Recruitment Roundup: Formula E, Premier League, Gymshark

03 Jul 2024 | Tom Love
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Benchmark – Office Manager

As the Office Manager, you will be the backbone of our office operations, overseeing and coordinating the administrative functions of the office, ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of daily activities. You will be responsible for creating a productive and organised work environment, handling day to day operations, oversee office equipment and supplies, provide support to employees, and support the overall goals and objectives of the organisation. The ideal candidate will be organised, proactive, and adept at multitasking in a fast-paced environment. You will be an integral part of the team and contribute to the overall success of the office and organisation.

Little Dot Studios – Senior Marketing Executive

Our small but mighty team is looking for a creative, confident, and dedicated Senior Marketing Executive to help strengthen our brand, communicate our values, and support our marketing and PR activity across all areas of the business; helping to grow Little Dot Studios’ reputation through promoting the outstanding work we produce for world-class partners and brands, both internally with staff and externally to the industry.

Two Circles – Sponsorship Strategy Consultant

A consultant within this capability will be structuring and supporting on sponsorship focused commercial advisory projects. The role has a range of duties which include, but are not limited to; valuation of sponsorship rights and packages, structuring commercial architectures to grow the value of rights owner programmes, demonstrating a rights holder’s position in the market, constructing strategies to grow commercial revenues and delivering insightful analysis to steer complex, change-orientated sponsorship advisory projects.

Derby County Football Club – Data Analytics Lead

Derby County Football Club are looking for a data-focused individual to lead the delivery of insight-led performance advantage to the 1st Team and Academy as they look to re-establish themselves in the EFL Championship. The Data and Analytics Lead possesses the imagination and critical thinking to lead the establishment of best-in-class data and analytics systems, processes and impact.

National Basketball Association (NBA) – Head of Business Development – Europe & Middle East

This position will play a key role in the continued growth and expansion of EME by leading the partnership revenue aspect of EME. The successful candidate will be responsible for driving partnership sales revenue through the acquisition of new regional and global partners for the NBA.

England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) – Digital Product Manager

This exciting and important role will manage the development and implementation of various digital product initiatives across the ECB Digital Portfolio covering Web, App, Ticketing, and fantasy products. Your role will be key to helping implement the ECB Inspiring Generations strategy and making cricket the most inclusive sport in England & Wales. A key focus of the role is on increasing our digital cricket audience, and overall levels of digital engagement to support growing the game.

DP World Tour – Content Insights Executive

We are looking for a Content Insight Executive to join our Content team to run the day-to-day of various data and insights sources to deliver key reports to support our commercial and broadcast programmes, as well as to inform data-driven decision-making for the Tour’s award-winning content/broadcast business.

Williams Racing – Senior Communications Manager

An exciting opportunity exists for a Senior Communications Manager (F1) to join the Communications team, supporting the Head of Communication in the execution of communications relating to Williams Racing’s Formula 1 activities.

Arsenal – Data Protection and Information Security Executive

We are looking for a Data Protection and Information Security Executive to ensure we continue to meet our obligations under data protection legislation and comply with best-practice information security and privacy frameworks.

Crystal Palace Football Club – Operations Executive, Womens Team

Crystal Palace FC Women’s Team is seeking a highly organized operations executive to manage the teams match day and training operations in The Women’s Super League.

Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd – Press Officer

As a Press Officer at Aston Martin, you’ll be at the heart of our ultra-luxury brand’s major news moments, from high-profile Formula One activations to our innovative product launches and lifestyle partnerships spanning the realms of sport, design and entertainment.

Ultimate Fighting Championship – Marketing & Brand Manager, EMEA

This position is responsible for leading, planning, and executing the marketing direction for UFC initiatives in Europe, Middle East and Africa as well as maintaining the brand guidelines and vision across the region. The position will primarily support various content marketing efforts, while also extending to support multiple departments to develop initiatives that enhance the brand and business outcome across the region.

Chelsea Football Club – Senior Designer

Mentor and manage a team of both designers and Creative Artworkers, ensuring they have all the technical advice and guidance to develop and create work to the best of their abilities.

The Kia Oval – Surrey County Cricket Club – Anti-Discrimination Officer

We are looking for a Discrimination Investigator to lead on investigations on all discrimination cases within the adult and junior recreational structure. The role will also be looking to proactively work across our network of clubs and community organisation to ensure we are providing the mostly welcoming environments possible and ensuring cricket is the most inclusive team sport.

