Senior Manager, Women’s Sports & Portfolio Innovation

Location: Hybrid, 3 days per week onsite. Corporate offices in Bethesda, MD or Manhattan, NY.

Reports To: Sr. Director, Sports & Experiential Marketing

Travel: Approximately 20%, including occasional weekend and off-hours commitments

About the Role

Within Marketing at GEICO, women's sports is one of the fastest-growing, highest-attention spaces in marketing today. Getting in early and getting it right is a real competitive advantage and a must-do.

The Senior Manager, Women's Sports & Portfolio Innovation owns this practice area end to end: building GEICO's women's sports strategy from the ground up, redesigning the long-lead sponsorship portfolio roadmap, and serving as the primary steward for key sponsorships and talent relationships. This is not a single sponsorship to manage — it's a practice area to build, with its own strategy, investment framework, and multi-year roadmap.

This role requires someone who has already built or led a sports or sponsorship practice of comparable scope — not someone stepping into practice leadership for the first time. If you've built this kind of portfolio before and want to do it again at one of the most recognized brands in the country, this is that opportunity.

How We Work

The Marketing organization at GEICO is guided by a clear set of principles: we hire the best at every level and invest in developing them. We believe that strategy comes before action — if we don't know why we're doing something, we don't do it. We bring the same care and accountability to how we spend resources as we would if it were our own business. And when there are challenges, we face them directly and collectively. Leaders in this organization are expected to bring that same mindset to their teams.

Key Responsibilities

Practice Strategy & Architecture

Own the vision, design, launch, and execution of GEICO's women's sports strategy from the ground up

Create purpose-driven, high-impact partnerships that resonate with diverse audiences and drive measurable brand lift

Integrate women's sports partnerships across GEICO's external marketing ecosystem, local marketing efforts, and internal associate engagement

Campaign Leadership & Storytelling

Lead ideation and execution for high-impact, consumer-focused campaigns across women's sports

Shape authentic brand storytelling that elevates athletes, fans, and the GEICO brand together

Partnership Stewardship

Serve as primary steward and relationship lead for key women's sports sponsorships and talent agreements

Ensure contractual obligations are met while maximizing ROI on every partnership

Monitor the women's sports ecosystem — league expansion, ownership models, media platforms — to position GEICO ahead of the market

Portfolio & Investment Strategy

Build a multi-year portfolio roadmap that balances foundational partnerships with emerging opportunities and forward-looking bets

Anticipate rights cycles, growth curves, and emerging technology shifts that affect portfolio decisions

Establish clear investment guardrails, workflows, and decision frameworks to guide portfolio growth

Translate long-range strategy into annual planning, activation roadmaps, and budget requirements, advising leadership directly on trade-offs and growth opportunities

Build a disciplined test-and-scale framework to pilot new leagues, formats, platforms, and talent, and rapidly expand what works

You May Be a Good Fit If You

Have already built or led a sports, sponsorship, or experiential practice of comparable scope — not just supported one — and can point to the portfolio you built and the results it drove

Have managed multi-year sponsorship portfolios at scale, including the investment frameworks and decision criteria behind them

Have negotiated and stewarded brand or talent ambassador deals from ideation through execution

Can operationalize a practice area — designing the workflows, governance, and processes that let a new function scale, not just run individual campaigns

Are energized by building something that doesn't exist yet, rather than optimizing something already established

Have strong analytical instincts and can turn performance data into specific recommendations for brand and consumer impact

Ideal Experience

Experience: 8+ years in sports and experiential marketing, with proven, demonstrable results building or leading a comparable sports, sponsorship, or partnership practice — not adjacent experiential or events experience

Portfolio management: Direct, named ownership of multi-year sponsorship portfolios at scale, including both traditional and non-traditional women's sports partnerships

Deal experience: Proven experience managing long- and short-term brand or talent ambassador deals from ideation through execution

Cross-functional leadership: Experience managing multiple external agencies and internal partners across sports, experiential, media, analytics, and creative simultaneously

Operational rigor: Demonstrated ability to operationalize a marketing practice — redesigning processes, workflows, and communications for scale

Activation breadth: Ability to activate partnerships at both local and national levels

Analytical fluency: Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret performance data and uncover insights that drive brand and consumer impact

Strong Candidates May Also Have

Direct relationships within the women's sports ecosystem — leagues, teams, talent, or media platforms

Experience building a practice area in a transformational or matrixed organization

A track record of identifying and scaling emerging partnership formats ahead of broader market adoption

Annual Salary

$121,975.00 - $189,625.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity.

Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.

Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.

Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national o