Description
The Athlete Communications Specialist follows and engages with athletes and teams to create unique athlete communications opportunities for Red Bull Türkiye.
This role understands the ways of the sports industry, athlete performances, attributes, and challenges. The specialist ensures a positive impact on the Red Bull brand, maximises cooperation efficiency (input/output ratio), and challenges the status quo by driving outstanding athlete communications projects where appropriate.
Responsibilities:
Athlete Communications
The specialist follows closely national and local athletes and teams in various sports, including volleyball and basketball. They support the Athlete Team in scouting athletes with a perfect brand fit, develop communications opportunities to engage local and national Red Bull athletes, and integrate local Red Bull athletes into global brand projects and international Red Bull athletes' local projects.
Networking
The specialist builds a strong sport-performance network among athletes, trainers, clubs, and federations to enable nationwide scouting for potential future cooperations. They collect relevant marketing and communication information from the industry, act as a key point of contact linking the RBMN team and the athlete regarding sports know-how, athlete mindset, and important potential communication opportunities, and develop and contribute unique stories, interesting topics, new formats, and top media content.
PR & Communications
The specialist plans, leads, and executes PR activations related to Red Bull's projects, content, and general activities involving athletes. They coordinate with the PR agency to maximise impact and efficiency in athlete communications goals, cultivate and manage relationships with other stakeholders in the athlete and sports community, manage photography and news cut outputs or projects in line with global guidelines, and manage the budget of all related projects.
Requirements:
- 1–3 years of experience in PR agency or communications is preferred.
- Previous experience in the sports industry, sports institution or federation, or sports journalism is a plus.
- Strong interest and following of athlete performance and life, with a focus on team sports.
- Effective communication skills, well-organised and self-starter, a team player with an entrepreneurial 'can-do' attitude and a creative mindset.
- Techy savvy and solid computer skills (MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
- Very close relationship with global teams; advanced English in speaking and writing required.
Benefits not specified in the job posting.