Sport Jobs Round-up: New Roles This Week

They are inviting applications for the role of Football Communications Manager, at SAFC a key position in shaping their club’s narrative and engaging their passionate supporters. In this dynamic role, you will oversee media access and ensure smooth communication across all major competitions, building strong relationships with regional and national media outlets to showcase their players and achievements. You’ll craft compelling press releases, support media briefings, and work hand-in-hand with their digital team to produce engaging content that brings their club’s story to life. Managing the press calendar and handling media inquiries, you’ll be at the heart of their efforts to promote, inform, and inspire. If you’re passionate about football and skilled in strategic communication, this is your chance to make a real impact in a vibrant, fast-paced environment.

The Head of Women’s Football will provide leadership, vision, and strategic direction across all aspects of the Club’s women’s football operations. This is a pivotal senior leadership role responsible for defining and delivering a high-performance football strategy aligned with the Club’s long-term ambitions, values, and identity.

The successful candidate will establish and implement a clear football philosophy across the women’s pathway, foster an environment of excellence and development, and ensure sustained competitiveness at all levels of the women’s game.

Leyton Orient is looking for a Head of Marketing to lead and develop its marketing function, aligning with commercial, ticketing, retail, fan engagement, and brand objectives.

This is a role with real scope. You will own the marketing strategy, work closely with senior leadership, and have the opportunity to influence how the club grows its fanbase and drives revenue.

From campaign planning through to performance analysis, you will see the direct impact of your work across every touchpoint.

The Competitions Team leads the development and delivery of tennis and padel competition across Britain, working with internal teams and external partners to grow competition opportunities at every level of the game, and across all age groups. This includes staging international and national level tournaments, delivering team events for venues, schools and County & Island Associations, to supporting and sanctioning local competitions across Britian, as well as engaging and deploying the competition workforce (officials and organisers) and administering the systems and structures that underpin competition delivery.

This role will lead delivery of the LTA’s competition strategy, embedding a culture of competition across tennis and padel and driving growth, quality and consistency in competition activity, particularly at the recreational level. You will be a professional leader with experience managing a large team with individual key priorities. This role will provide leadership to the Competitions Team, it has five direct reports with an overall department of 15 colleagues.

This role will be central to delivering the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team brand identity. Working with the Marketing Department and wider business to deliver and develop their brand identity and ensuring consistency across all touch points.

The successful candidate will be passionate about sports marketing and branding, a cool pair of hands that can strike the right balance between delivering to brand guidelines while also bending to the speed and development of a world-leading sports team.

You will work closely with our partner ecosystem and stakeholders to ensure alignment and positive engagement with their team identity, while owning the end-to-end delivery of brand assets across suppliers, production timelines and internal approvals.

The Athletic is looking for a creative, platform-native Social Producer to own and expand the digital footprint of Talk of the Devils, their flagship, chart-topping Manchester United video podcast. You aren’t just scheduling posts; you are a social-first visual storyteller, video editor, and community strategist who knows how to capture the attention of millions of United fans worldwide .

Reporting to the Executive Producer and embedded directly with the show’s talent and production crew in Manchester, you will turn every recording session into a 24-hour multi-platform content engine. You are equally comfortable filming high-energy vertical video bits in the studio, cutting thumb-stopping match-reaction clips under breaking news pressure, or driving the live conversation and moderating the chat during their streams. If you live on social media, have sharp video editing instincts, and breathe Manchester United culture, this is your dream job.

They’re on the hunt for a Media Partnerships Manager to join their dynamic Sports & Entertainment Team at WPP Media. This exciting role involves managing and overseeing the production and execution of content partnership (AV, AFP, Publisher, Audio, Social & Digital) campaigns across the group, working with a diverse portfolio of high-profile clients and media partners.

You’ll enjoy;

• Diverse Projects: Work across a variety of exciting WPP Media clients and media partners, building strong relationships with key stakeholders and internal teams.
• Dynamic Team: Support and collaborate with a talented team in a fast-paced, creative environment.
• Cutting-Edge Work: Be at the forefront of delivering innovative media partnership and content solutions for an impressive client roster.

• Lead and support office and operational teams, fostering a positive and inclusive culture.
• Provide reports to the SLT on key governance and quality assurance activities, emerging risks and recommend suggested operational improvements.
• Manage recruitment, workforce development and performance procedures, working closely with the Football Club’s People Team.
• Oversee budgets, service level agreements and resource allocations.
• Lead on and ensure compliance with health and safety, safeguarding and data protection policies and procedures.
• Implement effective processes and arrangements for managing and mitigating risk, including oversight of risk management systems.
• Lead on the Premier League Charitable Fund/English Football League in the Communities Capability Code of Practice process ensuring full operational compliance.
• To manage and lead on the Charity’s policies, reviewing and writing amendments to policies in line with review dates and/or any regulatory/compliance requirements.
• Act as the Charity’s Designated Safeguarding Officer, building a strong safeguarding culture within the organisation.
• Support the programme delivery departments by providing an efficient and effective operational infrastructure, including: IT, Health & Safety, Vehicles, Facilities Management.
• Work closely with colleagues to drive excellent standards and to improve efficiency, processes, and procedures to optimise capacity and productivity.
• Lead on the development and implementation of the charity’s quality assurance procedures.
• Lead on the development and implementation of sustainability initiatives.

West Bromwich Albion is looking for a Head of Partnerships to lead and develop the club’s partnership sales and activation functions.

This is a senior commercial leadership role with responsibility for driving new business, growing existing partnerships, and helping drive forward the clubs commercial operation. You will lead the development of a modern partnerships function, working closely with senior leadership to identify new opportunities, strengthen the club’s commercial proposition, and support long-term revenue growth.

You will have the opportunity to influence how the club evolves its partnership offering across local, national and international markets, while leading a team and ensuring partners receive exceptional value and service. Balancing strategic direction with hands-on delivery, you will play a key role in both winning and retaining partnerships that support the club’s ambitions.

The NPA Player Development Manager will play a pivotal role in building strong relationships with players across 3 NSL/ NXT Gen clubs, Birmingham Panthers, Lexis Nexis Dragons and Team Bath, delivering engaging development programme workshops, and supporting player care and welfare initiatives.

To undertake the role in the hours available the role holder will need to be based with easy access to the clubs in Cardiff, Birmingham and Bath.

This role combines direct player engagement, workshop facilitation and delivery, and a strong understanding of player welfare and support systems.

Located at their UK office in Warrington you’ll contribute to their mission by leading the local marketing strategy and execution for the UK & Ireland across Running, Sportstyle, and CPS categories. You’ll drive brand presence, consumer engagement, and commercial impact in one of ASICS’ most strategically important European territories, whilst managing integrated marketing functions and building strong partnerships with retail accounts and internal stakeholders.

Your role will be instrumental in weaving the fabric of their movement, bringing unique perspectives and driving innovation with every step.

Key Responsibilities

• Adapt and execute local marketing strategies for UKI across Running, Sportstyle, and CPS categories in alignment with EMEA direction.
• Plan and deliver integrated brand campaigns, activations, PR initiatives, and events to drive consumer engagement and brand visibility.
• Lead the Trade Marketing strategy for key UKI and Pan-European retail accounts, with primary focus on JD partnership.
• Manage the local marketing planning process, including budget allocation, financial forecasting, and ROI optimisation.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with internal stakeholders across Commercial, Merchandising, HR, and EMEA Marketing teams.
• Lead and develop a high-performing cross-functional marketing team of 12 FTEs across Activation, Trade Marketing, and Brand Training.
• Oversee agency partnerships and external vendor relationships to ensure effective campaign delivery and brand representation.