Director, Hospitality - TKO

Job Description

Who We Are:

UFC® is the world's premier mixed martial arts organization (MMA), with more than 700 million fans and 243 million social media followers. The organization produces more than 40 live events annually in some of the most prestigious arenas around the world while broadcasting to over 900 million TV households across more than 170 countries. UFC's athlete roster features the world's best MMA athletes representing more than 80 countries. The organization's digital offerings include UFC FIGHT PASS®, one of the world's leading streaming services for combat sports. UFC is part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO) and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. For more information, visit UFC.com and follow UFC at Facebook.com/UFC and @UFC on X, Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok: @UFC.

The Role and What You'll Do:

The Global Partnerships Hospitality Director is a dynamic role focused on creating and orchestrating exceptional hospitality events across both UFC and WWE Global Partnerships Teams. These events will provide an exceptional experience to our prospects and partners while allowing the team to nurture current relationships and build new partnerships. This position entails partner and prospect event planning, partnership enrichment, guest experience innovation, content creation, budget management, event analysis, team event planning, all while maintaining collaboration with our team's overarching objectives. This role aims to enhance partnerships and our league's brand by delivering unforgettable experiences with efficient and high-end execution, ultimately strengthening relationships and maximizing the value of our partnerships.
• Develop and implement a UFC & WWE Global Partnerships hospitality strategy.
• Develop and implement a robust Hospitality program, inclusive of partner merchandise orders with our UFC & WWE Partnerships team, Consumer Products group, and our approved vendors.
• Manage direct reports on the execution and fulfillment of planned events.
• Facilitate and execute hospitality events for partners, VIPs, team members and stakeholders.
• Oversee and manage all contractual hospitality benefits across partners. This includes but is not limited to tickets, talent and executive meet and greet.
• Create and manage budget for hospitality events, promotional gifting, and fulfillment, ensuring efficient allocation of resources.
• Oversee and manage sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment with approved vendors.
• Select and secure appropriate venues for hospitality events, considering factors like location, capacity, budget, and partner preferences.
• Oversee all logistical aspects of hospitality events including but not limited to transportation, catering, and entertainment. Address issues or challenges that may arise during events, finding quick and effective solutions.
• Manages both sales and activation team tickets for prospect and partners for all UFC and WWE events. Which includes but is not limited to tickets for Events, Press Conferences, TUF, PSLAP, Post Octagon Tours, Hall of Fame.
• Track and manage details surrounding events which could include but is not limited to location, number of attendees and contacts.
• Assist in creating promotional materials for hospitality events throughout the year.
• Track and analyze the effectiveness of events by gathering feedback from partners to make improvements. Conduct post event evaluations to assess the success of hospitality initiatives.
• Effectively communicate to the team on execution of events providing all event details to relay to partners and prospects.
• Travels to select events to manage events onsite.
• Other projects and duties as assigned.

You Have These:
• Bachelor's degree, with concentration in hospitality management preferred or equivalent work experience.
• Ex perien ce ma naging t he develo pme nt and impleme nt a tion of corporate and social events.
• Ability to travel b o th d omestically and i nt ern a tio nally as ne e ded.
• Strong orga niz a tio nal a nd p r oblem-solving skills.
• Ability to mu l ti- task and meet deadlines in f ast-pac ed clie n t -service e nviron m ent.
• Demo nstra ted abili ty to manage a nd c ultiva te re lation s hips.
• Must be a team play er and able to fo s ter e xc elle nt i n t e r nal a nd e x ternal w orking re latio nships.
• Self- s tart er, re s ourc e ful and able to dev elop so l ut i ons in a hig h-st r ess enviro nme nt.
• Exc ellent wri tt e n, verbal and in te r perso nal c omm unicat i on skills.
• Proficie n cy with Micro s oft Exc el, Wo r d, Po w e rP oint,
Ou tlook, and the a bility to learn o t her c omp u t er p r ograms.

How we work:

Endeavor is at the center of sports, media, entertainment, and fashion and is a largely relationship-based business. To foster an environment of collaboration, develop our future talent, and build on relationships across leadership, peers, and teams, we work from the office 5 days per week. We see immeasurable value internally and throughout the core of the businesses we support.

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.

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

Endeavor is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gqxzbx-18-117-182-179-42 in your application.