Over the last few months, we’ve been rounding up the sport jobs we’ve seen and sharing across our socials.
It’s clear to see how much the Behind Sport community wants to see this type of content so we’re going drop a weekly Sport Jobs Round-up on here as well.
Organisation: England Rugby
Position: Strategy Manager
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: £50-55,000
The principle accountabilities of the role will be as follows:
- Provide a flexible strategic thinking and analysis role for the organisation to support the delivery of some of the organisations most challenging change initiatives
- This strategic thinking and analysis may take the form of;
- Developing and testing hypothesis to inform strategic direction
- Desk based research and analysis
- Data modelling and interpretation
- Consultation planning, delivery and interpretation
- Contributing to the planning of change initiatives in the organisation
- Providing a key link between the Strategy and Insights functions of the team
- Act as a strategic business partner, supporting and coaching colleagues with department led projects and strategic planning
- Support and up manage senior stakeholders in order to develop and deliver the remit of the role
- Communicate internally with key employees and members of the RFU’s leadership team
- Managing and analysing information, drawing conclusions and presenting it in an easily understood manner.
- Problem solving, evaluating and decision-making for ad-hoc project related tasks.
Apply here.
Organisation: Saucony
Position: Marketing Manager EMEA
Location: London, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: None listed
Reporting directly to the EMEA Marketing Director, the Marketing Manager will be responsible for developing and executing all marketing and communication strategies of the Saucony brand in the UK & Ireland. The Marketing Manager will create and execute a marketing plan that positions Saucony as the leader in the performance-running market within the region.
You will formulate how we deliver the key seasonal messages across retail, print, social media, events and digital platforms seamlessly. Within this ever-evolving area, you will be looking at adopting new and innovative ideas to support our EMEA strategies. Whilst being responsible for the UK & IR tech rep team, you will also work in tandem with your respective Country Manager and the EMEA marketing function within this pivotal and influential role.
As a progressive and creative content creator, you will support the EMEA team in planning and creating social media content for all owned European social media accounts.
Alongside the EMEA marketing function, this role will include working with sales, customer service and product teams to optimize the regional execution of our marketing strategies.
Apply here.
Organisation: LTA (Lawn Tennis Association)
Position: Digital Executive
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: Up to £37,000 per annum, dependent on experience
The Digital Executive will occupy an important and varied role, working within the Digital team. The role will provide day to day support for our website operations and will play an integral support role in the LTA’s digital transformation journey.
This role will be joining the Digital Team as we continuously improve our website to ensure it remains innovative and user focused. We need to ensure that our audience strategies are conveyed meaningfully across our public-facing platforms, taking a strategic approach to join- up customer journeys that provide the right experiences for audiences, and the right outcomes for the business. This role will help ensure that the LTA website is being visited by relevant audiences and they have a great experience using it.
Apply here.
Organisation: Football Fun Factory
Position: Content Creator
Location: Cambridge, GB (On-site)
Salary: £22,000 per annum
As a Content Creator, you will be responsible for creating engaging and informative media content to inspire, educate and entertain their audience of football parents and football coaches.
Your aim will be to accelerate the growth of the brand and help them reach new heights through high-performing content that drives brand awareness.
A big feature of the role will be to develop the personal brands of key staff members documenting the day-to-day running of the company and telling their unique story.
Apply here.
Organisation: England and Wales Cricket Board
Position: National Lead for Performance Analysis and Player Insight – England Women
Location: Loughborough, GB (On-site)
Salary: Up to £65,000
Working as part of the England Women’s Cricket Performance Leadership Team this role will play a vital role in ensuring Women’s Cricket in England & Wales is able to thrive through the use of world leading performance analysis processes and utilising key insights to drive player performance and development across the International and Domestic game.
Apply here.
Organisation: McLaren Racing
Position: Specialist, Electric Hospitality
Location: Woking, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
You’ll maximise the Brand Experience offering, drive advocacy and engagement with the team, partners, guests and the championship through delivering innovative hospitality experiences at Electric Races including Formula E and Extreme E.
In this role, you’ll create and develop interactive, persuasive, unique, exciting and personal Electric Racing Hospitality experiences to optimise the guest interaction with the brand, highlighting key messaging throughout and driving emotional engagement.
You’ll ensure all activations represent the McLaren brand and are positioned as world class to generate commercial opportunities for McLaren throughout all trackside experiences and touch points.
Apply here.
Organisation: Lancashire Cricket Club
Position: City Programme Executive
Location: Manchester, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
They are looking for a City Programme Executive to join the Lancashire Cricket Foundation at Emirates Old Trafford, home of Lancashire Cricket. You’ll be responsible for the delivery of the All Stars and Dynamos Cricket sessions across agreed parts of Greater Manchester, Lancashire, and surrounding areas. The programmes will primarily involve introducing women across the county into volunteering, and we are using the sport of cricket to make it happen.
