Sport Jobs Round-up: New Roles This Week

The Partnerships Manager is responsible for the contractual delivery, management & renewal of Nottingham Forest’s commercial partners – alongside delivering any Premier League, FA, EFL activation. This includes the management, planning, reporting, activation and day-to-day relationships with the club’s Official Partners and league contractual obligations and across NFFC.

They are looking for an experienced and creative social media professional to join the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team and help shape how millions of fans engage with one of the world’s most recognised sporting brands.

As Senior Social Media Content Producer, you will play a leading role in the planning, creation and delivery of content across our global social media channels. Combining strong editorial judgement, platform expertise and a passion for storytelling, you will help raise the quality and impact of their day-to-day social output while exploring new formats, technologies and audience opportunities.

Working closely with colleagues across Communications, Digital, Creative, Partnerships and external agencies, you will help bring the team’s stories to life through engaging, innovative and platform-first content. You’ll have the opportunity to influence how they connect with fans around the world whilst helping shape the future of sports storytelling in Formula One and beyond.

They’re looking for a Marketing Executive – Ticketing Campaigns to join their Marketing Planning & Campaigns team and play a key role in helping fill St Andrew’s @ Knighthead Park for every fixture.

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious marketer with experience in campaign planning, media strategy or channel planning who understands football supporters and enjoys working in a fast-paced environment.

You will be responsible for planning, delivering and optimising ticketing campaigns across Birmingham City Men’s and Women’s fixtures, creating compelling supporter journeys that drive ticket sales and maximise attendance.

Working closely with Ticketing, CRM, Digital, Brand & Creative, Content and Performance Marketing teams, you will build integrated campaigns that convert supporter interest into matchday attendance while continuously improving campaign performance through insight and data.

They are seeking a Business Development Executive to take responsibility for driving the commercial success of LEVEL1 by creating and delivering innovative sales packages and revenue streams.

This role will focus on attracting new business across corporate, leisure, and education markets, while also developing strong partnerships with local and regional organisations. By securing exclusive hires, building bespoke corporate offers, and promoting LEVEL1 as a destination for schools, travel groups, and private events, the Business Development Exec will play a key role in positioning LEVEL1 as the premier entertainment and events hub in Southampton.

In this role, you will be responsible for managing and executing high impact partnerships with such partners, designed to drive consideration for Google Pixel in the UK. You will work closely with the partner as well as partnership, media and creative agencies to build marketing campaigns and activations to amplify the partnership in the UK. Your strong collaboration will be required across local, regional and global marketing teams to scale this work globally, as well as cross-functional partners including Product and Retail Marketing, PR, Media Lab. You should be a master of execution, project management, operational accuracy, and will be working in a fast moving, ever-changing environment where you will be expected to be nimble, resilient, creative and agile.

The Head of Marketing & Communications will lead the marketing, brand, communications and content strategy for Worcestershire County Cricket Club, with responsibility for growing audiences, strengthening the Worcestershire and Worcestershire Rapids brands and delivering measurable commercial results.

Reporting to the Chief Revenue Officer and working across the Club, the role will lead the Marketing & Communications team and take ownership of how they attract, engage, convert and retain supporters, members, customers and audiences.

This is both a strategic and hands-on leadership role. The successful candidate will combine creative thinking with strong commercial judgement and data-led decision making, ensuring our marketing activity directly contributes to ticket sales, membership, hospitality, retail, venue enquiries, partner value and long-term audience growth.

The role will also oversee the Club’s communications, digital channels, content strategy and brand, ensuring Worcestershire CCC continues to build its profile locally, nationally and internationally.

The Partnerships Innovation Lead will work closely alongside the partnership team managing Manchester United’s United’s largest and most complex partnerships. The role will combine insight, creativity and media strategy to develop distinctive campaign ideas, activation concepts and measurable programmes that deliver against partners objectives.

The Partnerships Innovation Lead will be expected to gain category expertise within each partner industries, to create innovative campaigns that deliver against partner objectives, these are built utilising audience insight, content strategy, media planning and measurement frameworks. Creating campaigns that deliver measurable impact. The role should challenge established approaches where there is a clear opportunity to deliver stronger outcomes for partners, fans and the Club.

The Brand Activation Manager will lead the development and delivery of high-quality activation across a portfolio of Chelsea FC’s commercial partnerships, with particular ownership of highest-level partnerships. The role will be responsible for translating partner and Club objectives into impactful campaigns that strengthen relationships, grow audiences and maximise value.

Working closely with the Brand Activation Lead and wider marketing teams, the Manager will take ownership of partner strategy, activation delivery as well as additional marketing projects outside of partnerships.

The role will also play an important leadership role within the Brand Activation team, supporting and developing Executives, driving consistent ways of working and contributing to the continued evolution of the function.

The PR Manager will play a pivotal role in protecting and promoting the Club’s reputation by developing and delivering integrated communications campaigns that support strategic priorities, commercial ambitions and long-term growth.

Working within the corporate communications function and collaborating closely with colleagues across marketing, content, community and corporate affairs, the role will help increase the Club’s visibility and influence across sport, lifestyle, entertainment and business audiences, while helping to strengthen engagement with supporters, the local community, and other key stakeholders.

