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54 – Marketing Strategy Senior Account Director
The opportunity exists for an experienced, enthusiastic and creative Marketing Strategy, Senior Account Director – Events, to join the 54 team, playing a pivotal role in the delivery of the company’s global golf events portfolio. The ideal candidate will have highly relevant experience in directing the marketing function, adhering to best practice and utilising insights to deliver against event KPIs, particularly in driving event attendance and commercial returns.
RIGHTSHOLDERS
The Football Association – Head of Commercial Digital Strategy and Innovation
The FA is seeking a talented individual to own and define the customer value proposition and monetisation strategy across its traditional and emerging digital platforms.
Worcestershire Cricket Foundation – Executive Director
This critical senior position within our organisation is focused on managing, mentoring and leading an organisation of 15 full time staff (3 direct reports) to ensure the strategic objectives of the Foundation are delivered. This is a business leadership position with control over the P&L, marketing, HR, finance, fundraising and legal aspects of the business and will work closely with the Board of Trustees to ensure the Foundation continues to grow and increase its impact in the community.
LTA – Delivery Manager, North & Midlands West
We are seeking a dedicated, experienced, and highly credible Delivery Manager to facilitate the implementation of our tennis and padel participation strategy. As a Delivery Manager, you will play a pivotal role in leading the delivery of strategic plans and activities at a local level, working across all tennis delivery channels, ensuring a joined-up approach to maximise impact, with a focus on growing and diversifying the player base
Manchester City Football Club – Social Media Producer
As a Social Media Producer, you will be a key player in creating and inspiring compelling content across Man City Women’s social media channels, collaborating to achieve success within an inclusive and creative environment.
Marylebone Cricket Club – Content Manager
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Content Manager to ensure the continued development of MCC’s digital strategy. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in bringing campaigns to life digitally through innovative content, supporting the wider business with all promotional requests via digital content and acting as the link within the Marcomms team to ensure wider business objectives are being met through our owned channels.
Arsenal F.C – Shortform Producer/Editor
We are looking for a Shortform Producer / Editor to ensure that our club is the market leader for forward-thinking shortform and vertical video content and drive the production unit to deliver operations effectively, creatively and cooperatively.
Formula 1 – Commercial Activation Lead, F1 Academy
We are looking for a Commercial Activation Lead to join our growing F1 Academy team supporting the Head of Commercial, Formula 1 Academy, as well as serving as a key point of contact for internal stakeholder
WST – Partner Services Executive
This is a full-time hybrid role for a Partner Services Executive at WST in Greater London, with the flexibility for some remote work. The Partner Services Executive will be responsible for managing relationships with tour partners, coordinating promotional activities, and ensuring partner satisfaction. Daily tasks include facilitating communication, supporting partner needs, and implementing strategies to enhance partnerships.
England Athletics – EDI & Sustainability Manager
The Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Sustainability Manager will lead, and play an active role in, the creation, activation, and management of a range of insight-led projects, programmes and policies designed to help more people from underrepresented groups across England to enjoy the physical and mental benefits that regular participation in athletics and running brings as participants, performers, coaches, officials, and volunteers.
Snowsport England – Chief Executive Officer
The Chief Executive Officer will provide exceptional leadership and management to achieve the organisation’s purpose, vision and strategic priorities. They should have a keen eye for commercial opportunities and a passion for sport and people, leading by example and embodying our values, to ensure high levels of stakeholder engagement with members, affiliated organisations, and external partners.
McLaren Racing – Senior Executive, Partnerships
To support the day-to-day operational fulfilment of Commercial Partners in the McLaren Racing portfolio, whilst assisting the wider partner base where required, such that the contractual rights are fully leveraged and maximised, while the long-term individual and company relationships are created and maintained.
London Marathon Events – Procurement Officer
The Procurement Officer will report into the Head of Procurement and is responsible for managing the acquisition of goods and services essential for the successful execution of our event portfolio, as well as LMG’s daily operations. Based within our Finance Dept, this role will work closely with the finance team to understand budget requirements, monitor expenditures, and implement cost-savings.
BRANDS
Puresport – Social Media Executive
Join Puresport as a TikTok Social Media Executive, where you will spearhead our presence on one of the most dynamic social media platforms. This role is perfect for a creative, high-energy individual with a passion for crafting trend-setting content and a talent for capturing engaging interactions with our community. You will be responsible for developing and executing a TikTok content strategy that not only highlights our brand’s values but also sets the trends that others follow.
