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Digital Sponsorship Activation Contractor

We are looking for a football and motorsport fan to turbo charge the quality of our sports sponsorship digital activation. This 12 month contract role will be responsible for leading best in class digital activation and creating world class content to exploit our global sponsorship portfolio in support our business objectives, whilst ensuring compliance with all relevant company policies. Key accountabilities: • Accountable for devising the digital activation strategy for Premier League, ... read more

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Senior Partner Services Executive

The Partnerships team sits alongside the retail, marketing, content, hospitality and business development teams within the Commercial department. The Partnerships team has dual objectives of both revenue generation (through the fees obtained through our official Partnerships), and brand development (through our Partners utilising their marketing rights to expose and develop the Arsenal brand in the UK and beyond). Within the Partnerships team there are two main areas of focus - attracting ... read more

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Commercial Partnerships Officer

The postholder will play a key role in supporting BUCS deliver our commercial objectives. This role is suitable for a talented, ambitious, and personable individual looking for a challenging yet rewarding role at a major national governing body. This exciting role has plenty of responsibility leading key digital and event-based partner activations throughout the season, including opportunities to be involved with partner activity at our major sport and non-sport events e.g. BUCS Nationals, ... read more

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Commercial Partnerships Officer

The postholder will play a key role in supporting BUCS deliver our commercial objectives. This role is suitable for a talented, ambitious, and personable individual looking for a challenging yet rewarding role at a major national governing body. This exciting role has plenty of responsibility leading key digital and event-based partner activations throughout the season, including opportunities to be involved with partner activity at our major sport and non-sport events e.g. BUCS Nationals, ... read more

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Insight Manager

MKTG SPORTS + ENTERTAINMENT - Award winning sports, entertainment and events agency – London Career defining opportunity for an experienced senior research/insight executive to step up into an Insight Manager role or if you are already a proven Manager, then now is a good time to join and make an impact within our business. ABOUT YOU You love data, research, and importantly the insights they deliver. You will be able to interpret multiple data sources - surveys, brand exposure, digital and ... read more

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Insight Executive

MKTG SPORTS + ENTERTAINMENT- Award winning sports, entertainment and events agency – London Great opportunity for an Insight Executive/Analyst to take the next step to executive level in a rapidly expanding team where insight and evaluation takes a major role. ABOUT YOU You have 1-2 years’ experience (including sandwich year) working with data and insights preferably in a sports and entertainment environment – be it exposure analysis or market research, or better still both. Fundamentally ... read more

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Partnership Development Executive

The Partnerships team forms part of the Commercial department within Arsenal, sitting alongside the Digital Experience, Retail, Marketing, Premium Sales and Business Strategy teams within Commercial. The Partnerships team has a primary objective of revenue generation through purpose driven brand partnerships.Within the Partnerships team there are two main areas of focus - attracting and signing our commercial partners (Partnership Development Team), and also managing the relationships with ... read more

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Senior Independent Director of the Board of Trustees

Surrey FA is inviting applications for the role of Senior Independent Director of the Board of Trustees. We are seeking individuals who have a passion for the impact sport, and in particular football, has to enhance the lives of participants, the workforce and thousands of volunteer administrators across Surrey. The Senior Independent Director is a non-executive Director role, which is appointed by the Board of Trustees. Collectively, the Chair and the Board of Trustees are accountable to the ... read more

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Chair of the Board of Trustees

Surrey FA is inviting applications for the role of Chair of the Board of Trustees. We are seeking individuals with Board leadership experience, who have a passion for the impact sport and, in particular football, has to enhance the lives of participants, the workforce and thousands of volunteer administrators across Surrey. You will be responsible for the leadership of the Board of Trustees, overseeing the affairs of the Surrey FA and ensuring that the Board meets its obligations and ... read more

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Marketing Assistant

Surrey FA requires a committed, enthusiastic and flexible individual to join our team. The Marketing Assistant will assist, support and help to develop the marketing and communications operation at the Surrey FA, building and maintaining appropriate partnerships as required. The successful individual must have evidence of successfully supporting media and marketing strategies and experience with digital marketing, email, CMS websites and social media. The Marketing Assistant will report to ... read more

