Location: Colorado, USA

Closing Date: 14th November

Summary:

The Marketing Director leads the marketing efforts related to USA Archery’s membership products, services and events, ensuring membership and revenue generation and growth while focusing on customer satisfaction.

General Duties:

• Establishes and monitors marketing goals to ensure financial stability, growth and member satisfaction of products, services and events.
• Develops and leads sponsorship and business affiliate program sales and fundraising efforts, to ensure adequate financial resources.
• Develops and executes marketing plans and programs, both short and long range, to ensure the growth and expansion of membership and revenue.
• Researches, analyzes, and monitors technological and demographic factors and trends so that opportunities may be capitalized on.
• Plans and oversees USA Archery’s advertising and promotion activities including print, electronic, web, social media and direct mail.
• Develops and recommends pricing, inventory items and promotion strategy for USA Archery’s merchandise and online store presence.
• Leads USA Archery efforts related to national events including branding, attendee experience, broadcast/streaming, media and other fan-based initiatives.
• Ensures effective control of marketing resources to be certain that the achievement of marketing objectives is within designated budgets.
• Evaluates reactions to programs and promotions to ensure timely adjustment of marketing strategy and plans to meet changing needs.
• Conducts marketing surveys and research on current and new programs and events.
• Prepares marketing activity reports.
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities, with four direct reports, in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws.

How to Apply

Click to apply HERE

 

RBC has signed six-year extensions as title sponsor of both the RBC Canadian Open and RBC Heritage. The new agreements take effect in 2018 and run through 2023.

Jay Monahan, ask Deputy Commissioner of the PGA TOUR, said: “Since assuming sponsorship of Canada’s National Golf Championship in 2008, RBC has been a tremendous partner of the PGA TOUR,”

“RBC became passionately involved with the tournament from the outset and since that time, has increased its involvement in golf by sponsoring the RBC Heritage, supporting PGA TOUR and LPGA players through Team RBC, and funding youth and amateur golf initiatives in Canada. We couldn’t be happier to continue our relationship with such a strong advocate of golf through these two long-term extensions.”

Dave McKay, President and CEO, RBC added: “We are excited to extend our commitment to both the RBC Canadian Open and RBC Heritage for an additional six years,”

“As the largest company in Canada, our sponsorship of the RBC Canadian Open reflects our leadership position in our home market, while our support of the RBC Heritage demonstrates our strong and growing presence in the U.S., particularly following our recent acquisition of City National Bank. We know many of our clients around the world have a passion for golf. With two PGA TOUR stops and a roster of world-class golfers representing our brand, RBC is proud to promote this great game and to have the opportunity to give back where we live and work, helping our communities prosper.”

Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club have confirmed the sale of the club that will see 100% ownership in Wolves and all its assets taken up by the Fosun Group headed by Chairman Guo Guangchang. 

The purchase of Wolves by Fosun from Steve Morgan CBE and his Bridgemere Group has been approved and fully ratified by the English Football League (EFL) and its board of directors. 

The financial terms of the transaction are private and confidential between the parties. 

Fosun are one of the largest investment groups in China.  They have stakes in various projects, including: Club Med, Cirque du Solei, Folli Follie and Studio 8 etc.

Steve Morgan CBE steps down after nine years as Wolves’ owner.

Jeff Shi Fosun’s Wolves representative said: “We are delighted to have completed the deal to become the new owners of such a famous and historic club as Wolves,” 

“We owe a great debt of gratitude to Steve Morgan for taking such good care of the Club and for placing his trust in us to become the new custodians of Wolves. During our conversations Steve’s great passion and vision for the Club and Wolverhampton was very clear and we feel privileged to pick up the baton from him. 

“And also to Jez Moxey for his tremendous contribution to Wolves. We are sad to see him leave, but after 16 years of loyal service we understand why he has chosen this moment as the right time to move on and we wish him well.” 

