Commercial Manager, Race Promotion – Formula 1

About The Role

Race Promotion is a key pillar of Formula 1’s business, contracting and delivering the live platform where fans can experience the thrill and entertainment of the sport. The Race Promotion Team works with Promoters of existing races as well as negotiating the inclusion of new races on the Championship calendar, in line with Formula 1’s strategic commercial objectives. 

As part of your role, you will be responsible for support in developing new business alongside race promoters and further 3rd parties to enhance F1 revenue streams within the Race Promotions department.

Formula 1 has longstanding commercial relationships with a diverse range of Promoters, your role will include building on these on and off-track partnerships, as well as ideating and creating additional assets, with a goal of increasing commercial opportunity and exposure.

Responsibilities

  • Supporting the Head of Race Promotion in executing on Formula 1’s business strategy of growing the future race calendar to up to 25 races, which will include the research, evaluation, prospecting, and negotiation of potential new race locations.
  • Operating across departments to create the greatest opportunity for the business in new race locations.
  • Working closely with race relationship managers to understand all revenue opportunities that present themselves in and around races.
  • Collaborating with Race Promoters on their commercial strategy, ensuring maximum ROI of the event to all stakeholders.
  • The ideation and creation of new year-round event assets that can be rolled out on and off track with a key driver for the race promotion business in creating revenue opportunities in local market via experiences and physical activation.
  • Working with 3rd parties, agencies and promoters in development of scalable projects that can engage cross department F1 business including digital, partnerships & marketing.

About You

  • Able to see a commercial proposal through from concept to delivery.
  • Proven experience in international live events and within the sports industry.
  • Strong understanding of event rights monetisation and how rights and assets can be leveraged for mutual benefit within a partnership.
  • Understanding of the importance of relationships and event benefits to a host city.
  • Ability to adapt quickly to change and operate effectively in diverse cultural environments, creative problem solver.
  • Commercially savvy operator who can see the big picture and the connection to day-to-day tasks and projects. 
  • Focused and driven individual, who proactively takes on initiatives and drives projects from end to finish.
  • Willing to frequently travel internationally.
  • Excellent communication & interpersonal skills.
  • A thorough, detail driven, collaborative and thoughtful team player.

Head of Gaming & esports – McLaren Racing

The challenge This role is a critical position driving the esports and gaming agenda alongside the Director, Licensing, ecommerce, esports and gaming within McLaren Racing. You will be a leader driving the day to day delivery and strategic direction of the McLaren Shadow sub brand through its esports and gaming platforms.Your team This role will report into the Director, Licensing, ecommerce esports and gaming within McLaren Racing and be located within our global headquarters in Woking, UK. While we operate a hybrid work environment, there is an expectation that this individual is in the office weekly.This individual will manage a team of four (4) with ability to scale team according to business requirements in the future. This department is seen as a high growth area for both brand and revenue return within McLaren Racing and as such has a high level of visibility across the business.Your day-to-day Project development and ManagementEsports:

  • Lead strategic third-party relationships managing and activating against McLaren Racings’ esports platforms which include; F1 esports and the Logitech McLaren G Challenge
  • Establish business case and rationale to explore and gain buy-in for new competitive series with support of Director
  • Ensure business is maximizing brand and revenue impact of esports platforms driving synergies and visibility within broader real-life Racing platforms

Gaming:

  • Drive content cadence and strategy for McLaren Shadow channels to evolve business into a gaming and lifestyle brand 
  • Manage third party relationships and activities to deliver on department vision
  • Develop and deliver day to day plans of action and cascade responsibilities across team to support in department objective
  • Drive publisher commercial conversations where necessary

Revenue management and generation:

  • Work closely with Partnerships and Partnership Development to commercialize platforms being built across department 
  • Drive new format development and sales to deliver new revenue strands to business
  • Manage existing partners to ensure high level of partner satisfaction and high percentage of renewal mirrors that of F1 team

Strategic Thinking and Planning: 