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Marketing Officer

Job Purpose Based in our London office and reporting to the Marketing Manager, you will work across all campaigns, providing marketing and administrative support including campaign coordination, social media, working with ticketing agents, coordinating signage and print production, with particular emphasis on London based events such as Christmas in Leicester Square, Christmas in Trafalgar Square, La Clique, Austentatious, London Wonderground and Underbelly Festival. ... read more

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Membership Manager (part-time/ flexible)

The European Sponsorship Association is an elected trade body representing the interests of its members – our goal is to inspire, unite and grow a welcoming and diverse sponsorship industry. ESA focuses on growing talent and sustaining a future through education, thought leadership and debate. We also seek to recognise and showcase best practice and excellence through the ESA Awards and raise industry standards with our ESA Diploma, ESA Sponsorship Sales Certificate and ESA Leaders Programme ... read more

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PR & Sponsorship Executive, Electric Ireland

ESB is seeking a high performing PR & Sponsorship Executive to join the Marketing & Customer Insights Team, within ESB Customer Solutions. As a key member of the Brand, Sponsorship and PR team, you will be responsible for the delivery of a proactive PR & Sponsorship Strategy, to grow and sustain our brands in Ireland, Northern Ireland, and the UK in line with ESB's Brighter Future Strategy. You will work closely with colleagues across the Marketing & Customers Insights team ... read more

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Business Development Executive

Nielsen Sports is a trusted adviser and partner in sports and entertainment intelligence, helping our clients worldwide to maximize their commercial success. With our expansive suite of products and services, Nielsen Sports is uniquely positioned to provide insights and intelligence which help drive more effective decision making for clients. Business Development Executive – Nielsen Sports We are looking for an experienced Business Development Executive to join our team within our London ... read more

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Insights Executive

Insights Executive, Nielsen Sport, London, competitive salary + flexible working ,great benefits and work life balance ! Are you passionate about sports and entertainment? Do you have experience in either account management, data insights /analytics and/or research? Do you want to join a global market leader in sponsorship media valuation and research ? Then look no further... About You And The Role AUDIENCE IS EVERYTHING™ Nielsen Sports is a trusted advisor and partner in sports ... read more

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Digital Support Assistant

We are looking for someone to join the British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) team, initially on a six-month fixed-term contract, but with a potential opportunity for permanent employment. The role will play a key part in supporting universities and colleges with competition and app queries. Working across the organisation, you will have the chance to impact on our commitment to provide the best student sporting experience in the world. Reporting to the Business Performance ... read more

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Marketing and Communications Officer

We have an exciting opportunity to join the British Universities & College Sport (BUCS) team, as Marketing and Communications Officer. BUCS is committed to providing the best student sport experience, and your role will be to help showcase the value of higher education sport. Reporting to the Marketing and Communications Manager, you will play a key part in delivering internal and external communications to members, students, national governing bodies, alumni and commercial partners. You, ... read more

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Client Manager

This is an amazingly diverse role, and we want someone who will play a vital role in assisting the team on partnership activations, guest engagement program, maintaining excellent communication and servicing to our clients. Key Responsibilities • Experience in marketing either agency side, client side or with a rights holder. • Minimum 3 years’ experience working on sport sponsorships and activation programmes • Demonstrable experience in project management and client servicing ... read more

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Client Director

Role Overview MKTG Sports + Entertainment is looking for an ambitious Client Executive to join our team to work across two of our most exciting accounts. This is an amazingly diverse role, and we want someone who will play a vital role in assisting the team on partnership activations, guest engagement program, maintaining excellent communication and servicing to our clients. About You As a key client leader, you will nurture relationships and drive excellent client servicing, leading by ... read more

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Head of Marketing & Partnerships

Surrey FA are seeking to recruit an inspiring and motivated individual to join them as their Head of Marketing & Partnerships. The Head of Marketing & Partnerships will lead the Marketing & Partnerships team and be responsible for managing and developing our marketing operations and communications plan to deliver our strategy and enhance the image, profile and reputation of the Surrey FA. The successful individual must have a proven track record of managing and developing ... read more

