Sales Team Lead (Remote)

Company Description

Drip FC is a media and sports apparel company brand that focuses on the intersection of soccer, style, and culture on and off the field. 

Role Description

This is a full-time remote role for a Head of Sales professional. The head of sales role at Drip FC involves selling our signature grip socks and shin guards to youth, college and amateur / professional soccer clubs and leagues. 

Responsibilities

• Identifying, negotiating, and selling Drip FC inventory.
• Develop a deep understanding of our clients’ business and marketing needs to deliver confident recommendations that engage and inspire.
•  Nurture partner relationships at all levels from day-to-day contacts to executive decision makers through regular touchpoints, including but not limited to, email communication, and weekly status calls
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge of industry trends, activation best practices and new media marketing efforts.
• Proven ability to prioritize workflow, manage multiple projects simultaneously and drive results.
• Lead the creation and presentation of client-ready materials, such as POVs, recommendations, and activation plans. This will include preparing marketing activation presentations and materials to be distributed to the client, agencies, and other counterparts

Qualifications

• A track record of successfully leading and growing partnerships by building strong relationships with both internal and external teams.
• Presentation skills, including the ability to lead discussions and interact with senior executives (internally and externally)
• Solid understanding of sponsorship activation including events, media, marketing rights, content, etc.
• Experience and understanding of the business of sports, sports media and sports marketing/ sponsorship is highly preferred.
• Relationship management skills both internally and externally, adapting to various personalities and working styles
•  Must be highly motivated, proactive, self-starter with high energy and team spirit
•  Sales and negotiation skills
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in sales and/or partnerships roles in sports companies.

Compensation

This role is commission-based pay at 15% on deals closed, providing unlimited earning potential based on performance.

How we work:

Drip FC is at the center of soccer, style, culture, and entertainment. To foster an environment of collaboration, grow the soccer culture, give players a platform to express themselves, provide high quality merchandise, and build on relationships across leadership, peers, and teams, we value character, attitude, and reliability.

Don’t meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Drip FC unites and brings people together in our love of the beautiful game. We understand this can only be accomplished when we lead with a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. As a company that drives culture, we strive to reflect the world’s diverse voices.

Instagram: @dripfc