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Business Development Manager - Communications & Growth Partnerships

Sporty Group

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in growth, communications, or partnerships
  • Hands-on experience with messaging platforms and lifecycle marketing
  • Strong commercial and negotiation skills
  • Experience working across multiple regions and cultures

Responsibilities

  • Identify, negotiate, and manage marketing partnerships across Africa & LATAM
  • Optimize WhatsApp, SMS, and email performance (delivery, open, CTR, cost)
  • Align communications with marketing, product, and lifecycle campaigns
  • Plan and track regional activations and partnerships

Key facts

Hard skills

Lifecycle Management Mathematical Optimization Data-Driven Decision Making Cross-Cultural Studies Project Collaboration

Other skills

  • Negotiation
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving

About the company

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Sporty Group

Sports Betting & iGaming

Sporty Group is a consumer internet and technology business with unrivaled sports media, gaming, social and fintech platforms that serve millions of daily active users across the globe via technology and operations hubs across more than 10 countries and 3 continents. The recipe for our success is to discover intelligent and energetic people, who are passionate about our products and serving our users, and attract and retain them with a dynamic and flexible work life which empowers them to create value and rewards them generously based upon their contribution. We’re fortunate enough to have already built a capable and proven team of 500+ high achievers from a diverse set of backgrounds with a common thirst for excellence and we are constantly looking for more talented individuals to power our growth and serve our users further via their grit and innovation.

Company details

Company typeScaleup
IndustrySports Betting & iGaming
Company size501 - 1000

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Job description

About the role

Sporty Group is looking for a Communications & Growth Partnerships Lead to own customer communications and regional marketing partnerships. This role blends channel optimization, localization, and commercial partnerships to drive growth at scale.

 

What you'll be doing

  • Identify, negotiate, and manage marketing partnerships across Africa & LATAM
  • Optimize WhatsApp, SMS, and email performance (delivery, open, CTR, cost)
  • Align communications with marketing, product, and lifecycle campaigns
  • Work closely with Marketing, Prod and Ops for localization of messaging, creatives, and campaigns per market
  • Plan and track regional activations and partnerships - including but not limited to strategic billboards, payment partnership campaigns, affiliate marketing etc
  • Measure ROI and performance across owned and partner channels
  • Onboard new communication channel partners, and manage existing Bulk SMS, email, and communication partners for cost optimization

 

What you'll bring

  • 6+ years in growth, communications, or partnerships
  • Hands-on experience with messaging platforms and lifecycle marketing
  • Strong commercial and negotiation skills
  • Experience working across multiple regions and cultures
  • Comfortable to travel for local activations and market studies in existing and emerging markets for sporty
  • Data-driven and execution-focused
  • Fluency in both written and spoken English is essential

 

What's in it for you

  • Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability
  • A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
  • 28 days paid annual leave
  • Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
  • Top of the line equipment
  • Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities

 

If you're interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours.

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