Recruitment Roundup: Crystal Palace, The Times, Authentic

MEMBERS AND PARTNERS

Client Executive – Marsh Sport

We have a fantastic opportunity to join our team within Marsh Sport as a Client Executive, this is the perfect role for an individual with ambitions to build a career in an exciting team. We are looking for an experienced Client Executive to join the team where you will deal with a wide range of Sports clients including but not limited to professional football clubs, associations and governing bodies as well as golf and cricket clubs.

Senior Designer – 50 Sport

We’re looking for a Senior Designer to become an energetic part of our design family. Helping us push the boundaries of creative excellence within sport. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with our creative and motion department to create world class design. Demonstrating high levels of design craft and a positive, proactive attitude.

RIGHTSHOLDERS

Venue Coordinator – World Rugby

We are looking for a Venue Coordinator to be responsible for ensuring that Match Venues are presented in accordance with the RWC 2025 requirements and will assist on the successful operational delivery of all match day and non-match day activities at the venue. The Venue Coordinator will be responsible for the event planning for match venues, preparation for operational readiness and the on-site implementation, in close cooperation with internal and external stakeholders.

Chief Marketing Officer – Crystal Palace Football Club

As the Chief Marketing Officer for Crystal Palace Football Club, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing the marketing strategy for the Club to enhance the brand image, positively drive fan engagement, and increase revenue streams for the Club. This position requires a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of the football industry and a proven track record in developing and implementing successful marketing campaigns.

Partnership Proposition and Performance Lead – Everton Football Club

We are extremely excited to be searching for a Partnership Proposition and Performance Lead who will join us in supporting our partnership proposition, sales support and intelligence based selling strategy, to help secure increased revenue through commercial partnerships as we embark on a significant chapter within the history of Everton Football Club.

Senior Insights Manager – England Rugby

We are recruiting for a Senior Insights Manager to help deliver our transformation projects and drive business performance. We are particularly interested in candidates with a background in data analysis, who would also be comfortable leading a team which included researchers as well.

NewCo Head of Communications – The Football Association

An exciting opportunity has come up to hire a Head of Communications for the Barclay’s Women’s Super League and Barclay’s Women’s Championship (BWSL/BWC); this is a newly created senior role, reporting into the Interim Senior Marketing Director.

Chairperson – England Netball

The successful candidate will succeed Bridget Blow, the current Chair, after a period of unprecedented success for the sport and in pursuit of delivering the ambitious Adventure Strategy. The new Chair will be committed and capable of bringing authentic, supportive leadership, enthusiasm and the necessary skills and connections to further the development of netball across England.

Product Development Manager – Arsenal F.C

We are looking for a Product Development Manager to lead the development and execution of product strategies that drive engagement and ensure they meet the needs of our supporters and drive our commercial revenue growth. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including business owners, designers, developers, and senior stakeholders, to ensure our digital products are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality.

BRANDS

Partner Brand Marketing Lead – JD Sports Fashion

We are looking for an exceptional, strategic & commercially minded brand marketer to own and lead one of our key strategic partners – brand group. You will be responsible for delivering how the brands are presented, working with our multichannel (Social, Paid, CRM, Digital, Trade), retail, buying teams and agencies to bring the brands and products to life.

Business Development Coordinator – Authentic Brands Group

As the Coordinator, Business Development – Entertainment you’ll be responsible for providing day-to-day administrative and operations support to our EMEA & India Business Development team. You’ll focus heavily on researching the market, prospective clients and contacts, and assisting the team to achieve the business development financial target for our portfolio of brands in the region. You appreciate the details, are supremely well organised, and are ready for a career in entertainment business development.

Inventory Planner – New Balance

Due to internal progression, the Inventory Planner plays a central and critical role in delivering EMEA business results through planning and executing the purchasing and reservation of Finished Goods inventory for all Product Lines. This team is responsible for the end-to-end flow of inventory in and out of the Region. Inventory Planning is responsible for the translation of forecast and demand requirements into purchase orders, resulting in optimized order book fulfillment to service all New Balance channels of business. In addition, you may be expected to travel to our Netherlands office to meet with the team a few times a year.

MEDIA

VOD Operations Sports Manager – Warner Bros. Discovery

Working within VOD Operations, the VOD Operations Sports Manager will manage a small team of people responsible for delivery of sports Catch Up content to 3rd party affiliate partners across EMEA, ensuring that required technical standards for 3rd party platforms are met and content is delivered on time, with all necessary metadata, images and languages. The sports manager will work closely with the VOD Ops Project Manager to validate intake of new requirements for the VOD technical team.

Deputy Head of Sport – The Telegraph

The Deputy Head of Sport is part of the senior UK editorial team, responsible for creating, planning and executing daily sports coverage for the Telegraph website and newspaper. In this role, you will help set the daily agenda alongside the Head of Sport and Sports Editor, leading a team of senior reporters and managing commissioners on the desk. This will occasionally require you to lead the commissioning for live events and news stories.

Audience Editor, Sport – The Times

The Times and The Sunday Times are looking for an audience editor to focus on growing and engaging our sports audiences. You will be responsible for running digital projects utilising various strands of the audience team and working with the Sport desk’s forward planner to identify areas of high digital opportunity.

Digital/Social Journalist – BBC Sport

You’ll have the opportunity to work on our digital coverage of Premier League, Champions League and WSL, the Six Nations Rugby tournaments, grand slam tennis and more. When it comes to making podcasts you’ll work on strategies to promote and share them. Always developing treatments of the highest quality to deliver creative and engaging content;

Associate Editor – ESPN

An opportunity has become available for a talented sports news editor to join ESPN! Can you bring in-depth knowledge of global football and proven sports journalism experience? This exciting opportunity will involve working on a fast-paced news desk; breaking stories, publishing quick and accurate copy, sourcing news and working with reporters to uphold the highest standards of journalism, as well as reporting at major events.

OTHER

News Intern – Stats Perform

In simple terms, our job is to provide productions with all the material they need to produce content for our clients in a process referred to as ‘Newsgathering.’ We gather content in many ways such as shooting footage ourselves in the field, hiring video journalists across the globe to cover events for us and using content sharing agreements where we take content directly from.