Sport Jobs Round-up: New Roles This Week

The Global Partner Activation Manager is part of AFC Bournemouth’s commercial team and provides crucial support managing and growing relationships with sponsors and partners. The Manager will support the Head of Global Partner Activation and the wider team to ensure contractual sponsorship elements are fulfilled and executed efficiently for a varied list of business partners.

The role holder will act as a senior point of contact within the team and help generate commercial revenue by assisting with contract renewal/refreshing, and opportunistically upselling to their assigned partners, identifying new business opportunities, improve profitability and deliver against KPI’s.

Lead the Player Health and Performance function for Manchester City Women in a permanent, full-time role based at the City Football Academy in Manchester. This is a high-impact leadership appointment for a practitioner who brings deep expertise and experience leading multidisciplinary teams in elite sport. You will enable practitioners to integrate health and performance practice, so they develop physically and psychologically robust players, maximise availability, and enable excellent on-pitch performance.

You will guide the delivery of player health and performance strategy across the women’s pathway, bringing calm and clear leadership to the multidisciplinary environment. Your focus will be on evolving their integrated approach developing physically and psychologically robust players, maximising availability, enabling excellent on-pitch performance, and returning injured players to sustained high performance.

You will also play a wider leadership role across the women’s game at Manchester City. The position requires someone who can work confidently within a matrix structure, partner effectively with coaching and performance colleagues, adapt their approach to different styles and philosophies, and help develop talent within the function so the team around you can grow and thrive.

They are looking for an experienced and forward-thinking Head of Football Intelligence to lead the club’s Football Intelligence provision across the First Team, Academy and Women’s programme.

Reporting into the football leadership team, the successful candidate will be responsible for the continuous development of the club’s data and insights strategy, ensuring these are integrated into decision-making processes. This role will combine a mix of strategic leadership and hands-on delivery, supporting performance analysis, recruitment, squad planning and other key football projects.

The role will involve working as an integral part of the Girls Academy, facilitating the delivery of the performance analysis programme predominantly for the women first team.

The role will require a hard-working individual, who is able to work with a high level of detail and accuracy, whilst being comfortable with operating in a fast-paced, modern environment.

The EURO 2028 Sponsorship PMO Manager is responsible for the planning, governance, coordination, and execution oversight of UEFA EURO 2028 tournament programme.

The role serves as the central integration point across Marketing, Commercial, Customer, Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, Bottling Partners, Creative Agencies, and stakeholders to ensure all sponsorship rights, activations, and commercial initiatives are delivered successfully and maximise business impact.

The PMO Manager will establish programme governance, manage risks and dependencies, monitor performance, and drive cross-functional alignment to ensure we deliver a world-class event across all UEFA EURO 2028 host markets.

They are seeking an enthusiastic and innovative Travel Planning Co-Ordinator to join their growing Matchday Operations team at Elland Road.

As the Club continues its exciting stadium redevelopment and expansion plans, this role will play a vital part in shaping the future travel experience for supporters, staff, visitors, and stakeholders. You will lead the implementation and ongoing delivery of the Club’s Travel Plan, helping drive sustainable transport initiatives and ensuring efficient travel operations across all stadium events.

Working closely with internal departments and external partners including Leeds City Council, West Yorkshire Combined Authority, transport operators, and local stakeholders, you will combine strategic planning, operational delivery, stakeholder engagement, and data analysis to help create a best-in-class visitor experience.

Formula 1 are seeking a Senior Strategy Manager within the Strategy & Transformation department helping define and deliver the long-term Corporate Strategy and vision for Formula 1. This will involve working closely with the Formula 1 Leadership team, Directors of its commercial and technical divisions, finance teams and other key support functions – with senior level exposure from day 1.

This is an exciting opportunity to work across the Premier League, EFL, and the Female Talent Pathway, including the Professional Game Academies (PGA) and Emerging Talent Centres (ETC).

The female talent pathway aims to support the development of more and better home-grown players through two key programmes: Emerging Talent Centres (ETCs) that focus on identifying a depth of diverse talent – through an accessible and inclusive player pathway and Professional Game Academies (PGAs) that focus on driving high-quality player development through increased performance demands for female players aged 14-20. The Women’s Professional game operates a two-tiered Academy system (Categories 1 and 2) within Barclays WSL and WSL2 clubs.

As part of the above, the successful candidate will be responsible for communicating and liaising with all key stakeholders in facilitating and supporting the delivery of an efficient and professional assessment process. This role provides an opportunity to make a difference across both the female talent and male development pathways.