  • Support the Director of Licensing, ecommerce, esports and Gaming in developing new ideas and ways to further evolve McLaren Shadow into a brand synonymous with gaming culture leveraging the broader gaming and hard core SIM racing audiences 
  • Ownership of P&L to deliver program 
  • Manage high performing team to deliver all aspects of esports and gaming functions
  • Drive education and awareness of activities across business alongside Director

Desired Skills and Experience

Your story To Join Our Race For Performance, You’ll Need

  • Passionate for SIM racing and/ or gaming / esports with experience working in space 
  • Highly organized project manager – keeping the big picture in mind whilst understanding the appropriate level of detail 
  • Proven experience of managing budgets and programs end to end 
  • Experience managing multiple stakeholders to deliver a common goal 
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to being multiple stakeholders along a journey 
  • Strategic thinker with big ideas and ability to break them down into actionable next steps plans 
  • Commercially astute; committed to understanding and supporting the commercial imperatives of McLaren and its Partners 
  • Creative thinker 
  • Collaborative and likes working within a team 
  • Self-motivated 
  • Passionate gamer / SIM racer 

What can McLaren offer? We strive to provide a fun, innovative, collaborative and open culture where everyone’s input is welcome, and everyone feels part of our achievements. We work hard to create a culture of continuous improvement and support this with a proactive approach to management and personal development.McLaren Racing is based at the iconic McLaren Technology Centre on the edge of Woking. Our large campus includes a gym, swimming pool, restaurant and indoor and outdoor break-out areas, as well as direct access to park land. MTC is connected to Woking mainline station via regular shuttle buses, from which London Waterloo is a 32min train ride.We encourage hybrid working patterns to give you options to balance your home life and hobbies with your work, and offer a comprehensive package of benefits including private healthcare, car schemes, life insurance and generous pension contributions.

Marketing Manager – Ear to the Ground

What could you achieve at an agency with a genuinely game-changing offering that is creating demand from all major brands in sport, esports and gaming?

You could join a fast-growing team that is responsible for building and maintaining Ear to the Ground’s award-winning reputation within the international marketplace.

Help us continue our recent momentum by leading the charge on our pillar marketing activities to drive conversations and create opportunities with world class brands who want to lead culture. This is a unique chance for an experienced manager to take their next step in their career and be part of a growing independent agency.

THE AGENCY

Ear to the Ground is a global creative agency that uses sports, esports and gaming to build culturally powerful brands. Understanding the future of fandom is central to our proposition. Our entire agency process is built on real-time listening with the new breed of fan. We do this by collaborating with our global network of over 11,000 fans. We call this Fan Intelligence®. You can learn more about Fan Intelligence® with a short film here

We pride ourselves on listening better than anyone and our purpose “To Make the World Listen” is fundamental in everything we do. 2021 was our fifth consecutive year of growth, we have long term partnerships with the likes of PlayStation, Sony Electronics, New Balance, and Coca-Cola.

OUR CULTURE…

Ear to the Ground is a place where people grow, develop and thrive.

We are proudly independent, not part of a larger conglomerate. At our core, we understand the importance of culture in enabling you to do your best work. Progress is possible for everyone that joins us. We reward ambition, invest in talent, and encourage you to forge your own path. Our commitment to listening is felt by our own people too; this is an agency where every voice is heard. Supportive, collaborative, social, and inspiring.

You will benefit from our ‘Work From Anywhere’ policy and we encourage applications from candidates anywhere in the UK. Our HQ is in Manchester, which you should expect to travel to at least once a month for meetings and events; but otherwise you have the flexibility to work wherever suits you best.

THE ROLE…

Job Title: Marketing Project Manager

Department: Marketing and New Business

Location: Manchester – Hybrid working policy – min 1 day per week in the office

Organisation Structure

Reports to: Marketing and New Business Director

JOB PURPOSE…

As Marketing Project Manager you will be central to the promotion and growth of the

agency with expert Project Management skills, and a wide knowledge of Marketing theory and practice. With a minimum of 5 years’ experience you will lead in the delivery of Ear to the Ground’s Marketing campaigns, offering end-to-end Project Management of our initiatives to ensure we are driving fame, word of mouth and commercial growth for the business. 

