Recruitment Roundup: New Opportunities In UK Sport

RIGHTSHOLDERS

Community Communications Manager, England Rugby

This role requires an experienced communications professional who is a talented copy writer and who demonstrates high standards and accuracy across their work.

Senior Marketing Manager, The Festival of Cricket 

We are recruiting for a motivated, creative and knowledgeable marketeer to work across our Classic Car brand portfolio and the new Festival of Cricket as Senior Marketing Manager. Reporting to the Managing Director, you will be responsible for the marketing strategy, management, and delivery of marketing campaigns, creating awareness and buzz with the ultimate objective selling tickets for each event.

Marketing Lead – Everton in the Community, Everton Football Club

As Marketing Lead for Everton in the Community, you will take responsibility for the day-to-day management of marketing related areas across the Charity, as well as leading on bespoke projects and providing excellent marketing support in-line with the Charity’s objectives.

Digital Video Producer (community), England Rugby

As part of this strategic plan, the RFU has an ambition to become a content-led, data-driven, user-centric organisation with market leading digital capabilities that will not only transform the rugby experience for players, volunteers and fans today, but also future proof the RFU for years to come.

The Digital Video Producer (community) will lead on how the RFU produces top quality content to help achieve its strategic goals around the grassroots game.

London Lions, Head of Communications

Our Head of Communications will lead the communications strategy to drive against the overall objectives of London Lions basketball teams. As well a management of an in-house press officer, the Head of Communications will manage the London Lions PR agency; as well as comms workflows with rights holders and relevant stakeholders.

Brand and Marketing Executive, DP World Tour

Reporting to the Senior Brand Marketing Manager, the Brand and Marketing Executive will be responsible for supporting the growth and development of the DP World Tour brand and its tournament brands to grow audiences, awareness and commercial revenues.

Head of Customer Data & CRM, The Jockey Club 

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Head of Customer Data & CRM to join our Digital team leading the customer data and CRM program across the group.

National Para-Athletics Manager, England Athletics 

The National Para-Athletics Manager is an exciting and wide-ranging role to support the development of coaches and athletes to improve performance within Para-Athletics in England, below the World Class Performance level. There is specific responsibility to deliver the talent pathway in partnership with UKA.

Chief Executive Officer, Scottish Golf 

As Scottish Golf embarks on a new five-year strategic cycle, the Board seeks to appoint a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to oversee and drive the execution of its growth plans in the coming years

Head of Race & Market Development, Formula 1 

This role leads, develops and manages a strategically selected group of race promoters within the F1 eco-system with the goal of a continued evolution of the market and the commercial opportunity with each promoter, race, and the market destination the race takes place within.

BRANDS

Head of Tech PR, Group Lotus 

This pivotal senior PR role for an experienced PR professional and storyteller is to develop a global tech comms strategy, then ideate, plan, develop and deploy stories about Lotus’ technologies that will act as proof-points of Lotus’ innovation and excellence for those consumers.

Alpine Press & Marketing Manager, Renault Group 

We are looking for someone to develop and deliver stand-out marketing and communications plans, including influencers, local sponsorships, partnerships, social media, events and the adaptation of Central marketing materials for the local market. You will support in building a local paid media plan, including a digital ‘always on’ approach and proactively create storytelling opportunities for UK press, influencers and ambassadors.

RETAILER

Marketing Executive, Decathlon UK

Working alongside the Campaigns, PR, Social Media and Creative teams, the role of the Marketing Executive is to support the team in the end-to-end delivery of communications campaigns. They will help strategically plan and activate the delivery for a range of exciting multi-channel campaigns.

MEDIA

Media Planner, Viaplay Group 

Viaplay Group’s Marketing and Communications department is responsible for communicating and promoting our prioritized content while keeping our brand’s best interest in mind. Our KPI’s are driving D2C sales, which we do through building awareness and engagement. As a Media Planner we need you to combine creative thinking with factual analysis and develop strategies that ensures our campaigns reach their target audiences as effectively as possible.

OTHER

Marketing Executive, Football Escapes

We are looking for a marketing executive to join our small but rapidly growing team. With the successful candidate coming in to support the development and delivery of our marketing communication plans and activities – alongside the promotion of our football holidays.

Head of Commercial Partnerships, AE Live

The Head of Commercial Partnerships (UK) will primarily be focused on growing the UK business, assisting and supporting the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and Commercial Director (CD) in sourcing new business and diversifying revenue streams.

Legal Counsel, The International Tennis Integrity Agency

The ITIA requires a legal counsel with a focus on data protection and contracts to work on a part-time basis as part of the legal team reporting to the Senior Director, Legal, and principally supporting the Head of Business Services/Data Protection Officer.

Social Channels Manager, EXTREME 

We are seeking an experienced channel manager who has deep knowledge and passion for social platforms, including experience producing work for a variety of social networks. This opportunity is for someone who is passionate for social media, lives and breathes the platforms and is knowledgeable about the latest trends in the social media landscape, has a broad knowledge of social publishers and the creator economy.

Strategic Director, Yorkshire Sport Foundation 

The main purpose of your role is to work alongside colleagues in the Integrated Care Partnerships, Mayoral Combined Authorities and other regional / sub-regional bodies to support them in embedding physical activity in their strategic plans and operations. You will also have a national focus to work closely with Sport England to ensure connections between national and local strategy and delivery are the most effective they can be. You will also support the work of improving connections between Active Partnerships and other national agencies, both from within and outside of the sector.

Tom’s Top Job

London Lions – Head of Comms

The BBL and the London Lions have been making some big moves since their acquisition by 777 Partners in December 2021. If you’re a young comms professional who’s into basketball, this is a fantastic opportunity to join the team on a digital journey into the big leagues and beyond.

Apply here – good luck!