Sport Jobs Round-up: New Roles This Week

They are seeking an experienced and highly organised Director of Football Operations to join Everton Women’s Football Club on a fixed-term maternity cover basis.

This role is a unique opportunity to play a central role in the delivery of a high-performance environment within Women’s Football, at the highest level in the sport.  The postholder will be at the heart of the Club and able to make a major impact on both the off-the-pitch processes as well as supporting the on-the-pitch performance through driving standards, enabling performance, while ensuring staff and players are able to operate at their very best.

Playing a key role within the Women’s Leadership Team, the postholder will lead the delivery of the Club’s operational and regulatory commitments. The role spans a broad range of responsibilities, including supporting player trading processes, overseeing team operations, budget management and ensuring compliance with WSL and wider football regulatory requirements.

You will manage player registrations and provide comprehensive player support, alongside maintaining oversight of the PGA. Central to the role is creating a seamless and professional environment, with full ownership of Club Secretary duties, compliance, operations, and licensing processes, ensuring the Club consistently operates to the highest standards.

In addition, the role will contribute to wider Club Football-related initiatives, including projects linked to Goodison Park and Finch Farm.

SailGP is seeking a full-time Head of Marketing to join its team in London to lead the brand growth and awareness of SailGP in the EMEA region. The role will be responsible for developing the annual marketing strategy for Europe and the Middle East with oversight of key activations including event marketing, ticketing promotion, broadcast tune-in, social and digital media and partnership marketing. Working alongside the Head of Communications in the region, you will lead a high‑performing team and work closely with SailGP teams, host cities, commercial partners and key stakeholders to deliver premium, high‑impact events and marketing campaigns.

Manchester United Football Club aims to produce a Women’s First Team that succeeds, entertains, innovates and inspires. To achieve this they need to recruit, train and play to win.

The purpose of this role is to contribute to a winning women’s first team by ensuring the Academy players in the PGA phase (U16 and U21s) have high quality access to psychosocial support.

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is committed to building a world-class performance environment for our Men’s First Team. As part of this ambition, they are seeking an outstanding Performance Psychologist to join their Performance Team. This is a high-impact role embedded within the Men’s First Team environment at Hotspur Way.

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team you will lead the delivery of evidence-based psychological support to elite professional players. The role encompasses individual player support, systemic work across the coaching and performance staff, and the ongoing development of a psychologically informed performance culture throughout the team.

This role demands a practitioner who is credible, discreet, and highly effective in a Premier League environment, capable of building trust with players and coaches while operating with the professional rigour expected at the highest level of the game.

They’re currently recruiting an L&D Specialist within their L&D Team to help us take things to the next level. They are looking for a creative and organised individual who can help us to deliver tailored L&D interventions and solutions confidently to their Stadium staff. With event experience at your core, you will have a sound understanding of the needs of stadium staff as well as spectators. You will be keen to dive in and assess current standards and look at ways they can work smarter, not harder. Based at the Stadium Management Office (SMO) and Lilywhite House (LWH), you will report into the L&D Manager and work alongside the HRBP, Safeguarding Officer and Venue Experience Manager designated to these sites at the Club.

The EFL is looking for a Marketing Manager to manage and implement its brand and commercial marketing activity across the EFL and its competitions.

You will shape and deliver a consistent brand across all marketing channels and collateral, while supporting commercially focused campaigns that drive engagement, attendance, and partner value.

This is a role that combines ownership of the EFL’s brand with hands-on campaign delivery, giving you the opportunity to contribute to how one of football’s largest competitions grows its profile and commercial impact.

This role will play a pivotal role in shaping On’s strategy within the ultra and trail running spaces. As a Lead / Athlete Strategy Manager – Global Ultra & Trail, you oversee the whole sports of Trail & Ultra from the athlete’s perspective. You own their athlete trail strategy by identifying athletes, leading negotiations and the whole process of “winning” them for their brand and partnering with them during their tenure with On. You act as a middle point between the different x-functional teams on behalf of their athletes, i.e. product development (Footwear, Apparel, Accessories), Marketing (Storytelling, Social, Events), Product Verticals (Outdoor), PR and the regions. You secure 100% compliant servicing for our athletes. Your goal is to make their athletes more successful and continue to win in the field of Trail & Ultra for their brand – and create compelling stories on products + athletes together with the key departments internally and externally.