You will take ownership of our marketing calendar, working with internal and external

stakeholders to drive cross-functional projects which leverage our Fan Intelligence®

offering, whilst ensuring that all our outputs hit our company objectives and KPI’s

You will play brand guardian when it comes to delivering our marketing initiatives which will include promoting our award winning campaigns and elevating our Fan Intelligence® offering via live, social and digital formats. You will play a key role in supporting our New business team to create initiatives and assets to inspire new business, and you will work closely with our wider team to lead on our awards process.

Main Responsibilities and Activities…

As Marketing Project Manager you will take on the following responsibilities:

  • Work with Key stakeholders to develop a marketing calender, and own the delivery of this.
  • Deliver best in class end to end project management across a wide range of marketing projects. From optimising team operations & process to leading major campaigns & promotions with hard deadlines.
  • Develop project plans and secure budgets, ensuring projects are delivered on brief, on time & on budget with clear milestone planning.
  • Work with key stakeholders internally to gather all the tools needed for our marketing initiatives, ensuring you are planning and booking in resources efficiently.
  • Manage more junior members of the marketing team to ensure work is done efficiently, and to a high standard.
  • Play a lead role in the delivery of our Social campaigns – leading on the planning and delivery of our day to day social assets and nurturing our online community to help identify any growth opportunities.
  • Play brand guardian for all our external marketing comms ensuring all our assets align to our company proposition and objectives.
  • Work with external partners to support on the delivery of our PR, digital and web activity.
  • Work with internal stakeholders across Client Services and Creative to deliver the agency’s award process.
  • Support the New Business function of the team with the creation of specific marketing collateral and content.

Skills & Experience

We’re looking for:

  • A minimum of five years’ experience working within an agency or brand side
  • Excellent project management skills with experience of managing internal and external stakeholders to deliver success (essential).
  • Knowledge of managing comms campaigns (including social) of regional and /or global accounts, preferably B2B.
  • Excellent written, communication and presentation skills.
  • Excellent organisation skills – An ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high pressure, ever changing environment. With a structured way of working in order to deliver to deadlines.
  • Strong communication & interpersonal skills.
  • Good knowledge of functionality and marketing strategy of Twitter, LinkedIn,
  • Instagram, YouTube channel. Interest in TikTok and new emerging channels would be a plus.
  • Understanding and experience of how to pull an award entry together.
  • Strong cultural curiosity and understanding of current trends in sport, gaming and esports.

Graphics Director – Quidich

As the Graphics Director you’ll be leading the creative team (Unreal Designers) and working along with the technology team (AI/ML/Computer Vision) focused on bringing art and tech together to create innovative AR/VR experiences that improve the broadcast of live sport across the globe.

You will strive for the highest possible visual quality of all graphics and products at Quidich, while managing and building the creative team.

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated team player who can provide clear direction, understand the client requirement to build on the design requirements and push a creative vision through to completion.

In this role, you’ll add your unique creative input to cutting-edge initiatives including: augmented reality experiences, application design for mobile/web/PC and creative visualisation of all new products and services at Quidich.

This person will be responsible for contributing to the overall visual design process in the organization- from concept, to design thinking and development, to the final delivery that will be delivered across all Quidich products.

Responsibilities

● Working in collaboration with Product Design, Product Management, Engineering and Data Science to absorb knowledge, define opportunities and develop concepts and treatments to bring ideas to life.

● Establishing an artistic direction, vision, and high production standards in the creation of AR experiences across all Quidich platforms.

● Leading strategic choices about the future direction of Quidich products by designing new experiences and layouts.

● Working closely with the management team to create project pitches, and actionable production plans.

● Creating sketches, storyboards, prototypes, and/or design specs necessary to guide development of product experiences.

● Working closely with engineers to explore the foundational digital character design of Player Tracker and Drone Tracker.

● Directing brainstorming meetings and creative sessions.

● Taking responsibility for the creation of style guides and related materials for internal and external teams.

● Building a strong understanding of AR/VR and coaching others in successful execution in that space.

● Giving and collecting inputs from designers and the rest of the product team in order to keep raising the bar for visual quality.

