WORK OPTION:4 days per week in the New York, NY office
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Position Summary:
The Head of Event Management will be responsible for leading the event development and planning team accountable for designing and producing a breadth of events: youth and grassroots, fan engagement, marquee events across the NBA, WNBA, G League, USAB and 2K League properties. In this role, you will drive the end:to:end design, programming, and execution of league events around the world.
This person will be part of the Events senior leadership team and directly manage a team of 20+ professionals and indirectly a dozen regional event managers, as well as dozens of agencies and vendors to support execution.
Major Responsibilities:
Business leadership
:Lead development of ambitious, innovative programming to support and drive our fan:first business approach partnership with GPM, DTC, Communications, and other teams.
:Drive programming, business partnerships and superior delivery of experiences while establishing effective repeatable and sustainable processes to support growth.
:Lead highly visible projects and work cross:departmentally to analyze key short:term efficiency opportunities and long:term growth platforms.
:Negotiate sound and innovative business partnerships that drive revenue, fan engagement and overall business impact.
:Grow and strengthen the role the League(s) programming with Teams, Promoters, Partners, Cities, and other sports and entertainment properties.
:Establish systems and processes to share best practices and explore new opportunities to continuously refresh and elevate the NBA fan experience and align with overall League business objectives.
:Represent the department internally with senior management and associates alike as well as with external constituents ranging from teams, industry leaders to media.
:Team building and people development
:Serve as an inspirational leader and role model for staff; promote a culture of strong integrity, high performance, meaningful collaboration, and continuous improvement that values commitment to equity, learning, and quality.
:Define success and galvanize the team around it.
:Effectively handle performance across the team to hit goals and manage out poor performers.
:Play a key role in catalyzing a unified, global events function and team, integrating efforts and people across the world.
Stakeholder management and influence
:Collaborate with diverse sets of stakeholders to align on and prioritize whats most important.
:Identify critical stakeholders and engage them to shape a shared vision.
:Take extreme ownership for outcomes and remain engaged with prior efforts to ensure strategies drive desired outcomes; identify pivots as needed.
:Present verbal and written recommendations; lead discussions with all levels of management including SLT.
:Develop and deliver high:impact presentations to communicate plans and vision to internal and external constituents.
:Experiential design and implementation
:Execute against the roadmap to produce diverse, scalable, and profitable events.
:Lead the development and presentation of planning to communicate key milestones, storylines, activation plans with all key stakeholders.
:Bring strong, established, and actionable relationships with vendors, production companies, and important stakeholders; deepen active partnerships, as well as build ones with new vendors, clients,