Recruitment Roundup: The Jockey Club, Saucony, DAZN

JOB OF THE WEEK

Bright Partnerships – Rights Management: Business Development Manager

We are seeking a tenacious, ambitious and organised Business Development Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to become a key member of the Rights Management Team, driving the growth of the department and the wider agency via New Business efforts.

As a member of our Rights Management team, you will be working with all parts of the agency, particularly your immediate team taking ownership of our prospecting function to deliver on financial and marketing objectives.

The ideal candidate will be energetic, reliable, and methodical whilst demonstrating versatility and determination in applying new acquisition methodologies. Our goal is to put the agency in the best possible position to acquire new clients and grow the business.

PARTNERS AND MEMBERS

Wasserman – Senior Manager

The role of a Senior Manager is to provide comprehensive client management, support and direction to both existing and new clients within our Client Services team. This specific role is responsible for the management and coordination of all operational activity, event delivery and client relationship management across one of our biggest sporting clients and their European event calendar. You will also be providing experienced consultancy and support for any additional events worldwide, to facilitate consistency of service levels across this key account. This specific role sits within our Basingstoke Team.

RIGHTSHOLDERS

Chelsea Football Club – Creative Producer, Partnerships

We are looking for a digital first producer to create content that raises the profile of the club, entertains fans of both the men’s and women’s team, and crucially supports the marketing team in delivering value for the club’s partners. All videos produced need to be in keeping with Chelsea’s brand, be of a high standard and be highly engaging for our fans across the world.

Formula 1 – Commercial Operations Manager

As a Commercial Operations Manager at Formula 1, you will play a pivotal role in driving revenue growth and maximising commercial opportunities. You will be responsible for developing, implementing, and optimising growth initiatives that align with Formula 1’s commercial objectives. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to create compelling propositions for commercial partners, enhancing fan engagement and expanding Formula 1’s global footprint. This role will work closely with Commercial Partnerships, Licensing, Hospitality, Marketing, as well as collaborate with Legal and Finance – to ensure both partners’ and Formula 1’s commercial objectives are met. Responsibilities include:

DP World Tour – Partnership Management Executive

Join our team as a Partnership Management Executive, where you’ll play a crucial role in supporting the management and delivery of the commercial relationships for the DP World Tour and Ryder Cup. You’ll work across various partner and tournament commercial programs, providing essential administrative support to partner accounts to ensure the delivery of contractual rights and activation of partnerships in line with brand objectives.

Williams Racing – Reward Analyst

We are looking for a Reward Analyst to join the team to support with the development and delivery of the reward strategy across Williams. Reporting to our Head of Reward, you will support with the delivery of cyclical reward activities, as well as key projects to deliver on aspects of the reward strategy. The Reward Analyst will focus on building strong, effective relationships with managers across Williams to communicate key reward messages, being an influential advocate of Williams’ culture, as well as work closely with external providers on various aspects of the total reward offering.

Southampton Football Club – CRM Executive

As a CRM Executive, you will collaborate closely with the marketing team to plan, create and execute targeted email and wider direct marketing communications for fans, leveraging our CRM capabilities. Your role will focus on implementing a variety of strategic direct marketing campaigns aimed at boosting supporter engagement and driving revenue across key commercial areas within Southampton Football Club.

Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team – Partner Coordinator

A vacancy has arisen for a Partner Coordinator within the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team. Working within the Partner Services team the successful candidate will operate cross functionally within the Marketing Operations Department, with Partner stakeholders and their agencies, to understand the Partners business, their sponsorship objectives and assist the team in the daily activation of their Partnership.

Newcastle United Football Club – Digital Product Lead

We’re looking for a Digital Product Lead (Web & App) to join our newly formed digital team. You will be responsible for the strategic development, execution and continuous improvement of our club web and mobile app products. To meet business goals, you will drive the vision for creating user centric digital experiences and oversee the entire product lifecycle, from ideation to launch.

Liverpool Football Club – Senior Executive, Partnership Operations

We have an exciting opportunity for an individual to join our Liverpool FC team as a Partnership Operations, Senior Executive

Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club – Venues Digital Coordinator

This new position has been created to focus specifically on our matchday and non-matchday content operations. The successful candidate will manage content across 500 screens in 10 different areas simultaneously, utilizing our CMS systems and production tools. You will have a balanced understanding of both content and technical aspects, along with demonstrable experience in professional content distribution and a strong familiarity with CMS platforms, including Green Hippo. Additionally, you will have a proven track record in managing complex productions that are broadcast live to our fans, visitors, and global audiences in real-time.

West Ham United FC – Senior Business Development Sales Executive

A new exciting opportunity as a Senior Business Development Sales Executive has become available at our in-house hospitality department- Club London. The Club’s values are at the core of its staff behaviour, therefore we are looking for someone who is honest, inclusive, kind, hardworking, and loyal.

Southampton FC – Communications Executive

As our Communications Executive, you will be responsible for executing impactful, consistent and engaging communication activities across all functions of the Communications & PR team. Your primary focus will be supporting player media engagements, coordinating with international, national and local media partners throughout the week and on matchdays to deliver seamless and high-quality media coverage.

The Jockey Club – General Manager

We have a fantastic opportunity for a General Manager to lead our Haydock Park Racecourse team providing strong commercial management, leadership and direction developing and delivering strategies and innovation to strengthen Haydock Park’s position as a destination of choice for all customers, including racing and non-racing events.

Scottish Rugby Union – Ticket Operations Manager

We are seeking two dynamic and detail-oriented Ticket Operations Managers to join our team. The successful candidate will support the Ticketing department in delivering a first-class ticketing operation for Scotland’s Professional Teams, ancillary events, and the National Team. Reporting directly to the Lead Ticket Operations Manager, you will be instrumental in ensuring smooth and efficient ticketing processes for all our events.

