[Hiring] Senior Manager, Commercial Strategy @LOVB Miami

Role Description

League One Volleyball (LOVB) is seeking a Senior Manager, Commercial Strategy to serve as a strategic commercial advisor to LOVB Pro teams, with a primary focus on driving performance across ticketing and sponsorship. This role will partner with Team Presidents and commercial leaders to evaluate performance, identify growth opportunities, strengthen sales strategies, and build sustainable commercial capabilities.

• Using data, benchmarking, and industry best practices, identify performance gaps, develop actionable recommendations, and create tools and resources that can scale across the League.
• The ideal candidate brings significant professional sports experience in ticketing, sponsorship, or revenue strategy and can move effectively between strategy, analysis, and hands-on team support.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in professional sports ticketing, sponsorship, revenue strategy, or commercial operations.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate commercial performance, diagnose business challenges, and translate insights into actionable strategies.
• Strong understanding of ticket sales, sponsorship sales, pipeline management, pricing, inventory, and revenue-generation strategies.
• Strong analytical capabilities and ability to work with commercial data, dashboards, forecasts, KPIs, and performance reporting.
• Ability to establish benchmarks and translate complex data into clear recommendations for senior leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships and influence leaders without direct authority.
• Ability to operate as both a strategic advisor and hands-on problem solver.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage priorities across multiple teams and workstreams.
• Collaborative, curious, solutions-oriented, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced and evolving environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in professional sports, entertainment, live events, or a related commercial environment.
• Significant experience in ticket sales, sponsorship sales/strategy, revenue strategy, or commercial operations, with deep expertise in at least one of ticketing or sponsorship.
• Experience developing sales strategies, evaluating pipelines, establishing KPIs, and measuring performance against revenue goals.
• Experience partnering with senior business and commercial leaders.
• Demonstrated experience using commercial data and insights to influence business decisions and revenue performance.

Benefits

• Ability to operate a computer and use a keyboard, mouse, and video conferencing tools.
• Ability to clearly communicate via video, phone, and written channels.
• Ability to work effectively in a remote, highly collaborative environment.
• Occasional travel required for team meetings, planning sessions, business events, and league-related activities.