• Manage the day to day relationships with The Athletic’s sports league partners. • Own operational execution of league partnerships, with a focus on video, highlights, and emerging content formats. • Build trusted, long-term partnership relationships through clear communication, strategic planning, and proactive problem-solving. • Lead regular partner check-ins, performance reviews, and recaps. • Translate league agreements and content rights into clear internal guidelines for video, editorial, social, and product teams. • Partner closely with Legal to ensure compliance with league rules, usage rights, approvals, embargoes, and attribution requirements. • Internally advocate for league partners to ensure contractual obligations and brand standards are met. • Monitor and evaluate partnership success against agreed KPIs. • Develop strong partner relationships, through effectively communicating complex ideas and strategies, leading meetings, crafting partner correspondence, driving campaign production and evaluating partnership success. • Identify process improvements to scale partnership operations efficiently. • Collaborate with the broader Business Development team, Strategy and Planning teams to identify new opportunities to expand league partnerships and unlock incremental revenue. • Serve as the primary point of contact between internal cross-functional teams including legal, finance, product, editorial, design and marketing to ensure all deliverables are on message, on track, and within scope. • Build and maintain project delivery trackers and create proof of delivery documents/recaps.