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: Manchester United Football Club
Position: Director of Communications
Location: Manchester, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 20.6.25
The Director of Communications is responsible for leading Manchester United’s global communications strategy. This high-impact role ensures the club speaks with a unified, strategic voice across all platforms, audiences, and issues. The Director will oversee all aspects of external communications—including football communications, corporate affairs, executive communications, internal engagement, and crisis response—working in close partnership with football operations, commercial, finance, investor relations, legal, HR, and media teams. Reporting to the Chief Communications Officer, the Director will be a key figure in shaping and protecting the club’s reputation worldwide.
Apply here.
Organisation: Manchester United Football Club
Position: Media Director
Location: Manchester, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 17.6.25
The Media Director at Manchester United is a visionary and strategic leader responsible for driving the evolution of the club’s global content and media operations. This role shapes how Manchester United connects with its worldwide fanbase, accelerates commercial growth through content monetisation, and delivers emotionally resonant storytelling across all platforms.
Reporting to Chief Communications Officer, the Media Director oversees the entire media content ecosystem — including Social Media, Content Strategy & Programming, Video Production, and Originals & Studio. Leading a team of 35+ talented professionals, the Media Director crafts and executes an ambitious content strategy that positions Manchester United as a global frontrunner in digital media, fan engagement, and innovation.
Apply here.
Organisation: Arsenal Football Club
Position: Retail Marketing Manager
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 20.6.25
They are looking for a Retail Marketing Manager to play a crucial role in the delivery of their annual retail marketing plan to drive growth across ecommerce and stores. This is a fast-paced dynamic position responsible for launching multiple campaigns per season, alongside sustaining always-on activity across owned, paid and earned media to hit ambitious targets.
In this exciting role, you and your two direct reports will collaborate with their Senior Retail Marketing Manager and support the planning and execution of kit launches and additional high-profile product launches and you’ll be empowered to deliver meaningful moments that resonate with supporters and customers alike; offering a best-in-class experience both online and in store.
Apply here.
Organisation: Williams Racing
Position: Events Manager
Location: Grove, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
The Events Manager is responsible for leading the planning, execution, and enhancement of both commercial partner and public-facing events within their Experience Centre at Grove. With a strong focus on premium guest experiences, this role ensures all events deliver operational excellence, embody the company brand, and exceed expectations for clients, partners, and visitors alike. The Events Manager will manage the Events Coordinator, while working collaboratively across internal departments and external suppliers to create memorable, hospitality-driven experiences that align with their brand and company vision.
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Organisation: Stoke City Football Club
Position: Marketing Manager
Location: Stoke-On-Trent, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 18.6.25
As a Marketing Manager, you will execute innovative marketing campaigns and proactively promote the Club’s products, brands and services, generating leads and direct sales.
You will lead the creative process and be responsible for creative briefing, concept generation, tactical execution and evaluation for a range of key campaigns across the ticketing, retail and events arms of the business.
Being the organisational power user of the Kore marketing software and using your insight, experience and intuition to establish the most impactful forms of marketing for each campaign, you will focus on the robust flow of data between sales and marketing channels.
The position will include responsibility for the campaign calendar and accordant application of focus and resource, whilst managing a checklist of routes to market. You will make tactical decisions regarding when to deploy each activation and offer high quality tactical marketing support to all departments at the point of need, with a particular focus on ticketing, retail and events.
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Organisation: Manchester City Women’s Football Club
Position: Head of Operations & Player Support
Location: Manchester, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 16.6.25
The focus of this role is to set the standards for the delivery of all operational services to the 1st Team and Academy, creating a high-performance environment at the training ground, match venues, tours and tournaments which is underpinned by world-class, performance driven operational delivery. Whilst also building and overseeing the delivery of an outstanding age-appropriate performance lifestyle and player support programme for 1st Team and Academy players.
