Senior Account Executive
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About This Role
Hello
Do you have a background in commercial partnerships within sport or live events, ideally across the Middle East?
We’re looking for commercially savvy, creative, and solutions-focused professionals to join our growing team at
M+C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment Middle East
.
This role sits at the heart of our commercial offering, working with leading brands across the GCC and representing some of the region’s most prominent sporting and entertainment properties.
The Role
- Lead and support the development of commercial partnerships across sport & entertainment rights holders
- Identify, engage, and convert brand partners through a strategic, brand-led approach
- Build and deliver compelling partnership propositions with clear ROI and business impact
- Manage relationships across rights holders, brands, and internal teams
- Contribute to broader go-to-market strategy and commercial planning
About You
- Proven experience in rights sales across sport, events, or entertainment
- Strong understanding of the Middle East partnership landscape
- Commercially astute with the ability to identify and unlock opportunities
- Creative thinker with a solutions-led mindset (not just inventory selling)
- Experience working with, or targeting, luxury brands is a plus
Why Join Us
You’ll be working on some of the most exciting properties in the region, engaging directly with top-tier brands, and helping shape long-term, meaningful partnerships, not just short-term deals.
Applications close on May 19, 2026.
What We Offer
- For the right team member, we will offer a competitive salary and benefits package which includes:
- Great holidays: 23 days annual holiday, plus birthday day off.
- Great flexibility: 4 days in office and Friday WFH, plus 10 days of working from anywhere in the world.
- Great benefits: private healthcare plan and perks.
- Great professional development: a mentoring progamme at global level and generous training budgets to support your career pathway.
- Great fun: a blended working culture and celebration days to socialise, bond and learn together.
About Our Local Office
We were born out of the need for strategic and brutally effective creativity in the region.
With every successful campaign, we have grown, and cherry-picked the best professionals to work with us from all over the region and the world.
In 2012, we opened our Abu Dhabi office and expanded our team with our Dubai office in 2016 and then our Riyadh office in 2023.
From these offices we manage a number of local and global brands across the Middle East and Europe.
Brutal Simplicity of Thought is the creative philosophy of M&C Saatchi.
It defines the way we work and the work we produce.
We believe: It’s easier to complicate than simplify.
Simple ideas enter the brain quicker and stay there longer.
Brutal Simplicity of Thought is therefore a painful necessity.
About M+C Saatchi Group
M&C Saatchi Group is a creative federation of companies who navigate, create, and lead meaningful change for clients across five specialist divisions connected through people, culture, data, technology and creativity, M&C Saatchi Group aims to unlock new value for clients and leave a positive impact on the world.
M&C Saatchi Group’s work is informed by two core principles - Brutal Simplicity of Thought and Diversity of Thought.
Together they guide how problems are solved and integrated specialist teams are built.
Headquartered in London, M&C Saatchi Group have circa 2,500 employees globally.
Our global operations span 23 countries with major hubs in the UK, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Asia and Australia.
Our Ambition
At M+C Saatchi Group, our ambition is to create and curate Cultural Power for our clients.
We do this by connecting specialist expertise, powered by creativity, data and technology, to help build famous brands and solve the most complex business and societal challenges.
M+C Saatchi Group
was founded in 1995 and is now the biggest Independent creative agency group in the World.
Founded on one core principle, Brutal Simplicity.
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