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PARTNERS AND MEMBERS
MKTG – Manager, Dentsu Sports Analytics
As a Manager in Dentsu Sports Analytics (DSA) your role is to lead the understanding of sports audiences, from a wide range of data sources to deliver analysis and insights to clients. Working across the MKTG team you will take pride in developing better audience insight to support our ideas and help sell them into our clients.
Havas Media UK – Account Director, Partnerships
As Account Director you will work as a senior member of the Play delivery team – leading the responses across a variety of clients from Gaming and Entertainment brands, from the brief, to planning and having oversight of the execution. The role will require a great deal of collaboration with strategists, creatives and specialist disciplines as well as overseeing the delivery of multiple cross-function projects at one time.
RIGHTSHOLDERS
England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) – Senior Manager
As a Senior Manager you will lead a team responsible for creating and delivering a strategy that will play a key role in delivering our ambition to become the most inclusive team sport.
Content Producer – Scottish Rugby
Scottish Rugby has an exciting opportunity for the role of a Content Producer to produce video content for our various media and social channels. We are looking for a technical expert, with a creative and innovative mind who can work calmly and effectively under pressure.
Head of Operations – AFC Wimbledon
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Head of Operations to oversee and manage all aspects of stadium operations. Responsibilities will include overseeing cleaning, maintenance, security, IT, grounds maintenance, and health & safety. The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring the smooth functioning of the stadium, supporting sporting events, and other large-scale activities.
Head of Women’s Football – Charlton Athletic
The purpose of your role is to manage all aspects of the Club as directed by the Board of CAWFC. This includes managing the personnel, budgets, commercial development and professional day-to-day management. You will also manage relationships and services provided to CAWFC by key partners such as Charlton Athletic FC, Charlton Athletic Community Trust and sponsors.
World Rugby – Fan Experience Manager
We are looking to appoint a Fan Experience Manager who is creative and passionate about the opportunity to deliver a best-in-class fan experience that provides memorable experiences to engage fans and drive global visibility. The quality of experience for fans relies heavily on the support of our Official Hosts, venues, partners and a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
Northamptonshire Sport – Insight Officer
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as insight officer. Working across our team, you will lead our measurement, evaluation and learning work and support colleagues in effectively measuring, evaluating and showing the impact of our work
McLaren Racing – Specialist, Presentation Designer
At McLaren, we pride ourselves on being the best commercial partner in racing, and that starts with outstanding pitch work to communicate the potential of a partnership. The purpose of this role is to design those presentations, working as part of the Partnership Planning (Brand Strategy) team to help drive new business, renewals and commercial growth for our racing teams.
Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club – Marketing Executive
This role will work closely with our Retail and Commercial teams to support on the delivery of digital packages and ensure our fans receive the best online retail experience. You will also support our wider marketing team on events to deliver the premium experiences. You will get a chance to dive into data and report on analytical and statistical insights of retail campaigns and use paid social marketing, PPC and google platform to support all revenue streams and growth targets particularly in ecommerce.
Motorsport UK – Safeguarding Officer
The Safeguarding Officer is an integral part of the Motorsport UK safeguarding team. The purpose of the role is to work alongside the Motorsport UK community, supporting and enabling them to meet a high safeguarding standard. This is achieved through the offer of training and development opportunities, supportive resources and excellent customer service.
Arsenal F.C – Ticketing Operations Coordinator
We are looking for a Ticketing Operations Coordinator to provide vital support to the processing, fulfilment and dispatch of approximately 300,000 tickets per year for both our Women’s and Men’s first team matches. In this critical role within our club, you’ll take responsibility for a broad range of key duties including communicating with internal and external stakeholders and all of levels of memberships, while ensuring first class customer service is always provided.
Portsmouth Football Club – General Manager, Women’s Football
We are searching for a passionate and driven leader to join Portsmouth Football Club as the General Manager for the women’s team. This is an incredible opportunity to make a real impact on the growth and success at Portsmouth Women Football Club.