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Insight Director

MKTG Sports + Entertainment is looking for an exceptional person to help build and grow our skillset and capabilities within our Insight, Evaluation and Performance team. We are looking for someone with a wide range of skills – a data scientist with an understanding of sports marketing to work with brands and rights holders. We are looking for someone ambitious, driven and with a track record of delivering best in class solutions throughout the sponsorship journey in selection, valuation, ... read more

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Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Officer

Surrey FA are seeking to recruit an inspiring and motivated individual in this newly created role as Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer. The EDI Officer will work within the Football Development department and the successful candidate will be responsible for working collaboratively across the organisation to deliver their EDI strategy, work alongside the Inclusion Advisory Group and lead Surrey FA’s disability football programme. The successful individual must have a proven track ... read more

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Account Director

This is an exciting opportunity to become a key senior member of our live event, activation & operational delivery team. The Account Director will work across one of our key client accounts to oversee a variety of deliverables around their global motorsport partnerships; partnership asset management & market communications, brand experience, customer hosting, guest experience, VIP hospitality, guest management, ticketing, premium space design & build, event production, fan activation ... read more

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Account Executive

This is an exciting opportunity to become a key supportive member of the market communications, event management and operational delivery team. The Account Executive will support across one of our key client accounts on a variety of deliverables around their global motorsport partnerships; partnership asset management and market communications, brand experience, digital content, customer hosting, guest experience, VIP hospitality, guest management, ticketing, registration system and database ... read more

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Account Executive – UK Sports Team

POSITION OUTLINE The role is to join the sports team within Performance Communications’ UK office, an award-winning specialist sports, automotive and technology agency based in Kingston upon Thames. The agency’s sporting activity has included both leveraging the sponsorships undertaken by its automotive clients (e.g. ŠKODA/Cycling, Maserati/Cycling, Maserati/Harlequins, Citroën/Arsenal) and a mix of pure-play sports clients (e.g. World Corporate Golf Challenge, crankedUP, Wolf Run and the ... read more

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Surrey FA Partnerships & Funding Advisory Group Member

Surrey FA is committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or whether or not they have a disability. Surrey FA is embarking on an exciting part of its journey, as we seek to safeguard our status as a leading County FA. A key element is of this is to develop a new Commercial, Grants and Fundraising strategy to ensure we develop ... read more

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Head of Content and Comms

Title - Head of Content and Communications Contract type - Perm A fantastic opportunity for an established digital, content and comms leader to create and build a new service pillar within MKTG Sports & Entertainment. This role will be responsible for running a new division within the team, focusing on offering industry leading communications services and consultancy to existing and new clients. This will suit someone with significant experience in content and comms, who is looking ... read more

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ESA Marcomms & Events Manager

Join ESA, the membership body for the sponsorship industry, as our Marcomms and Events Manager. This is an excellent opportunity to work at the heart of sports and entertainment sponsorship. Marketing and events experience is key for this role, as is attention to detail. Within the membership body for the sponsorship industry, the successful candidate will work alongside the ESA Board and Office, and be instrumental in delivering against the overall vision of the organisation as defined by ... read more

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Freelance Creative Wanted

Creative freelancer wanted to come up with big pitch winning idea in the DIY sector. Can be a Copywriter, Art Director or Creative Director – just as long as you have a book brimming with Fearless ideas at a brand level. Must be able to plug in alongside existing creative and strategy teams and work independently. Dates: 25th Nov - 18th Dec. Potential to extend into Jan / Feb next year. 4-5 days work per week needed for the duration. Send us your book and fearless story to ... read more

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Freelance Strategists Wanted

It looks like a busy end of the year and equally busy start of 2021 for us over at WeAreFearless. We're after awesome strategy smarts to support our team across a variety of new business pitches and existing client projects. We want to hear from freelancers of all levels, brand or comms strategists who can fire up creatives with inspiring briefs and bold thinking, always backed up by evidence. Previous experience in sports and entertainment marketing is great but not essential. Please get in ... read more

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Marketing and Communications Officer