The Performance Advisor plays an influential role in supporting the future of Olympic and Paralympic high-performance sport. Working with a portfolio of funded sports, the role helps increase their capability to win and win well by strengthening World Class Programmes and supporting the pursuit of athlete potential.

At the heart of the role is the ability to build trusted, effective relationships with sports and their senior performance leaders. Through partnership working, insight and constructive challenge, the Performance Advisor develops a strong understanding of each sport’s performance context, identifying the factors that contribute to progress, success and sustainable world-class delivery.

The role uses evidence, observation and professional judgement to evaluate performance, understand risks and opportunities, and help sports translate insight into practical action. This includes supporting performance planning, reviewing progress against objectives, aligning support from across UK Sport and external partners, and contributing expertise in areas such as performance leadership, athlete development, coaching, performance culture, talent and pathways, data and insight, science or medicine.

Performance Advisors work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams and the wider high-performance system, providing clear advice and support that enables joined-up decision making. The postholder will be expected to work with autonomy, take ownership of priorities, contribute positively to team objectives, and travel regularly across the UK and, where required, internationally.

They’re looking for someone who uses creativity, insight and storytelling to inspire action and shift perceptions to empower women and girls to believe they belong in football and wider society.

Your focus will be supporting their school’s portfolio, where you’ll deliver marketing across girls’ football programmes, SEND football, major tournament activations and always-on content that helps more girls discover the game from an early age. You’ll deliver campaigns, create resources and bring storytelling to life that equip teachers, inspire pupils and help build environments where every girl believes she belongs in football.

You’ll also support wider participation initiatives, including strengthening the journey from school into community football, and celebrating programmes such as Rising Leaders, helping empower young women from ethnically diverse backgrounds to become the next generation of leaders.

Coventry City FC is looking to recruit a Brand Activation Manager to join their growing Brand team.

This is an exciting opportunity to take a leading role in bringing Coventry City FC’s brand to life for supporters both in the UK and around the world.

The Role

Reporting to the Head of Brand, the Brand Activation Manager will lead the planning and delivery of all activations and events that support the growth of the brand both in Coventry and around the world.

Working closely with colleagues across Marketing, Content, Partnerships, Retail and Football Operations, the Brand Activation Manager will help deliver experiences that engage supporters and celebrate Coventry’s identity as an influential and aspirational Motor City.

From matchday experiences and retail launches to international fan events and creative installations, you’ll be responsible for ensuring every activation reflects and strengthens the Club’s exciting brand identity.

The successful candidate will be an experienced project manager with a passion for storytelling, strong creative instincts and the ability to deliver high-quality experiences in a fast-paced environment.

They’re looking for a Head of Communications to join them at Bristol City Women. This role is the Club’s senior external and internal communications and media relations lead. Reporting directly to the CEO, this role manages all press relations, shapes the external narrative, handles crisis communications, and coordinates matchday media operations.

This role works closely with Marketing and Commercial, ensuring a communications lens across the areas owned by Marketing; social media, content, and fan engagement. The Head of Communications focuses exclusively on external press, strategic communications, website, and the Club’s public-facing narrative – ensuring these receive dedicated focus and a direct senior voice.

They are looking for a Head of Women’s Football to play a key role in the strategic development and operational delivery of Southampton FC’s Women’s and Girls’ programme.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead on the continued growth of the programme, ensuring best-in-class provision across all areas, while maintaining full compliance with regulatory and licensing requirements. The successful candidate will oversee key operational responsibilities, including Women’s First Team logistics, programme budgets, staff recruitment, stakeholder relationships and strategic delivery across the Women’s and Girls’ pathway.

You will lead the Supporter Services and Fan Engagement department, made up of a dedicated full-time team of six, providing strategic and operational leadership across all areas of the team’s work.

You will oversee the Club’s supporter consultation model, lead key supporter engagement projects, build strong relationships with supporters and supporter groups, and ensure West Ham United continues to meet and exceed industry standards across football governance and fan engagement.

This is a varied leadership role requiring excellent communication, sound judgement, stakeholder management skills and a genuine passion for creating positive supporter experiences.

The Social Media Manager is responsible for helping to lead West Ham United’s social media presence across all platforms, driving growth, engagement and innovation that reflects the identity, values, and ambitions of the Club.

This role will be responsible for day-to-day content planning, publishing, and performance optimisation, while contributing to long-term digital strategy that strengthens fan connection locally and worldwide. The ideal candidate is a creative storyteller, a football enthusiast, and an organised leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment.

