Sponsorship Manager — Brand Sponsorship (Marketing & Communications), Marsh

Company:

Marsh Corporate

Description:

Sponsorship Manager — Brand Sponsorship (Marketing & Communications), Marsh | Dublin (Hybrid)

We’re looking for a talented Sponsorship Manager to join Marsh’s Marketing & Communications Brand Sponsorship team, based in Dublin, Ireland. This is a hybrid role with a requirement to work in the office at least three days per week.

In this role, you will lead the review, evaluation, and coordination of Marsh’s brand partnerships and sponsorship opportunities. You’ll partner closely with marketing, legal, and commercial stakeholders to ensure sponsorship activity aligns with Marsh’s brand standards, strategic priorities, and legal requirements- while building a consistent, measurable global process.

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape how Marsh brings its brand to life through high-impact partnerships. You’ll play a central role in strengthening governance, maximising value from sponsorship investments, and creating a clear, global view of our sponsorship footprint and the benefits delivered.

We will count on you to:

• Lead the review of brand partnership and sponsorship proposals to ensure they reflect Marsh appropriately and align with brand strategy.

• Evaluate sponsorship opportunities against strategic goals, helping to build a clear view of Marsh’s global sponsorship and partnership footprint and benefits.

• Support partner negotiations and coordinate with Legal to ensure agreements are favourable, compliant, and aligned with company standards.

• Develop and maintain a standardised global process for evaluating, tracking, and reporting on sponsorships and partnerships.

• Monitor compliance with sponsorship agreements and brand guidelines, providing oversight and guidance across the sponsorship evaluation process.

• Collaborate with marketing, legal, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure smooth execution and effective global management of sponsorship activity.

What you need to have

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism, Business Administration, English, Public Relations, or a related field.

• Significant experience in sponsorships, partnerships, brand marketing, communications, or a related strategic role.

• Strong project management, stakeholder management, negotiation, and communication skills.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Office Suite, and structured tracking/reporting processes.

What makes you stand out?

• Experience managing global or high-profile sponsorships and partnerships within a complex, matrixed organisation.

• Ability to balance brand strategy, commercial priorities, and legal requirements within a consistent decision-making framework.

• Master’s degree and/or additional experience in partnership marketing, brand governance, or commercial negotiations.

Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.

• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have an impact on colleagues, clients and communities.

• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit corporate.marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable support to any candidate with a disability/health condition to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. We welcome candidates to contact us at reasonableaccommodations@marsh.com to discuss any specific needs.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.