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Overview

The Huddle Up Group, LLC (HUG) has been in business for nine years offering a range of consulting services within the sports tourism and events industry.  These services are most often strategic planning projects for convention and visitor bureaus, sports commissions, and/or sports organizations that own and operate events.  Since 2012, HUG has led over 160 projects and has engaged with more than 250 destinations geographically dispersed across 40+ states.  In addition, HUG team members have served as keynote speakers and presenters at more than 50 industry conferences through the years.  The team at HUG has helped establish the company as a leader within the industry.

A major differentiator for the Huddle Up Group is our team’s experience in the sports industry trenches.  Our key staff members have run award winning sports commissions, chaired LOCs for top tier events, worked on multiple Olympic Games bids, led facility enhancement drives, run youth tournaments, been college coaches, and were at one-time, athletes.  These well-rounded experiences lend themselves to a diverse view in helping optimize the efforts of a sports organization.

Founded in Phoenix (AZ) the Huddle Up Group also has a staff presence in St. Louis (MO), Hershey (PA), Colorado Springs (CO), San Diego (CA), and Eugene (OR).  The organization has five full-time staff and multiple contract employees and individual project partners.

Position Details/Scope

In 2018, HUG launched a first of its kind evaluation tool, the Sports Tourism Index^©.  The Index provides a numerical measurement of where a sports tourism destination stands at any given point in time.  HUG can use the Index’ data to rank and rate one destination against its competitive set.

In 2020, HUG began building a business development tool within the Index.  This new functionality, called Scout, launched on January 5, 2021.  Over 250 CVBs and sports commissions have already signed up to use the Index and the new Scout option and there is significant interest across the country.  This early success has prompted HUG to add to our current team with an additional Director of Partnership Development.

This position provides an opportunity for an energetic young professional to lead an established brand through a period of high organizational growth in the expanding sports tourism and events industry.

Specific Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary business development director for the Index platform.
• Actively driving business development efforts for the Index team.
• Provide business development support to the CEO and the Principals.
• Utilize the Sports Tourism Index^© as an analytics tool to best serve users in their business development efforts.
• General customer service and relationship development.
• In partnership with the CEO and the Principals, build out and execute, a complete business development plan for the Index platform.
• Other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven track record in business development (sales) within the sports tourism industry.
• Possess a network of contacts within the sports tourism industry.
• Extroverted, team-building personality.
• Service oriented.
• Knowledge of sports business and the sports tourism industry, the non-profit sector, and/or the Olympic movement.
• A working knowledge of a sport(s) not already represented within the current HUG team. 
• Be located in an area not already covered by an existing HUG team member.
• Highly organized.
• Strong verbal/oral/written communication, and customer relationship skills.
• Strong phone, inter-cultural, and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency with word processing/desktop publishing; Google Docs, Excel, Word, Power Point, Adobe software products.
• Proficiency with and/or a working knowledge of Social Media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
• Self-motivated.