Partnership Services and Activation Coordinator

The IRONMAN Group operates a global portfolio of events that includes the IRONMAN® Triathlon
Series, the IRONMAN® 70.3® Triathlon Series, the IRONMAN® Virtual Racing (VR) Series,
5150 Triathlon Series, the Rock ‘n’ Roll® Running Series, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Virtual Running Series,
IRONKIDS®, World Triathlon Championship Series, premier running events including the Standard
Chartered Singapore Marathon and The Sun-Herald City2Surf®, UTMB® World Series events
including Tarawera Ultramarathon and Ultra-Trail Australia, Epic Series mountain bike races
including the Absa Cape Epic®, road cycling events including Haute Route®, and other multisport
races. The IRONMAN Group is the largest operator of mass participation sports in the world and
provides more than a million participants annually the benefits of endurance sports through the
company’s vast offerings. Catering to the full athlete experience, the company portfolio also includes
athletes for real-world events. Since the inception of the iconic IRONMAN® brand and its first event
in 1978, athletes have proven that ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE® by crossing finish lines around the
world. Beginning as a single race, The IRONMAN Group has grown to become a global sensation with
hundreds of events across 55+ countries. The IRONMAN Group is owned by Advance, a private,

For our IRONMAN EMEA Partnership Services Team, and based in Barcelona, Spain, we are actively
looking for a highly motivated, fluent Spanish and English speaking:
**Partnership Services and Activation**
**Coordinator (M/F/d)**

**Job Summary**
The role will be split between partner management and activation delivery, developing, and
delivering impactful partnership activations across both digital and on-site, maintaining
stakeholder relationships, managing partner reporting, renewals, and developments. The
Partnership Services and Activation Co-Ordinator will also be responsible for coordinating on
- site partner activations and developing detailed activation plans for the wider EMEA series-wide
partner portfolio.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Partner Management**
- Be the key point of contact for partners with the purpose of managing and delivering their

sponsorship assets in line with their business objectives, ensuring all contractual assets are
delivered to the highest standard.
- Understand the contract, develop an asset overview and service plan for each partner

account.
- Schedule regular status calls or meetings based upon partner account size to ensure open

and structured communication.
- Liaise with various internal departments, including Marketing, Digital, Athlete Services,

among others, to ensure smooth delivery of the partners’ rights.
- Assist in managing any contractual changes, including renewals, revision in terms,

expansion, or deletion of territories.
- Work with Accounting and Finance departments to facilitate payments, when necessary,
- as well as to flag potential financial issues.- Deliver post-event or annual partner recap reports.

**Partner Activation**
- Work closely with the event teams, including but not limited to, operations, logistics,

athlete services and local marketing teams to transfer all relevant Global Partnerships
information for the events.
- Coordinate the ordering of the commercial branding package for each event connecting

with our in-house graphic designers and liaising with the operations teams to order with
our official branding suppliers in EMEA.
- Create branding and activation plans for each race for all partners with on-site assets.
- Coordinate with local branding manager and branding team to deliver all commercial
- partner branding.- Manage all partner activation touch points onsite including but not limited to - IRONMAN

Village, press conferences, registration, welcome functions, race day announcements, post
event activation recovery area and awards ceremonies.
- Deliver post-race activations reports.
- Attend races, including weekends, to support and represent the Global Partnerships EMEA

department in the delivery of sponsorship assets.

**Skills and competencies**:

- 2 years’ experience within the events industry, ideally in a sponsorship role- Client management and/or activations experience.
- Ability to build and maintain professional relationships key stakeholders.
- Excellent judgment and ability to think quickly and calmly under pressure.
- Ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously and meet deadlines.
- Demonstrate a positive attitude and team building mentality.
- Must be able to travel as required to visit partners and attend events.
- Fluent in English and Spanish (Written and Verbal), fluency in Italian and Portuguese is

a bonus.

**What we offer**
- Attractive salary, and annual bonus remuneration payment based on personal and
- company performance.- Open, modern, and friendly working environment with a strong culture across EMEA.
- Opportunity to be creative in your work and the possibility to