Location: Wembley, London, United Kingdom

Closing date: until filled 

Overview:

The Football Association is the not-for-profit governing body of football in England. Its remit is both to protect and to develop the game. It grows participation, promotes diversity and regulates the sport for everyone to enjoy. The FA consists of staff based at both Wembley Stadium and St George’s Park, as well as home-based staff. The FA’s Management Team, working together with The FA Board, Council and staff, aims to deliver an effective and professional organisation for the greater good of English football.

The Head of Commercial Partner Acquisition will be responsible for creating and maximising revenue streams as part of the sponsorship and partnership development team, and in line with the overall sponsorship and commercial strategy.

Key Accountabilities:

• Plan the development, structure and ultimately the marketing, sale and negotiation of the future FA sponsorship programmes across the England teams, FA Cup, WSL, Wembley and other FA properties.

• The key focus of this role will be attracting and signing new commercial partners. This includes the negotiation, management, and development of sponsorship and commercial assets for The FA’s key properties.

• Developing a strategy for commercialising The FA’s properties outside of the UK, driving revenue from sponsorship, promotional partners, media, digital and mobile rights.

Essential Skills: 

• Modern and strategic approach to creating and structuring commercial partnership sales programmes.

• Demonstrable experience and a proven track record in creating, negotiating and renewing sports rights sales along with an ability to help quantify tangible success and ROI on behalf of the partner.

• Demonstrable experience of identifying and securing high value brand partnerships.

• Experience of building, inspiring, leading and managing a team and setting high standards of performance.

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Italy’s victory over Belgium in the Euro 2016 tournament pulled the largest ever TV audience for a national team match in French-speaking Belgium with 1.675 million viewers and a share of 81.1% on La Une. In Flanders, decease the match on Eén drew 2.217 million, sale number two of all-time, just behind Belgium versus USA in the 2014 World Cup. Last night’s share was 78.4%.

In Italy, the national team’s 2-0 win drew 15.513 million viewers on RAI 1 with a share of 52.66%.

In the host nation, the Italy-Belgium match gave French broadcaster M6 a rare lopsided win in the ratings on Monday night. M6 pulled 7.13 million viewers ad 28.8% share.  In Germany, the same game was also number one with 13.27 million and a 42.8% share for ARD 1. It won in Holland too, with 3.128 million viewers on NPO1.

In Spain, the top audience of the day was for the afternoon match on Monday between the Spanish national team and the Czech Republic. Spain’s 1-0 win pulled 8.87 million viewers and a 56% share on Telecinco.

Michel Platini has been re-elected as the president of UEFA after standing unopposed.

The decision to re-elect the 59-year-old Frenchman was announced by UEFA at their 39th congress in Vienna on Tuesday.

Platini, who has been the president of European football’s governing body since 2007, will serve another four-year term.

This re-election also means that Platini retains his FIFA Vice-Presidency for another four years.

“This means more to me than you can possibly imagine,” Platini told the UEFA Congress in Vienna.

“I know I can count on you, and you know that you can count on me.

“This allows me to continue for another four years. I do want to say that we love FIFA deeply, and it’s precisely because we love and respect FIFA that we want it to be perfect.

“We are only demanding about the people and institutions we care about.”

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New Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise New York City FC have announced a partnership with JAG Physical Therapy.

The deal sees the therapy company become an Official Club Partner in a multi-year deal.

Full story HERE. 

iSportconnect is delighted to announce the first London Directors’ Club event of the year will be held in March.

The event will take place on March 17^th with World Rugby CEO Brett Gosper confirmed as the first panellist.

Gosper was named as CEO of World Rugby (previously IRB) in 2012 following a distinguished career with major international marketing services and media companies including Ogilvy, Havas, Omnicom and most recently as CEO of McCann Erickson Europe, Middle East and Africa and CEO of McCann Erickson USA.

As Chief Executive of World Rugby and Managing Director of Rugby World Cup Limited, Brett Gosper is responsible for the strategic and business operations of Rugby’s global governing federation.

