About ONE Championship
ONE Championship is Asia s largest global sports media property, and the world s largest martial arts organization, hosting bouts across all styles of martial arts such as Muay Thai, Kickboxing, MMA, Grappling, etc. In addition to its digital platforms, ONE Championship broadcasts to over 2.6 billion potential viewers across 190 countries around the world with some of the largest global broadcasters, including Amazon Prime Video Sports, Globo s Combate, Channel 7 HD, beIN Sports, Abema, Disney+ Hotstar, and more.
Job Responsibilities
As part of the Media Partnerships team at ONE Championship, the Director, Media Partnerships, Americas role will lead the broadcast relationship in the U.S. with Prime Video alongside several LATAM partners. As ONE continues to expand in the Western Markets, this role will be critical in leading, account servicing and managing strategic discussions with our U.S. and LATAM Broadcast partners. Your role will include the following responsibilities, but not limited to:
- Develop and cultivate a strong relationship with our partners in the region taking on full ownership of the relationships
- Day to day account management scope includes weekly catch ups with partners for regular promotion and marketing planning, delivering programming needs of partners, pre- and post-media reporting etc
- Work directly with the Partners to optimize marketing and programming requirements
- Work cross functionally with internal stakeholders including Production, Analytics and Insights, Marketing, Commercial Sales and Ad Ops to coordinate promotion and programming efforts across ONE
- Partner across the Partner s broader organization to build synergies across departments, including new departments which are currently not a part of the initial partnership launch.
- Use data and analytics to identify programming opportunities and gaps as well as new partnership opportunities in the market
- Leverage data to conduct in-depth analyses across areas of the business to develop an understanding of key value drivers, identifying improvement areas and opportunities, and shape action plans
- Build out a team focused on ONE s U.S. and Americas broadcast partners
The ideal candidate should:
- Have 5+ years of prior experience in the broadcast and media industry, ideally in sports
- Comfortable in both large, matrixed organization and in lean start-up like environments
- Comfortable working in multiple time zones, including working directly with ONE s HQ in Singapore
- Good knowledge of the U.S. media landscape including sports & content distribution and licensing
- Ability to read and analyse TV and digital media data and provide strategic recommendations to our media partners to increase ONE s reach and engagement
- Be a team player who is able to work independently, be solutions driven, proactive and adaptable to changes, and thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Be open to travel
- Spanish & Portugese a plus