Recruitment Roundup: New Zealand Rugby, TNT Sports, Red Bull

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

Think Beyond – Senior Consultant, Sport Partnerships

Our work supporting brands to deliver ‘impact-driven’ partnerships is an area of growing focus for us. We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual to join the business and take the lead in managing an exciting client to deliver best-in-class activations across their portfolio of sports partners.

Sportradar – Director Global Sales, Media

Sportradar, a global leader in digital sports services, is seeking an experienced Global Sales Leader to drive the new business growth of our Global Media units. This role will report directly to the VP of Global Sales, SBK & Casino, and will lead a dedicated global team focused on media sales and OTT services. The position offers the opportunity to shape the future of our global media and OTT strategy while playing a key role in driving long-term business growth.

Wasserman – Account Director, Social

Wasserman London seeks an Account Director to join our Social & Influencer team. This role will support the Meta account and some exciting project-based clients at the agency. Your role on the Meta Global business will be to actively manage multiple accounts across the Meta portfolio, with heavy emphasis on listen & respond managed by multiple Social Media Managers. These accounts will be solely focused on social and influencer and work as part of the wider Wasserman team.

RIGHTSHOLDERS

Andretti Global – Content Producer

As the Content Producer, you will serve as a creative leader in charge of creating content (videography & photography) that helps showcase our team, drivers, and partners at track and all over the world. You’ll be creating, capturing, and editing a wide variety of short-form content and photography that will help share our story with the world.

Notts County Football Club – Events and Sales Manager

As the Events and Sales Manager you will be the first point of contact for clients relating to their non-matchday events. In addition to this, you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end operations by supporting on the day to ensure all events operate smoothly and efficiently, managing the operations, physical set up and all relevant paperwork, ensuring every customer leaves happy.

New Zealand Rugby – Head of Commercial Development

To grow and develop New Zealand Rugby Commercial’s (NZRC’s) commercial revenue by identifying new offshore and local commercial partnerships as well as developing new and innovative commercial inventory and wider IP-based revenue opportunities, to support wider revenue growth for both NZ Rugby and NZRC.

The Premier League – Marketing Manager

The Marketing Manager will be at the heart of the Premier League business, working with colleagues in all departments to ensure our brand identity is well executed wherever it appears, deliver impactful marketing activity for products and services including the ePremier League and Premier League Hall of Fame, and will therefore help to ensure that the Premier League continues to drive positive brand association and value for the competition and for shareholder clubs.

The Football Association – Partnerships Manager (WPLL)

To support us on this exciting next stage of transformational growth, we are searching for a Partnership Manager who will play a key role in account managing the WPLL’s growing roster of commercial partners.

Williams Racing – Senior Hospitality Executive

We are looking for a Senior Hospitality Executive to join our Experience Centre team to support the hospitality and delivery of all events delivered within the Williams Racing Experience Centre to best in class standards.

McLaren Racing – Senior Specialist, People Partner

As Senior Specialist, People Partner, you’ll join us to support the team on our high-performance journey, providing exceptional HR service across the F1 function of McLaren Racing Limited (‘MRL’): delivering a progressive people agenda, helping to support the delivery of long-term business planning, and developing – as well as providing – HR solutions to ensure a great employee experience. You will collaboratively craft the People Strategy with your senior leaders to help take our People Partnering to the next level.

EFL (English Football League) – People Operations Manager

As a People Operations Manager, you will be responsible for the development, implementation and management of the People Team’s systems, operations and processes. Reporting to the Director of People, you will play a key part in embedding robust processes and systems around governance, payroll, well-being, case management and onboarding/offboarding as well as other core HR areas

Southampton Football Club – Chief Digital Officer

We are looking for an experienced leader to drive our Digital strategy, through a marketing lens, to meet the Company objectives and support the Club to drive revenue growth.

Arsenal F.C – Internal Communications Manager

We are looking for an Internal Communications Manager to join our Communications team, playing a key role in connecting our people to our purpose and strategy and bringing our culture and values to life through impactful and innovative communications and activations.

Digital Designer – Liverpool Football Club

We’re looking to recruit an experienced Digital Designer to join an ambitious and talented creative team that wants to push its output to the next level. You’ll be helping to create fan-centric campaigns and media content capturing the imagination of LFC users and stakeholders around the world.