We have an exciting opportunity to join the British Universities & College Sport (BUCS) team, as Marketing and Communications Officer. BUCS is committed to providing the best student sport experience, and your role will be to help showcase the value of higher education sport. Reporting to the Marketing and Communications Manager, you will play a key part in delivering internal and external communications to members, students, national governing bodies, alumni and commercial partners. ... read more

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Account Director-Motorsports/Football

ACCOUNT DIRECTOR, NIELSEN SPORTS Committed to building powerful data-driven products and services, Nielsen Sports works with the world's top leagues, teams and brands to deliver the most comprehensive and meaningful data and analysis possible. Sports and data fans welcome! Nielsen Sports is a trusted advisor and partner in sports and entertainment intelligence, helping our clients worldwide to maximise their commercial success. With our expansive suite of products and services, Nielsen Sports ... read more

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Strategy Manager

Committed to delivering powerful data-driven insights and services, Nielsen Sports works with the world's top leagues, teams and brands to deliver the most comprehensive and meaningful data and analysis possible. Nielsen Sports is a trusted adviser and partner in sports and entertainment strategy and insights, helping our clients worldwide to maximize their commercial success and understand their fan base. Our projects are wide and varied, spanning commercial strategy, rights package creation ... read more

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Senior Account Director

The Senior Account Director will be working with some of the largest and most respected sports teams and properties in the industry, responsible for leading a high performing team delivering impactful analysis and insights to support across three key areas – sponsorship acquisition and renewal, sponsorship impact and understanding the fan. This position requires an experienced sports industry executive who is used to working in a high-paced environment with a demanding yet rewarding client base. ... read more

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Marketing and Communications Manager

This is a new role with a wide remit covering communications, content, social media and PR. The successful candidate will be responsible for driving engagement, raising the profile of BUCS and Higher Education Sport and increasing income to the business. Working across several areas of delivery, the role will take a project-based approach to marketing, leading up to three marketing and engagement staff to deliver campaigns as a team and improve results against key performance ... read more

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Business Partnerships Exec (Maternity Cover)

England Athletics is the National Governing Body for the sport in England. We work in partnership with the wider athletics family, especially our member clubs, UK Athletics, Sport England & Commercial Partners, to grow opportunities for everyone to experience athletics and running, to enable them to reach their full potential. England Athletics also provides national level competition and is responsible for athlete development beneath world class performance level. England Athletics is a ... read more

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Client Manager

A fantastic opportunity for an established manager of sponsorship and partnership marketing, to work on major sports sponsorships and sporting events. This role will be responsible for leading and managing the client relationships, projects and client servicing team on current clients in football and other sporting events. Title: Client Manager About You: You are excited by the prospect of working on award winning sport sponsorship projects and are passionate about delivering brilliant ... read more

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Performance Digital Executive

CLOSING DATE: 12 July 2019 Professional Sports Group is a small but (almost) perfectly formed sports marketing and investment agency with offices in the UK and the UAE. We know sport having worked in it from ye olde times. We know it. We love it. I am sure you do to … that’s why we should talk. We could go on about how it changes lives, inspires nations, connects people in this unconnected world but we are too busy trying to nutmeg the opposition & Facebook algorithms (no mean feat we hear ... read more

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Client Executive

CLIENT EXECUTIVE AWARD WINNING SPORT & ENTERTAINMENT MARKETING AGENCY | LONDON MKTG are looking for an ambitious Client Executive to join the team to work across two of MKTG’s most exciting Football accounts – Cadbury’s award winning Premier League Partnership and FedEx pan European partnership with the UEFA Europa League. This is an amazingly diverse role and we want someone who will play a vital role in assisting the team on partnership activations, guest engagement programme, maintaining ... read more

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Ticket & Hospitality Manager

TICKET & HOSPITALITY OPERATIONS MANAGER MKTG SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT A fantastic opportunity for an established manager of all ticket & hospitality related operations, to work on major sports sponsorships and sporting events. This role will be responsible for leading and managing the operational delivery of our ticketing & hospitality services to current clients in football and other sporting events. A person with a keen technical knowledge of sponsor ticketing platforms, an ... read more

