UEG is an award-winning global agency specializing in entertainment, sports and lifestyle marketing. We create breakthrough marketing by leveraging the people, places and platforms that shape pop culture. Our suite of services includes celebrity/influencer programming, music-film-tv/digital-sports partnerships, communications, branded content and experiential.
The team at UEG is a dynamic group, bringing together best-in-class expertise across entertainment, sports and lifestyle, paired with a strong understanding of brand building and effective marketing communications. This is a work hard, play hard environment where a true passion for culture are married with the desire to create business changing work for our clients.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- In the fields of Film, TV, Streaming, Digital, IP and Branded Content:
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
- Develop, curate and package insight and intel-driven opportunities for our clients.
- Direct, oversee and collaborative on pitching of ideas to client roster.
- Provide expert knowledge and insight to help evaluate the results of such programs against objectives and assist in growing existing accounts.
- Play a significant role in new business pitches where partnerships are involved.
- Grow business prospects with existing clients; providing strategic thought leadership and expertise, working to expand scope of work using the company’s network capabilities
PROJECT OVERSIGHT AND MANAGEMENT
- Manage projects, directly and/or with a team of executional specialists.
- Ability to manage client's overall expectations and provide continuously holistic context to the progress made
INTERNAL ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP
- Scope projects in collaboration with client-leads, clients, business affairs and finance.
- Provide strategic counsel, guidance and leadership to staff, ensuring the team's success by managing work quality and productivity levels
- Mentor, coach and support team members ensuring constant development of their skills
- Maintain relationships with senior-level client contacts, colleagues and external partners
- Commit to continuous learning and improvement of leadership skills; set and pursue stretch goals
- Superb networking, teamwork, negotiation, and interpersonal/diplomatic skills with ability to work effectively with stakeholders to achieve a common goal
- Demonstrate behaviors consistent with our firm’s values.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Approximately 8+ years of relevant experience within a studio, network, or broadcast outlet, and/or at an agency with directly relevant experience and knowledge in this space.
- Must have the ability and passion to sell and be a creative marketer, problem solver, and have the proven ability to close deals.
- Highest level of client services experience with the ability to act quickly and thoughtfully.
- Must have excellent written and verbally communications skills with the ability to communicate to all levels of an organization, crisply and succinctly.
- Motivated by an extremely collaborative and fast-moving environment.
- Love of solving strategic business challenges with creative solutions, in collaboration with our clients.
- Should be a passionate self-starter who isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves.
- Possess strong knowledge and passion of the entertainment (TV, Film, Digital, Content) industry, and future trends/opportunities shaping it.
- Big and creative thinker
United Entertainment Group is a global entertainment, sports and lifestyle marketing agency and part of the DJE Holdings network. UEG creates breakthrough marketing with the people, properties and platforms that shape culture, and has been recognized with industry awards including Cannes Lions, Clios, OneShow, Sabre Awards, Tellys, and more. UEG, founded in 2007, is headquartered in New York with offices in Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, London, Hamburg and Tokyo and works with FORTUNE 500 companies, celebrities, athletes and leading media properties.
Employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (i.e., at least 2 weeks after last dose) and, if hired, present proof of vaccination before start date. Candidates may request an accommodation due to disability, sincerely held religious belief or exception required under applicable law.
United Entertainment Group is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage racially and ethnically diverse people, members of the LGBTQ community, veterans, parents, individuals with disabilities and members of any and all protected classes to apply.
