Recruitment Roundup: Liverpool FC, Red Bull, BBC Sport

PARTNERS AND MEMBERS

Turnstile – General Manager

To help the most progressive brands, rights holders, and investors understand the market value of sponsorship assets in the global sport and entertainment industry, a strategic approach that combines data analytics, market trends, and a deep understanding of brand dynamics is essential. As General Manager, you’ll be leading a global team of analysts and consultants to deliver an unrivalled level of insight for clients such as The International Cricket Council, Real Madrid, Arsenal, Manchester City, HSBC, Toyota, Riot Games and Decathlon.

TrybWorld – Senior Marketing Executive

An exciting new opportunity has opened for a Senior Marketing Executive to join the Marketing team to support our growth. We are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative, and dynamic marketer who possesses strong instincts for the right content, ideas and execution that will engage and grow our target audience, while building an outstanding reputation for TrybWorld and its brands across the corporate sector.

54 – Social Media Executive

The opportunity exists for an enthusiastic, driven, and creative Social Media Executive to join the 54 Event Marketing Team, assisting with the creation, management and delivery of clients’ promotions, advertising, communications, marketing, sponsorship, and events activity through key social channels.

RIGHTSHOLDERS

Birmingham City FC – Head of Content and Production

The role will also involve adding new content products for commercialisation, such as a podcast series and a WSC matchday product, improving and growing BluesTV, and ideating new products to expand audience reach. The role takes a whole-Club view, managing an editorial calendar loaded with ideas and activities that drive engagement and commercial value

West Ham United – Senior Social Media Producer

As a Senior Social Media Producer, you will play a crucial role in moulding the Club’s social media strategy, ideating and producing best-in-class content and leading our Social Media Producers to ensure key performance indicators (KPIs) are met. You will work across the men’s team, which will involve working evening and weekends on match days, as directed by the Social Media Manager.

Brentford Football Club – Marketing Executive

Reporting to the Head of Marketing, this role will support the delivery of personalised communications to the club’s fans, the growth of email revenues and the creation of a rewards program. The successful candidate will be forward thinking, commercially savvy and always innovating.

World Rugby – Sports Presentation Operations Coordinator

Reporting into the Sports Presentation, Ceremonies & Entertainment Manager, we are looking to appoint a Sports Presentation Operations Coordinator to support in the delivery of the Women’s RWC25 programme. You will play a pivotal role in creating a memorable and engaging fan experience.

The Jockey Club – Key Account Sales Executive

We have an exciting opportunity for a Key Account Sales Executive to join our Customer & Commercial team, driving the growth of National Groups Business within our travel trade clientele. Your mission will be to boost head count and revenue across all The Jockey Club’s Racecourse’s.

Motorsport UK – Head of Commercial Partnerships

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Head of Commercial Partnerships to join the national governing body, Motorsport UK, leading the acquisition of new commercial partners and sponsors to for the organisation. Motorsport UK represents over 70,000 competitors and volunteers and over 700 clubs at the heart of motorsport. Under the leadership of the Chairman, David Richards CBE, we have invested in an exciting period of change to drive growth and create a sustainable future for motorsport in the UK.

London City Lionesses – Football Operations Manager

We’re looking for a Football Operations Manager to join our growing team at London City Lionesses – a women’s football team competing in the Women’s Championship. As the Football Operations Manager, you are responsible for the operational management, administration and support for the Football Department – including overseeing First Team Operations, Kit & Equipment and Player Care.

Liverpool Football Club – Men’s First Team Communications Manager

We’re looking for an individual a proven track record working within a sports communications role to join our Liverpool FC team as a Men’s First Team Communications Manager.In this role, you will develop content and direct creative execution to provide a consistent, targeted, and impactful message.You will build and maintain solid partnerships with assigned internal clients to better develop, coordinate, direct, and facilitate strategic communications designed to meet business goals.

BRANDS

New Era Cap – Customer Service Coordinator

The role of the Customer Service Co-Ordinator is to manage a number of key strategic whole accounts based in EMEA.The aim is to ensure our customers are having the best experience we can offer and support our Sales Representatives and internal departments with questions, concerns and demands that arise regarding accounts and orders. This position reports to the Senior Customer Service Manager

Castore – Sports Marketing Manager

The Sports Marketing Manager will demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to foster relationships at all levels of the organisation, along with excellent organisational attributes to ensure the Senior Sports Marketing Manager is supported, along with the wider department.

