Federico McCormick

- Sports + Marketing + Communications, my vocation, my passion.

- Strong creative mind, precision, pro-activity, can-do attitude all wrapped into positive energy and a great sense of humour.

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills: ability to lead projects, motivate stakeholders and build sustainable relationships with sponsors.

- Strong cultural sensitivity and first class customer engagement skills.

- Experience in working simultaneously on several projects, in demanding deadlines.

- Ability to prepare business proposals or documents.

- Strong influencing skills; persuasive, able to win support and engagement of others.

- Excellent communicator with an ability to communicate effectively with a diverse range of people.

- Strong reporting skills ie performance analysis, budget management and review of communication campaigns.

- Excellent organisational skills and self-motivated personality.

- Ability to work to tight deadlines, cope with event pressures, and manage time effectively.

- Experience in a sports sponsorship role, with a track record of directly delivering high value deals.

- Identify and prioritise target categories and brands to proactively build a pipeline of potential commercial partners, commercial rights and benefits for Sponsors.

- Comfortable communicating with and presenting to senior level executives across a range of industries.

- Ability to lead negotiations to secure attractive deals which create value.

- Ensure high quality partner servicing to support the creation of long term relationships.

- Evaluate and analyze commercial partnerships, constantly seeking ways to grow the value of such relationships.

- Experience of working with a variety of partners, agencies and suppliers.

- Strong team player, but highly proactive and able to work autonomously.

- Flexible, adaptable, able to think creatively as plans evolve and events unfold.

- Strong understanding of brand development.