Senior Manager, Womens Sports & Portfolio Innovation

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Senior Manager Womens Sports & Portfolio Innovation

Location:Chevy Chase MD / New York NY (Hybrid 3 days onsite)

GEICO is seeking a Senior Manager Womens Sports & Portfolio Innovation to join our Sports & Experiential Marketing Center of Excellence. This is a new pivotal leadership role responsible for building GEICOs dedicated Womens Sports strategy and redesigning our long-lead sponsorship portfolio roadmap. This role is not about maintaining the status quo; it is about disrupting it. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of GEICOs brand presence by building and transforming our go-to-market strategy within womens sports and emerging/long-lead partnership opportunities. The ideal candidate is a seasoned marketing professional who thrives in a fast-paced matrixed environment possessing a passion for connecting with audiences through culture sports and and high-impact partnerships. You will be tasked with identifying pitching and executing differentiated activations that drive brand love and business growth while collaborating with cross-functional teams including Media Creative Communications Product Marketing State Management and Analytics to ensure seamless data-driven execution.

Our departments hybrid model is 3 days in the office per week with flexibility. Corporate offices are in Bethesda MD (greater DC) and Manhattan NY. This role reports into the Sr. Director Sports & Experiential Marketing.

Responsibilities:

• Architect GEICOs Womens Sports Playbook with ownership across the vision design launch and execution of our Womens Sports strategy. Create purpose-driven high-impact partnerships that resonate with diverse audiences and drive measurable brand lift
• Ensure Womens Sports partnerships are deeply integrated across GEICOs external marketing ecosystem and local marketing efforts as well as its internal associate engagement strategies
• Lead the ideation and execution for groundbreaking and high-impact consumer-focused campaigns across Womens Sports; shape authentic brand storytelling that elevates athletes fans and the brand
• Cultivate premier partnerships by serving as the primary steward and relationship lead for key Womens Sports sponsorships and talent agreements ensuring that contractual obligations are met while maximizing ROI
• Monitor the Womens Sports ecosystem from league expansion to new ownership models to media platforms to proactively position GEICO ahead of the market
• Build a multi-year portfolio innovation roadmap that balances foundation partnerships with emerging opportunities and future-forward bets. Includes anticipating rights cycles (IP/media) growth curves and emerging technology
• Establish clear investment guardrails workflows and decision frameworks to guide portfolio growth
• Translate long-range strategy into annual planning activation roadmaps and budget requirements serve as a strategic advisor to our leadership team articulating portfolio strategy trade-offs and growth opportunities
• Create a disciplined test-and-scale framework to pilot new leagues formats platforms and talent with the ability to rapidly expand whats working

Key Qualifications:

• 8 years of experience across a combination of sports and experiential marketing includes strategic and landscape expertise across both traditional and non-traditional Womens Sports partnerships with the ability to activate at both the local and national levels
• Experience managing long and short-term brand/talent ambassador deals from ideation to execution
• Proven ability to build and manage multi-year sponsorship portfolios at scale
• Experience managing and partnering with multiple external agencies and internal cross-functional partners across sports experiential media analytics and creative
• Ability to operationalize GEICOs sports and marketing practice redesigning more efficient processes workflows and communications
• A detail-oriented individual with the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment on multiple projects with competing deadlines

Annual Salary

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include but are not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the role the selected candidates work experience education and training the work location as well as market and business considerations.

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• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your familys overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

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