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: Brentford Football Club
Position: Marketing Executive
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 07.9.2024
Reporting to the Head of Marketing, this role will support the delivery of personalised communications to the club’s fans, the growth of email revenues and the creation of a rewards program. The successful candidate will be forward thinking, commercially savvy and always innovating.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and optimise welcome journeys to engage new fans, deliver relevant content, and convert them into long-term supporters.
- Ensure segmented, personalised communications to existing fans, driving engagement and aligning messaging with business objectives.
- Build automations for campaigns (e.g., ‘every seat counts,’ surveys) to ensure efficient delivery.
- Lead on data capture, ensuring quality and completeness to meet business KPIs.
- Play a key role in procuring technology platforms to support the club’s strategic goals.
- Collaborate with digital marketing to extend personalisation across platforms, ensuring consistency with CRM communications.
- Leverage personalisation and loyalty to drive engagement and conversions by delivering relevant content tailored to audience segments.
- Contribute to the department’s input to an improved loyalty program. Use gamification and rewards to drive repeat purchases and fan happiness. Identify opportunities and use loyalty to drive desired behaviours.
- Work with ticketing to optimise communications, maximising ticket and membership sales.
- Help build engagement across diverse fan demographics, including increased representation of female and junior fans.
- Support marketing campaigns with a flexible, agile approach, ensuring adequate departmental and business-wide collaboration.
Apply here.
Organisation: Red Bull Racing
Position: Social Media Project Manager
Location: Milton Keynes, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 30.9.2024
In this role, you will take charge of our social media programming, overseeing the creation and optimisation of high-performing content across our social channels.
Main Responsibilities:
- Develop and oversee our social media programming strategy, ensuring that social content is effectively scheduled and optimised for performance across channels.
- Work with the Senior Social Manager and Content Team to ensure our output is maximising performance and distribution, delivering against our and our partners’ ambitious targets, KPIs and benchmarks – constantly looking for areas of improvement and optimisation.
- Line manage a team of Social Producers and Editors. Collaborating with them to deliver high-performing social media content from ideation through to execution.
- Work closely with our Partnership and Content teams to create best-in-class, social-first content. Ensuring that all partner content aligns with our channel best practices and meets the expectations of our partners while delivering impactful results.
- Monitor and analyse social media channel performance. Utilising data-driven insights to identify opportunities for growth, enhance channel performance, and drive traffic to our owned platforms. Implement strategies to achieve consistent growth and optimise content effectiveness.
Apply here.
Organisation: West Ham United Football Club
Position: Senior Business Development Sales Executive
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Main Responsibilities:
• Pro-actively contribute to the sell out of every match day, all seasonal and match by match stock.
• Using the CRM & Ticketmaster sales systems, to ensure all new bookings are uploaded correctly with full details to capture guest data.
• Generate personal target lists of appropriate businesses that may be interested in the club products.
• A minimum of 60 outbound sales calls per day.
• Conduct face to face meetings following cold calls to close the sales of larger value products.
• Contribute to the sale of the end of season dinner and ad hoc stadium events.
• Work closely with the Corporate Account Managers to ensure clients are satisfied with their experiences.
• Sell all corporate products to agreed target levels.
• Achieve all monthly and annual targets as assigned.
• Source, qualify and develop new leads.
• Maintain complete knowledge of membership products maximising sales.
• Record relevant information by updating system tools/databases and managing sales pipeline.
• Respond to and follow up all sales enquiries.
• Interact with customers at home games and special events to promote relationships and drive incremental business.
Apply here.
Organisation: Chelsea Football Club
Position: Partnership Marketing Executive
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
An integral part of the Marketing team, this role is responsible for managing the end-to-end process for delivering the club’s commercial partners’ (sponsors) marketing campaigns across Chelsea FC owned and operated channels.
The Marketing Executive will be responsible for the planning, delivery and evaluation of contractual marketing campaigns across digital, social, email, content and match day campaigns.
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Organisation: Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
Position: Supporter Experience Communications Executive
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
The Communications Executive will be able to take the lead and own the planning, creation, administration, and execution of all service-led communications across the Club and Stadium. They will work with all key business areas including fan engagement, ticketing, Supporter Clubs, Access, Premium Membership, Visitor Attractions, Partnerships, and external event owners to manage service campaigns for targeted audiences in a timely manner, whilst maintaining attention to detail.
They will develop communications within the business, plotting activities in a time-sensitive manner whilst working with a range of stakeholders. They will be responsible for the end-to-end communication strategy across all service-related activities.