Brett oversees the implementation of World Rugby’s record investment, development and player welfare strategies, the delivery of which is set to be a record-breaking Rugby World Cup 2015 in England.

Originally starting in London but now with an impressive international roster, iSportconnect 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.

iSportconnect Chairman Michael Cunnah said: “We are delighted to welcome Brett as our first panellist for the first London Directors’ Club event of the year. His current role and previous experience will give us good insight into sports business issues on a global basis.”

World Rugby CEO Brett Gosper said: “I am delighted to be joining the iSportconnect London Directors’ Club event to participate in what promises to be a fascinating, engaging and informative discussion with representatives from the sports industry.

“2015 is a massive year for Rugby and World Rugby with the biggest-ever Rugby World Cup being hosted in England and Cardiff and what better place to host this Directors’ Club event than in London, which will play host to some mouth-watering Rugby World Cup fixtures.”

Save the date: 17^th March 2015

To register your interest contact: sylvia-line@isportconnect.com

Invitation Policy: iSportconnect Directors’ Club is an invitation only event open exclusively for CEOs, chairmen and director level executives from governing bodies, sports teams and sponsorship brands.

Social Media Policy: The iSportconnect Directors’ Club follows Chatham House rules and therefore all content must be kept inside. We encourage delegates to tweet pictures and use our hashtag #iSCDirectorsClub but please do not quote panellists.

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

About World Rugby

World Rugby is the global governing body for the sport of rugby union with 120 national member unions and six regional associations in membership.

Headquartered in Dublin and with an executive staff of 93, World Rugby is a regulator, an investor, a developer and an inspirer. Its mission statement is to grow rugby worldwide.

With more than 6.6 million men, women and children actively participating, Rugby is experiencing record participation, profile and growth worldwide in existing and new markets.

Underpinning unprecedented growth is Rugby World Cup, the sport’s flagship global event hosted every four years. The 2015 edition, to be hosted in England and Cardiff in September and October 2015, will be the best-attended, most-viewed and most engaged-with event to date, taking rugby to new audiences around the world. It will be record-breaking on every level.

The commercial success of Rugby World Cup is enabling World Rugby to invest a record £330 million between 2009-2016 in player welfare, mass participation, development, competitions and high performance.

In 2016 Rugby will return to the Olympic stage after an absence of 90 years when the high-octane, crowd-pleasing discipline of Rugby Sevens will debut at the Rio 2016 Games.

You can find out more about World Rugby at www.worldrugby.org and @worldrugby

Event Partners:

The Baku 2015 European Games will be the ideal proving ground for athletes ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, check according to senior figures at the leading National Olympic Committees (NOCs) of Europe.

Top representatives from all 49 European NOCs gathered in the Azerbaijan capital, Baku, last weekend for the 43rd European Olympic Committees (EOC) General Assembly.

They received status updates from the Baku European Games Operations Committee (BEGOC), confirming preparations for Europe’s inaugural continental multi-sport games are firmly on track.

Dr Thomas Bach (pictured), President of the International Olympic Committee, who attended the EOC General Assembly, said: “I am deeply impressed to see the development here in regard to sport.

“What I have seen and heard about the preparations for the Baku 2015 European Games makes me very confident they will be an outstanding success for European sport and also an outstanding success for Azerbaijan.”

Bill Sweeney, British Olympic Association CEO (pictured right) said: “Today’s venue tour has demonstrated that the European Games next year will not only be a huge success for the organisers, but will also benefit our athletes in a number of ways.

“For several sports there will be the prospect of direct qualification for Rio and for others it will be an important staging post on that journey. For many of our athletes it will be the first multi-sport experience in their young lives.

“They will gain vital experience of being immersed in this environment, living in an Athletes’ Village, working within an Organising Committee’s structures and being surrounded by thousands of other athletes from a myriad of different countries. In terms of Team GB, we are looking forward to it, treating it very seriously, and we will benefit hugely.”