Are you a strategic thinker who can hold persuasive, in-depth conversations with international brands and sports organisations? Are you analytically strong, and can you turn research results into strategic advice? Do you love seeing things improve and setting new goals? And are you, like us, a big sports fan? Then our vacancy for Strategic Research Consultant Sport & Sponsorship is for you.
What you’ll do:
The Sport & Sponsorship team carries out market research for international sports organisations and sponsors. Based on our research, we advise brands on how to increase the impact of their sponsorships, and help sports organisations with insights that contribute to successful partnerships. We work for leading international brands and major sports organisations, teams, clubs and governing bodies.
As a Strategic Research Consultant, you make sure our clients get sound advice based on research results. You understand the client’s challenge and know how research can help them further. You’re a strategic sparring partner for sponsorship managers, partnership managers and marketers. You also contribute to business development by having in-depth conversations with (potential) clients and challenging them with our vision and approach. (gelijk aan deel 268)
Your responsibilities:
- manage and strengthen relationships with international clients;
- understand client challenges and give sound advice based on research results;
- hold strategic conversations about sport and sponsorship with marketers and sponsorship managers in international organisations;
- contribute to the team’s commercial goals by presenting our vision and approach persuasively to (potential) clients;
- write research proposals that fit the challenges and strategy of international sponsors and sports organisations;
- guide (junior) research managers on research projects;
- set the bar high, for yourself and for the team.
We’re a match if you:
- have at least 5 years’ experience and work and think at a master’s level;
- are a credible sparring partner for international sponsorship and marketing managers;
- think strategically and analytically;
- work independently and take initiative, while keeping a close eye on those around you;
- know the world of professional sport and sponsorship inside out;
- speak and write English with ease;
- can join in any conversation about sport;
- bring enthusiasm, ambition and positivity to our team.
For this role, you need a good command of Dutch and must live in the Netherlands.
What we offer
An inspiring role at an internationally leading research agency for sport and sponsorship tracking, with a competitive salary of €4,416 to €6,065 gross per month. On top of your base salary, we offer a bonus that rewards your commercial contribution. You’ll work with enthusiastic, ambitious, sports-mad colleagues who want to move forward and push each other to make things a little better, smarter or easier, for our clients and for ourselves. And you’ll do it for the biggest organisations and brands in international sport.
We’d like to find our new colleague ourselves, so we don’t accept approaches from recruitment agencies for this vacancy.
Want to join us?
What we
offer you.
Keep growing.
We think it matters that you keep developing. You get the room to deepen your knowledge and the freedom to choose your own path to success.
A great bunch of people.
You’ll work with colleagues who want to move forward and push each other to make things a little better, smarter or easier, for our clients and for ourselves.
The best workplace in Rotterdam.
Use our huge terrace overlooking Stadhuisplein to work, have lunch, grab a coffee, hold a meeting or exercise with colleagues.