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Client Assistant

CLIENT ASSISTANT AWARD WINNING LIFESTYLE MARKETING AGENCY | LONDON MKTG are looking for an ambitious graduate to join the team to work across two of MKTG’s most exciting Football accounts – Cadbury’s award winning Premier League Partnership and FedEx pan European partnership with the UEFA Europa League. This is an amazingly diverse role and we want someone who will play a vital role in assisting the team on partnership activations, guest engagement programme, maintaining excellent communication ... read more

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Insight Executive – Sport & Entertainment

MKTG - Award winning sports, entertainment and events agency – London Great opportunity for an Insight Assistant to take the next step to executive level in a rapidly expanding team where insight and evaluation takes a major role. ABOUT YOU You have 1-2 years’ experience working with data and insights in a sports and entertainment environment – be it exposure analysis or market research, or better still both. Fundamentally you are looking to widen your knowledge and experience within the ... read more

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Sales and Partnerships Executive

Slingshot Sponsorship is looking for a Sales and Partnerships Executive who is keen and driven to develop relationships and revenue through working on exciting projects across multiple industry sectors. This will see you brokering deals with the biggest brands and managing events around the world, with the potential for global travel. About the Job: Slingshot Sponsorship is growing rapidly - and as a member of our close-knit team we want you to grow with us. As a Sales Executive, you’ll be ... read more

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Commercial New Business Executive

The Commercial New Business Executive will work exclusively on the successful recruitment of new corporate partnerships predominantly focusing on the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, whilst also looking ahead to Paris in 2024. The role will work closely with and report to the Commercial Manager to support the successful implementation of the Commercial Team’s strategic plan. This plan includes ambitious income targets from corporate sponsors as well as public and philanthropic fundraising which ... read more

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Commercial Team Assistant

The Commercial Team Assistant is responsible for supporting the Commercial Manager in all aspects of the Manager’s role as well as, from time to time, supporting other members of the Commercial Team in order to ensure effectiveness and efficiency across the whole Team. The role will provide vital support as the Commercial Team faces the challenges of securing new corporate partners as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games approaches as well as delivering value for our existing partners. The BPA is ... read more

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Account Director

Who is MKTG? MKTG, part of the Dentsu Aegis Network, is a global lifestyle marketing agency that specializes in delivering strategic, business-oriented marketing solutions for leading brands via sport and entertainment consulting, live experiences, retail marketing, enterprise/B2B engagement, hospitality and sponsorship marketing Career defining opportunity for an experienced Senior Account Manager to step up into an Account Director (AD) role or if you are already a proven Account ... read more

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Account Executive

We are currently seeking a number of enthusiastic and highly motivated Account Executives due to a period of unprecedented growth. Links to 2 of the roles are listed below. Please click through for details and to apply directly. https://ipg.taleo.net/careersection/octagon_ext_cs/jobdetail.ftl?job=009422&tz=GMT%2B01%3A00 https://ipg.taleo.net/careersection/octagon_ext_cs/jobdetail.ftl?job=009416&tz=GMT%2B01%3A00 ... read more

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Business Development Executive

Nielsen Sports & Entertainment is a trusted adviser/partner to many of the world’s largest sports rights holders, brands, agencies and broadcasters, helping them maximize their commercial success. With our expansive suite of products and services, Nielsen Sports is uniquely positioned to provide insights and intelligence which help drive more effective decision making for these clients. To continue our strong growth, Nielsen is seeking a talented and target driven Business Development ... read more

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Sponsorship Research Executive

The Role: A vacancy has arisen for an Sponsorship Research Executive in the PHAR Insight team. Responsibilities will include: - Data Analysis - Using our market-leading suite of sponsorship evaluation tools to analyse and evaluate existing sponsorships and potential sponsorship opportunities, as well as using Excel and IBM SPSS - Creating draft presentations and reports - representing data analysis in a range of different presentation and report styles and providing insightful ... read more

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Sponsorship Sales Executive

We are looking for someone with a minimum of two years sales experience ideally in media and/or sponsorship, for a role focused on generating meetings and learning about how to sell partnerships to major advertisers by attending meetings with senior management. You will need to be disciplined, self motivated and enthusiastic to learn. The key will be arranging meetings with advertisers around a range of transport and infrastructure properties including major airports and train stations in the ... read more

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