Vice President, Partnership Strategy

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR
As Vice President, Partnership Strategy, you will provide senior leadership across partnership strategy engagements, helping define how brands leverage partnerships to drive meaningful business and brand outcomes. You'll oversee and elevate strategic thinking across multiple clients and accounts, while shaping Momentum's point of view on partnerships, consumer behavior, and experiential ecosystems.

You'll serve as a senior strategic partner to clients, a key collaborator to Creative and Business Leadership, and a steward of strategic excellence across the agency. This role blends thought leadership, client leadership, team development, and business growth, with accountability for the quality, effectiveness, and impact of partnership strategies delivered by the agency.

HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL DO (RESPONSIBILITIES)

Client & Strategic Leadership

• Serve as a senior strategic lead for clients, guiding partnership strategy in support of long-term business and brand goals
• Lead the development of integrated partnership strategies across complex portfolios and multi-year engagements
• Ensure all partnerships have a clearly defined strategic role, purpose, and measurement framework
• Partner with clients to define objectives, KPIs, success metrics, and optimization approaches
• Confidently lead high-level strategic discussions with senior client stakeholders

Creative & Cross-Disciplinary Leadership

• Act as a strategic partner to Creative leadership, shaping and elevating ideas to ensure cultural relevance, strategic rigor, and business impact
• Collaborate across Sponsorship Consulting, Experiential, Business Leadership, and other disciplines to ensure strategic alignment across touchpoints
• Champion bold, insight-led thinking while maintaining strategic clarity and focus

Practice & POV Development

• Play a leading role in defining and evolving Momentum's partnership strategy POV, frameworks, and methodologies
• Drive consistency and excellence in how partnership strategy is developed, articulated, and delivered across the agency
• Identify emerging trends in culture, sports, retail, and consumer behavior to inform future-facing strategy
• Contribute to the growth and positioning of the Partnerships Strategy practice

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop strategy talent across levels, fostering strong strategic thinking and storytelling skills
• Provide oversight, feedback, and direction to ensure high-quality outputs across teams
• Play an active role in hiring, resourcing, and team growth

Business Growth & New Opportunities

• Partner with Business Leadership on identifying, shaping, and pursuing new client opportunities
• Lead or significantly contribute to new business pitches, presentations, and strategic narratives
• Identify opportunities to expand existing client relationships through strategic insight and innovation
• Support and embody Momentum's values
• All other duties as required

HERE'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR (QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS)

• 10+ years of experience in brand, partnership, experiential, or marketing strategy within an agency or consulting environment
• Bachelor's degree preferred (advanced degree a plus)
• Proven ability to operate as a senior strategic leader and trusted client advisor
• Exceptional storytelling, presentation, and executive-level communication skills
• Demonstrated experience leading teams, mentoring talent, and building high-performing strategy groups
• Strong background working with brands and marketing teams that have established partnership portfolios
• Hands-on experience with qualitative and quantitative research, with the ability to translate insights into action
• Strong business acumen and experience influencing client decision-making
• Deep understanding of integrated marketing disciplines and partnership ecosystems
• Entrepreneurial mindset with comfort navigating ambiguity, complexity, and growth

SALARY RANGE
The salary range for this position is $180,000 to $200,000. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; location and region; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee's/applicant's background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

ABOUT US - MOMENTUM WORLDWIDE
Momentum is an agency of doers.We make the industry's most disruptive, entertaining, shareable, unforgettable experiences for our clients and their fans.We do it by bringing people closer to what they love, in original and unexpected ways.Whether it's a physical activation, a virtual experience, or a piece of unique branded content, it's all part of what we call the Total Brand Experience - ideas that solve business challenges, through best-in-class Consulting, Strategy, Analytics, Experience Design, and Production.

We want you to help brands do amazing, unprecedented, wild things, creating experiences that people never forget.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM MOMENTUM
At Momentum, we expect our employees to embody our values!
Our Core Values of Be One, Do Great Work, Have Fun, Give Back and Grow empower an environment where we challenge ourselves professionally and encourage each other personally.

At Momentum, we make our differences matter!
Who we are matters. We choose to hire diverse voices from all walks of life. We choose to make our culture one where everyone can be their authentic self and speak in their voice. We choose to give each other permission to get things wrong, so we can learn to make them right. We choose to celebrate the bravery of our peers and we choose to be collectively responsible.

At Momentum, we make our actions matter!
Making it matter means always choosing the sustainable option. It means designing waste out from the start. It means working with the right materials. Sourcing locally, innovating off-the-shelf solutions and reusing and repurposing. It means powering smarter. Traveling less. And only working with vendors who do the same. Make it matter means becoming the first experiential agency in the world to receive 2 ISO certifications.

At Momentum Worldwide, we value diversity and the uniqueness of all people. We thrive in an inclusive environment, and we recruit, hire and promote without regard to race, gender, age, color, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, ethnic or national origin, citizenship, religion, sexual preference, military or veteran status, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability - or any other legally protected categories as set forth in the applicable state, federal or local laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment including training, compensation, benefits and all other privileges of employment.

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