Department: IOC Television & Marketing Services SA

Location: Lausanne, Switzerland

Contract Type: Open-ended

Activity Level: 100%

Entry Date:

Deadline to apply:

The International Olympic Committee is the guardian of the Olympic Games and the leader of the Olympic Movement. 

A truly global organisation, it acts as a catalyst for collaboration between all Olympic stakeholders, including the athletes, the National Olympic Committees, the International Federations, Organising Committees for the Olympic Games, the Worldwide Olympic Partners and Olympic broadcast partners. It also collaborates with public and private authorities including the United Nations and other international organisations. 

About the role:

As the Rights Activation Manager you will help manage the implementation of a best-in-class Rights Activation function.

Main responsibilities

Perform a variety of tasks related to the Rights Activation (RA) function, as well as perform other departmental responsibilities in order to get a solid fundamental working knowledge of IOC Television and Marketing Services.

Approvals and Co-Creation of Activations

• Build strong relationships with all assigned clients.
• Devise and implement a Co-Creation operational framework for activation development that benefit Sponsorship and Broadcast Partners; work on individual projects with Commercial Partners with internal teams
• Proactively monitor and advise on the use of the IOC’s, Organising Committees’ and National Olympic Committees’ IP around the world.
  • Deliver the approval process for TOP Sponsors.
  • Deliver the approval process for Broadcasters
  • Deliver the approval process for Licensing partners
  • Deliver the approval process for the Olympic Channel
  • Provide guidance to Organising Committees and the National Olympic Committees on the approval process

Training

• Deliver trainings as required to clients
• Develop various training materials
• Continuously develop IOC Brand and Activation guidelines and deliver trainings to Commercial Partners

Systemisation

• Support the Head of Rights Activation in the systemization of the Rights Activation function based on assigned projects (e.g. documentation of approval decisions, transfer of knowledge, case studies; reporting; other transversal projects etc.).
• Proactively identify improvements of processes and deliver agreed changes fast
• Manage organisation and user set-up on IOC Partner platform

Guidelines

• Support the Head of Rights Activation to develop and review the various marketing activation guidelines from the IOC, Organising Committees, NOCs and Licensing partners

General TMS Projects

• Based on the department’s needs, a portion of the Rights Activation Manager’s responsibilities may be dedicated to other functional duties and could include projects within:  Marketing Development, TV & Audio Visual Rights, Commercial Affairs, Marketing Services, etc

Education; language and IT competences

• University degree or equivalent in business, marketing or related fields
• 3 to 5 years of proven business experience in a commercial environment, preferably in a marketing, business development, broadcaster, licensing or sponsorship setting
• Agency client roles background preferred. Some experience in client advisory, account planning and/or strategy development required.
• Excellent knowledge and command of MS Office tools (in particular Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)