Requirements

● 4+ years experience in a similar role or Digital Product Designer or Design Director at a creative agency or an in-house team.

● Proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator and illustration/sketching skills

● Ability to manage a small team of designers and/or production artists

● Experience with AR/VR/XR or Mobile app UI/UX

● Ability to communicate and collaborate confidently across teams

● Possess the ability to multitask, manage tasks with varying priorities and align with stakeholders

Additional Skills

● Overall good sense of project management

● Good understanding of AR/VR in sports

● Ability to multitask and solve complex problems

Reporting To: CEO

Joining Date: Immediate (Mumbai)

VP Director of International Marketing – WWE

VP / Director of International Marketing

Location: London (Approx. 15-20% travel)

Reporting into the EVP, Marketing

The VP / Director of International Marketing is responsible for setting and executing marketing strategies for WWE’s key international markets. The position works closely with the International Business team to lead strategic initiatives, support growth and revenue across all lines of business. A key priority is to build and maintain a high performing team, with exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Key stakeholders include International Business, Marketing, Data & Insights, Strategy, Talent & Entertainment Relations, Live Events, Media & Social & Creative. Good relationship management with external stakeholders is key as we have several broadcast partners that this role would be closely aligned with.Responsibilities

  • Co-own all marketing and communications strategies across all channels and product categories working with the key stakeholders for all revenue lines, Communications & Brand.
  • Have a proven track record building omni-campaigns and high-performing activations that drive traffic, tickets, subs, and revenue growth.
  • Develop and implement global marketing programs that support all channels including Media Rights, Live Events, Retail, Wholesale, Ecommerce, and Licensing.
  • Create and execute the marketing growth & strategy plans for UK, APAC, India and EMEA regions.
  • Align all marketing efforts to measurable KPIs that support overarching business goals.
  • Ensure cross-functional synergy with all departments including E-commerce, Live Events, Merchandising, Retail, Licensing and Communications.
  • Collaborate with the Media, Social, and Ecommerce teams to map and develop relevant product storytelling that support key launches and merchandise priorities.
  • Ideate and execute international Premium Live Events (PLE’s), brand / client events and product activations that drive traffic, exposure, and revenue.
  • Support customer research & CRM international initiatives to garner actionable insights to execute.
  • Partner with creative services to ensure timely delivery / distribution of brand assets for all international markets.
  • Foster relationships with internal / external business partners to mine opportunities for the brand and business.
  • Stay on top of industry trends and research opportunities within partnerships, media, experience, and brand storytelling.
  • Track and reconcile the international marketing budget in partnership with the finance team.
  • Oversee strategy, planning and implementation of marketing campaigns to drive all revenue-generating businesses and brand awareness internationally.
  • Manage strong relationships with key external partners e.g., BT in the UK, collaborating on marketing efforts with compelling positioning and messaging.
  • Partner with global marketing, community, and sales/partnership teams to maximize key promotional initiatives internationally.
  • Lead the development of the detailed channel plans, annual forecasts, and quarterly submissions in line with key performance metrics.
  • Execute quarterly customer planning, supporting the events calendar and the QBR review process.
  • Analyze campaign performance across channel mix optimization to meet agreed targets.
  • Work with the Creative & Partnerships teams on launches e.g., talent signings or new platforms / partnerships / products and establish a ‘go to market’ marketing process for the international team.
  • Effectively manage any retained agencies and other third-party agencies/relationships to drive optimal performance and cost effectiveness. Ensure strategies & plans are defined, targets are in place & activity is regularly reviewed.
  • Nurture strong relationships with the Content, Media & Creative teams that allows the Talent & Content to be maximized. Develop quarterly plans to reflect the Content & Event schedule, Community and brand activity and use these to grow and engage international audiences.