England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) – Head of Communications and Content Strategy

Working closely with the MD of Men’s and Women’s Cricket, and the Head of Disability Cricket, this role will take the strategic lead on all communications, content creation, and engagement for England’s international men’s, women’s, and disability teams.

Red Bull – Esports & Gaming Marketing Manager

The Esports & Gaming Marketing Manager will develop and support our esports and gaming marketing activities with the purpose of reaching 18-24-year-old consumers in the UK with the Red Bull brand and growing the consumption of Red Bull Energy Drink during moments when people need energy.

On – Global Social Media Senior Specialist, Running

We’re looking for an experienced social media manager to bring to life our Running category and athletes across TikTok, Instagram, Strava and YouTube. You’ll collaborate with global marketing, strategy, creative, digital and art direction teams to land our key campaigns with our running communities. Reporting to the Global Social Media Content Lead, you’ll be key to creating compelling stories on our social channels.

Garmin – Sales Manager, Sports Division

An exciting opening to join Garmin UK & Ireland, a passionate and development driven team, who are customer focused and motivated on delivering cross-functional excellence. The successful candidate will be managing a team, dealing with key clients, and creating/delivering a sustainable sales strategy within our Fitness & Outdoor markets, maximising sales potential with existing clients and prospecting new customers for growth.

MEDIA

Warner Bros. Discovery – TNT Sports Business, Propositions & Trading Manager

We are currently looking for a propositions manager to drive the performance of our existing propositions set and to create and deliver new propositions to drive acquisition for Commercial Sport. You will be responsible for exploring and implementing new platforms and technologies to add value to the Commercial Sport proposition and to drive distribution across existing and development sectors.

DAZN – Reward Manager

The Reward Manager at DAZN will play a critical role in managing and delivering the global reward strategy. This position will ensure competitive and aligned reward structures, supporting both the organisation’s business goals and employee satisfaction. This role focuses on administering and overseeing various compensation and benefits programs across multiple regions while supporting the SVP in strategic reward initiatives. The successful candidate will bring a balance of hands-on reward management and strategic thinking to ensure DAZN remains a competitive and desirable employer.

BBC – Unit Manager, BBC Sport

The Unit Manager role is critical to the future success of BBC Sport. You will be responsible for day-to-day oversight, co-ordination and long-term planning of the staffing & freelance requirements in Sport Productions. This will include forward planning of all recruitment activities, EFT control as well as line management of the Senior Resource Schedulers. You will drive great collaboration with the staff schedulers currently working across other areas of BBC Sport.

Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios – Sr Sports Product Mktg Manager

In this role as a Sr Sports Product Marketing Manager for Prime Video Channels, you will play a pivotal part in defining how we market our sports-focused content and channels to drive subscriber growth, engagement, and retention across the UK, France, Italy, Germany, and Spain, utilizing owned, paid, and earned marketing channels.

OTHER

Excel London – Digital Content Executive

Working within Excel London’s Marketing and Communications team and reporting to the PR & Communications Manager, you will play a crucial role in enhancing Excel’s reputation and global impact through content creation and overseeing its social media and digital channels. This will include helping to plan, shape and deliver its external and internal content strategy with the aim of driving brand awareness, audience engagement and supporting the overall requirements of the business.

Electronic Arts (EA) – Live Operations Producer, EA Sports

Working on our F1® franchise, our Live Operations Producer is important to bringing our post-launch game vision to life. Reporting to the Senior Producer, you will work with our cross-discipline group of developers to produce engaging content that our players will love. If you enjoy seeing your efforts having a positive effect on our players then this is the job for you!

Fanatics – Senior Marketing Manager

As Senior Marketing Manager, you will be at the forefront of our brand activation efforts, responsible for developing and executing initiatives that enhance our brand presence and drive consumer engagement. This role is instrumental in developing our brand presence in conjunction with customers and partners across the world of sports and retail. Working across our wholesale, DTC and In-Venue channels, this role will support the sell out of Fanatics product and be responsible for our energy marketing and artist collaboration projects. This is an exciting opportunity that exists to put Fanatics at the centre of fan-culture across major sports around the world.