Recruitment Roundup: Commonwealth Games, Adidas, DAZN

PARTNERS AND MEMBERS

Havas Play UK – Senior Strategist

We are looking for a highly experienced strategy partner with at least 10 years’ experience spanning sport, entertainment, and gaming. The ideal candidate will have a breadth of experience across a variety of strategic projects spanning sport, entertainment, and gaming. This must include a deep understanding of the gaming ecosystem and gaming partnerships – from helping brands select the right gaming partner to co-creating new cultural IP with them.

RIGHTSHOLDERS

Arsenal F.C – Senior Licensing Executive

We are looking for a Senior Licensing Executive to play a key role in the account management of our licensees and provide a best-in-class service with the primary objective of driving retention. In this exciting role, you’ll have critical input into vital workflows across product development, rights delivery, royalty reporting, business planning and business reviews.

The Football Association – Head of Strategy & Business Management

The FA is looking for a Strategic Lead for Women’s Football. Driving the development of the Women’s Football Strategy and oversight of its delivery (with understanding of complementary strategies), you will be responsible for the delivery of key strategic areas of the women’s football strategy and ensuring internal and external collaboration and operations to enable joined up thinking and execution.

EFL (English Football League) – Communications Manager

Reporting into the Head of Public Relations, the Communications Manager – Community will have a focus on Community PR and assist in the activation of the annual strategic PR plan for the EFL. The Communications Manager will have responsibility to deliver against the overall Communications strategy and be responsible for all internal and external Community PR communications for the EFL.

The Premier League – Fan Development Manager

This exciting new role in our digital media and audience development team will support on opportunities to grow and broaden the Premier League’s global audience across multiple platforms, including the Premier League’s localised platforms and content efforts, resulting in stronger and deeper fan engagement not only for the Premier League, but also with our Clubs, broadcast licensees and commercial brand partners.

London Marathon Events – School Engagement Lead

We have 3 brand new roles developed specifically to play a critical part in the growth of initiatives to promote children’s physical activity, including The Daily Mile, TCS Mini London Marathon and junior parkrun. The roles will help establish connections between these initiatives, so more children are active both in school and out of school.

The R&A – Head of Content

To lead on the development, planning, delivery and evaluation of The R&As global digital audience engagement strategy, planning in the short, medium and long term. To lead on the digital ecosystem, content and production strategy to ensure best in class audience engagement across owned and operated channels to drive growth in reach, engagement, revenue and reputation, in support of the organisation’s strategic objectives.

Commonwealth Sport – Chief Operating Officer

We are actively recruiting into the key role of Chief Operations Officer in readiness of Scotland being formally awarded the 2026 Commonwealth Games. It will be the biggest sporting and cultural event to be held in Scotland in the last decade.

PTO – Events Marketing Manager

As the Events Marketing Manager, you will be responsible for leading our event marketing efforts, with a strong focus on age group sales for the mass participation element of a number of PTO events across the world. You will be expected to lead our events marketing for the events that you manage (x2-x4 events).

Sport Wales – Senior People Development Officer

We are looking for an experienced individual who will play a key role in leading, developing and supporting our people development work in Wales. You will support and work directly with our People Development Lead, and our Sport System; Governance, People & Ethics Team.

SkateboardGB – Brand Relationships Coordinator

We’re looking for someone who will work with skateboard brands and other commercial partners to deliver partnership activations, as well as with the SBGB communications team to create engaging content to promote brands alongside SBGB to engage with the skateboard community. You will need a good understanding of skateboard brands and other commercial partners within the Action Sports environment, in order to build the best relationships and network with the right people to ensure flourishing partnerships that benefit the brands, SBGB and skateboarding.

PGA TOUR – Manager Advertising Strategy & Planning

This position provides media advertising strategies and customer service to PGA TOUR Title Sponsors, Official Marketing Partners, Endemics, and external clients through a global media sales department. Responsibilities focus on the sales operational processing and communication of PGA TOUR owned and operated – as well as partner – cross-platform media campaigns, from upfront proposals and RFP responses to campaign activation, fulfillment, and analysis.

