Gallagher’s Corporate Partnership Marketing division is proud to foster deep relationships and visible branding via partnership with major men’s professional sports leagues, several women’s professional sports leagues, iconic entertainment organizations, and renowned charitable foundations.

Our Partnerships reflect a commitment to innovation, community impact, and brand excellence.

The Partnership Business Development function serves as a revenue engine, building our pipeline, advancing cross-selling and accelerating our win rate.

Role Overview:

The Partnership Business Development Specialist plays a key role in supporting the growth and execution of Gallagher’s corporate sports and entertainment partnerships. This position is ideal for a detail-oriented, proactive individual with a passion for partnership strategy and supporting sales execution. You’ll contribute to business development efforts by assisting sales pipeline tracking, supporting monthly check-ins with sales teams, and collaborating across internal and external teams to help teams reach revenue and retention goals. This is a field-facing role where building strong interpersonal relationships with Gallagher producers, clients and prospects, as well as partners’ employees is the foundation for success.

• Support the execution and tracking of partnership sales initiatives, including monitoring and reporting on pipeline activities.
• Assist with the coordination of business development events and post-event sales reporting.
• Collaborate with internal teams (sales, marketing, community engagement) and external partners to ensure alignment with sales and retention goals.
• Maintain Gallagher’s database of business development best practices.
• Coordinate and document key monthly sales check-ins, quarterly national industry check-ins, and relevant business development event meetings.
• Serve as a liaison with sales teams to ensure coordination and thoughtful responses for new partner evaluations and proposals.

Required:

• Associate's degree and 1 year related experience required.

Highly Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Strong organizational and project management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Acrobat
• Familiarity with PowerBI and Salesforce
• Experience with project management tools (e.g., Asana, Trello, Monday.com)
• Understanding of partnership principles and brand strategy
• Knowledge of sports and entertainment industry dynamics
• Some travel may be required to support business development events.

Behaviors:

• Self-starter with a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset
• Collaborative team player with the ability to work across departments and levels
• Adaptable to change and committed to continuous improvement
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities
• Passion for sports, entertainment, and community impact

We offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package. The base salary range represents the anticipated low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compensation will be influenced by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to previous experience, education, pay market/geography, complexity or scope, specialized skill set, lines of business/practice area, supply/demand, and scheduled hours. On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits. 

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
• Life and accident insurance
• 401(K) and Roth options
• Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
• Educational expense reimbursement
• Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

• Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
• Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
• Training programs
• Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
• Charitable matching gift program
• And more...

**The benefits summary above applies to fulltime positions. If you are not applying for a fulltime position, details about benefits will be provided during the selection process.

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Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.