with Partners to ensure maximum return on investment in line with contractual obligations, whilst ensuring a commercial benefit to Williams is achieved.

• Proactively engaging with various Williams stakeholders to build a robust knowledge of all business activities.

• Supporting on-event activity by coordinating and delivering Sponsor-Partner guest programmes at Races, Tests, Campus, and other events, including guests’ briefs, coordinating Driver & Team appearances, guest passes, guest tour times, lunches and other such activities where needed.

• Establishing regular correspondence with Partners (bi-weekly meetings, quarterly reports, face-to-face meetings etc.) in order to foster robust relationships and track Partnership performance.

• Implementing the effective and successful onboarding of new Partners, including coaching on all business processes and operations, ensuring a clear understanding of assets and how to best utilise them.

• Working with the Senior Partner Manager to define and improve processes and procedures across the Partnerships team.

• Supporting the Senior Partner Manager and Commercial team with valuable Partner activation and Rights & Benefits guidance.

• Supporting the Senior Partner Manager and Commercial team with incumbent Partner renewals and uplifts, by utilising the strength of relationships and identifying opportunities to grow the Partnerships.

• Assisting in the delivery of ad-hoc projects for the Partnerships team as required.

• Providing administrative support across the Partnerships team as required.

This position is offered directly by Williams Racing. Applications go directly to the employer – not through CompoConnect.