Sports And Special Events Manager

The Sports and Special Events Manager promotes Las Vegas and Clark County as the premier host destination to event rights holders and event producers in the sports and special events market segment, as well as to key stakeholders, industry partners, and municipalities while aligning with the mission of the LVCVA and driving tourism to the destination.

What You’ll Do:

Keep in mind that this list is not all-inclusive.

• Attend community events, trade shows, and various industry functions to ensure Las Vegas and Clark County are known as the premier destination for Sports and Special Events programming.
• Actively prospect for and solicit creative and strategic programming to ensure the objective of driving tourism through sports and special events is met. Distributes new and current business leads to Las Vegas and Clark County hotel properties and facilities.
• Develops and executes strategies that drive tourism in the esports vertical.
• Serve as liaison between internal staff, event rights holders and producers, key stakeholders, industry partners, and municipalities to develop and maintain creative and strategic programming.
• Manage and maintain partnerships/relationships with key stakeholders, industry partners and community leaders.
• Assists the department head on securing new sports and special event business for the destination including professional and international sports, NCAA, marquee events, and citywide programming.
• Maintains the sports and special events lead generation resource tools including Play Easy, Scout, Sport ETA, and other industry platforms.
• Serve in the absence of the department leadership as the key point of contact for meetings, special events and other industry and departmental functions.
• Ensure that event rights holders, event producers, key stakeholders, industry partners, and municipalities are represented in the LVCVA youth and amateur sports and special events strategies and that their objectives are met through exceeding the customers’ expectations.
• Maintain knowledge of current industry trends through research of industry trends, competitive sets, economic and product developments and other factors that may affect the decision to utilize Las Vegas.

What We’re Looking For:

• Proficient with computers and Microsoft Office products, e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook etc.
• Ability to public speak and effectively present information and respond to questions from diverse groups of managers, clients, customers, mission partners and the general public
• Proven experience successfully creating and implementing a strategic business development plan
• Must be able to support and respect the various cultural and ethnic values, behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes of a diverse workplace
• Ability to write reports, budgets, business correspondence, sales collateral, and procedure manuals, as needed
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or a related business field preferred
• Advanced ability to listen and communicate effectively with clients, vendors, management, and other ambassadors in a variety of formats
• Must be able to work outside of regular business hours
• Proven sales management experience, preferably in Sports or Marketing required; destination marketing or resort industry experience preferred
• Advanced time management skills with the ability to work independently with limited direct supervision
• Must travel for extended periods when necessary

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion,creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the LVCVA will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected].