Recruitment Roundup: Efl, Codemasters, London Sport

03 Apr 2024 | Tom Love
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Marketing Assistant – The Wave

The Wave is looking for a Marketing Assistant, who will be responsible for executing a high volume of written and creative marketing tasks that primarily support our e-mail, website and asset design requirements. This role is a key part of The Wave’s Commercial Team whose focus is on driving new and returning customers to The Wave.

Senior Sales Executive, Sponsorship – Sportradar 

In the role of Senior Sales Executive, Sponsorship in our ad:s (advertising & sponsorship) division, you’ll play a crucial part in growing our sponsorship and brand partnership business, with a focus on sports betting operators. Your responsibilities will include creating and selling sponsorship rights opportunities, developing digital activation solutions and nurturing relationships with global sports properties.

High School Partnership Delivery Officer – Manchester United

Based in a partner high school full time, the main responsibility of this role will be to deliver Foundation programs that support the development of student’s educational behaviours, attendance, and wellbeing.

Ticketing Manager – Portsmouth Football Club

In this role, you’ll be the mastermind behind a seamless ticketing journey for Pompey supporters. You’ll craft innovative strategies to drive ticket sales, maximize revenue, and ensure a smooth experience from purchase to match day. We’re looking for a data-driven problem-solver with a “can-do” attitude. You’ll be a whiz at juggling priorities, a master communicator, and a team player who thrives in a collaborative environment.

Senior Marketing Manager – EFL 

As Senior Marketing Manager, you will play a pivotal role in delivering the league’s commercial and marketing strategy. Reporting to the Head of Marketing, you will lead the delivery of the EFL’s key marketing efforts, ensuring excellence in brand marketing, commercial partnerships marketing, broadcaster marketing relationships, and fan engagement initiatives. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the marketing landscape of one of the most iconic football leagues in the world.

Partnership Planning Executive – DP World Tour 

The European Tour group prides itself on developing bespoke partnership solutions and is seeking a Partnership Planning Executive to support its Commercial Partnership sales efforts, across both DP World Tour and Ryder Cup. This role reports into the Commercial Partnership Strategy Manager, supporting the overall team (covering both DP World Tour & Ryder Cup) by developing insight-driven pitches to brand prospects to achieve cut-through with decision makers.

Digital Product Assistant – Professional Squash Association

To support the digital team with product management and development, ensuring PSA digital properties are kept up to date and continually improved.

Sport Science Analyst – Crystal Palace Football Club 

Crystal Palace Football Club are seeking a Sport Science Analyst to join our Sport Science & Medical Department to collaborate with colleagues from other departments and provide the best support to the first team playing squad to ultimately support the implementation of Crystal Palace Football Cub performance strategy.

First Team Performance Analyst – West Ham United

The ideal candidate will have an organised and calm approach to work and be able to deal with the time-pressured demands in an elite level environment. They will be able to communicate effectively with colleagues, display a high level of knowledge of football tactics and demonstrate the technical ability required to work with industry-specific software.

Client Relations Assistant – The R&A

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Hospitality team as Client Relations Assistant. The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery of a world-class customer service and experience for all hospitality guests attending at The Open and the AIG Women’s Open. The successful candidate will support the sales team and ensuring efficient operational delivery at Championships, working with internal and external stakeholders.

Inventory Planner – New Balance 

Due to internal progression, the Inventory Planner plays a central and critical role in delivering EMEA business results through planning and executing the purchasing and reservation of Finished Goods inventory for all Product Lines. This team is responsible for the end-to-end flow of inventory in and out of the Region. Inventory Planning is responsible for the translation of forecast and demand requirements into purchase orders, resulting in optimized order book fulfillment to service all New Balance channels of business. In addition, you may be expected to travel to our Netherlands office to meet with the team a few times a year.

Digital Trading Lead – JD Sports Fashion

Working with the Head of Digital, this role will manage the performance of all our websites and the trading teams who work on them. Fully responsible for hitting the collective targets for sales, EBIT and all cost lines.

Senior Games Designer – Codemasters 

As a Senior Games Designer within the F1 Live Ops team, you will report to the Franchise Senior Creative Director , working with the annual development team Design Leads and Live Ops Senior Producer. You will be responsible for ownership of the post-launch service plan for the F1 series, creating a compelling roadmap with the team to deliver new features, tuning, and balancing of existing game modes and determining the required content to implement.

Product Coordinator – New Era Cap Company

The role of the Product Coordinator is to effectively plan delivery and communication of all Team Sports range launches including some of our most exciting licenses within F1, Football, Rugby, Cricket and Golf. The Product Coordinator for the Sports Business Unit reports to the product manager.

Senior Producer, Sports – Reuters News Agency 

Reuters Video News is looking for a Senior Producer, Sports to be based in our hub in Canary Wharf, London.

Assistant Producer – BBC Sport

Assistant Producers contribute to the output by working as part of a production team. You will be required to work on live action and highlights programmes playing a full part in all aspects of the VT operation. You will be passionate about a range of sports, know what makes a good story and relish the challenge of producing creative and ambitious content within budget.

Content Planning and Insights Manager – Warner Bros. Discovery

The Content Planning and Insights Manager will play a pivotal role in driving the strategic planning and performance analysis of our digital content. This position requires a candidate with an understanding of sports content trends, audience behaviour, and a strong analytical mindset. The successful candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize content creation, distribution, and engagement, ensuring our audience receives content tailored to their needs and preferences.

Creative Video Manager – talkSPORT 

As the Creative Video Manager at talkSPORT BET, you will play a vital role in the growth of the business among our target audience. You will be responsible for leading the video production, planning shoots, filming and editing content and then overseeing it’s posting, all with the aim to spread the word of the brand and grow a loyal base of customers.This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your expertise and creativity in the sports media industry.

Journalist (Radio Producer), 5 Live Sport – BBC

The successful candidate will work in BBC Radio 5 Live Sport as part of our Audio team. Working both individually and with others to develop treatments of the highest quality and deliver creative and engaging programme content; working with our on air team you will be able to write and edit scripts; using editing tools you will also have experience of packaging and editing material.

Events Manager – London Sport

We are looking for a talented, enthusiastic and ambitious Events Manager to help us engage key stakeholders through events and commercial partnerships. You will join the dynamic Fundraising, Marketing and Communications team at London Sport in a varied and exciting role, with a focus on leading the development and delivery of our events strategy. 

Product Travel Administrator – Destination Sport Experiences

For our Cycling, Running, Triathlon and custom programmes, we’re looking for a Product Travel Administrator to join our existing product team to verify, load and manage product on our online booking platform. This role will involve liaising with our international teams in our UK, US and Australia based offices.


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