Coordinator, Rights & Partnerships (Sports) - job 1 of 3

UEG is an award-winning global agency that specializes in making brands famous. We create breakthrough marketing campaigns by partnering brands with the people, places and platforms that shape pop-culture. Our business specializes in the entertainment, sports, and lifestyle space and provides a full suite of services that include celebrity and influencer programming, music-filmtv/digital-sports partnerships, communications, branded content, and experiential.  

The team at UEG is a dynamic group, bringing together best-in-class expertise across entertainment, sports, and lifestyle, paired with a strong understanding of brand building and effective marketing communications. This is an environment where we combine true passion for culture with the innate desire to create industry-changing work for our clients.

UEG is currently looking for a Coordinator supporting our UEG Sports rights and partnerships business segment. This employee will assist in growing this part of the business through delivering a high level of client service in the form of executional excellence, relationship management, and proactive thinking with existing clients and partners. 

• Assist in driving projects from executional inception through launch and identifying ways to grow the business both strategically and creatively through integration of brands within various aspects of the sports industry
• In conjunction with internal partners and agencies, contribute content ideas that can express appropriate key brand messaging points in ways that can resonate with the targeted consumer and demographic
• Support execution, ensuring seamless completion of deliverables
• Gather key information in project briefings to onboard and continuously update the wider project team and show excellent organization and management skills to create a sense of calm and confidence across the team
• Provide client service administration including preparing client status and activity reports, attending meetings and conference calls and compiling competitor coverage
• Assist in managing client relationships, developing account plans and delivering proposals
• Support project leads by conducting deep online searches to uncover any conflicts and issues
• Develop skeleton of work plans, timelines, and budget estimates
• Take a “first pass” at drafting relevant documents, dashboards etc.
• Keep a close eye on Client's competitors and industry trends/opportunities and create awareness to the wider team
• Collaborate with internal business practices across all disciplines to identify project opportunities for new and existing clients
• Pull relevant news and reports, understanding them and being able to knowledgably share information about them
• Participate in brainstorms across the organization
• Provide administrative support for team when needed 

• Should have approximately 1-2 years of relevant experience within a team, league, network, or media outlet, and/or at an agency with direct relevant experience and knowledge in sports
• Possess strong knowledge and passion of the Sports industry and future trends/opportunities shaping it
• Must have the ability and passion to be a self-starter and self-motivator, taking ownership for projects
• Must be a creative marketer and problem solver
• Must have excellent written and verbally communications skills with the ability to communicate to all levels of an organization, crisply and succinctly
• Motivated by an extremely collaborative and fast-moving environment
• Should bring a love of solving strategic business challenges with creative solutions, in collaboration with our clients
• Should have good working relationships either with brands, networks, and/or teams/leagues & talent
• Demonstrate an understanding of project budget parameters, pricing structures and over-service
• Should be a passionate self-starter who isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeve
• Ability to work nights and weekends as required
• This position will require occasional travel
• This position can be based in New York City or Chicago