Sports and media company IMG has secured the exclusive global TV rights of the Chinese Super League (CSL) in a two-year deal.

The deal, prostate which excludes mainland China, symptoms will also see IMG act as a consultant on TV production. IMG has also secured in-flight rights as part of the deal.

Read more HERE.

by Christian Radnedge

The US Department of Justice says it was issuing FIFA a “red card” as it was revealed that it has issued corruption charge indictments against 14 people including senior level officials at world football’s governing body.

Ahead of the FIFA congress in Zurich this week, vice-president Jeffrey Webb, head of CONCACAF, and former South American football president Eugenio Figueredo from Uruguay were named among those arrested by Swiss police in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter is understood not to be wanted for questioning at this stage.

The full statement from the US Department of Justice on the charges can be read here.

Below are the key developments from a tumultuous day in world football:

–          Charges come after a three-year FBI investigation into allegations concerning the misuse of at least $100m.

–          FIFA maintain that the revelations are “good” for the governing body.

–          FIFA spokesperson confirms that congress and Friday’s presidential election will still go ahead.

–          Former FIFA exco member Chuck Blazer amassed $11 million in unreported income, according to Richard Weber, director of the IRS Criminal Investigation Division.

–          Former CONCACAF president Jack Warner also sought by US authorities, although he released a statement protesting his innocence since leaving FIFA in 2011.

–          Swiss police plan to question Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko about the awarding of the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 World Cup to Qatar in a separate investigation.

–          Next step in process will be extradition to the US, confirmed Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

FIFA sponsor Adidas released a brief statement saying: “Following today’s news, we can only encourage FIFA to continue to establish & follow transparent compliance standards”.

Other sponsors have yet to comment, but one man who had his say was Prince Ali bin-Al Hussein – the man challenging Blatter for the presidency on Friday.

In a strongly worded statement, he said: “We cannot continue with the crisis in FIFA, a crisis that has been ongoing and is not just relevant to the events of today.  FIFA needs leadership that governs, guides and protects our national associations.

“Leadership that accepts responsibility for its actions and does not pass blame.  Leadership that restores confidence in the hundreds of millions of football fans around the world.”

In a press conference in New York, the US department of Justice also confirmed that the CONCACAF headquarters in Miami was being searched by the FBI as part of the investigation.

Lynch also said that bribery and corruption had seemed to have been going on in soccer for two decades, and that this would be the “beginning” of their effort into rooting out corruption and “not the end”.

“It was a World Cup of Fraud. Today we are showing them the red card,” said Richard Weber, chief of the US tax agency’s criminal investigation division.

{jcomments on}

The first London Directors’ Club of 2015 will take place today and it has the makings of being a memorable and landmark event for iSportconnect.

A diverse panel has been assembled for the event which will be held at the five-star Grange St. Paul’s hotel.

The panellists include Brett Gosper, CEO of World Rugby, Steve Parish, Chairman of Crystal Palace FC, Alistair Kirkwood, Managing Director of NFL UK, Niall Sloane, Director of Sport at ITV and Nick Read, Commercial Director at Vitality.

The evening should prove insightful with five different perspectives on the major issues in sports business today. 

The room will be filled with an impressive audience as delegates from major sports clubs & teams, federations, governing bodies and brands are all scheduled to attend in what is set to be the biggest ever audience for a Directors’ Club event.

The event will also include a post-event networking dinner.

Directors’ Club events are a gathering of exclusively invited director level delegates, partaking in a BBC Question Time-style discussion with a panel of well-established executives from the sport industry.

Followed by networking, the discussion is held under Chatham House rules, allowing for an open and free flowing debate.

The event has proved incredibly popular and is now FULL. We are therefore unable to allow any further attendees.

To watch highlights of previous iSportconnect Directors’ Club events click here.

Event partners:

               

             

       

{jcomments on}

The International Olympic Council (IOC) and the organisers of the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang have agreed to set up an Integration Working Group to speed up preparations for the Games.

Full story HERE.