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The Project Sponsor is the individual (often a manager or executive) with overall accountability for the project. The Project Sponsor is primarily concerned with ensuring that the project delivers the agreed business benefits. The Project Sponsor acts as the representative of the organisation, and plays a vital leadership role through: 1  providing 'championship' for the project, selling and marketing the project throughout the organisation. 2  providing business expertise and guidance to the Project Manager.
Project sponsorship is quite different to project management. In some ways - notably the detailed ranges of duties - the differences are similar to the differences between leadership and management. The role of a project sponsor is therefore different to the role of a project manager. (See differences between project manager and project sponsor below.) However project sponsorship and project management are linked crucially together, and are mutually dependent roles.