As a senior PR specialist, the role will lead high-impact communications activity. This includes securing positive media coverage, promoting key club narratives, supporting domestic and international communications initiatives, promoting the work of the Club and its Community Sports Trust, and contributing to wider corporate communications priorities.

At an exciting time of commercial growth at Brentford Football Club, they are looking for a Senior Commercial Planning Manager to help deliver and shape the commercial strategy across partnerships. This includes delivering the agreed work streams that contribute to enhancing the Club’s commercial reputation, maximising commercial value, and helping support the increase in commercial income across partnership sales and servicing.

They’re looking for a commercially minded, highly organised and strategically focused Marketing Planning Lead to drive the planning, prioritisation and operational delivery of marketing activity across the Club.

This individual will play a critical role in ensuring marketing efforts are aligned to our marketing objectives, balancing long-term strategic priorities with daily operational demands. They will act as the chief of marketing staff across marketing functions and key business stakeholders, driving clarity, accountability and execution excellence.

Working across multiple teams, the Marketing Planning Lead will be responsible for developing planning frameworks, managing marketing roadmaps, optimising resource allocation and ensuring that marketing deliver,

This role will suit an individual who thrives in fast paced environments, enjoys solving complex organisational challenges and can seamlessly switch between strategic thinking and hands-on operational delivery.

The Editorial Manager is the most senior member of their editorial team, responsible for managing – and contributing to – all written output on cpfc.co.uk, the Official Crystal Palace App and editorial publications (including marketing collateral, and supporting on Men’s and Women’s matchday programmes), as well as App push notifications.

With a communications-first mindset, the successful candidate will be expected to produce a broad range of written content, leading on the Men’s team but supporting on Women’s and Academy sides – and digital initiatives and marketing campaigns – when required.

They are seeking someone to deliver best-in-class storytelling which inspires, informs and connects with their supporters around the world, building off the platform of back-to-back trophy-winning campaigns, whilst also effectively managing their newly redeveloped digital estate on a daily basis.

They are looking for a Partnership Executive to join the team at Liverpool FC.

You will be apart of the Partnerships Delivery Team and you will support the Managers and Senior Partnerships Managers to contribute to the day-to-day management of Club Partners in achieving their marketing and partnership objectives. In addition, you will build relationships with internal departments to ensure the effective delivery of the partner campaigns with the involvement of the appropriate internal and external stakeholders.

In this role, you will assess players identified through the club’s internal scouting and recruitment systems and provide clear recommendations to support the continued strengthening of Swansea City’s First Team squad.

The role will primarily involve video-based scouting, supplemented by live assessments where required. The successful candidate should therefore be confident and proficient in the use of technology and digital scouting platforms, while also being willing and available to travel occasionally to undertake live scouting assignments.

British Cycling is looking for an experienced Marketing Manager to work full-time across a wide range of high-impact campaigns that inspire participation, grow audiences, strengthen their brand, and deliver commercial results.

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious marketer who thrives on creating standout campaigns, using data to drive performance, and delivering activity that achieves results.

No two days are the same at British Cycling. You’ll have the freedom to bring fresh ideas, test new approaches, and create campaigns that genuinely make an impact.

Birmingham City Football Club is entering an exciting period of growth and transformation, both on and off the pitch. As the Club continues to evolve commercially and strategically, they are seeking a driven and relationship-focused Partnerships Activations Manager to play a key role in delivering and developing their partnership portfolio.

Reporting to the Senior Partnerships Manager – Activations, this role will support the delivery of a best-in-class partnership division, ensuring their commercial partners receive outstanding service, creative activation and measurable value.

This is an opportunity to join a progressive Commercial team and contribute to the Club’s long-term ambition, including its transition to a new stadium and continued growth at the highest level of English football.

Sheffield United is seeking a senior marketing leader to build the club’s marketing strategy, sharpen its brand and turn supporter insight into measurable commercial growth.

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and sitting on the Senior Leadership Team, you will lead an established function across customer relationship management, design, content, social media, video and campaign delivery. You will set the strategy, define priorities and make marketing a stronger commercial partner to the wider club.

The ambition is a sustained return to the Premier League. In the club’s first season without parachute payments, you will help fill Bramall Lane, grow membership and support hospitality and partnership revenue.

What you will lead:

• A clear multi-year marketing and brand strategy, supported by an annual plan and practical performance measures.
• A data-led supporter approach covering segmentation, personalisation, acquisition, conversion and retention.
• Integrated campaigns which support ticketing, membership, hospitality, partnerships and a consistent club story.
• A multidisciplinary team, with clear priorities, strong development and accountability for commercial outcomes.
• Constructive relationships across senior leadership, especially commercial, media, ticketing, data, information technology and operations.

To lead on all commercial aspects of the Museum & Tours experience.

Main Responsibilities:

• Improving the commercial performance of the M&T department
• Growing revenue and visitor numbers
• Managing relationships with commercial partners, Chelsea FC club partnerships, travel trade partners and third parties
• Managing calendar of sales promotions in line with various seasonal fluctuations
• New business development of increasing ticket sales direct and via third party agents
• New product development of tour portfolio and new commercial products and experiences at the stadium
• Good understanding and capability of ticketing and sales systems used by M&T
• Overview of online and in person customer user journey to continually improve conversion and sales

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.

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.