Support the implementation of the Academy Vision, Mission and Objectives through the delivery of analysis work with the Professional Development Phase. This role will provide analysis leadership within the Insights department as well as lead the analysis provision for the U18 age group. This role will support the overarching age group objectives and commitments to player development in collaboration with the wider multi-disciplinary team. Furthermore, the role will lead the creation of bespoke, streamlined data systems and effective workflows to ensure the delivery of the Insights department strategic objectives.

Due to an expansion of the team, They have an exciting opportunity for a Travel Coordinator to join their Marketing Team Travel Operations Team. This is a fast-paced and highly rewarding role at the heart of a world-class racing organisation, where you’ll play a vital part in keeping their teams moving across the globe.

Working closely with the Marketing Travel Office, you’ll manage international travel, accommodation, visas and passport administration for Marketing personnel within a 4-person team. Your attention to detail and organisational expertise will ensure seamless travel logistics, enabling our teams to focus on performance both on and off the track.

The Team Kit Manager is responsible for the end-to-end coordination, procurement, management, and distribution of all team kit; including race day apparel, travel wear, promotional garments, and event merchandise worn and used by the Williams Racing team. This role sits at the intersection of logistics, supplier management, and stakeholder coordination, requiring someone who is highly organised, operationally rigorous, and comfortable working in the fast-paced environment of a Formula 1 team.

Reporting into the Head of Merchandising, the Team Kit Manager will also line-manage the Team Kit Coordinators, providing day-to-day direction, task allocation, and development support to that individual. This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role that plays a vital part in ensuring the team always looks and performs at its best — whether at the factory, in the paddock, or in front of millions of global fans.

There is ad-hoc travel required for this role across race weekends, pre-season testing, supplier visits, and business events.

They are hiring a Community & Events Lead and your mission is simple: make sure MARCHON shows up in the moments that matter, creating partnerships, experiences and activations that make them one of the most talked-about brands in performance lifestyle.

This role is a hybrid position, where two days will be based in their office in Harpenden.

Key Responsibilities

Community & Partnerships

• Build and execute MARCHON’s community strategy across London and beyond.
• Identify, recruit and onboard our affiliates and athletes who authentically represent the MARCHON brand.
• Build strategic relationships with gyms, event organisers, brands and community leaders to grow awareness and strengthen MARCHON’s position within the performance lifestyle space.
• Continuously identify opportunities for MARCHON to become part of new conversations, communities and cultural moments.
• Represent MARCHON at events, partner activations and community experiences, acting as one of the public faces of the brand.

Brand Activations & Events

• Support the planning and delivery of MARCHON’s presence at major fitness events including HYROX, Turf Games, ATHX and partner activations.
• Develop and launch MARCHON-owned events that strengthen our community and create memorable brand experiences.
• Work closely with Operations to coordinate logistics, staffing, stock, equipment and event delivery.
• Support Marketing to create bold, disruptive and guerrilla-style activations that generate conversation both on the ground and online.
• Ensure every activation reflects the premium standards of the MARCHON brand.

They are looking for a commercially minded Sports & Culture Partnerships Executive to join their growing Global Partnerships & Business Development team.

This role will support the development, activation, and optimisation of high-impact partnerships across esports, sports, gaming, entertainment, and broader culture. The ideal candidate will have genuine, hands-on experience in esports and a strong understanding of how brands show up credibly within fan communities.

You will help manage the day-to-day execution of partnership campaigns, working across internal teams and external partners to deliver activations that drive measurable business impact. This includes fan engagement, content, CRM, performance media, influencer activity, live events, and partner reporting.

This is a role for someone equally comfortable speaking the language of esports communities, managing campaign workstreams, analysing performance data, and building trusted relationships with partners.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• As guardian of our brand tone of voice and written word, you’ll lead and own the development of their core communications
• Develop and write compelling content for the agency’s digital platforms, ensuring consistency that effectively communicates the services, values, and industry expertise
• Create persuasive and targeted B2B & B2C marketing content to nurture leads and build client relationships
• Lead their LinkedIn strategy, collaborate with executives to develop thought leadership content, including blog posts, opinion pieces, and interviews
• Work closely with the Corporate Communications Team to draft key messaging for public relations campaigns
• Research industry trends and insights to ensure content remains relevant, innovative, and impactful
• Edit and proofread Marketing & Sales materials like RFP responses, sales decks and content to maintain high-quality standards across all communication channels
• Develop industry event content and concept panel talk themes and content ideas
• Maintain a deep understanding of the sports marketing landscape to craft industry-specific narratives that enhance brand authority