This role sits at the heart of our football strategy, where product, brand, and partnerships meet. You will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the UK club portfolio, drive outstanding execution across key moments in the season, and build the relationships that keep New Balance culturally connected and competitively positioned.

This role will define and lead how Chelsea Football Club presents itself to prospective sponsorship partners, owning the end-to-end experience of engaging with the Club during the sales process.

Sitting at the intersection of creative, strategy, and revenue, this individual will be responsible for developing distinctive, brand-led commercial ideas and experiences that set Chelsea FC apart in competitive pitch environments.

The role will focus on ideating and shaping innovative sponsorship concepts, sales narratives, and prospect experiences that go beyond standard industry assets, ensuring Chelsea FC consistently presents tailored, compelling and differentiated propositions that resonate with each individual brand.

All external-facing outputs for new business, from sales presentations and Heads of Terms documents through to prospect experiences, itineraries, and premium gifting, will sit within this role, ensuring every touchpoint is creatively considered, strategically aligned, and executed to the highest standard

To take responsibility for the day-to-day operational fulfilment of a range of Global Partners in the Chelsea Football Club portfolio, such that the contractual rights are fully leveraged and maximised, while the long-term individual and company relationships are created and maintained.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

Partnership Management

• Developing a deep understanding of partner’s business strategies, objectives, products/services, target growth markets, competitors and KPI’s / metrics that resonate when evaluating success
• Managing the end-to-end Partner relationship with the club, ensuring that the Partners short- and medium-term objectives are considered and delivered
• Working with each Partner to develop an annual 360 activation plan (strategy, activation, engagement and measurement) to ensure the partner has a clear framework for success
• Responsible along with the wider Marketing functions to bring to life and deliver Partner activation plans to ensure that the partner’s rights are maximised to achieve their objectives and KPIs
• Being pro-active with a commercial mindset to build out new initiatives and alternate opportunities that could strengthen the value of the partnership
• Setting the benchmark for best-in-class client servicing across campaign and project management, fiscal control and reporting
• Managing the throughput of partner account information and actively support the development of key executive relationships between CFC and the Partner
• Being a team player, supporting the wider department where needed
• Taking the lead for own designated accounts, in developing and maintaining relationships with the global stakeholders within the partner company

They are looking for a Football Administration and Registrations Executive to support the Club Secretary in ensuring full compliance with all relevant regulations, while providing administrative coordination across Academy and Men’s First Teams registration matters, alongside match-day support as and when required.

Your main responsibility will be to efficiently oversee the operation of player registrations across all age groups (U9 to First Team), in addition to overseeing general day-to-day football administration duties.

You will manage a portfolio of global partners, take ownership of key relationships, and lead the delivery of high-impact activations across the club’s commercial programme.

You will move beyond servicing. You will shape how partners activate, deliver value, and grow within the Brighton platform.

This is a hands-on, visible role. You will own partnership delivery end to end and work closely with brands to turn objectives into clear, measurable outcomes.

The EFL is looking for a Senior Business Development Manager to play a key role in driving commercial growth through the development and sale of high-value partnerships.

This is a senior commercial role with responsibility for identifying, developing and closing new business opportunities. You will lead the end-to-end sales process – from proposition development through to negotiation and deal completion – while working closely with internal teams to shape compelling partnership offerings.

The role will also take ownership of proactive prospecting and new business generation, building and converting a pipeline of target brands and commercial opportunities. You will operate at the forefront of the EFL’s commercial strategy, engaging with leading brands and agencies to build long-term partnerships that deliver mutual value.

This role will be responsible to lead and shape the strategic direction of team kit, and for overseeing the ordering, production and distribution of trackside and factory team clothing, as well as driver and team technical clothing. Management of the end-to-end team kit process covering clothing and elements of equipment throughout the race season. Manage operations of our external contractor as well as working alongside Internal Stakeholders to ensure the team’s kit is consistent with our brand guidelines and kept up to date. You will manage 1 to 2 direct reports within a team function.