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Sponsorship Sales Lead

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Two Circles

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We are Two Circles. We grow audiences and revenues for the world’s leading sports and entertainment businesses. We help our clients know fans best. From 15 international offices Two Circles manages billions of fan data interactions on behalf of over 950 clients around the globe, with more insight into fan behavior and desire than any other organisation. Client's include NFL, Premier League, Wimbledon, World Rugby, EA SPORTS and UEFA. Our Rights Management division acts as a commercial sales resource for iconic sports and entertainment brands globally. A pioneering rights-sales capability, successfully marketing the unique emotion of sport & entertainment to drive commercial results for rights-owners and record impact for brands. We have led and closed over $2.5bn in sponsorship rights for some of the world's biggest sports properties, including recent record-breaking deals for UEFA Women’s Football, the All Blacks and Mercedes F1. We aim to optimise revenues for our clients whilst allowing each to avoid the long-term fixed costs associated with maintenance of large in-house sales teams. We are focused on solving problems and not selling assets, and we are ambitiously expanding our clients, geographies and our sales team. In an exciting new role, designed to support a major sporting event being held in Germany in 2029, we would like to hire a Sponsorship Sales Lead in Germany. Based in our Cologne office but with regular travel around the region.

Job Responsibility:

  • Lead high profile sponsorship deals on behalf of a premium rights holders
  • Pro-actively source and engage potential sponsors on behalf of our client across a range of categories and geographical regions
  • Select and qualify prospects, securing in person meetings and build relationships
  • Manage and build trusted relationships with decision makers at global brands around the World
  • Build relationships and influence senior business decision makers across different sectors and markets across the world
  • Successfully execute competitive processes, resulting in the negotiation and conclusion of high-profile sponsorship deals

Requirements:

  • Proven sponsorship sales professional
  • Track record of delivering multiple sizeable sponsorship deals with premium global rights holders in sport or entertainment
  • High levels of influence and persuasion
  • Experience in negotiation
  • German native speaker

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Job Posted:
January 02, 2026

Work Type:
On-site work
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