LTA – Website & Digital Experience Manager

Delivering against our vision, the Customer Strategy & Marketing team are responsible for the positioning of tennis as a sport to our audiences, growth of players and fans through marketing and to deepen digital engagements across our channels, to drive participation outcomes. And as the LTA begin to roll out a new 3-year strategy, it is essential to ensure that our audience strategies are conveyed meaningfully across our public-facing platforms, taking a strategic approach to joined-up customer journeys that provide the right experiences for audiences, and the right outcomes for the business.

Red Bull Racing & Red Bull Technology – Social Media Executive

Concentrating on social media, your role will be to assist the team in creating captivating, educational, and enjoyable content for the team’s social platforms in both F1 and Esports. This will involve collaboration with the Social, Content, Communications & Fan Engagement teams. Your role is pivotal in shaping the team’s online presence and community engagement, your work will directly contribute to the team’s brand image and fanbase growth.

England Rugby – Council Services Coordinator

To assist with the co-ordination and delivery of events, matches and meetings, as delegated by the Council Services Manager each season. This will include all home and away pre-match, match day and post-match activities for Presidential Team, Council Members, Distinguished Members, VIPs and their guests, Executive team and Board.

The Premier League – Senior Communications Manager

The Premier League’s communications team is looking for a Senior Communications Manager to support the wide-ranging operations of the Communications Department. The right candidate will be motivated, organised and able to work in a fast-paced environment. The candidate should have a strong background in communications.

Six Nations Rugby – Partnerships Manager

The Partnerships Manager role is an essential member of the team delivering commercial rights for key partners at Six Nations Rugby. As our Partnerships Manager, you’ll join Six Nations at a very exciting time in the organisations history with the opportunity to support an innovative sponsorship & partnership programme to grow the commercial success of the Six Nations Championships and enhance all Union activities.

McLaren Racing – Executive, Communications & Social Media

In this role, you will be playing an active role in the day-to-day operations and press support of the communications and social media functions across Formula E and Extreme E, supporting the delivery of first-class media relations and digital exposure for McLaren Racing to enhance brand awareness, drive value for corporate partners and grow the fanbase.

Newbury Racecourse – Digital, Communications & Content Executive

We are seeking a Digital, Communications & Content Executive to join our friendly Marketing Team and play a key role in creating and curating our digital content. This is an exciting full-time opportunity for someone who has knowledge of and passion for the latest digital trends and technologies. The successful candidate will be creative, organised and data-focussed, with the drive to jump straight into this role and deliver it with confidence.

Newcastle United Football Club – eCommerce Web Trading Manager

We’re looking for an experienced eCommerce Web Trading Manager to join our recently formed Retail team. The role will support the Head of e-Commerce to develop and execute the Club’s eCommerce trading strategy.

City Football Group – Midweight Creative

We’re looking for a midweight creative to join the branded content division of City Studios – the multi-award winning creative hub at the heart of Manchester City & CFG.

England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) – Head of National Youth Programmes

The purpose of this role is to support the continued strategic development, implementation, delivery, and amplification of ECB National Programmes (All Stars Cricket and Dynamos Cricket).

World Rugby – Ticket Sales Manager

Our LOC is looking for a Ticket Sales Manager to implement the Ticketing Sales Strategy for the Women’s RWC 2025 set by World Rugby Events and Media across all B2C sales channels. This role will coordinate the sales process of over 300k tickets, across 8 venues.

EFL (English Football League) – Governance Administrator

This is an incredible opportunity for a Governance Administrator to join our Governance and Legal Team at the EFL! The Governance Administrator will support the Governance and Legal team with monitoring the ownership and control of each of the 72 member clubs of the EFL. This includes ensuring that the regulations relating to that are administered appropriately, including via the requirements relating to reporting of ownership, and the Owners’ and Directors’ Test.

LTA – Safeguarding Case Officer

As part of the Safeguarding Team, the Safeguarding Case Officer plays a key role in taking a pro-active approach to safeguarding. You will be responsible for providing high quality support in the investigation of safeguarding cases and will be a key part of ensuring high safeguarding standards exist across the sport. As part of the safeguarding team, you will also work to manage an efficient, effective criminal records checking process.