New Balance – Key Account Manager

This role is pivotal in cultivating long-term, sustainable relationships with New Balance’s Lifestyle key accounts. As a hybrid role spanning Lifestyle, Running and Apparel, the mission is to drive profitable and sustainable market share growth within the footwear and apparel sectors.

EA SPORTS – Experience Designer

You will use your creativity, passion and knowledge of experience design, branding, and modern UI/UX practices to develop leading edge experiences for highly engaged Football Club fans. You will work closely with the Game Design Director and your partners from the Experience Design Team, Engineering, Game Design, Production, Art Direction and Creative Direction to create experiences that surprise, delight and inspire millions of players around the world to play. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work and be a part of EA’s most successful franchise – EA SPORTS FC.

Red Bull – Athlete Marketing Manager

This role will help to drive and manage Red Bull’s Athlete Marketing program, demonstrating to the consumer that Red Bull is the only brand that Gives Wiiings to the world’s most exciting and talented athletes. Credibly and effectively communicating the functional benefits of Red Bull products to sports interested consumers via a world-class athlete team. The roster covers diverse sporting playgrounds and a good knowledge understanding of the broader sporting landscape is key. The role will be also be focussing on potential new sporting opportunities within areas and sports we are not currently exposed through. In this role the Athlete Marketing Manager must enable our athletes to progress in their sport and fulfill their dreams.

JD Sports Fashion – Head of Campaign & Media Planning

The role of the Head of Marketing Campaigns is to help deliver the JD brand’s global marketing vision across the UK and European markets. The role is also aimed to work cross functionally ensuring the work we do with our 3PB’s are also utilised to maximum potential. The role will sit at the heart of the function and will be critical to how we move the department forward. The marketing calendar will become central to our day-to-day working, and the project management that sits behind it, is crucial to the success of how we work and our role in the business.

Mizuno Corporation EMEA – EMEA Golf Customer Support Team Leader

Reporting to the Head of EMEA Golf, and responsible for leading the golf customer service team, you will ensure outstanding customer experiences to both internal and external stakeholders. The role requires coordinating team activities, providing guidance and training, handling complex customer issues, and continuously improving customer service processes.

Codemasters – Lead Game Product Manager

Reporting to the F1 Live Operations Leadership team, the Product Manager’s role is to help shape the success of our game through data analysis and cross-team collaboration, ensuring that we deliver a compelling experience for our players throughout the live service period.

MEDIA

BBC – Head of Sport: Stories

BBC Sport is seeking an outstanding Head of Sport to bring together its story-telling across all platforms to the highest editorial standards. With direct responsibility for a large team of sports journalists, this role will be accountable for delivering agenda-setting stories that enhance the reach, reputation and impact of BBC Sport.

Sky – Senior Assistant Producer

This is an exciting opportunity to work as a Senior Assistant Producer in the Multi Sport Content team. You will work as part of a wider team creating world-class content for the Multi Sport portfolio, including Boxing, Rugby League, Darts, Tennis and Netball.

Prime Video Live Sports – Sr. Production Ops Manager

We are looking for an experienced Production Operations lead to oversee multiple and overlapping sports properties through the full project lifecycle. In this role you will use your production, field operations and project management experience to plan and execute high-profile events ensuring operational timelines and financial planning are met. You will own and manage the end-to-end project life cycle and day-to-day operational elements of assigned sports properties.

OTHER

Allianz Commercial – Senior Entertainment Sports Underwriter

As an Underwriter, your role will be pivotal in driving the profitability of new and renewal business within the Entertainment Sports sector, contributing to the achievement of regional targets with global implications. You will take ownership of large accounts and clients, leading negotiations on participation, pricing, and terms and conditions.

London Sport – Head of Insight

As Head of Insight you are central to driving this vision internally and to present our work and work with stakeholders externally. London Sport provides insight and best practice to support the community sport sector to address inactivity, we also advocate for funding and system change to address the inequalities experienced by minority and disadvantaged groups across the capital.