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Organisation: Formula 1
Position: F1 TV Manager, Commercial
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
They’re on the lookout for a F1 TV Manager, Commercial. As F1 TV manager, you will be playing a crucial role in the growth of F1’s streaming platform by optimizing and creating processes to coordinate the various internal teams involved in the execution of F1 TV’s long-term strategy. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including Product, Legal, Marketing, and Finance, to ensure all teams are aligned and working together to execute on F1 TV’s vision. The ideal candidate will be eager to take a leading role in the development of F1 owned and operated streaming platform.
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Organisation: Formula E
Position: Motorsport Communications Manager
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 10.6.25 (TOMORROW)
- Proactive Media Engagement: Drive strong and productive relationships with global motorsport media, proactively identifying opportunities to generate positive coverage and manage reputational issues effectively.
- Strategic Narrative Development: Lead the creation and execution of high-impact, journalist-quality written communications, including press releases, race programmes, media guides, Q&As, and internal content, that strategically position Formula E and its stakeholders.
- Executive Stakeholder Management: Cultivate and maintain exceptional professional relationships with key executive stakeholders across the Formula E ecosystem, with a particular emphasis on the FIA and Team Principals, ensuring alignment and collaborative communication strategies.
- Lead and Direct all Media Relations Activities: Serve as the primary interface with Team PRs and the FIA Formula E Media Delegate, providing guidance and ensuring cohesive and impactful communication strategies.
- Strategise and Oversee Driver Media Engagements: Define the overarching strategy for driver media activations, implement effectively to ensure efficient and high-impact execution.
- Direct At-Event Sporting Communications & PR Delivery: Take ultimate responsibility for the strategic planning and seamless execution of all sporting communications and PR activities during race weeks, ensuring a positive and professional media experience across all touch points.
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Organisation: Commonwealth Games England
Position: Sports Manager
Location: London, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: £40,000 – £45,000 per year
Closing date: 18.6.25 at 5pm
The Sport Manager will help them deliver an exceptional Team England experience at the 2026 Commonwealth Games. You’ll be the go-to contact for several sports, supporting preparation and delivery alongside our Head of Sport and wider Games Delivery team.
Your work will directly impact athlete wellbeing, team cohesion, and performance success.
Apply here.
Organisation: The R&A
Position: Content & Channels Executive
Location: St Andrews, Scotland (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 17.6.25 at 12pm
To deliver efficient support to the Content team, specifically relating to Web & App, along with supporting wider operational planning and ensuring seamless collaboration across departments. They will work to ensure processes and workflows run effectively and to time, within agreed parameters, to enable the smooth planning and delivery of The R&A’s global calendar of golf events, while executing the day-to-day upkeep of The R&A’s website, serving as the key contact for updates.
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Organisation: 50 Sport
Position: Head of Operations
Location: London, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: Currently reviewing applicants so be quick!
They are looking for a Head of Operations who will work closely with the Co-Founders and Senior Management Team to ensure smooth running of all central functions of the agency.
The Head of Operations will oversee Finance, HR, Resourcing, Facilities, IT and Office support. The responsibilities will include formulating business strategy that contributes to the agency growth, managing people and operations to optimise the employee experience and maximising efficiencies across everything they do in the business.
Following a new client introduction, the ideal candidate will have experience expanding internationally, recruiting talent across Europe. Experience and knowledge incorporating AI into agency operations also preferred.
They anticipate the role being hands on and reactive to change, the Head of Operations needs to be multifaceted in their skill set and approach. No problem is too big or too small.
Apply here.
Organisation: 50 Sport
Position: Research & Analytics Executive
Location: London, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: None listed
- You enjoy diving into data and turning numbers into stories that make a real impact
- You’re curious and detail-oriented
- You’re confident working with Microsoft service tools like Excel
- You can communicate clearly, whether it’s in a report, or a client meeting
- You are keen to learn and look for opportunities to innovate
- You have some level of experience in analytics/data visualisation
- You have a proactive, positive can-do approach to your work
- You have a degree or equivalent in marketing, social media or sports or other relevant fields
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Organisation: The Football Association
Position: Chief Digital Officer
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 20.6.25
The FA is seeking to appoint a Chief Digital Officer to drive the strategy and execution of their digital transformation, working in close partnership with the existing commercial, content, and technology teams.
