Partnerships & Sponsorship

Win more sponsorship deals. Prove every dollar of value.

EngageRM brings every prospect, proposal, and partner deliverable into one place so your commercial team can close faster and retain longer.

the challenge

Sponsorship pipelines managed in spreadsheets. Proposals going dark. Renewals missed.

Most commercial teams are running three or four tools, a spreadsheet for the pipeline, email threads for proposals, a shared drive for assets, and a calendar reminder for renewals. When key staff leave, institutional knowledge walks out the door. When a partner asks "what have we delivered?", the honest answer is often "we're not sure."

The result: slower close rates, avoidable churn, and leadership asking for a pipeline report that takes a day to compile.

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74% of commercial teams in sport still rely on spreadsheets as their primary sponsorship tracking tool. Research insight, 2025.

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Average partner renewal rate before EngageRM: 58%. After: 81%. Composite across 40 clubs.

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Commercial directors spend 6-8 hours per week manually compiling reports that EngageRM generates in under 30 seconds.

HOW ENGAGERM SOLVES IT

One platform. Every deal stage, asset, and deliverable in view.

EngageRM's Partnerships & Sponsorship module is built on Microsoft Dynamics 365, giving you an enterprise-grade pipeline that fits the way sport commercial teams actually work.

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Visual pipeline management

Drag-and-drop Kanban stages from first contact to signed contract. See every deal's status at a glance without building a report.

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Proposal & asset tracking

Attach proposals, media assets, and inventory items directly to each opportunity. Automated reminders fire when deliverables are overdue.

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Automated renewal workflows

Set renewal triggers at 90, 60, and 30 days. Personalized outreach sequences launch automatically so no partner renewal slips through.

Real-time revenue dashboards

Live pipeline value, close-rate trends, and partner satisfaction scores, all in a board-ready format, always current.

Inventory reallocation engine

Unused premium inventory is automatically surfaced to the right prospect segments, turning unsold assets into incremental revenue.

Native Microsoft 365 integration

Outlook emails, Teams calls, and SharePoint documents log automatically against each partner record. Zero double-entry.

Fulfillment

FulfillRM triggers membership packs and merchandise orders straight from the CRM and tracks every delivery through to the right fan without leaving the platform.

Integrations designed to connect  to the platforms you're already running

WHO THIS IS FOR

Built for commercial directors and partnership managers

Whether you're a Head of Commercial leading a team of five or a solo partnerships manager running a full club portfolio, EngageRM scales to your workload. The same platform serves League Two clubs and Premier League operations.

  • No CRM experience required. Guided onboarding with a specialist implementation team
  • Works alongside existing ticketing and finance systems
  • Role-based dashboards: CEOs see the pipeline, execs see their tasks
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We love working with the team at EngageRM. We've had a long-held ambition to align our sales process and to be able to report in real time on exactly where we are. EngageRM has helped us to do this, and we've learned so much from the team along the way.

Andres Alvarez

Head of Sales

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Australian Open

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Renewal rate lift

8 wks

Time to live

$1.2M

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FAQs

Frequently asked questions

How long does implementation take?
Will switching from another CRM to EngageRM mean losing historical data?
Why is EngageRM's approach to migration lower risk than doing it in-house?