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: Stockport Football Club
Position: Head of Retail
Location: Stockport, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 4.10.24 at 5pm
The primary purpose of the Head of Retail role is to build and lead the Retail team to deliver a best-in-class retail & e-commerce experience.
Key duties include:
- Strategic development and management of the club’s entire retail operation to meet revenue and profit targets
- Sourcing and selling quality products at targeted margins across a range of channels
- Identification and development of relationships with strategic suppliers
- Development and management of efficient stock storage, audit control, and security
- Development and management of strategic retail calendar with impactful seasonal campaigns and optimised product ranges for key football dates (e.g. new kit launch)
- Building, managing and driving effective sales processes to meet commercial targets
- Set and exceed expected levels of customer service both in-store and online
- Developing a culture and ethos of upselling and cross selling in conjunction with other departments
- Managing Club’s Ecommerce platform (currently Shopify)
- Setting and managing team and individual KPIs, as well as recruitment and rota management
- Provide regular weekly and monthly reporting demonstrating progress against revenue and profit targets
- Working with the Chief Operating Officer to develop the club’s retail strategy ensuring it aligns with the Club’s business objectives
- Working closely with the Marketing Team to create and deliver their retail marketing strategy
- Managing the overall operation of the Superstore at Stockport County’s Edgeley Park Stadium
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the integration of retail strategies with other business functions.
- Liaising closely with the Chief Operating Officer to devise clear cross platform selling strategies
- Oversee their relationship with their third-party logistics provider to ensure it meets service KPIs, delivers an efficient service and meets the needs of physical and e-commerce customers.
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Organisation: Red Bull
Position: Athlete Marketing Manager
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
This role will help to drive and manage Red Bull’s Athlete Marketing program, demonstrating to the consumer that Red Bull is the only brand that Gives Wiiings to the world’s most exciting and talented athletes. Credibly and effectively communicating the functional benefits of Red Bull products to sports interested consumers via a world-class athlete team. The roster covers diverse sporting playgrounds and a good knowledge understanding of the broader sporting landscape is key. The role will be also be focussing on potential new sporting opportunities within areas and sports we are not currently exposed through. In this role the Athlete Marketing Manager must enable their athletes to progress in their sport and fulfil their dreams.
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Organisation: Manchester City Football Club
Position: Fan Journey Manager
Location: Manchester, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 9.10.24
The Fan Journey Manager is essential to the Integrated Fan Experience Team, focusing on elevating the end-to-end matchday experience at the Etihad Campus for both men’s and women’s games ensuring it is relevant, effortless and fun. This role involves utilising a deep understanding of customer journeys to design, lead, and continuously refine fan interactions, ensuring a world-class experience for all fans and visitors.
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Organisation: Newcastle United Football Club
Position: Partnership Marketing Executive – Newcastle United Women
Location: Newcastle, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 6.10.24
They’re looking for an experienced Partnership Marketing Executive where you will support with the partnership marketing activities and activations for a number of principle and global partners across the Women’s football team.
Working with their Partnership Marketing Manager, you will support the day-to-day relationship and portfolio of principle and global partners and suppliers delivering a wide variety of contractual rights and inventory. You will ensure the successful delivery of all match day Partner assets, ensuring that all internal departments and agencies are engaged and provide the necessary support to deliver the partnership marketing requirements.
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Organisation: Newcastle United Football Club
Position: Licensing Manager
Location: Newcastle, GB (Hybrid)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 6.10.24
They are looking for a Licensing Manager to manage the Club’s international and digital licensing programme and promote retention through best- in-class service. The post holder will support the Head of Global Licensing with programme development, leading and representing the Club on key workstreams.
You will be responsible for the account management of a portfolio of Newcastle United’s licensees and international agents, building and maintaining strong relationships across key business functions.
In addition to account management, your responsibilities will include business development, product development and management, rights delivery, royalty reporting, debtor management, and business planning, prioritisation and reviews.
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Organisation: The LTA
Position: Content Producer
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: £34,000 per year
Closing date: 18.10.24
The Content Producer reports to the Content Manager. We are building a Marketing Team that will deliver work enviable of any sport governing body. As a creative thinker, the post holder will need to be confident in delivering engaging and compelling video content for a range of target audiences (D2C and B2B). This role will require experience in idea generation, multi-platform content production, and teamwork.
The Marketing and Customer Strategy team exists to broaden the relevance and increase the visibility of tennis & padel, all year round, in order to grow participation and fan engagement. It seeks to do this by:
• Developing and executing a new fit for purpose brand for tennis.
• Building content and communications that increase levels of fan engagement, drive new participation, and win back lapsed players.
• Delivering a brand partner strategy to develop and maximise our assets.
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Organisation: Brentford Football Club
Position: Marketing Executive
Location: London, GB (On-site)
Salary: None listed
Closing date: 07.10.2024 at midday
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.
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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.
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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.
Apply here.
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.
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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: 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: 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.
Apply here.
That’s it for our Sport Jobs Round-up this week, good luck to everyone applying.
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