The successful candidate will bring commercial acumen, product excellence, and delivery focus setting a long-term digital vision, while executing a one-to-two-year strategic roadmap that delivers tangible impact in the short term. This includes direct accountability for growing and owning new digital revenue streams whilst also leveraging expertise and experience to enable existing revenue streams to be optimised.
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Organisation: WTA (Women’s Tennis Association)
Position: Coordinator, Social Media
Location: United Kingdom (Remote)
Salary: None listed
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Organisation: AFC Bournemouth
Position: Marketing Executive
Location: Bournemouth, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 15.6.25
They’re looking for a passionate, proactive and creative individual to join their marketing team at AFC Bournemouth. You’ll support the Marketing Manager with a range of campaigns and activities across the club’s key areas including hospitality, ticketing, retail, memberships, commercial, and brand.
You’ll also play a key role in enhancing the fan experience at home matches, working with the entertainment team to deliver supporter engagement activities.
This is a great opportunity for someone looking to start or grow their career in sports marketing.
Apply here.
Organisation: MATTA
Position: Senior Brand Partnerships Manager – 3-6 month contract
Location: London, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: £50,000 to £60,000 per year
MATTA is looking for an experienced, impactful Brand Partnerships professional to work with them in winning new business, and in evolving their brand activation and partnership strategy, playing a key role in shaping how brands show up in sport – through unforgettable brand activations and game-changing campaigns.
Working as a trusted partner of some of the most exciting names in sports and lifestyle, you will collaborate closely with their creative, production and strategy teams in crafting work that has a genuine cultural impact.
As someone who is deeply familiar with the sports and cultural landscape, from global leagues to grassroots movements, you will spot opportunities for their clients to forge new partnerships, and you will represent the agency externally, in pitches, panels and networking, in order to raise their profile and to pursue new business opportunities.
To succeed in this role you need to have several years of experience in brand marketing, partnerships or activations within the sports, entertainment or lifestyle sectors. They are particularly interested in meeting professionals who have experience with women’s sport and with female-first brands.
This is a contract role of 3-6 months, with the possibility of permanency. You will need to spend around half of your time working from their office in London Bridge.
If you think that MATTA could be the place where you can grow professionally and produce your best work, then they really want to meet you. Please get in touch and they’ll come back to you as soon as possible.
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Organisation: The National League
Position: Chief Executive Officer
Location: Birmingham, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: £90,000 to £120,000 per year
Closing date: 16.6.25
The Chief Executive Officer of The National League will provide strategic leadership, drive commercial growth, and uphold the integrity, sustainability, and competitiveness of the League. This pivotal role involves managing relationships with clubs, the FA, Leagues, Government, broadcasters, sponsors, and other stakeholders while ensuring operational excellence across the League’s three divisions.
They are seeking a proven leader in sports, commercial or media industries with a strong understanding of the football ecosystem. Experience of working with boards and good governance experience ideal. Previous leadership within a sports governing board, league or club a desirable extra.
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Organisation: Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club
Position: Media and Marketing Manager- Women’s/Academy
Location: Wolverhampton, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 11.6.25
They’re searching for a talented and motivated individual to take up the position of Media and Marketing Manager working within their Women’s and Academy.
The successful candidate will focus on promoting and amplifying the activities, achievements, and values of the club’s progressive and successful Category One Academy, its associated teams, Wolves Women and its associated Academy.
The role combines exceptional storytelling and creative content production with strategic marketing, aiming to elevate the profiles of the Academy and Wolves Women locally, nationally and internationally.
Apply here.
Organisation: Burnley Football Club
Position: Social Media Manager
Location: Burnley, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
As the Social Media Manager, you will be expected to:
- Manage the day-to-day activity and priorities of the Social Media team, ensuring a consistently high level of execution that aligns with the Club’s objectives.
- Work with the Head of Marketing to develop creative campaigns that grow excitement for Burnley Football Club around the globe and contribute towards driving overall revenue goals.
