Senior Director, Business Development, Amplify – Production & Delivery

Who We Are:
On Location is a global leader in premium experiential hospitality, offering ticketing, curated guest experiences, live event production and travel management across sports, entertainment, fashion and culture. On Location provides unrivaled access for corporate clients and fans looking for official, immersive experiences at marquee events, including the Olympic and Paralympic Games, FIFA World Cup 2026, Super Bowl, NCAA Final Four, and more. An official partner and/or service provider to over 150 iconic rights holders, such as the IOC (the Milano Cortina 2026 and Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games), FIFA, NFL, NCAA, UFC, WWE, and PGA of America, the company also owns and operates a number of its own unique experiences. On Location is a subsidiary of TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company.

TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company. TKO owns iconic properties including UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization; WWE, the global leader in sports entertainment; and PBR, the world’s premier bull riding organization. Together, these properties reach 1 billion households across 210 countries and territories and organize more than 500 live events year-round, attracting more than three million fans. TKO also services and partners with major sports rights holders through IMG, an industry-leading global sports marketing agency; and On Location, a global leader in premium experiential hospitality.


THE ROLE
The Senior Director, Business Development, Amplify - Production & Delivery is responsible for leading the development and growth of client opportunities across Amplify’s production, creative, experiential, hospitality, and delivery capabilities.
This role is responsible for building and maintaining senior-level client relationships, identifying new business opportunities, leading RFP responses and pitches, and translating client objectives into compelling, commercially viable solutions. The Senior Director will help bring together strategy, creative, production, experience design, account leadership, program management, marketing, legal, and operations to create work that is rooted in client objectives, connected to culture, and made possible through On Location’s unparalleled access to the world’s leading sports and entertainment rightsholders.
The role will work in tandem with the division’s leads and other team members as well as key workstreams—including, but not limited to, commercial strategy, marketing, legal, creative, production, and operations—to meet and exceed client expectations while creating effective and efficient processes and a positive and productive working environment.
This is a strategic, commercially minded role requiring equal strength in relationship development, business development, storytelling, presentation, negotiation, collaboration, and delivery excellence.
Success in this role will be demonstrated through the development of a strong and qualified business pipeline, the creation of trusted client relationships, the conversion of opportunities into commercially sound business, and the successful transition of sold work to Production, Program Management, and Operations teams.
The Business Development Director will help Amplify win new business, consolidate and expand existing client relationships, strengthen the division’s market position, and create experiences that meet or exceed client and guest expectations.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBILTIES
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of the employee's activities, duties, or responsibilities for this job. Duties, obligations, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Primary Responsibilities:
o Develop and execute business development strategies that grow Amplify’s production, creative, experiential, hospitality, and delivery business.
o Identify, qualify, and prioritize prospective clients, partners, brands, agencies, rightsholders, and organizations with a need for customized live experiences and production solutions.
o Build and maintain a qualified pipeline of new business, account expansion, repeat business, cross-property opportunities, referrals, and strategic partnerships.
o Develop a clear understanding of client businesses, audiences, brand priorities, commercial objectives, decision-making processes, and desired outcomes.
o Create opportunity and account strategies that identify key stakeholders, client needs, competitive considerations, required capabilities, and the path to engagement.
o Identify opportunities to expand existing client relationships and connect clients to the broader capabilities of On Location, Amplify, and Platinum.
o Help define and evolve Amplify’s market position, service offerings, sales materials, case studies, and thought leadership.
o Monitor relevant trends across sports, entertainment, fashion, travel, hospitality, culture, experiential marketing, and live events to identify opportunities and inform business development strategies.
Client & Account Leadership
o Develop and maintain client relationships from initial contact through proposal, contracting, production, delivery, and post-event review.
o Serve as a senior point of contact and trusted advisor to clients and prospective clients.
o Lead discovery meetings, client briefings, site visits, familiarization visits, workshops, capability presentations, and executive-level meetings.
o Translate client briefs, business objectives, audience insights, and cultural context into clear internal opportunity briefs and actionable next steps.
o Ensure a continued understanding and appreciation of the wider business objectives of On Location and the client.
o Build credibility with clients by connecting creative ambition to practical delivery, budget, timelines, operational realities, and the guest journey.
o Maintain consistent communication, follow-up, documentation, and accountability across the opportunity and client lifecycle.
o Work in close coordination with Program Management and delivery leads to maintain client alignment from initial engagement through execution.
o Participate in client meetings, events, site visits, rehearsals, production reviews, and post-event reviews as required.
RFPs, Proposals & New Business Pitches
o Lead the development and delivery of RFPs, RFIs, proposals, capability presentations, pitch decks, and other responses to client briefings.
o Own the commercial narrative and ensure proposals clearly connect client insight, strategic opportunity, experience concept, production approach, business value, and expected outcomes.
o Coordinate contributions from Strategy, Creative, Experience Design, Production, Program Management, Marketing, Finance, Legal, Operations, and other functional areas.
o Develop clear scopes of work, deliverables, milestones, assumptions, budgets, and commercial frameworks in partnership with the appropriate internal teams.
o Lead pitch preparation, presentation, and follow-up with confidence, strategic rationale, and strong storytelling.
o Ensure proposals are accurate, differentiated, commercially viable, operationally achievable, and aligned with approved capabilities and timelines.
o Partner with Creative and Production leadership to present solutions that are both compelling and executable.
o Capture learnings from wins, losses, client feedback, and post-pitch reviews to improve future business development efforts.
o Research, gather, organize, author, edit, assist with design, and/or produce written materials, including executive summaries, case studies, credentials, conclusions, and client-facing presentations.
Production & Delivery Partnership
o Partner closely with Production, Creative, Experience Design, Program Management, Operations, and other delivery teams to develop customized and cost-efficient client solutions.
o Bring delivery considerations into the earliest stages of opportunity development, including scope, schedule, venues, vendors, staffing, fabrication, technical requirements, hospitality, entertainment, guest movement, safety, accessibility, and on-site operations as applicable.
o Help develop hospitality and experiential solutions for public and private events, including catering, entertainment, brand and sport activations, athlete appearances, VIP experiences, press and media events, and other curated guest programming.
o Ensure every proposed solution aligns with client objectives, budgets, operational realities, production requirements, and delivery timelines.
o Identify assumptions, dependencies, risks, exclusions, and open decisions during the business development process and ensure they are clearly documented and resolved.
o Coordinate an effective handoff from business development to the accountable Production, Program Management, and Operations teams following contract award.
o Ensure client commitments, scope milestones, budgets, timelines, deliverables, and approval requirements are clearly communicated to the delivery team.
o Remain engaged as a senior client partner through delivery while respecting the ownership of the accountable Production, Program Management, and Operations leads.
o Support continuous improvement by incorporating client feedback, delivery learnings, and post-event observati