Job Description

Integrated Marketing Manager, Sports & Events

VisitPITTSBURGH is seeking a highly organized, fast-moving, and collaborative  Integrated Marketing Manager, Sports & Events,  to support sports marketing and event-driven initiatives across the organization. This role is ideal for a strategic marketer with sports marketing experience who thrives in a deadline-driven environment and knows how to keep multiple teams and projects moving forward seamlessly.

Serving as a lead project manager, this position coordinates integrated efforts across paid, earned, shared, and owned channels—partnering closely with internal teams, leadership, and external stakeholders to ensure projects are executed on time, on brand, and with impact.

If you’re passionate about sports, this is an opportunity to help shape and amplify our destination’s sports story on a global stage and drive real, meaningful impact across the Greater Pittsburgh region.

Essential Functions

• Serves as project manager, as directed by the Director, Marketing, overseeing planning, timelines, and deliverables of marketing campaigns and initiatives.
• Partners closely with leadership to understand objectives, audiences, and opportunities.
• Leads the development of marketing efforts that support the organization’s strategic goals— including local awareness, stakeholder engagement, event promotion, bid development, and Pittsburgh storytelling.
• Supports the development of marketing strategies for major events and initiatives.
• Writes, edits and prepares content for a variety of channels, including web, blog, newsletters, bid proposals, sales presentations and marketing collateral.
• Manages social media presence, including content planning, posting, community engagement and performance tracking—collaborating with VisitPITTSBURGH’s social team to align strategies, leverage content and maintain consistent messaging.
• Manages marketing and communications for SportsPITTSBURGH-owned events and activations, overseeing marketing plans, signage, collateral and strategies to drive awareness and engagement.
• Plans, writes and executes email campaigns to nurture leads, engage partners and educate stakeholders.
• Collaborates closely with VisitPITTSBURGH’s PR team to develop audience specific storytelling opportunities to highlight and promote Pittsburgh’s sports assets, events, and venues.
• Works with VisitPITTSBURGH’s marketing, communications, social, and web teams to integrate sports or business content and messaging into broader destination marketing efforts.
• Works in partnership with the Director, Marketing, to ensure alignment between marketing efforts and broader organizational initiatives.
• Tracks progress and performance of all projects, providing regular updates, post-campaign recaps and key performance insights, presenting performance metrics as requested.
• Collaborates with agency partners and external vendors, as needed, on marketing deliverables to ensure high-quality creative executions of the brand.
• Coordinates photography, videography, and visual content needs to support annual marketing plans and event-based marketing needs as assigned.
• Supports special projects and cross-departmental initiatives, as required.

Skills & Specifications

• A bachelor’s degree in marketing, advertising, communications, or related field
• Three to five years of professional experience within a complex, fast-paced marketing team
• Experience in sports tourism industry preferred but not required.
• A deep understanding of sports events, strong project management, collaboration and creative execution skills, working cross-functionally to ensure consistent brand alignment and measurable impact.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, project deadlines and stakeholders simultaneously
• Excellent communication, writing, organizational and presentation skills
• Proficiency in digital communications tools and platforms (i.e. PowerPoint, Canva, Monday.com) preferred
• Experience with email marketing tools and CRM systems preferred
• Strong social media background to drive compelling digital content and storytelling
• Limited travel required, approximately 20% local and 10% outside of Allegheny County

VisitPITTSBURGH is a hybrid working environment, with three days on-site required. Due to the nature of this role, occasional weekend and/or evening hours may be required to support selected events and initiatives.

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