JD Sports Fashion – Head of Content & Copywriting
The Head of Content & Copywriting is responsible for the overall strategy of content that sits across our digital sites. They will manage all outputs across the channels for EMEA and be the owner of JD’s tone of voice in both content and copy across all touchpoints. Managing a fast paced team across multiple office locations – this role requires a strong motivated leader.
Garmin – PR Manager
With responsibility for driving Garmin brand awareness and consideration via earned media, you’ll play an active role in managing Garmin’s reputation in the UK and Ireland. You’ll do this by creating and delivering best-in-class PR strategies across print, digital and broadcast media.
Fanatics – Director Football League Partnerships
The Director, Football League Partnerships at Fanatics Collectibles is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the international football business, in partnership with the International Leadership Team. Specifically, this role will focus on managing Topps’ relationships with UEFA, Bundesliga and Premier League.
Foudys – Marketing Assistant
The Marketing Assistant will work alongside the current Marketing Executives, supporting them in their core objectives and building their own projects. The team is focused on a range of marketing activities across social media, content creation, email marketing, website optimisation and analysis. This role is essential in helping to build a strong online presence, engage with followers, and drive brand awareness. The ideal candidate is creative, detail-oriented, and passionate about marketing, social media trends and best practices.
Specialized Bicycle Components – Senior Global Internal Communications Manager
We are searching for a Senior Global Internal Communications Manager to develop communication strategies and deliverables that align with Specialized’s Vision, Mission and strategic priorities. Reporting to the Chief People Officer, this position will be responsible for creating, maintaining, and executing to an annual communication calendar as well as ad hoc messaging, executive communications and colleague engagement- ensuring that strategic initiatives across the organization are consistent, professional, clear, and understood, while also promoting our culture and teammate engagement.
MEDIA
Warner Bros. Discovery – WBD Sports: Procurement Associate
We are looking for a Procurement Associate who wants to develop their career within Procurement. Reporting to the Snr Procurement Director Sports, you will support category strategy development and associated initiatives for the company. You’ll use your experience and enthusiasm to proactively partner with stakeholders to negotiate with suppliers, support our clients and support sourcing opportunities. Our company’s Sports category is a growing area of the business, so this is an exciting time to join the team! This is a great opportunity for someone with more passion and enthusiasm than experience.
BBC – Senior Journalist, BBC Sport
We have an exciting opportunity for someone to help shape and implement our Digital Video Journalism, in an ever evolving technological environment. Our Digital sport journalists ensure we provide daily coverage of sport news stories, live fixtures and creative bespoke sport content. Our aim – to give our audiences a broad and balanced view of what’s going on in the world of Sport.
Sky – Producer, Sky Sports
This role is an exciting opportunity in Sky Sports Football, focussing on our new landmark EFL deal, but with the potential to work across our portfolio of rights including PL, WSL, SPFL and Soccer Saturday. As a Producer, you will be required to lead your team, providing clear direction and cultivating a culture of high performance, continuous improvement and innovation.
DAZN – Chief Editor
As Chief Editor across that Top of the Funnel proposition, you will work under the VP Content Proposition, publishing and merchandising the content, organising the app across multiple territories and ensuring the best experience of the DAZN app for all customers. You will require a strong knowledge of a variety of sports, from European Football to Combat to Motorsports and more. You will work alongside all our Global chief editors to co-ordinate the TOTF proposition to drive success.
Footballco – Content Lead, F1
We are looking for an experienced content lead to join its Strategy department, which has an exciting new opportunity to work across F1 for one of their leading clients. This role will range from social-first content ideation, working with talent in the community, proactively thinking of ways to activate exclusive access and on-the-ground content capture at shoots and races.
Sky – Head of Marketing, Sports
This role is responsible for developing customer and product marketing strategies to drive growth and maximise the value from our base. You will understand our customers, knowing how to motivate them to drive a response across all RTMs/ channels. You will partner with Commercial, Props and Product teams to meet key business KPIs throughout the fiscal calendar.
OTHER
F1® Arcade – Event Presenter
As an Event Presenter, you will play a crucial role in managing and organising Grand Prix Tournaments for bookings at our venues. This is a casual role, paid on an hourly basis. You will be responsible for ensuring our guests have an unforgettable experience during their visit.
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