[Hiring] Associate Manager, Sports & Wellness Partnerships @通用磨坊股份有限公司

Role Description

We’re looking for a creative, commercially minded collaborator who knows how to turn sports culture into meaningful brand connections. As the Associate Manager, Sports and Wellness Partnerships, you’ll sit at the intersection of General Mills brands, sports and wellness partners, agencies, and the broader culture surrounding teams, leagues, athletes, creators, and fans.

You’ll help identify what is interesting and emerging in sports culture. You’ll translate insights into ideas that fit a brand strategy or creative platform, excite consumers, and create meaningful value for both General Mills and our partners. This role supports partnerships across a portfolio of brands and requires equal comfort with big-picture thinking, creative development, negotiation, contracts, and executional support.

You’ll work closely with brand management, agency partners, legal, public relations, media, finance, and external partners. You’ll remain closely involved throughout the life of a partnership—from identifying an opportunity and shaping the idea to negotiating terms, managing contracts, trafficking assets, securing approvals, and bringing the work to market.

What You’ll Do

• Develop sports and wellness partnership opportunities for General Mills brands based on brand strategies, consumer needs, and business objectives.
• Monitor sports culture, news, trends, athletes, teams, leagues, creators, fan behaviors, emerging sports, and media shifts.
• Translate cultural insights into partnership concepts that are authentic to the partner, relevant to the brand, and compelling to consumers.
• Create persuasive recommendations and pitches that clearly communicate the idea, strategic fit, and potential value.
• Evaluate partnership platforms, talent opportunities, rights, assets, deliverables, and proposed costs.
• Lead partner-facing communications across idea development, presentations, deal negotiation, and contract execution.
• Influence across internal teams and external partners without relying on formal decision-making authority.
• Support the development and execution of partnership activations, content, experiences, and integrated campaigns.
• Stay close to day-to-day execution, including trafficking assets, coordinating feedback, resolving issues, and keeping work moving.
• Help assess partnership performance, capture learnings, and apply those insights to future programs.
• Contribute to an inclusive team culture grounded in curiosity, creativity, accountability, and strong collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 5+ years of related experience in brand partnerships, sports marketing, sponsorships, licensing, talent partnerships, or work spanning multiple marketing communication touchpoints.
• Experience creating, selling in, and executing ideas connected to a brand strategy or consumer opportunity.
• Demonstrated passion for sports culture and curiosity about teams, leagues, athletes, creators, media, fan communities, emerging sports, and the broader sports landscape.
• Experience working closely with internal legal teams and external partners through detailed, complex contracts.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills.
• Strong strategic and creative thinking.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and manage multiple projects, priorities, stakeholders, and deadlines.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to precise, high-quality execution.

Requirements

• Experience evaluating or negotiating sponsorship platforms, talent opportunities, licensing arrangements, partnership rights, or other commercial deals.
• Experience assessing the value of partnership assets and recommending tradeoffs among budget, scope, rights, deliverables, and partner expectations.
• Track record of collaborating with teams, leagues, athletes, agents, agencies, creators, or other partners to bring holistic ideas to life.
• Experience working with national brands or across a portfolio of brands.

Benefits

• Competitive Total Rewards package focusing on overall well-being.
• Foundation of health benefits, retirement and financial wellbeing, time off programs, wellbeing support and perks.
• Eligibility to participate in an annual incentive program based on individual and organizational performance.

Eligibility

• Applicants must meet a minimum 18-year age qualification.

Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)

General Mills is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital or familial status, status regarding public assistance, or membership or activity in a local human rights commission.

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