Knowledge, Skills, And Experience

  • 10-15+ years marketing experience ideally across multiple international territories and media platforms.
  • Excellent people skills with strong leadership qualities to build a new international marketing team.
  • A holistic marketeer with a proven track record across the entire marketing mix and through the line campaign management.
  • Experience developing innovative & creative marketing concepts / programs that resonate with consumers.
  • Ability to manage a global team of marketers that deliver market driven strategies and revenue growth.
  • Results driven with a strong analytical ability, able to demonstrate results and progress to plan.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to include strong experience interacting with and presenting to senior leaders / partners, as well as the ability to successfully partner with employees across all levels and lines of business
  • Clear & knowledgeable digital strategic thinking that inspires innovative & effective work.
  • Understanding of tools and techniques used in marketing and audience development.
  • Solution-oriented, self-motivated, results-oriented.
  • Excellent budgetary skills demonstrating efficiency of spend & effectiveness.
  • Understanding of econometric and attribution modeling across the marketing funnel.
  • First class program management skills and ability to balance short term delivery targets and marketing campaign requirements with longer term development of transformational change.
  • Extremely strong communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with key stakeholders across a fast moving, multi-faceted organization.
  • Strong negotiating and influencing skills, demonstrated both through relationships with internal stakeholders and third-party agencies.
  • A creative and critical eye for creative assets and used to working with creative teams.
  • Ability to work under pressure and to tight timescales.
  • Wider brand and marketing experience as an experienced and well-rounded marketer.
  • Technical knowledge of data structure, attribution & analytics.
  • Leadership capability to drive high performing teams.
  • Strong communication skills and able to build relationships and influence at all levels internally and externally.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to communicate and present ideas/strategies to different audiences and a passion for finding solutions to enhance performance.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills. A good influencer with an ability to build and maintain strong relationships at all levels.
  • Well-organized with excellent attention to detail and the ability to multitask.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • Experience of the Sports Entertainment / Media industry is desirable but not essential.

CEO – British Wheelchair Basketball

The new CEO will be BWB’s leader, representative and one of its ambassadors, acting as the primary contact for the Board, its partners, and stakeholders. Responsible for setting the culture and pace across the organisation, they will have overall responsibility for the strategic direction and daily operations of BWB across participation and high-performance and ensure the organisation has a sound financial position from which to continue its growth.

The role of the CEO will be to stabilise this new position and turn the transformation of the last few years into ‘business as usual’, providing both guidance and headroom for the strong team beneath them and capitalise on the Commonwealth Games legacy as the team works to maximise elite performance success and enable sustained participation growth. As such, they will focus on embedding the agreed strategy and gains made over the past few years.

The successful candidate may or may not have a background in sport but either way will bring an understanding of what it means to be a high-performing organisation. They will appreciate the unique position of BWB as an organisation with an equal focus on performance and participation, understanding that the sport is reliant on its club network and membership to maximise participants.

Commercial Insights Manager – The Premier League

About the job

Application Deadline: 13 October 2022


Department: Commerical


Employment Type: Permanent – Full Time


Location: London, UK


Description


The Premier League’s Commercial team is looking for a Commercial Insights Manager to provide clear and actionable insight that supports the Premier League’s strategic goals and informs decision-making across the organisation.


The Premier League is moving into an exciting strategic phase, and decisions and processes depend on the quality of insight we can drive. The Commercial Insights Manager will play an important role in helping to shape the next stage of growth.


The right candidate will have a track record of excellent research and analytical skills and proficiency in interpreting data and producing impactful reports to educate and inspire.


The role


Working alongside the Head of Commercial Insights, the Commercial Insights Manager will help deliver a best-in-class research and insight programme covering fans, strategy, broadcast, digital, marketing, reputation, and commercial partnership campaigns.


This insight will be used to advise all areas of the organisation. From informing various fan-facing decisions, international fan engagement, broadcast rights negotiations and supporting commercial sales, to contributing to the Premier League’s position on a wide range of public policy issues, the right candidate will work across a diverse set of projects and have excellent exposure to all areas of the business.


Key Responsibilities Include

  • Manage, maintain, and help facilitate the development of the Premier League’s research and insight programme.
  • Advise on programme developments, and commission and manage the delivery of new research projects as required.
  • Develop management processes and resources that inform and educate key stakeholders by presenting relevant facts, figures and insight from all areas of the Premier League’s research programme.
  • Advise on outcomes supported by the programme, such as fan engagement strategies, enhancing relationships with the Premier League’s partners and Premier League campaign development.
  • Provide a wide range of research and insight to support the Commercial team, from working with appointed agencies to gather market intelligence to conducting bespoke studies and exploring new areas of commercial growth.
  • Work with colleagues across the Broadcast, Business Intelligence and Strategy teams to pull together holistic insights.


