WHO WE ARE:
Charlotte Motor Speedway is one of 11 premiere facilities across the country owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports, LLC. The entertainment complex annually hosts two NASCAR weekends, two NHRA events, World of Outlaws racing, classic car shows and the Southeast’s largest drive-through holiday light show, among other events.
 

After more than six decades of innovative firsts in entertainment and fan engagement, the speedway known as America's Home for Racing continues to be an iconic trailblazer in sports, entertainment and fan amenities.

 We maintain a consistent focus on four core principles:

• Take care of our teammates

• Be known for remarkable events

• Positively impact our community

• Profitably improve

 The ideal candidate will adopt a GLOBE mentality. GLOBE stands for Generously Lending Our Best Efforts. This is achieved by holding themselves and their teammates compassionately accountable for taking our best practices “the last mile” – optimizing them for maximum value to all stakeholders while sharing insights on how to improve our company. The ideal candidate will also be a productive and proactive self-starter who is passionate about his/her duties and willing to put forth the extra effort to achieve excellence.

Overall Description:

This internship opportunity is for individuals who have a strong passion for gaining corporate partnership activation and service experience in a high-pace, motorsports and events-oriented environment. This position will be responsible for assisting the Corporate Partnerships team with relationship building, execution and overall management of the team’s corporate partnerships throughout their semester. Interns may work during weekends and potentially travel to either help promote CMS events or help our sister tracks’ events.

The Corporate Partnerships department involves working with clients and sponsors on a national, regional and local level. The department focuses on fully developing integrated marketing partnerships between the client and the speedway. This department seeks 2-3 individuals who are outgoing, creative, highly motivated, can-do individuals and embody our company principles; 1. Care for Your Teammates  2. Be Remarkable 3. Impact Your Community and 4. Continuously Improve.

These individuals will partake in some of our many events which include two NASCAR weekends, Super Motocross, two NHRA weekends, World of Outlaws Dirt Racing World Finals, various Music Festivals, Monster Truck Bash, our annual AutoFair and Heritage Car Show, Speedway Christmas and many other ancillary events. Our annual event schedule can be found on our website.

Reports To: Manager, Client Services

Specific Duties include but are not limited to:

•  Assist Business Development Executives with sales proposals for existing and potential clients, research of companies and other possible sales opportunities
• Learn alongside the Corporate Sales BDEs on prospecting, pitching and alongside the Client Services team in executing the partnerships
• Support the Client Services team in activating VIP experiences for clients 
• Create end of event/partnership recaps showing current and potential partners their ROI alongside CS Team
• Help execute non-traditional events/facility rentals with furniture and equipment set-ups
• Be a key part in data management via our CRM, Salesforce, communicate marketing assets via Basecamp and update our internal Box database
• Lead the CMS LinkedIn page via scheduled and organic social posts in partnership with the CMS Social Team
• Participate in various weekly meetings and take meeting notes/minutes
• Answering inbound phone calls that can potentially involve selling or routing to appropriate departments
• All other duties as assigned

The above description denotes some of the specific characteristics that are necessary to perform the principal functions of the job and are not intended to be a description of all work requirements that may be inherent in the position.

Interns must be able to work a minimum of 25 hours per week, plus all events held during their semester. You will be subject to overtime during event weekends.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.