- Expand the Club’s brand and message through our social channels, following a defined framework.
Apply here.
Organisation: England Rugby
Position: Marketing and Communications Manager – Champ Rugby
Location: Hybrid working, based at the employee’s home and Championship rugby clubs
Salary: £45,000 per year
Closing date: 15.6.25 at 9pm
This role is responsible for leading the marketing and communications strategy for Champ Rugby, the RFU’s reimagined second-tier league competition. As the strategic marketing and comms lead, this role is central to building league visibility, supporting club-level marketing activity, and delivering national-level campaigns to grow the league’s audience, enhance engagement, and drive commercial value.
The role works in a matrixed model with both the Champ Rugby central team and RFU Marketing and Communications leads. It supports the development of a unified league brand while providing hands-on guidance and resources to participating clubs.
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Organisation: Gemba
Position: Head of Sponsorship
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Gemba is looking for an experienced Head of Sponsorship to lead their Sponsorship division. Reporting to the MD EME, the role is pivotal in their growth journey, to scale their sponsorship offer globally.
Gemba’s Sponsorship division services both brands and rightsholders in Sport and Entertainment and our valuation product, Turnstile, is recognised as the market leader. Current clients include Decathlon, HSBC, Toyota, Manchester City, Arsenal, FIFA, Google and the International Cricket Council.
You will act as a trusted advisor to clients and have the experience and gravitas to lead complex negotiations at the most senior level. You will have a deep understanding of the global sponsorship market with a specific understanding of the commercial components of the industry.
You will have key direct reports, the Head of Data & Insights, Head of Sponsorship Strategy, Head of Valuation.
You will be directly responsible for a significant portion of the company’s revenue and will manage a team of 10+ people globally. You will be accountable for the sales pipeline, business development and the quality of project delivrery across Sponsorship Strategy and Valuation services.
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Organisation: UTMB Group
Position: UK Marketing & Communications Manager
Location: Manchester, GB (On-site)
Salary: £35,000 to £37,000 per year
Closing date: 1.7.25
This role is responsible for leading the marketing and communications strategy for Champ Rugby, the RFU’s reimagined second-tier league competition. As the strategic marketing and comms lead, this role is central to building league visibility, supporting club-level marketing activity, and delivering national-level campaigns to grow the league’s audience, enhance engagement, and drive commercial value.
The role works in a matrixed model with both the Champ Rugby central team and RFU Marketing and Communications leads. It supports the development of a unified league brand while providing hands-on guidance and resources to participating clubs.
Apply here.
Organisation: Birmingham City Football Club
Position: Partnerships Activations Manager
Location: Birmingham, GB (On-site)
Salary: £35,000 – £40,000 per year
Birmingham City Football Club are looking for a passionate and strategic Partnerships Activations Manager to help deliver outstanding value to their commercial partners and support the long-term growth of their partnerships division. The role will focus on driving their commercial success and deliver standout experiences for their partners.
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Organisation: Burnley Football Club
Position: Head of Communications
Location: Burnley, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
An exciting opportunity has become available for a Head of Communications to join Burnley Football Club.
As the Head of Communications, you will be expected to:
- Develop and implement Burnley FC’s communications strategy according to the Club’s goals and objectives, raising awareness and transforming the understanding of the Club in local, national, and international markets.
- Manage an ongoing communications calendar for player appearances and commercial obligations.
- Deliver a communications strategy that builds awareness and creates positive visibility for the Club.
Apply here.
Organisation: Burnley Football Club
Position: Head of Content
Location: Burnley, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
An exciting opportunity has become available for a Head of Content to join us at Burnley Football Club.
As the Head of Content, you will be expected to:
• Develop and implement a content strategy that supports and aligns with the Club’s overall commercial and marketing objectives.
• Oversee the development and management of the Club’s editorial calendar, ensuring timely and relevant content with a balanced approach.
• Improve existing content platforms to boost fan interaction and engagement.
Apply here.
That’s it for our Sport Jobs Round-up this week, good luck to everyone applying.
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