Formula E – Ticketing & Premium Hospitality Director

The Ticketing & Premium Experience Director will report to the Chief Revenue Officer and will be responsible for leading and managing the FIA Formula E’s ticketing sales, service department, premium hospitality sales and execution and B2B2C commercial events.

Bradford Bulls RLFC – Marketing Manager

In preparation for and to help facilitate a return to Elite level Rugby League, the club is seeking to recruit an experienced full-time Marketing Manager with a proven track record of delivering success. Reporting directly to the CEO, the successful applicant will not only strategise the club’s marketing plan, they will also be expected to operationally deliver it.

England Golf – Head of Women’s Development

We are looking for a driven individual to join our development and membership team as a head of women’s development. You will be leading on the strategic direction of England Golf to raise the profile of women’s inclusion in golf and driving more participation and membership.

Liverpool Football Club – LFCW Commercial Growth & Development Manager

We have an exciting opportunity for an individual to join our Liverpool FC’s commercial team as Growth & Development Manager for Liverpool FC Women (LFCW). The role will be responsible for managing the delivery of an ambitious commercial growth strategy for LFCW, with a particular focus on matchday attendance and revenue. This role will work with stakeholders across the club, coordinating a collective effort to transform the LFCW commercial programme.

British Cycling – National Programme Manager

We are looking to recruit National Programme Manager. You’ll be a key part of an experienced and dynamic wider Participation and Partnerships team working together to deliver against key organisational priorities.

Under Armour – Key Account Executive

An exciting opportunity has been made available for proven Key Account Executive to join our growing Under Armour commercial sales team. This role is to work with our Global Strategic Account, The JD Group, specifically managing the EMEA JD Sports business and will be based in the UK.

Hytro – Pro Sport Sales Manager UK/IRE

Reporting into the Chief Commercial Officer, we are seeking a highly motivated Pro Sport Sales Manager to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will be instrumental in accelerating our Pro Sport revenue growth, and deepening our market penetration in the UK/IRE.

Gymshark – Social Media Manager to CEO & Founder

As Social Media Manager you’ll be in charge of our Founder & CEO’s social media accounts, responsible for growing his online presence. A varied and hands on role, you’ll be planning the strategy, creating and posting content, then analysing performance to better inform future direction. Bringing creativity and innovation to planned content ideas, you’ll also have the necessary technical skills to be able to react in the moment.

Electronic Arts (EA) – Media Content Manager

You will be part of the Content Adaptation and Localisation Team within the Global Production team at EA. Based in the UK, this is a diverse role reporting to the Senior Manager, Adaption & Localization (Video). It is a team that works daily with partners in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Madrid, Romania and Sweden so ‘one team’ vision is essential.

Sky Sports – Content Operations Coordinator

The Content Operations Coordinators play a key part in helping facilitate Sky Sports’ multiplatform content and streaming operations, spanning Digital, Social and traditional Broadcast as well as the exciting new Sky Sports+ service. Working across resource allocation, administration, setup and operation of production tools, support for Editorial Content teams and the operation of produced live streams across Sky Sports’ platforms. A multi-skilled and varied role, where you’ll learn technical, operational and editorial skills valuable to the industry.

Footballco – VP Marketing & Communications

The Head of Marketing & Communications will develop and execute strategic marketing and communication plans across both B2B and B2C channels to increase the visibility, credibility, engagement, and audience growth for Footballco’s portfolio of brands — primarily GOAL, Mundial, and Indivisa. This role will lead all marketing, performance marketing, public relations, and communications efforts, ensuring alignment with the company’s goals and objectives. The ideal candidate will have experience across both the technical and the creative side of marketing.

Whisper – Editor

We are looking for a creative Adobe Premiere Pro editor to join our UEFA team. The role will include working on features, openers and closers for productions like The UCL Show, The UEFA Europa Show and UEFA’s Digital platforms. The right candidate for this role should demonstrate a talent and passion for editing high-end content in a fast turnaround environment. They should be full of ideas, willing to engage in shaping the overall creative direction of the department and confident to bring new visual styles to the productions.

Football Beyond Borders – Senior Marketing and Communications Manager

Football Beyond Borders is seeking a passionate and innovative Senior Marketing and Communications Manager to spearhead our approach to school marketing and effectively communicate with all our key stakeholders. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in communicating our work via media channels, shaping our marketing strategy, and engaging with schools, policymakers, trusts & foundations, corporate partners, and high-net-worth individuals to drive awareness and support for our cause.


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