Recruitment Roundup: Adidas, The Fa, Ineos Grenadiers

20 Dec 2023 | Tom Love
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Head of Content – The Football Association

The role will oversee all digital content, including social media channels and the England Football and FA websites, and will lead our digital media and social media strategies across all our channels. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating, delivering and managing all our digital campaigns, ensuring that they drive brand awareness, engagement, and revenue.

Data Compliance Consultant – DP World Tour 

Project manage and perform extensive exercise to review current data mapping position in relation to source data, data flows, retention, expiry and risk areas in conjunction with all appropriate departments (including, but not limited to: Membership & Entries; ticketing and hospitality sales (premium experiences, consumer sales); partnership management; tournament operations; event management; legal; finance; technology) to understand current position and create a status check report

Digital Engagement Executive – Table Tennis England

Table Tennis England is seeking a dynamic and innovative Digital Engagement Executive to join our Engagement team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing and enhancing our digital presence across various platforms, ensuring effective audience engagement, and supporting our overall digital engagement strategy.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead – Nottingham Forest FC 

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced, passionate and proactive Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Lead to join our business and perform a key role now and for the future of Nottingham Forest Football Club.

Senior Assistant Producer/Shooter Editor – ATP Media

ATP Media is seeking an experienced and motivated Shooter Editor to deliver Original and Branded content across various formats and durations. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong storytelling skills with a creative flair for ideation, shooting, and editing.

Accreditation Executive – England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB)

This is an exciting role within the ECB Events Department that will encompass working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to deliver accreditation requirements for the 2024 season. The Accreditation Executives will support the Accreditation Manager to deliver accreditation planning and operations for all international and domestic cricket competitions alongside The Hundred.

Debenture Sales Executive – England Rugby 

Due to a departure in the team, the Rugby Football Union is looking for a driven Sales Executive, who will play a key role in the sale and renewal of England Rugby Debenture products. Reporting into the Debenture Memberships Manager, the role holder will be integral to the successful delivery of our upcoming Debenture renewal campaigns; playing a key role in the account management and sales of this premium membership alongside the operational implementation of the Twickenham Stadium Debenture programmes.

NewCo Head of Communications – The Football Association

An exciting opportunity has come up to hire a Head of Communications for the Barclay’s Women’s Super League and Barclay’s Women’s Championship (BWSL/BWC); this is a newly created senior role, reporting into the Chief Marketing Officer. You will be an entrepreneurial self-starter, highly experienced with national and industry media capable driving a proactive communications approach to underpin the NewCo brand and business plan, including sustainable commercial sustainable growth, engagement of diverse fans, build and manage successful stakeholder relationships.

Partnerships Manager – EFL (English Football League)

The role will be responsible for leading and developing existing partner relationships for the EFL, including proactively driving partnership agreements through a strong understanding of individual partners markets and business objectives, maximising the value of association with the EFL and its member clubs.

Sports Video Editor – United Rugby Championship  

Working closely with the Head of Marketing – Brand & Content, the video editor will be responsible for editing content which will be delivered through URC’s owned and operated channels. This role requires a content specialist who is as comfortable ideating creative ideas as they are editing content.

Website Manager – Team GB

If you’re passionate about digital technologies, have a can-do attitude, and want to work in a vibrant team, apply now to be our Website Manager and help us connect with the next generation of Olympic sports fans in the UK. 

Communications Manager – England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB)

The Communications Manager will play an integral cross-function role in delivering internal communications and engagement initiatives, as well as supporting the Comms Team on campaign work. This role – part of the Media & Communications team – will have a central, cross-function remit supporting several departments to amplify their work, including the People Team, as well as working closely with other disciplines across the business such as events, EDI, participation & growth, digital and marketing.

CRM Executive – Racing Post

An opportunity has just arisen to join our growing digital marketing team. You’ll be working in a fast-paced and energetic working environment. In this role, you will focus on delivering a multi-channel CRM strategy, with the planning, execution, and analysis of marketing campaigns to drive customer acquisition, conversion, and retention for our digital products and brands.

Operations Supervisor – LTA

As Supervisor you will lead and inspire a team to deliver a world class customer experience at the NTC. Leading from the front you will manage the team to deliver a best in class service ensuring every visit is a memorable one. This is a diverse role providing lots of opportunities to develop yourself and manage across different areas of the business, whether that be developing your team members to be the best version of themselves, engaging with key partners to deliver major events or managing day-to-day operations, you will play a key role in positioning the NTC as a truly world class facility.