Requirements For The Role

  • Strong academic background with several years’ experience in a research role.
  • Confident researcher with experience in designing and executing quantitative and qualitative research elements.
  • Excellent project manager with a track record of delivering research projects independently from start to finish.
  • Brilliant collaborator, able to get the most out of a diverse set of internal and external stakeholders at all levels to deliver high-quality work.
  • Strong analytical skillset and ability to manage and systematically assess research data and identify interesting trends and patterns.
  • Excellent writing skills, with experience of communicating with senior stakeholders.
  • Microsoft Office skills (high proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint).


Nice-to-haves for the role

  • Experience in sport or a related industry.
  • Some understanding of data visualisation tools, in particular Qlik Sense.
  • Any understanding of statistical software platforms to analyse data.


Benefits


Our competitive range of benefits includes:

  • Private medical insurance
  • Permanent health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Subsidised gym membership
  • Health screenings
  • Mental health support
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Season ticket loan
  • Pension scheme
  • Discounts with commercial partners
  • Access to match day tickets


The Premier League is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. All appointments will be made based on merit.Our commitment to safeguarding includes implementing robust safer recruitment procedures to assess the suitability of individuals applying for roles that involve work with children and adults who are or may be at risk of harm.

Campaign Activation Coordinator – UEFA

Job information:

Division / Unit: Marketing / Marketing Activities
Contract type: Permanent
Start date: 01.10.2022
Location: Nyon

Main goal:

UEFA is looking for a Campaign Activation Coordinator to join the Customer Relationship Management team and help coordinate direct-to-consumer activation across all of UEFA’s competitions and digital products. We are looking for an organised and performance-oriented candidate who can plan and coordinate the different channels.

The candidate will own the strategic and operational side of email and app notifications. The ultimate objectives of the role are to guarantee that our communications reach the right audiences and develop our fan base both quantitatively and qualitatively.

The ideal candidate is passionate and knowledgeable about digital marketing, self-motivated, proactive and a team player. This role is a great opportunity to gain a deeper, real-world understanding of digital marketing and audience management through both organic and paid activations in order to become an expert quickly.



Key responsibilities:

Account management:
– Update and keep track of the different campaign planners
– Anticipate UEFA’s moments of truth and prepare each department accordingly
– Coordinate campaign launches, making sure all products receive the specific content and tracking needed while also ensuring that each campaign contributes to a single overall objective
– Plan email and app notifications and collate the content needed from the editorial team
– Be the main point of contact for the marketing automation agency and guarantee perfect execution and regular optimisation
– Report on audience activation and engagement


Profile:

Experience required:
– from 1 to 3 years’ experience in marketing and project coordination, ideally in digital

Education:
– Bachelor’s or equivalent qualification, preferably in project management or digital marketing

Languages:
– English / Advanced

Additional requirements:
– MS Excel / Advanced
– MS PowerPoint / Advanced
– Project Management / Advanced
– Strong organisational skills
– Able to build positive working relationships with cross-functional teams
– Able to manage multiple projects with conflicting deadlines
– Proactive, innovative and open-minded
– Comfortable working as an individual contributor within a fast-paced environment
– Willing and able to recommend and test new ideas, measure success, and change direction quickly when necessary

Major Events Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Consultancy Support – UK Sport

Major Events Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Consultancy Support

UK Sport’s purpose is to lead high-performance sport to enable extraordinary moments that enrich lives, and aims to work collaboratively with partners to deliver its mission to create the greatest decade of extraordinary moments; reaching, inspiring and uniting the nation.

As part of UK Sport’s Strategic Plan for 2021-31, our ambitions are focused on three areas – Keep winning and win well, Grow a thriving sporting system and Inspire positive change. Major Events play an integral part to delivering these ambitions, especially when focusing on inspiring positive change, where they offer a unique platform for impact across many areas.

