Welcome to the Sport Jobs Round-Up, your go-to source for the latest career opportunities in the world of sport, brought to you by Behind Sport.
Whether you’re an aspiring professional, a seasoned veteran looking for a change, or simply passionate about the industry, we’ve got you covered.
Organisation: EFL (English Football League)
Position: Communications Manager
Location: Preston, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: None listed
Reporting into the Head of Public Relations, the Communications Manager – Community will have a focus on Community PR and assist in the activation of the annual strategic PR plan for the EFL.
The Communications Manager will have responsibility to deliver against the overall Communications strategy and be responsible for all internal and external Community PR communications for the EFL.
Apply here.
Organisation: YMU
Position: Talent ID/Introducer – UK Football
Location: Worsley, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: Approx £35,000 per year dependent on experience
The Talent ID/Introducer role is to recruit new talent with the emphasis on junior clientele and to assist with all aspects of servicing the client roster.
Roles and Responsibilities
- To source and introduce predominantly elite junior players as well as senior players.
- To follow direction of the Head of the Northern Office and Head of Recruitment to liaise with said designated talent to co-ordinate introductory presentation meetings at any of the agency’s office locations.
- To be involved in the recruitment process to the point of signing representation terms with the agency.
- To assist in the servicing of all our young talent based in the Northwest, particularly servicing those players whom the role has had a direct influence in recruiting to the agency.
Apply here.
Organisation: The R&A
Position: Head of Content
Location: St Andrews, Scotland, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 18.10.2024 at 12pm
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Commercial department as Head of Content. The successful candidate will lead on the development, planning, delivery and evaluation of The R&As global digital audience engagement strategy, planning in the short, medium and long term. They will lead on the digital ecosystem, content and production strategy to ensure best in class audience engagement across owned and operated channels to drive growth in reach, engagement, revenue and reputation, in support of the organisation’s strategic objectives.
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Organisation: The R&A
Position: Broadcast Operations & Product Manager
Location: St Andrews, Scotland, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 18.10.2024 at 23:59
- To be responsible for the planning, activation and management of the short to medium term activities across the broadcast portfolio, which includes multiple annual live productions that drives organisational performance.
- Effectively partner with key internal departments on the delivery of productions whilst influencing external broadcast partners to ensure they meet their objectives, whilst effectively mitigating risk to reach revenue and reputation.
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Organisation: Everton Football Club
Position: Partnerships Account Executive
Location: Liverpool, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 10.10.2024
They have an exciting opportunity for a Partnerships Account Executive to join the Club’s Partnership Management Team.
In this exciting role you will support the delivery of exceptional service to existing and future club partners, ensuring all partners receive their full allocation of rights and additional added value.
You will build and nurture excellent relationships across your designated portfolio and develop key internal relationships to ensure Club partners have the toolkits they need to activate their partnerships to the fullest.
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Organisation: Liverpool Football Club
Position: Men’s First Team Communications Manager
Location: Liverpool, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
They’re looking for an individual a proven track record working within a sports communications role to join their Liverpool FC team as a Men’s First Team Communications Manager. In this role, you will develop content and direct creative execution to provide a consistent, targeted, and impactful message. You will build and maintain solid partnerships with assigned internal clients to better develop, coordinate, direct, and facilitate strategic communications designed to meet business goals.
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Organisation: New Balance
Position: Associate Marketing Manager, Football
Location: Warrington, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: None listed
They are looking for an enthusiastic, proactive, and highly collaborative individual to join their global brand marketing team at New Balance. They’re seeking an individual who excels at crafting compelling narratives and has a deep passion for sports culture. This person will aim to bring to life unique cultural stories around their football club partners, delving deeply into authentic and real stories and telling them in a uniquely New Balance way. This person should be experienced and skilled at managing relationships with a variety of partners and team members as well as being a strong critical thinker. They’re looking for someone with a strong sense of and interest in style and how to style product connected to stories in a way that represents their brand.
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Organisation: Birmingham City Football Club
Position: Head of Content and Production
Location: Birmingham, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
The Club is transitioning to operate as a media company, differentiating itself by building ‘fame’ through the content created across the organisation. This shift strengthens the Club’s reputation as a challenger brand on the rise, fuelling both fan base and commercial growth
To support this transition, the Club is investing in infrastructure (two new media pods/studios), AI tools to enhance matchday content (WSC & STATSPerform), and additional team members (three new videographers, a social content creator for the women’s team, and an in-house photographer). Relationships with local universities will also create a talent pool to work with the team
The new Head of Content and Production will unite the team and make a step change in the quality and quantity of output, particularly creating ‘reason to care’ content about players off the pitch
The role will also involve adding new content products for commercialisation, such as a podcast series and a WSC matchday product, improving and growing BluesTV, and ideating new products to expand audience reach. The role takes a whole-Club view, managing an editorial calendar loaded with ideas and activities that drive engagement and commercial value
This is a unique opportunity for a forward-thinking individual to create something new that others in sport and entertainment will want to emulate
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Organisation: Birmingham City Football Club
Position: Strategy & Innovation Manager
Location: Birmingham, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Birmingham City FC are looking for a passionate and knowledgeable Strategy & Innovation Manager.
