Coordinator, Sports Brand Solutions- News and Information Job at The Walt Disney

Overview

The Sports Brand Solutions groups serve the Disney Advertising Sales team as experts on specific sports/properties (e.g. College Football, NBA, NFL, Women’s Sports). The group drives significant advertising revenue via cross‑platform sponsorship opportunities and turnkey, customized marketing solutions. It oversees the development and execution of all sponsorship deliverables to ensure sponsorship elements and enhancements run correctly. The group works with internal stakeholders including Sales, Production, Programming, Editorial, Revenue & Operations, Consumer Marketing and Legal to maximize revenue and sales opportunities across sport platforms inclusive of linear, digital, social, streaming, on-site, and more. The SBS team provides creative marketing sponsorship and integration opportunities across ESPN’s content portfolio and handles the complete sponsorship process including rights negotiations, strategy, ideation, and execution. The SBS team also manages day‑to‑day external sales relationships with League and 3rd party production partners to follow contractual guardrails and maximize revenue opportunities.

Responsibilities And Duties

• Post Sale
  • Book features within Disney Ad Sales/ESPN systems (managing the process directly with the sales teams and their clients)
  • Communicate with TV Ad Ops any schedule changes and updates
  • Manage Sponsorship tracking grids for the SBS team to maintain a clear perspective on integration availability and potential content overlaps to consider in given windows that impact production and sales conversations
  • View and clip integrations to confirm accuracy, share with sales teams, and elevate any issues
  • Assist team in the creation, delivery, and maintenance of sponsored graphics and studio requests
• Sales Materials
  • Assist in developing sales opportunities for News & Information Programming
  • Assist with digital and social product creation
  • Assist with multimedia pricing requests
  • Support the ideation process for new opportunities
  • Upload/Update materials across Microsoft TEAMS, SolutionCenter, Smartsheets and SalesHub
  • Communicate opportunities to sales utilizing organization-wide processes
• Streamline Communication and Transparency
  • Manage status reports, meeting recap notes, etc.
  • Assist with the upkeep and distribution of weekly obligations across the sport vertical (includes ESPN production, programming, commercial operations, Ad ops, etc.)

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Proficient in Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, GoogleDocs
• 1+ year of marketing or sponsorship preferred
• Highly organized, time management skills, ability to multi-task
• Willingness to work flexible hours and/or occasional travel

Preferred

• Thorough understanding of ESPN Studio News & Information landscape
• High level of creativity
• Strong written and presentation skills
• High level of customer service
• Self-starter with ability to work independently, while being accountable to team

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training

• Bachelor’s Degree

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The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $55,800 to $74,800 per year based on a 40 hour work week. The amount of hours scheduled per week may vary based on business needs. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.