London Area, United Kingdom
Experienced Chief Commercial Officer and Marketing Executive with a demonstrated history of working in the marketing and advertising industry. Skilled in Sales, Key Account Relationship Building, Networking, Sports Marketing, and Marketing. Strong business development professional graduated from Sacred Heart College.
Working in this sector allows me to support our clients with the skills and knowledge learned in my former professional sporting career across areas including sports, events and hospitality, event marketing and sponsorships. Moving across from South Australia at a young age, I started a career as a professional footballer with Melbourne Football Club, spending four seasons with the Demons from 2002 to 2006. After an injury-interrupted but enjoyable professional sports experience, I decided to pursue life after football. Entering the business world with one aim being to find a way to remain connected with the sporting world, I went on to lead a sales team for two successive recruitment agencies, GXY Search and Nexthire as part of the Slade Group before joining BastionEBA. As General Manager of Commercial across BastionEBA I work directly with our Rights Holders and brands across Australia and internationally. We go above and beyond your expectations to find you the best sponsorship opportunities and partnerships, helping you to successfully research, negotiate, activate, implement and track ROI for your sponsorship marketing initiatives. Bastion EBA works with some of Australia’s leading brands to analyse, negotiate, manage and activate their sponsorship investments and with sports, arts, entertainment and charitable organisations to create new and innovative ways to generate revenue through Sponsorship, Membership, Ticketing, Events, Stadium Economics and Broadcast. How can we help you stand out through sponsorship? Each year we directly deliver over $30 million into the Australasian Sponsorship Market and collectively work on over $100 million of sponsorship and commercial assets. We pride ourselves on delivering pragmatic, ROI driven commercial solutions to our clients.
The role was primarily recruiting professionals on behalf of sports (encompassing street and surf) brands, large retail organisations and PR companies throughout Australia. The role was full service recruitment, including executive search for candidates, networking, candidate managment, ad writing (although advertising is not the focus of the business), managing exisiting clients and new business development