Ticketing Manager – World Rugby 

As Ticketing Manager, you will report to the Managing Director of LOC and work with the Director of Ticketing in Events Co. You will be responsible for delivering the Ticketing Strategy for Women’s RWC2025 set by Events Co across all sales channels and Ticketing operations within the LOC and will manage the delivery of over 300k ticket sales, across 8 venues. 

Senior Communications Manager – Red Bull Racing & Red Bull Technology

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Communications Manager. The post-holder is responsible for developing and delivering the consumer communications and media strategy, building brand awareness, credibility and enhancing the profile of the F1 teams amongst new and existing sports fans, as world-class sports teams, and technology business, through a framework of effective media communications.

Premium Experience Manager – Formula E

As an integral part of the broader Ticketing & Premium Experience Team within the Commercial function, this role is dedicated to driving the overall success of Formula E’s Premium Experiences, encompassing EMOTION CLUB, Race Suites, Electric Lounge, and VIP Side Events. From conceptualisation to execution, you will lead the development and management of premium experiences across various international markets.

Partnership Management Lead – Everton Football Club

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Partnerships Manager to deliver exceptional servicing to existing and future Club partners, ensuring all partners receive their full allocation of rights and additional added value. This role will be integral in supporting the continued growth of the business as it enters one of the most transformative periods in its history.

Head of Digital – England Golf 

Deliver and drive forward England Golf’s digital ambition (utilising data, IT and communications) to innovate and transform organisational efficiencies and enrich the experiences of golfers.

Partnerships Manager – INEOS Grenadiers Cycling Team

The INEOS Grenadiers are looking for a driven and proactive Partnerships Manager to join the Team. Based in the London office and reporting to the Senior Partnership Manager, this role will be responsible for providing day-to-day relationship management to a selection of global partners, working with them to develop activation plans, across digital, marcomms and on-event, that support and integrate with their key partnership objectives, whilst delivering ROI against contractual obligations.

Head of Finance – UK Athletics

UK Athletics (UKA), the National Governing Body for the premier Olympic and Paralympic sport of athletics is seeking to recruit a Head of Finance. The purpose of the role is to provide the leadership, management and vision necessary to ensure that the company has effective: financial operational controls and systems; administrative and reporting procedures; and direct staffing in place to effectively achieve the organisation’s strategies, objectives and to ensure financial strength and operating efficiency.

Retail Marketing Activations Assistant Manager – adidas

Reporting into the Senior Marketing Activations Manager, this role is responsible for flawlessly developing and executing consumer-relevant campaigns, promotions, activations and in-store communication. This role needs to support in maximize the profitability of Own Retail within the North Europe Market by positively impacting Traffic, Conversion, ATV, UPT, Profit Margin, Brand and Experience NPS.

Social Engagement Coordinator – On

 You are a creative writer, passionate about language and communication – You have an interest in social listening and using online conversation to learn about people – You have spent time in comments sections, listening tools and publishing queues – You have a point of view on social trends and how brands behave on the internet – You have some relevant experience at an agency, brand, publisher, platform or similar – You are comfortable working in dynamic, fast-moving, entrepreneurial environments – You have a passion for, or connection to, running or sport more broadly – You are fluent in English and ideally another European language

Midweight Producer – JD Sports Fashion  

As a Producer you will play a pivotal role in taking the agreed creative idea and bringing it to life delivering the required outcome for various channels including digital, TVC and print media. You will possess strong photography and video knowledge and be confident combining big ideas and creative problem solving.

Client & Content Operations Director – Footballco

As our Client & Content Operations Director, you will play a crucial role in overseeing and coordinating all aspects of the digital project, ensuring successful strategy and delivery. The role will be multifaceted with responsibility to manage stakeholder relationships in Saudi Arabia and the UAE – including working with our partner marketing agencies, the client, and clubs.

SEO Reporter (Sport) – MailOnline

MailOnline Sport is looking for a talented, organised and self-starting individual to join our team to maximise our SEO output and ensure we’re never missing out on an opportunity to speak to our audience. The ideal candidate will create, manage and produce content that will hit all the major talking points using their expertise of analytics, search metrics and predicting trends.

Senior Associate – thinkBeyond 

We’re looking for an energetic, organised, and ambitious person to join our growing consultancy. This is an ideal next step for those who are wishing to advance their career in sustainability, social impact and sport. Our Associates get involved in all aspects of the business, from research and project management to workshops and events, and much more in between. Whilst the role is supportive in nature, we’re always looking to empower people to take ownership of projects and make their mark on the company.

Junior Video Editor – Two Circles 

This role is perfect for an agile Junior Video Editor with a can-do attitude looking to grow along with the team, bringing to life partnership campaign & activation concepts for various brands and sports properties. Pulling together the best in class marketing video edits


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