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Organisation: Formula 1
Position: Producer
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 04.10.2024
Responsibilities:
- Support the Senior Producers, Senior Creative Producer and Executive Producer in the planning, creation and development of Formula 1’s digital video output, focusing on creative features.
- Carry out the entire production process on projects, from ideation and pitching to storyboarding, scheduling, planning, supervising the editing process, ensuring projects are completed to a high standard and to deadline.
- Manage collaborative workflows efficiently, including stakeholder engagement and approval where necessary.
- Supervise work being undertaken by freelance and staff editors and Junior Producers, providing guidance and creative vision, delegating tasks and monitoring performance.
- Keep fully aware of styles and developments in digital video production and steer the creation of F1’s content accordingly.
- Oversee final content delivery, ensuring that all the appropriate elements are technically sound, factually accurate and fully compliant with F1’s internal policies and procedures.
- Stay up to date on all developments in Formula 1 and use this knowledge to ensure that Formula 1’s content is contemporary and factual.
- Occasionally travel to events/shoots in the UK or abroad (if required), to organise and produce video content in the field.
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Organisation: Liverpool Football Club
Position: Assistant, Partnerships
Location: Liverpool, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
The Partnerships Insights & Performance Assistant plays a key part in helping to deliver LFC’s partnership measurement and prospecting strategy. They work with stakeholders across the club to ensure that we have access to the necessary data.In addition to being able to harness the ability to analyse it in creative ways to inform every aspect of the Partnerships business – specifically Partner’s ROI assessment.
The Partnerships Insights & Performance Assistant will support the analysis and performance monitoring of a selection of key Partners whilst also supporting the overall Partnership Sales effort. They are responsible for ensuring the maintenance of quality standards for the team’s regular output.
They are also expected support strategic and ad hoc projects, contributing their expertise and knowledge to areas where data is required to support strategic decision-making.
Apply here.
Organisation: EFL (English Football League)
Position: Content Officer
Location: Preston, GB (On-site)
Salary: £25,000 per year
Closing date: 30.9.2024
The Content Officer will be responsible for the production and publishing of content reflecting the community work of the EFL, its 72 Clubs and their Club Community Organisations (CCOs). The purpose of the role is to generate awareness of the impact the EFL network has on local communities, using innovative storytelling through regular drumbeat content and marquee campaign moments. The role will also support the Content Team with day-to-day EFL output.
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Organisation: Newcastle United Football Club
Position: Performance Analyst
Location: Newcastle, GB (On-site)
Salary: None lised
Closing date: 26.9.2024 at 15:30pm
They’re looking for a performance analyst who will work closely with the Foundation Development Phase and Youth Development Phase coaches, to deliver elite level video and data analysis for our U9 – U12 age groups. You will also work alongside their Head of Pre-Academy (under 7 and under 8 age groups) to support those players entering the academy through video analysis.
You will work collaboratively with their coaches to produce and deliver video and data analysis for player individual learning plans and ensure the work produced aligns with the key technical and tactical development targets set by the coaches for each age group.
Apply here.
Organisation: Aston Villa Football Club
Position: Digital Marketing Executive
Location: Birmingham, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 24.9.2024 at 12pm (CLOSING TOMORROW)
The marketing department At Aston Villa is looking for a passionate and skilled Digital Marketing Executive to help drive the club forward in this exciting time.You will be responsible for creating and executing digital marketing campaigns across all club channels to support commercial goals, as well as the development of the club’s CRM strategy and fan journeys to build towards a best-in-class digital fan experience. You will be hands-on with Aston Villa’s paid media channels, creating, deploying, and reporting on the success of campaigns.
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Organisation: Williams Racing
Position: Commercial & Marketing Graduate
Location: Oxfordshire, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
As a Commercial & Marketing Graduate, you will be at the heart of their Commercial & Marketing team, where you’ll play a crucial role in driving brand growth, fan engagement, and partnership development. You will contribute to key marketing initiatives, help build and maintain relationships with sponsors, and support the execution of campaigns that enhance the visibility and commercial success of Williams Racing. Your work will directly influence the team’s ability to secure resources and strengthen its competitive edge.
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Organisation: SailGP
Position: Media Asset Management Assistant
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
As Media Management Assistant you will work closely with the Media Manager to catalogue, manage and define workflows of video assets created across all departments and field requests for access to the SailGP Media Asset Management platform.