Williams Racing – Social Media Executive

The focus for this role is particularly on vertical-reliant platforms including, but not limited to, Instagram, X and TikTok, consistently producing timely, reactive posts. This candidate will also thrive in a fast-moving, highly competitive environment with the ability to immediately jump on and react to social media trends.

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.

Team Liaison Officer – Women’s RWC England 2025 LOC

Women’s RWC 2025 Team Services are looking to appoint one Team Liaison Officer (TLO) and one Assistant Team Liaison Officer (ATLO) to each of the 16 participating teams. Reporting to the Team Pool Coordinator (TPC), the TLO will be the main point of contact between the Team and RWC 2025 with support from an ATLO, in order to assist the teams as they compete in the tournament and to help ensure that the Terms of Participation, policies and procedures are adhered to.

BRANDS

New Balance – Associate Marketing Manager, Global Football

We are looking for an enthusiastic, proactive, and highly collaborative individual to join our global brand marketing team at New Balance. We’re seeking an individual who excels at crafting compelling narratives and has a deep passion for sports culture. This person will aim to bring to life unique cultural stories around our football club partners, delving deeply into authentic and real stories and telling them in a uniquely New Balance way.

adidas – PR Manager

Deliver the adidas message to the adidas consumer through earned media, first class public relations and proactive/reactive approach to maintain brand heat. Drive outcome for the business through the application of SEO organic strategies and protect the reputation of the brand through Issues & Crisis management.

JD Sports Fashion – Head of IT Support

The Head of Technology Operation will be key to ensuring our hub support can serve the business and will be responsible for the performance of the service desk, ensuring we are meeting the business need and achieving core targets and KPI’s. You will drive continuous improvement and work closely with our Technology Operations Director and other teams within Is to ensure that our services align to their needs.

lululemon – Director of Communications

The Director of Communications & PR, EMEA is a key member of the Global Communications and Regional Brand leadership teams, developing innovative public relations, corporate communications, and internal engagement strategies for the EMEA market.

SunGod – Community Executive

We’re looking for a proactive and organised Community Executive to assist in managing and activating a portfolio of Team SunGod Athletes, ambassadors and the wider SunGod community. You will maintain a highly organised approach, working alongside our Community Manager to implement best-in-class Athlete and Ambassador management, and delivering coordinated real-life activations. As a Community Executive, you will be one of the public-facing team members fostering connections at multiple touchpoints ensuring our brand values are represented consistently.

MEDIA

BBC – Senior Correspondent, Football

This is an exciting opportunity to deliver agenda-setting football journalism for the BBC’s domestic and global audiences. Within this high profile role, the cross-platform football correspondent will deliver original and high impact journalism. You’ll generate ideas for future content, gather and report football stories accurately and impartially across all of BBC Sport’s football strands and leverage a best-in-class network, use a variety of techniques in order to deliver stories in ways that are authoritative, engaging and accessible.

Sky – Trading Performance Lead, NOW Sports and Boost

The Trading Performance Lead will be at the heart of providing business direction in relation to NOW Sports and Boost weekly trading KPIs via robust stakeholder management, data analysis and forecast management. They will need to be data savvy but importantly be an excellent collaborator who can work seamlessly across a wide range of stakeholders, providing timely and well-informed recommendations which will be critical to moving the business forward.

DAZN – SVP of Basketball

The SVP of Basketball will spearhead DAZN’s global basketball direct-to-consumer (D2C) strategy, with responsibility for driving overall P&L and crafting a world-class basketball experience within the DAZN ecosystem. This role requires a visionary leader with a strong commercial background, expertise in digital platforms, and the ability to work cross-functionally across marketing, product, and local markets to enhance DAZN’s basketball offering.

MailOnline – Social Media Editor, Sport

MailOnline, the world’s largest English-language newspaper website with over 220 million unique monthly visitors globally, is looking for a talented Social Media Editor to join its industry-leading social team.

Sky – Senior Assistant Producer, Multi-Sport

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.

OTHER

UK Sport – Major Events Advisor

At UK Sport, our mission is to create the greatest decade of extraordinary sporting moments; reaching, inspiring and uniting the nation. A key priority for UK Sport is the strategic, financial and technical support for bidding and staging major international sporting events, working with partners across the UK including government, cities and sports to ensure the UK maintains its reputation as a world leading host.