Director, Event Marketing

**About ONE Championship**

ONE Championship is Asia’s largest global sports media property, and the world’s largest martial arts organization, hosting bouts across all styles of martial arts such as Muay Thai, Kickboxing, Karate, etc. In addition to its digital platforms, ONE Championship broadcasts to over 2.6 billion potential viewers across 150+ countries around the world with some of the largest global broadcasters, including Turner Sports, Star India, TV Tokyo, Fox Sports, ABS-CBN, Astro, ClaroSports, Bandsports, Startimes, Premier Sports, Thairath TV, Skynet, Mediacorp, OSN, and more.

As part of the Event Marketing team at ONE Championship, the Director of Event Marketing will ensure 360-degree success for all ONE Championship related brand and marketing initiatives which support live event attendance, global broadcast, and core mixed martial arts product. This is a key role to ignite excitement among fans, through compelling storytelling and emotional connections, to drive tune in to global broadcasts and live event attendance — all on a quest to continue building the greatest global sports media property in Asia.

**Responsibilities**:
Drive in-market awareness & attendance of ONE ChampionshipTM events
- Develop marketing plan to drive awareness, ticket sales, attendance, and in-market broadcast viewership for each event
- Develop, manage, and implement event attendance plan
- Collaborate with internal teams & external partners to execute on proposed plans

Plan & execute promotional activations around ONE ChampionshipTM events
- Plan & produce events, experiential activations, and athlete activities to drive awareness of each event
- Collaborate with Commercial Partnerships & Public Relations teams to achieve a multitude of business objectives around each event

Refine & optimize ONE ChampionshipTM’s on-site & online fan experience
- Refine fans’ on-site user journey & experience
- Develop & execute unique experiential and/or digital on-site experiences
- Develop in-venue creative & marketing collateral

Build, manage, & activate network of local opinion leaders
- Assess the in-market opinion leader landscape
- Recruit top in-market opinion leaders, befitting and representative of the ONE brand
- Manage daily opinion leader relations
- Activate opinion leaders across a variety of brand campaigns

Track, analyze, and optimize attendance & viewership metrics
- Manage the monthly tracking of ticket sales, attendance, and viewership targets
- Educate the organization and develop new tactics to optimize attendance & viewership growth
- Execute market research initiatives to better understand each specific market, including consumer buying & media consumption habits, key opinion leaders, etc.

Manage event marketing budget
- Manage & track event-based Marketing budget, in collaboration with various internal team

**Requirements**:

- 5 years of event marketing/agency experience preferably in sports and/or live entertainment involving large-scale audience
- Outstanding copywriting skills with strong portfolio in paid/promotional marketing campaigns
- Strategic thinker with strong attention to details and process
- Able to multi-task efficiently and adhere to deadlines with strong sense of urgency and ownership
- Self-motivated, dedicated, hands-on and willing to go the extra mile
- Able to work independently and within team environment
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with ability to handle stress while staying nimble and flexible
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
- Must be able to work varying hours, where required
- Willing to travel frequently (when possible again)
- Passion in sports and/or live event marketing will be a bonus