Sport Industry Recruitment Roundup
This is your weekly sports industry recruitment roundup – a selection of the best job openings across the sector.
Are you hiring and want a role featured in the Recruitment Roundup? Send your job spec to news@sportindustry.biz.
Events & Operations Manager – Sport Industry Group – London
In this role, you will be responsible for managing some of the biggest events in the sport industry and will be actively engaging with the most senior executives in the sector. Working together with external agencies and suppliers, you will take a leading role in the delivery of the Sport Industry Awards – and the biggest night in the sport industry – project manage our leading professional development programme, Sport Industry NextGen, and take the lead with our exclusive membership events, Sport Industry Dining & Sport Industry Socials.
Communications Manager – World Rugby – London
The right candidate for this job will have a passion for the global women’s sport movement, experience of sports/event management, have an excellent understanding of media operations and campaign coordination, strong project management skills, a great eye for PR opportunities to further Rugby’s global profile as well as the creativity and organisational skills to execute impactful media campaigns proactively and reactively.
Head of Content – Norwich City Football Club – Norwich
This position is responsible for the strategic delivery of the club’s overall content creation and delivery, across all delivery channels.
This includes overseeing and managing both the club’s editorial and video production teams whilst playing a key role in supporting other departments and the delivery of their objectives.
Sport Performance Marketing Specialist – Nike – London
Based in the Nike European Headquarters in Hilversum, you will be part of the Consumer Construct Marketing team in EMEA. This team is responsible to orchestrate all product marketing campaigns and long-term concepts for every sports dimension in the region of Europe, Middle East and Africa. In your role, you will work exclusively on the Football dimension – a high performance team that operates in a high pace environment to be able to react at the pulse of the game.
Partner Content Manager – Red Bull Racing & Red Bull Technology – Milton Keynes
Based on its campus in Milton Keynes, this role will focus on its commercial partner content, managing the ideation, delivery, production and distribution of collaborative content with its partners, creating content that engages fans of Oracle Red Bull Racing and its partner brands.
Senior Event Manager – Levy UK + Ireland – Twickenham
An opportunity is available for an innovative and experienced Senior Event Manager to join Keith Prowse, to manage and deliver the hospitality experience for up to 8,000 guests at the cinch tennis Championships.
You will be responsible for managing the design, delivery and on-day operations of the entire hospitality experience including but not limited to production, logistics, installation, on-site management, client and venue liaison, menu curation/food tasting and ticket allocation & fulfilment.
Commercial & Marketing Director – England Netball – Loughborough
England Netball is looking to appoint a Commercial and Marketing Director to head up a talented and motivated team and accelerate the growth of our revenue streams through the creation and delivery of a forward thinking commercial strategy.
The successful candidate will have a track record of securing significant partnerships in the sports industry, strong brand and marketing knowledge and experience of developing and managing successful strategies and teams.
Managing Director – England Netball – Loughborough
This is an exciting role that offers an opportunity for a highly skilled executive with strong commercial acumen to help shape the professionalisation of netball in England through driving forward growth of the Netball Super League, in line with EN’s new Adventure Strategy.
Initially housed within England Netball, this new role reports to the EN CEO whilst the future governance structure for the league is scoped and investment is secured to establish a NewCo to realise the full league ambitions.
Sport Editorial Manager (UK) – TikTok – London
TikTok are looking for a Sports Editorial Manager (UKI & Nordics) to manage the in-app sports strategy and operations, with the overall goal of improving the sport content ecosystem on the platform. The role will also work on priority sports campaigns throughout the year and will work closely with cross-functional teams across the organisation to own and support on all things content-related for various projects.
Commercial Director – England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) – London
This role is accountable to the Chief Commercial Officer and the Managing Director, The Hundred, for increasing the revenues of The Hundred, through the commercial partnership programme, merchandising and new business development activity. The role is also responsible for supporting the Marketing Director, The Hundred in developing and implementing aspects of the marketing strategy for The Hundred.
The successful applicant will have outstanding strategic vision and negotiating skills with a sound knowledge and understanding of the commercial models of sport at both international and domestic levels. A track record of successful involvement with sports sponsorship and a strong understanding of the end-to-end process – from packaging to relationship management – is essential.
Sport Manager (2023 Cycling World Champs) – 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships – Glasgow
Reporting to the Head of Department, the Sport Manager will work alongside the Sport Partnership Managers to manage Cycling World’s project relationship with the Event Delivery Partner enabling progress reporting of a wide range of commitments to be delivered.
Senior Manager, Female Participation (12 month FTC) – England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) – England
Secondments and Fixed Term Contracts considered
The Senior Manager Female Participation role is an exciting opportunity to support in the delivery of a thriving recreational game, that welcomes a broad, representative playing population.
As Senior Manager for Female Participation, you will be a passionate advocate of the game, maximising opportunities for women and girls at a recreational level, to foster a life-long involvement with cricket.
The role requires you to influence the wider cricket network and build relationships to Transform Women’s and Girls’ Cricket at participation level. This role will be key in shaping the future success of the game.
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