Sport Jobs Round-up: New Roles This Week

Located at their UK office in Warrington you’ll contribute to their mission by leading the local marketing strategy and execution for the UK & Ireland across Running, Sportstyle, and CPS categories. You’ll drive brand presence, consumer engagement, and commercial impact in one of ASICS’ most strategically important European territories, whilst managing integrated marketing functions and building strong partnerships with retail accounts and internal stakeholders.

Your role will be instrumental in weaving the fabric of their movement, bringing unique perspectives and driving innovation with every step.

Key Responsibilities

• Adapt and execute local marketing strategies for UKI across Running, Sportstyle, and CPS categories in alignment with EMEA direction.
• Plan and deliver integrated brand campaigns, activations, PR initiatives, and events to drive consumer engagement and brand visibility.
• Lead the Trade Marketing strategy for key UKI and Pan-European retail accounts, with primary focus on JD partnership.
• Manage the local marketing planning process, including budget allocation, financial forecasting, and ROI optimisation.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with internal stakeholders across Commercial, Merchandising, HR, and EMEA Marketing teams.
• Lead and develop a high-performing cross-functional marketing team of 12 FTEs across Activation, Trade Marketing, and Brand Training.
• Oversee agency partnerships and external vendor relationships to ensure effective campaign delivery and brand representation.

The Senior Social Media Producer will lead and evolve Manchester United’s video-first social media output, with a particular focus on platforms such as TikTok and Snapchat. This is a hands-on and strategic role, combining high-quality, fast-turnaround video editing with oversight of content planning, production, and publishing.

You will use performance data and platform insights to shape content strategy, ensuring continuous growth in engagement and reach. Working closely with the Social Media Strategy Manager, you will identify trends, scale high-performing content, and maintain editorial excellence across all outputs.
The role also involves directing and producing shoots, including player and partner content, and leading a small team in fast-paced environments – particularly around matchdays – ensuring content is delivered to the highest standard at speed.

CAA Sports is looking for a talented marketer to join the Property Solutions team. Property Solutions supports the global CAA Sports Property & Endorsements Sales Group as their in- house, partnership strategy and sales enablement team. From naming rights deals to first-of-its-kind collaborations, you will be an integral member of a group that creates solutions to achieve an advertiser’s objectives in sports marketing working with clients such as Chelsea Football Club, Formula 1, Oracle Red Bull Racing, Visa Cash App Racing Bulls, UEFA Euros, LIV Golf, Riot Games, The As, and many more.

You will also help them develop deeper category knowledge, fan intelligence and property expertise so they can more quickly scale the team’s capabilities.

To be responsible for the consistent planning and delivery of all events to the highest standards in line with required standards and client specification, developing and leading a knowledgeable team that are confident to engage with organisers and delegates.  Ensuring all areas are presented to the highest standards and all meetings and events exceed expectations, while seeking to maximise profitability in line with budget and agreed cost control measures.

Wakefield Trinity are looking for a Videographer & Creative Media Lead to take the club’s storytelling to the next level.

This is a videography-first role, with the creative influence and responsibility of a senior content lead. You’ll be the person behind the lens, in the edit, and driving the ideas that shape how Wakefield Trinity is seen across the sport.

They want a storyteller. Someone who can spot moments before they happen, bring fresh ideas, and create content that fans feel emotionally connected to. Someone who understands the culture of elite sport and can translate it into powerful, modern, engaging media.

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.

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 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

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.