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Organisation: Forest Green Rovers Football Club
Position: Head of Academy Coaching
Location: Nailsworth, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Forest Green Rovers F.C are excited to be recruiting a Head of Academy Coaching. The successful candidate will contribute to the long-term development of coaches and players within Forest Green Rovers Academy. The responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
- Have responsibility for delivery of the Academy’s Coaching Curriculum, ensuring the curriculum is consistently delivered in line with the Playing Philosophy and Coaching Philosophy.
- Be responsible for designing the Club’s continued professional development programme, using internal and external professionals.
- Provide a clear up to date Training Needs Analysis (TNA) of every coaches current and required level of performance.
- In conjunction with each of the Club’s coaches, plan, deliver and monitor the delivery of individual development plans for each such coach.
- Observe coach performance during training and match days and provide feedback to aid development.
- Continue to develop the Coach Competency Framework for the Academy.
- Ensure all coaches are qualified as per Youth Development rules.
- In conjunction with the Designated Safeguarding Officer, ensure all policies, practices and procedures relating to safeguarding of young people are implemented.
- Ensure the oversight of Lead Phase Coaches to ensure the same messages are being disseminated throughout the coaching team, working together to write and deliver coaching programmes.
Apply here.
Organisation: Manchester United Football Club
Position: Academy Scouting Administrator
Location: Manchester, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 26.9.2024
To support our Academy Scouting Division at Carrington with any administrative requirements that the department may have from fixture requests to travel arrangements. To be integral in ensuring the smooth running of the scouts attending match days on a national and international basis.
Apply here.
Organisation: Sky Sport
Position: Digital Sports Journalist
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
The role of Digital Sports Journalist is to write and co-ordinate digital editorial content across the Sky Sports website and app.
Reporting to an Output Editor, this is a key role that will ensure Sky Sports remains the destination of choice for sports fans, creates revenue opportunities and continues to add value to the Sky Sports subscription.
Apply here.
Organisation: Commonwealth Games England
Position: Head of Events & Games Operations
Location: London, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 30.9.2024
The Head of Events and Games Operations will report to, and work closely with the Director of Sport and Performance, leading on Operations and Events projects for Commonwealth Games England and playing a critical part in the 2026 Games leadership team.
The role will lead the operational delivery plans to enable the participation and performance of Team England at the Commonwealth Games and facilitate a performance environment for the team to thrive.
This role will also play a key part in helping to deliver Commonwealth Games England’s broader strategy through the creation and delivery of a programme of events beyond the Games themselves.
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Organisation: LiveScore Group
Position: Commercial Audience Manager
Location: London, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: Competitive
They’re seeking a highly motivated individual to support the growth and development of their partner-focused insights and solutions via the curation of in-depth performance metrics, industry research, and user/community behavioural analysis. You will be responsible for proactively and reactively identifying key performance trends, behavioural insight, industry insight and building a library of relevant collateral for both our internal and external commercial projects.
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Organisation: LiveScore Group
Position: Client and Agency Partner
Location: London, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: Competitive
Reporting into their Head of Partnerships within a pivotal department for the business, this role is responsible for helping to set and implement the display and programmatic sales strategy from both agency and client direct perspective. The Client & Agency Partner for Display and Programmatic Sales is not only responsible for driving new revenue into the business but also for working with and directing teams that will help to meet this strategy.
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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.
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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.
Apply here.
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.
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Organisation: Fanatics
Position: VP Product Creation and Merchandising
Location: Manchester, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Fanatics International is seeking an experienced and dynamic Vice President (VP) to lead, innovate and expand our international (physical) product offering. This role requires a dynamic and creative individual who can lead cross-functional teams to develop and launch products that meet the highest standards of performance and aesthetics. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of materials science, design principles, material sourcing, and the sports industry, coupled with commercial acumen, strong leadership and project management skills. The VP of Product will be based in Manchester, England, and will report directly to the President – Fanatics Commerce International.
Apply here.
Organisation: AFC Fylde
Position: Fan Engagement Officer
Location: Kirkham, GB (On-site)
Salary: Up to £30,000 per year
As Fan Engagement Officer, you will be responsible for the entire matchday ticketing operation, from planning to execution.
You will play a key role in bringing income into the club through two key revenue streams; ticketing and retail.
Dealing with all elements of Ticketing and retail including, but not limited to, customer service, running the club shop, stock control, shop and ticket reconciliations and working closely with supporters to ensure their memberships remain current and relevant.
Apply here.
That’s it for our Sport Jobs Round-up this week, good luck to everyone applying.
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