Job DescriptionTitle: 555: Advertising & Sponsorships Lead
Workforce: Corporate Functions - Marketing & Communications
Level: Associate Manager, Level 8
Location: London
Job description We are... Accenture’s Advertising, Paid Media, and Strategic Sponsorships team - a global collective of brand storytellers and innovators driving creativity, engagement, and impact worldwide. We partner across the Marketing + Communications organization to stay connected, integrated, and transparent, embracing a culture of smart and strategic work. As part of the Brand team, we create powerful ideas that come to life through paid media, sponsorships, and global campaigns. We’re a smart, creative, and collaborative team that has fun and enjoys working together in a truly human way.
If you are passionate about brand, paid media, and sports sponsorships - especially golf - an innovator who understands that our people, clients, and recruits are key to our success, and have a strong grasp of the UKI advertising landscape, particularly in the B2B space, with a collaborative and go-getter mindset... then we want to meet you.
The role will focus on developing best-in-class advertising campaigns and leading a sports sponsorship program that engaging Accenture’s key audiences across the UKI market.
Tasks included:
Paid Media - Drive advertising excellence and implement Accenture's UKI advertising programs in alignment with global strategy, ensuring consistency and local relevance.
- Lead end-to-end advertising efforts across client-facing and talent-facing campaigns, including strategic planning, media mix development, creative coordination, and execution, in close collaboration with agencies and internal teams.
- Localize and adapt global campaigns - in close coordination with the translation agency, paid search and social teams, and UKI stakeholders - ensuring messaging resonates with UKI audiences (e.g., language, tone, relevance).
- Partnering with the social media lead to build a unique and consistent paid media/social media presence.
- Pilot emerging media formats and lead strategic partnerships with clients, premium publishers and platforms to elevate the visibility of what only Accenture can d o.
- Plan and manage the rollout of high-impact media partnerships and activations (e.g., The Economist, FT), particularly around strategic events such as client roundtables, working jointly with local teams to ensure impact and alignment.
- Analysis of different media proposals and evaluation of opportunities to integrate into campaigns.
Sport Sponsorship - Lead the strategic management of Accenture’s global sports sponsorship, ensuring it drives brand visibility, business value, and client impact in line with Accenture’s global strategy.
- Strengthen relationships with key stakeholders including marketing, business, tournament organizers, agencies to maximize partnership value and ensure seamless execution across all touchpoints.
- Oversee the execution of all sponsorship activities - including event planning, client hospitality, brand activations and paid media - across one of the major golf championships in the UK.
- Collaborate across internal teams and external partners to deliver compelling storytelling, content, and experiences that highlight Accenture’s role and showcase how Accenture as the Official Reinvention Partner and technology, data, and AI are transforming golf as the Official Reinvention Partner.
- Measure and optimize performance of sponsorship and campaign activities, ensuring consistent visibility, innovation, and value creation.
Brand - Provide strategic and operational support for branded environments, including office branding during acquisitions or new launches.
Always use data analysis, relevant metrics, and informed insights to drive strategic decisions.
And always partner with and M+C UKI lead and local teams as Accenture Song UK team and figure things out as they come up in the UKI.Qualification Professional Skills - Knowledge of, and passion for advertising, with the ability to execute and implement multi-faceted campaigns.
- Experience overseeing advertising and the understanding of what makes effective audience engagement-and what doesn’t.
- Experience coordinating and executing sports sponsorships, ensuring alignment with brand objectives.
- Strong relationship management skills with partners, stakeholders, and event organizers.
- Ability to oversee all aspects of the sponsorship, from planning and activation to reporting and evaluation
- Deliver executional excellence, as well as creativity and innovation.
- Strong project management experience with meticulous attention to detail.
- Demonstrated experience with consistent delivery of high-quality work on schedule.
- Ability to work autonomously and independently.
- Collaborate to help achieve project goals.
- Bring new ideas to increase effectiveness.
- Collaborator mindset, actively integrate with colleagues and extended teammates across all areas of Accenture M+C, collaborating on initiatives and sharing learnings, insights and ideas, and diving into ambiguity to make clear sense of it.
Basic Qualification - Education: Bachelor’s degree, university degree or equivalent, advanced degree preferred.
- Strong expertise and experience in marketing and communication with significant advertising and social media strategy experience, including digital advertising.
- Fluent English.
What’s in it for youAt Accenture, along with a competitive base salary, you’ll enjoy an extensive benefits package, including 30 days of vacation per year, private medical insurance, and an additional 3 days of leave annually for charitable work of your choice!
About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at accenture.com
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