What are the responsibilities and job description for the Corporate Partnership Intern (Sales, Activation, Partner CRM, Events, Game Day) position at Cincinnati Bengals, Inc.?
2025 Partnership Team Internship Plan
Intern #1: Partnerships Team Intern (Sales, Activation, Partner CRM, Events, Game Day)
Intern #1: Partnerships Team Intern (Sales, Activation, Partner CRM, Events, Game Day)
June 2025- Feb 28, 2026 (9 months)
- Best candidate would be a new college graduate who exhibits excellent organization and communication skills or someone with previous internship experience
- Must be able to attend all home games, including preseason, regular season & post-season
- Required to work several partnership events/activations outside of gamedays
- Average hours 40/wk
Responsibilities
· Corporate Partnerships
o Sales & Activation Support
- Research assistance: including but not limited to researching prospective clients, activation ideas and pulling statistics from various research platforms to help build compelling stories backed by data
- Client briefs: prepare background on prospect categories and individual brands
- Sales documentation: assist with document preparation including but not limited to editing components of proposals and sales decks using Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop and/or PowerPoint
o Recap Support
- Recap and proof of performance support throughout the season for all partners, including requesting and organizing metrics from various teams (social, website, etc.) so the information is readily available for Activation & Sales teams
- Organize and file proof of performance images, videos and metrics
- Ability to create graphs/charts to help depict metrics/data is a plus
o CRM Fulfillment
- Database management (Kore & Activate) assistance, as requested such as maintaining client information, notes and latest industry news
- Monitor partner asset upload & delivery; coordinate with Account Managers upon asset delivery and assist with proper file organization
o Other
- Assist with Signing Day inventory and tracking
- Sponsorship/prospect mailings as needed (autographed merchandise, etc.)
- Storage room/cage organization
· Hospitality/Events
- Day-to-day collaboration with staff to plan and execute partner events (including, but not limited to, suite partner season kick-off, training camp VIP tent and other partner activations, stadium events, Draft party, Back Together Weekend, etc.)
- Saturday Private Practice organization & facilitation
- Partner/vendor on-site delivery facilitation
- Appear as Who Dey (mascot) from time to time as requested
· Game Week
- Assist with organization of game day-related assets (partner guests, Jungle Zone, MKT suite, Field Club, Who Dey Deck, etc.)
- Prepare promotional materials, security credentials and lanyards
- Assist with planning of game day activations (Captain of the Game/Game Ball Delivery winners, gate giveaways, halftime shows, section giveaways, etc.)
- Preparing suites for game day (facilities checks, gifting drops, etc.)
· Game Day
- Set up/tear down of Jungle Zone, Who Dey Deck, Jungle Lounge & Field Club
- Distribute gameday staff security badges
- Escort Ben-Gals and Who Dey to various partner sponsored pregame activations
- Assist with pregame sideline access check-in and credential distribution
- Assist with post-game field access
- VIP Guest field escorting
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.