Apply here.
Organisation: World Snooker Tour
Position: Commercial Sales Executive
Location: London, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: £27,000
Working within the Commercial function of WST, this new role will support the execution of the strategy outlined by the Chief Commercial Officer to achieve the following:
- Work across the full commercial portfolio to identify and execute revenue generating opportunities; predominantly through new Partnerships/Sponsorships.
- Identify and prospect new relationships. Execute the data-driven sales process including category assessment, proprietary lead development, pipeline management; all underpinned by a sophisticated sales CRM database and reporting system.
- Coordinate with internal teams to support and execute the end-to-end sales process, including initial market analysis, prospect approach, proposal creation, commercial negotiations and relationship management.
- Secure high value, multi-year global partnerships. Negotiate and close integrated brand partnerships combining IP association, co-marketing activations, branded content and media exposure.
Apply here.
Organisation: Curveball Digital
Position: New Business and Strategy Lead
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: £40-50,000
They have grown to their current level without much of a new business strategy, so they are looking for a talented and experienced Business Development Manager to lead them through their next phases of growth.
An ideal individual will have some of the skills listed below:
- A great contact list within sports media and an understanding of the industry in general. Ability to build on this contact list and maintain relationships between Curveball and key companies and individuals
- Understanding of the wants and needs of federations, teams, brands, sponsors and identifying openings or opportunities within the industry
- Strategy on how we should develop our offerings and what new departments we should build within Curveball as we expand
- Ability to identify and respond to relevant RFPs within the industry. Experience in pulling together proposals and how to structure pitches
- Great sales skills, ability to sell our various services to potential clients and to build the Curveball name within the industry
- Understanding of the agency landscape, what agencies should offer, how they grow and what they should charge for their services
Apply here.
Organisation: Manchester United
Position: EA to Football Leadership Team
Location: Manchester, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
To provide an executive assistant service ensuring first-class administrative standards, effective time management and a very high level of confidentiality. All duties must be performed to a first-class standard whilst ensuring decisions made in respect of constantly conflicting priorities are done using a high level of initiative and judgement.
Apply here.
Organisation: Arsenal FC
Position: Assistant Video Editor
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
As Assistant Video Editor you will be a key member of the video team, helping to deliver best-in-class content across all platforms, with a strong eye for detail and knowledge of technology and workflows.
- Working with the Production Manager and the wider team of editors to ensure that everything is prepared before the editors start work on a new project.
- Ingesting, managing, documenting, and transcribing media.
- Configuring video pieces for various platforms and ingesting.
- Sourcing library music and stock footage
- Responding to footage requests from across the club and from external media companies.
- In addition to supporting the editing unit, this role will support with editing short packages for broadcast.
Apply here.
Organisation: English Football League (EFL)
Position: Head of Youth Development
Location: Preston, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: None listed but DOE
The successful candidate is the strategic lead responsible for overseeing and enhancing the development of the next generation of home-grown players. The Head of Youth Development leads a team of regional managers to primarily support EFL Clubs and their Academies to enhance the level of practice within the Academy system. The post holder will work effectively in partnership with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders and have demonstrable commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
Apply here.
Organisation: Brentford FC
Position: Academy Director
Location: Brentford, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed but quoted as competitive
The Academy Director will be a world class talent developer, leading the next phase of development of the Brentford Academy from its current status of EPPP Category 4, towards eventual Category 1 status. Within that growth and development, the Academy Director’s main focus will be to ensure that all young people at the Academy receive the highest standards of care and support such that as and when they leave the Club they do so having grown and developed from a positive experience which helps to set them up for later life. As and when high potential players emerge within the Academy, the Academy Director will take overall responsibility for ensuring that they receive the highest standards of coaching and the development needed to create the Premier League players of the future.
Apply here.
Organisation: Ram Rugby & Ram Cricket
Position: Business Development Executive
Location: Send, GB (On-site)
Salary: £30,000 with generous commission scheme on top
RAM Rugby/Cricket are looking for an enthusiastic Sales Exec to join their existing sales team, based out of their head office in Send Surrey you will be responsible for developing and closing sales across their extensive database. Working in combination with inbound and self- generated sales leads, you will be responsible for updating their CRM system and identifying sales opportunities within in each account. Reporting directly to the Sales Director you will complement their existing account managers by directly targeting their unallocated accounts to develop and close all sales opportunities.
Apply here.
That’s it for our Sport Jobs Round-up this week, good luck to everyone applying.
If you work in the industry and have any vacancies you would like us to promote, get in touch.
