Sponsorships Specialist at FNB South Africa

• The role of the Sponsorships Specialist is to drive sponsorship alignment in the execution and delivery of projects according to set marketing objectives and strategies

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the development of strategies and campaigns for sponsorship portfolio.
• Engage with agencies, suppliers, and business stakeholders to develop activation plans and creative assets for sponsorship portfolio activities.
• Manage social media and internal communications for sponsorship campaigns in collaboration with media agency and communications teams respectively.
• Develop and contribute to calendar planning for effective and efficient sponsorship marketing activity throughout the year.
• Create and contribute to campaign reports, demonstrating return on investment for sponsorship activity for internal and external stakeholders.
• Own and manage digital nurture strategy and execution for sponsorship opt-in database.
• Work with rights holders to effectively leverage sponsorship rights and look for other opportunities to get additional value from partners.
• Contribute to the development of larger overall marketing sponsorship budget.
• Develop the budget for the next financial year for area of responsibility taking all operational plans into consideration.
• Research and design a longer-term financial resource requirement plan for the area of responsibility.
• Present the business case to motivate for financial resources.
• Analyse and develop implementation plan against the forecasted financial budget.
• Develop tactical budget for area of responsibility that minimise expenditure and manage costs.
• Control the budget for area including the authorisation of expenditures and implementation of financial regulations.
• Build relationships within business and sponsorship property partners that allow for the managing of expectations; the sharing of knowledge and diverse insights; and the creation of buy-in.
• Engage in cross-functional relationships to obtain and to provide work support.
• Contribute to sustaining a competitive edge through external networking, benchmarking and representation on related forums.
• Stays abreast of sponsorship landscape, competitor activity, and best practice.
• Apply a customer-centric approach that focuses on creating a positive experience for the customer by maximising service and/or product offerings and building relationships.
• Work together with events team to support client experience activities at sponsorship events.
• Ensure that the customer is at the centre of the business philosophy, operations and ideas.
• Provide input into, and implement, corporate governance, compliance, integrity and ethics policies in are of accountability to identify and manage risk exposure.
• Stays abreast of relevant industry risk management best practices and legislative amendments and suggests ways to leverage these to ensure continuous improvement.
• Creates risk awareness and manages audit findings.
• Participate in Group risk forums where required and cascades relevant information through team.
• Brainstorm, identify, implement and drive innovative best practice ideas within the organisation to ensure increased efficiencies.
• Create and participate in specialist communities of practice and represents the organisation at Group and industry level to share best practice insights and solutions.
• Drive strategic projects, change management and platform integration across operations Leverage Group capability to exploit opportunities.
• Ensure and encourage adherence to an operational framework of policies and procedures
• Execute defined business strategy by translating it into the business operations.
• Communicate policy modification, objective achievement progress and critical success factors to impacted stakeholders.
• Ensure the development and implementation of multiple practices in alignment with operational policy and procedural frameworks.
• Identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives, driving best practice solutions.
• Be aware of, and responsive to local conditions. Influence the development of appropriate organisational structures, capacity and delivery systems.
• Identify development needs and select effective solutions to address personal development gaps to facilitate self-improvement.
• Develop and implement a personal development plan.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuous personal improvement as a life-long learner and encourage the same in others.
• Share information and empower others to act.
• Acts as a role model for continuous professional development in area of expertise.
• Lead a development culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared.
• Build and sustain collaborative working relationships with relevant peers and stakeholders to achieve productivity synergies.
• Lead specialist communities of practice and contribute positively to own and organisational knowledge improvement.

End Date: September 29, 2025