Nottingham Forest – Editorial Executive

As Editorial Executive you will be responsible for the creation and delivery of highly engaging, on-trend content across Nottingham Forest’s website, app and other publications with a primary focus on driving growth and exemplary coverage of Nottingham Forest’s first team, academy and women’s sides.

Ascot Racecourse – Marketing Campaigns Manager

As the Marketing Campaigns Manager, you will be responsible for planning and delivering a variety of marketing campaigns to support the business. From driving ticket and experience sales for world class racing events including the renowned Royal Ascot meeting, to driving venue hire for private events – this role has a bit of everything. You will be analytical and creative in equal measure and will have experience of media planning, creative development, digital platform management, insights and analytics. Ideally you will have a consumer marketing background, even better if that’s from selling events and experiences – but most important is a passion for creating engaging and effective consumer communications.

Harlequins – Marketing Assistant

To work with the Marketing and wider MarComms teams to grow the reach and impact of the Harlequins brand, growing our fan base through the development and delivery of engaging supporter-facing projects across the Harlequins product suite as well as provide vital team support.

BRANDS

Pentland Brands – Sports Marketing Manager

The sports Marketing Manager will be responsible for recruiting, managing, and activating a global roster of athletes across gravel. Mountain biking (all disciplines), and BMX. This role requires a blend of strategic vision, relationship management, and hands-on execution to ensure athletes embody the brand’s values and authentically connect with audiences. The manager will also strategically plan and execute high-impact 3rd party supported events and brand led activations that bring the brand to life, creating memorable experiences that resonate with audiences and elevate brand presence.

Frasers Group – Editor, Sport

Working in partnership with the Creative Team and wider Marketing Team, the editor will ideate, develop and deliver copy across the Sports Direct ecosystem. Guided by the Sports Direct brand strategy and tone of voice, they’ll be responsible for copy and content curation across sports and lifestyle, including football, running, training, outdoor and USC.

New Era Cap – Product Manager

The role of the Product Manager (Collaborations, Energy) is to be the main point of contact (internally and externally) as it relates to all day-to-day facets associated with the management of Collaborative and Energy projects at New Era. This role will be key in identifying and maintaining new/ existing partnerships aligned with New Era’s deep roots in Music, Streetwear, Culture, and Community.

Saucony – Retail Director

As the Retail Director, your responsibility is to develop and direct Saucony EMEA retail operations to build and strengthen our retail footprint, brand awareness and consumer love. The role has full responsibility for creating an EMEA retail strategy (Full Price, Outlet, SIS and Event Retail) while overseeing and ensuring store operations, merchandising and planning, and retail strategies and coaching, development and engagement of the Retail Team to optimize sales growth and profit goals.

Science in Sport Group – National Account Manager, UK

The National Account Manager will be responsible for developing and executing sales strategies to drive revenue growth for specific accounts within the Grocery sector in our UK Retail channel. This role requires a strategic thinker with a strong understanding of major UK grocery players, ability to build and maintain relationships with stakeholders, strong negotiation skills.

MEDIA

DAZN – CRM Manager, Fight Sports

Reporting into the Senior CRM Manager of fight sports, this role focuses on fight sports (mainly boxing and MMA) across the UK, US and ROW growth markets. You will be experienced in end-to-end CRM campaign delivery, segmentation, confident in personalisation, copy writing and briefing assets for maximum user engagement. Familiar with building lifecycle automations, the role will be required to coordinate assets, manage multiple key events in the schedule and lead on test and learn.

MailOnline – Sports Reporter

Mail Sport is looking for a talented freelance journalist 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. The role involves writing and building news stories, features and minute-by-minute live blogs for MailOnline. The vast majority of these shifts are on weekends and evenings to cope with the demands of live sport.

LADbible Group – Effectiveness Lead

We are looking for a Lead for our Effectiveness offering to supercharge our processes and story when it comes to the impact our content has for our clients; to overall increase the importance of effectiveness and to increase the effectiveness of our work. This role sits within the Insight and Effectiveness unit at LADbible Group, reporting into the Head of Department.

RETAIL

JD Sports Fashion – Digital Product Manager

We are seeking a skilled and innovative Product Manager to lead the development of software solutions that support the management and automation of our instore digital screens. This role focuses on creating and optimizing a CMS (Content Management System) and developing automation tools based on data collected from our devices. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with the Product Manager for Digital Screen Implementation and provide technical advice to ensure seamless integration and functionality of the instore digital solutions.

Footasylum – Senior Influencer & Partnerships Executive

As our Senior Influencer & Partnerships Executive, you will join our ever-growing marketing department and be the point of contact for all talent-related bookings/enquiries for the rest of the team. Being our Senior Influencer & Partnerships Executive, has a range of differing responsibilities including managing the influencer booking process from enquiring about availability to being their point of contact on set during shoot/event days. You will also be responsible for sourcing new/upcoming talent for the Footasylum channels and managing the relationships between our existing retainer talent and their management team. Relationship management will play a key part in your role as it is essential to the success of our talent performance.

OTHER

Levy logo – Head of Operations, Live Entertainment

Lead and inspire a team of Operational Managers to deliver exceptional service within SEC Food’s Live retail and restaurant sector. Manage client relationships commercially, ensuring compliance with policies. Oversee service standards, staff development, and food and beverage operations, exceeding customer expectations. Review business performance, meet financial targets, and demonstrate commercial value to direct reports, leadership, and line managers, aligning with the One Compass vision and strategy.