Founded in 1958 and headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado, Christy Sports is one of the largest winter sports specialty retailers in the nation with more than 50 locations in Colorado, Utah, and Washington. We are a family of multiple specialty retail brands, all dedicated to delivering an outstanding guest experience in our stores, online, over the phone and through all of our rental and delivery services. We love what we do and where we live and want to share it.
Share the stoke for the Christy Sports Values
Exceptional Experience – Going above and beyond to ensure we create an exceptional personal experience. We contribute to this through listening, learning, compassion, and continuous improvement.
Live the Passion – We love what we do! Our passion for the outdoors inspires us to work hard to help everyone create their own stoke.
Our Strong Foundation – staying true to our collective history of local family shops, our relationships, integrity, and culture built through the years, sets us apart.
Be Good Humans – Strive to create positive impacts on the people, communities, and environment around us.
Fresh Tracks – Transforming outdoor customer service and experience by boldly re-envisioning our future.
About The Role
As the Senior Partnership and Events Marketing Manager your role will be to scale partnerships & events with strategic partner alignments and in-person activations to drive lead generation and brand awareness. Reporting to the Brand Marketing Director, this role will develop and implement comprehensive partnerships and event strategies to engage guests, grow market share and promote brand awareness internally and externally.
This is a hybrid role based out of the Christy Sports office in Lakewood, CO.
What You’ll Do
Develop and execute annual strategy for partners and events aligned with department and organizational goals.
Coordinate all aspects of events including logistics, timelines, budgets, and staffing.
Ensure the highest standards in engagement with guests and audiences to represent the organization.
Cultivate and support relationships with industry, organization, and community partners.
Responsible for collaborating with marketing team to develop go-to-market activations to support partners and events.
Collaborate with cross functional stakeholders, including senior leadership, operations and merchant team to ensure events align with organizational objectives and standards.
Foster new relationships with strategic partners to grow brand exposure.
Procure and manage all branded promotional items.
Collaborate with brand ambassadors to support organizational goals.
Develop and manage event budgets, ensuring cost-effectiveness and adherence to financial targets.
Track and report on financial performance and other KPI’s related to events and partnerships, providing regular updates to leadership.
Responsible for contract management and renewals.
Who You Are
Minimum of 5 years of experience running effective partner and events programs with proven results.
Ability to work cross functionally in the organization to effectively promote through all channels.
Entrepreneurial mindset in driving measurable results from events, partnerships, and opportunistic programs.
Confidence with strategic program development, execution, and reporting.
Clear and effective public speaker
Understand the nature of a dynamic, fast-paced, retail environment and be comfortable with ambiguity during times of transition.
Appropriate degree, education and training preferred.
Passion for mountain lifestyle and supporting regional communities.
The Perks and Benefits: ( * Benefits for Year Round Full-Time Employees)
Free Employee Ski Pass
Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance*
Employer Paid Basic Life Insurance and AD&D*
Voluntary Life Insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)*
Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts*
The budgeted range for this role is $75,000-$85,000
Equal Opportunity Employer
Christy Sports is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.
WORKING CONDITIONS
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. (Request help with heavy or awkward boxes/products). Specific vision abilities required by this job include Close vision, Distance vision, Peripheral vision, Depth perception and Ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs and ladders, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Strategy/Planning and Information Technology
Industries
Sporting Goods Manufacturing
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