Chelsea Football Club – Brand Marketing Lead
Support the Head of Brand and Partnership Marketing to deliver the global brand strategy for the Club, with a focus on brand positioning and fame, whilst also driving key brand health metrics such as consideration and sentiment.
Wakefield Trinity – Corporate Sponsorship Manager
The ideal candidate for us at Wakefield Trinity will be highly efficient and competent corporate sponsorship manager, the aim is to grow sponsorship revenues which includes first team kit/advertising around the ground/matchdays and a new business app.
supertri – Communications Manager
supertri is looking for a Communications Manager to drive awareness of our brand within the media. You’ll work to support the Communications Director in a number of key areas which will include endemic and non-endemic media relationships, with a particular focus on our key markets, broadcaster and content distribution, and creating written content, as well as playing a key role in the wider marketing team and spreading our brand vision to ‘Inspire The Competitor In Everyone.’
EFL (English Football League) – Partnerships Manager
To lead and develop existing partner relationships for the EFL, including proactively driving partnership agreements through a strong understanding of individual partner markets and business objectives, maximising the value of association with the EFL and its member clubs.
BRANDS
AYBL – Athlete Executive
At AYBL, we’re not just an activewear brand; we’re a lifestyle. As we continue to redefine activewear, we’re on the lookout for a dynamic and driven Influencer Marketing Executive to join our team. If you’re passionate about fitness, social media, and building relationships with influencers, this is your chance to play a pivotal role in elevating the AYBL brand to new heights.
Authentic Brands Group – Senior Creative
We are looking for an experienced senior creative to support on the ideation, production, and delivery of creative assets for all activities, products, and partnerships associated with the David Beckham brand.
Fanatics – Vice President, Sales Europe
Fanatics Collectibles / Topps is seeking a dynamic and experienced Vice President of Sales to lead its Europe-based sales team and drive revenue growth across the region. Reporting directly to the Regional President EMEA & LatAm, the Vice President of Sales, Europe will be responsible for developing and executing strategic sales initiatives to expand Topps’ market presence, strengthen customer relationships, and maximize sales opportunities.
On – Head of Brand, Apparel
Heads of Brand at On define the long-range vision for marketing for a specific community or subject area. They do this in partnership with others in the org, including our product vertical leads. They then see through this vision to execution in partnership with our internal marketing team, seeking to raise the bar on how we drive credibility, connection, and action with our communities.
MEDIA
The Independent – Fitness Writer
The Independent is looking for a new fitness writer to join its eCommerce team on a six-month fixed term contract. The successful candidate will have previous experience in the fitness space and a genuine passion for all things sport and wellness. They must have a proven track record of writing engaging copy to tight deadlines and have a strong understanding of trends and key product categories. They must also work well within high-pressure environments and be excited about contributing to this growing vertical.
Metro.co.uk – Freelance Sports Reporter
Metro.co.uk Sport is looking for talented freelance journalists to join its digital Sports team. Suitable candidates will be experienced online reporters with an impressive track record of finding and breaking stories of national and global interest.
Breaking Media Limited – Football Writer
Breaking Media are recruiting passionate and knowledgeable full-time football writers to cover our Tottenham, Leeds United, Rangers, West Ham United, Everton, Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion club sites. We have plans to start three more sites this year.
OTHER
Securtix – Senior Ticketing Analyst
We are looking for a qualified professional to join our team, whose mission is to deploy and configure our Ticketing Platform, to deliver ticketing operations for high-visibility world-class events, and to foster the adoption of our solution.
Bath Spa University – Lecturer in Sports Management
We are looking to appoint a talented Sports Management lecturer to join our collegial team. The successful applicant will lead on sports management modules as well as contributing to other business and management modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Living With The Lions Sports Travel – Sales Manager
LWTL has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and driven Sales Manager to join our Supporters department to lead the team for our supporters sports tours in Rugby, Cricket and more. This hands-on role will work to identify new opportunities, drive sales and deliver measurable impact.
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