In accordance with this ambition, the UK Sport major events unit has been leading a development workstream to build the diversity and inclusivity of its funded major events, to ensure that major events are for all.

Our work spans across various aspects of major events (e.g. workforce, spectators, accessibility) and looks to consider inclusion across age, disability, ethnic or national origin, family circumstance, sex, gender identity, marital status, nationality, political or religious beliefs, race, socio-economic background and sexual orientation.

UK Sport is seeking an individual or appropriately experienced agency to provide advice and assistance with with this workstream across a two-month period from October-December 2022.

Value of contract: up to £10,000 inclusive of VAT and expenses

Closing date: 26 September 2022

Closing time: 12pm (Midday)

Contract start date: 3 October 2022

Contract end date: 2 December 2022

Internal Communications Manager – FA

The Football Association [The FA] is the not-for-profit governing body of football in England. It is responsible for promoting and developing every level of the game, from grassroots through to the professional game, and generates significant revenue to support investment into English football each year.

The FA oversees England international teams across men’s, women’s, youth and disability football, as well as running the National League System and FA Competitions including the Emirates FA Cup, Barclays FA Women’s Super League, FA Women’s Championship, and Vitality Women’s FA Cup, and the world-class facilities of Wembley Stadium and St. George’s Park, all with a purpose to Unite the Game and Inspire the Nation.

90 minutes to change our world

The Role

To deliver The FA’s internal Communications strategy, playing a crucial role in connecting all parts of the organisation and ensuring colleagues feel informed and engaged.

This role sits within both the Communication and HR Divisions.

Key Accountabilities

  • To lead, write and deliver The FA’s Internal Communications strategy, with the flexibility for a variety of scenarios during this period of uncertainty and beyond.
  • Deliver integrated internal communications campaigns across all areas of the business e.g. EDI and Mental Health & Wellbeing.
  • To support the delivery of all companywide messaging, working closely with the HR Team, Mark Bullingham and other SMT members to ensure messages are delivered in the right way, at the right time.
  • Provide recommendations on content, messaging and tone of voice for CEO, COO and HRD for internal audiences.
  • Provide copywriting support where required e.g. updates, speeches, addresses and Q&A documents.
  • Provide a holistic view of communications activity to ensure synergy between messaging for external stakeholders and internal staff.
  • Contribute to The FA’s wider engagement strategy and support the delivery of associated events, e.g. Town Halls and all colleague conferences.
  • To produce the weekly internal newsletter, ensuring it remains both informative, engaging and tonally reflective of the current scenario.
  • Maintain all staff communication platforms i.e. Team Talk and Yammer with the latest news and information.
  • Providing signposting and support for employees where required.
  • Provide continued support for the wider Communications team, including external communications and PR expertise where required.
  • Execute additional tasks as required in order to meet FA Group changing priorities.
  • Comply with all company policies and procedures to ensure the highest standards of health, safety and wellbeing can be maintained.

What we are looking for

Essential

Experience

  • Experience of working in an internal communication role.

Technical Skills

  • Highly effective communication skills.
  • Excellent writing skills.
  • Understanding of CRM use and best practice.
  • Advanced Microsoft Office.
  • Ability to collaborate and work across different stakeholders, both internal and external.
  • Adaptable and agile in responding to different business priorities.
  • Commercial/business acumen.

Desirable 

Experience

  • Experience of working in a sport environment.
  • Experience of working in a Not For Profit organisation.

What we can offer you

  • An exciting and challenging role within a changing, dynamic and world-renowned sports organisation.
  • Attractive benefits and a competitive salary.

Please be aware that unless you are on a homebased contract, your contract with The FA will specify a fixed location of either Wembley Stadium, St. George’s Park or our Processing Centre.

We currently work within a hybrid working model whereby the expectation is to work from your contractual location for part of the week, and as and when required by the team. The remaining days can be worked remotely. We will continue to monitor this model and it may be adjusted in future if deemed necessary.

The Football Association Group promotes inclusion and diversity, and welcomes applications from everyone. If you have any particular requirements in respect of the recruitment or interview process please mention this in your application.