Job Description Summary :
🏆: Agency of the Year - Sports Business Awards 2022
🏆: Campaign Best Places to Work 2022 & 2023
This is Havas Play. We exist to help brands play meaningfully in culture. Delivering meaningful business outcomes via seamless through-the-line creative solutions and data-powered media. Landing brands in the heart of culture, through meaningful partnerships and experiences that people genuinely want to spend time with.
We work with some of the most well-known brands and rights holders across sport and entertainment, including: Arsenal, Adobe, BBC, Bethesda, Aston Martin F1, Commonwealth Games England, EE (BAFTA, Team Excel & Wembley), Jaguar Land Rover (Rugby World Cup 21/23), JBL, JD Sports, Magic: The Gathering, Major League Baseball and The FA.
Our services and capabilities are delivered by an in-house team, with expertise covering include: sponsorship identification, management and activation; social media 360 services, live & digital experience; influencer & creator marketing; media partnerships and branded content & production, enabling us to create and deliver truly 360, integrated campaigns whatever the brief.
Our work has been recognised at some of the most highly regarded awards shows in our industry, including: The Football Business Awards, Creative Circle, The Sports Business Awards and The Campaign Experience Awards.
We are looking for a highly experienced strategy partner with at least 10 years’ experience spanning sport, entertainment, and gaming.
The ideal candidate will have a breadth of experience across a variety of strategic projects spanning sport, entertainment, and gaming. This must include a deep understanding of the gaming ecosystem and gaming partnerships - from helping brands select the right gaming partner to co-creating new cultural IP with them.
You will be working in-step with our strategy, creative, and activation teams with the ambition to re-imagine what one of our key clients can achieve in the world of gaming, sports, and entertainment marketing. You will provide invaluable new perspectives and strategic impetus on our exciting change-making journey.
At least 10 years’ experience working within sport, entertainment, and gaming marketing.
A deep understanding of the gaming ecosystem and gaming partnerships.
Experience of providing trusted strategic counsel to c-suite level clients.
An energetic and ambitious self-starter.
A passion for sport, entertainment, and gaming.
Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.