Role Responsibilities:
- Strategic Programme Management: Lead and manage strategic projects across the club in partnership with key leaders, experts, and partners
- Collaboration and Communication: Create a unified approach to align business areas and projects across the club
- Innovation and Growth: Spearhead innovation initiatives by exploring new business models, products, and services to foster sustainable growth
- Process Optimisation: Evaluate and enhance existing processes to lower costs and improve efficiency
- Strategic Analysis: Conduct market research, competitor benchmarking, financial modelling, and data analysis to identify trends, mitigate risks, and uncover new business opportunities
- Reporting & Analysis: Develop and sustain a reporting framework for financial and non-financial metrics while collaborating with leaders across marketing, fan experience, finance, operations, and commercial departments
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Organisation: Castore
Position: Sports Partnerships Account Manager
Location: Manchester, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Supporting the overall relationship management of allocated assets, including driving the core critical path, ensuring contracted obligations are delivered on both Castore and Club/Federation side, GOK and Club delivery management, Retail (where applicable) assistance and rights management for Castore’s Sports Marketing assets across the Brand’s multi-sport portfolio.
Crucial to the role is fostering, developing and maintaining effective relationships with key stakeholders throughout allocated assets, including but not limited to day-to-day management of key asset stakeholders across Commercial, Marketing and the Professional & Playing teams.
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Organisation: Red Bull
Position: Athlete Marketing Manager
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
This role will help to drive and manage Red Bull’s Athlete Marketing program, demonstrating to the consumer that Red Bull is the only brand that Gives Wiiings to the world’s most exciting and talented athletes. Credibly and effectively communicating the functional benefits of Red Bull products to sports interested consumers via a world-class athlete team. The roster covers diverse sporting playgrounds and a good knowledge understanding of the broader sporting landscape is key. The role will be also be focussing on potential new sporting opportunities within areas and sports we are not currently exposed through. In this role the Athlete Marketing Manager must enable their athletes to progress in their sport and fulfil their dreams.
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Organisation: Manchester City Football Club
Position: Fan Journey Manager
Location: Manchester, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 9.10.24
The Fan Journey Manager is essential to the Integrated Fan Experience Team, focusing on elevating the end-to-end matchday experience at the Etihad Campus for both men’s and women’s games ensuring it is relevant, effortless and fun. This role involves utilising a deep understanding of customer journeys to design, lead, and continuously refine fan interactions, ensuring a world-class experience for all fans and visitors.
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Organisation: The LTA
Position: Content Producer
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: £34,000 per year
Closing date: 18.10.24
The Content Producer reports to the Content Manager. We are building a Marketing Team that will deliver work enviable of any sport governing body. As a creative thinker, the post holder will need to be confident in delivering engaging and compelling video content for a range of target audiences (D2C and B2B). This role will require experience in idea generation, multi-platform content production, and teamwork.
The Marketing and Customer Strategy team exists to broaden the relevance and increase the visibility of tennis & padel, all year round, in order to grow participation and fan engagement. It seeks to do this by:
• Developing and executing a new fit for purpose brand for tennis.
• Building content and communications that increase levels of fan engagement, drive new participation, and win back lapsed players.
• Delivering a brand partner strategy to develop and maximise our assets.
Apply here.
Organisation: MATTA
Position: Business Development Manager
Location: London, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: £35,000 – 45,000, plus commission
A great opportunity for a driven and dynamic sales professional to build fruitful relationships, and generate and convert viable new business leads with brands and other organisations within the sport and lifestyle industry.
Apply here.
Organisation: MATTA
Position: Senior Social Media Strategy Planner
Location: London, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: £50,000 – 55,000
A superb opportunity for a top-flight social media planner to create in-depth strategies for a range of sport clients within an independent, forward-thinking, digital-first creative agency in the sport and lifestyle space.
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Organisation: Ten Toes
Position: Social Media Manager
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
The holder of this role will provide executional support to Ten Toes’ team social media managers, reporting into our Senior Social Media Manager, to service one or more of Ten Toes’ clients, helping them build deeper relationships with their fans and stakeholders through the provision of three key services:
• Consultancy (strategy)
• Channel management
• Content creation
The role holder will support our wider internal team with planning, ideation, reporting and executing across our work with sports organisations, brands and talent.
Apply here.
That’s it for our Sport Jobs Round-up this week, good luck to everyone applying.
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