Senior Account Director (F1 hospitality)

Company: Right Formula
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Location: London
Job Description:

At Right Formula, we help brands push the limits of sports marketing.

Through a unique blend of expertise, ingenuity, and agility, we deliver fully integrated, 360° strategies—from partnership identification through to world-class activation. With offices in the UK and US, we support global clients to accelerate growth through the power of sport.

We’re now looking for a Senior Account Director to lead the strategic and commercial direction of two major Formula 1 hospitality partnerships.

The Role

This is a senior leadership role at the heart of our F1 offering.

You’ll take full ownership of high-profile partnerships—driving strategy, leading teams, and delivering best-in‑class hospitality experiences across the global race calendar.

As the senior client lead, you’ll act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, ensuring every programme delivers exceptional guest experience, strong commercial return, and measurable brand impact.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Act as senior point of contact for key clients
  • Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders
  • Lead partnership strategy, reviews, and forward planning

Hospitality & Partnership Strategy

  • Design and deliver world-class F1 hospitality programmes
  • Ensure full utilisation of rights and measurable ROI
  • Drive innovation across guest experience and activation
  • Lead and develop Account Managers and Executives
  • Set direction, priorities, and resource allocation
  • Foster a high-performance, collaborative culture
  • Manage budgets, forecasting, and profitability
  • Lead supplier negotiations and contracting
  • Identify growth opportunities across existing clients

What We’re Looking For

  • Significant experience in sports marketing, partnerships, or events
  • Strong Formula 1 (or motorsport) hospitality experience – essential
  • Proven leadership of complex, high-value accounts
  • Deep understanding of sponsorship rights and partnership delivery
  • Commercially astute with experience managing large budgets
  • Confident influencing senior stakeholders
  • A strategic thinker with creative flair
  • Passion for Formula 1 and delivering exceptional experiences

Why Join Right Formula?

  • Work on some of the most exciting partnerships in global sport
  • Be part of a specialist, high-performing F1-focused team
  • Real ownership and influence at senior level
  • International travel across the F1 calendar
  • Flexible hours (core hours 10am–4pm)
  • Discretionary bonus
  • Enhanced pension
  • Sabbatical leave (long service)
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • £500 annual training budget
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Season ticket loan
  • Work-from-anywhere allowance

If you have deep F1 hospitality experience and want to lead world‑class partnerships, we’d love to hear from you.

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Posted: May 27th, 2026