Commercial Manager, Women’s Football – The FA

About the job

Our Organisation

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

We are searching for a Commercial Manager – Women’s Football who will oversee the day-to-day delivery of commercial programme for the Barclays FA Women’s Super League, and The FA Women’s Championship.

The successful candidate will act as liaison with Club representatives, FA internal teams and external suppliers on all aspects of commercial delivery including management of associated governance for the leagues.

Key Accountabilities

  • Work with relevant personnel at BFAWSL and FAWC clubs (incl. General Managers and commercial & marketing contacts) on management and delivery of commercial rights.
  • Work with relevant FA internal teams (i.e. Broadcast, Partnerships, Communications, Marketing) to implement commercial rights programme for BFAWSL and FAWC and ensure delivery of rights for key stakeholders.
  • Key point of contact for BFAWSL and FAWC clubs to provide support and guidance where needed to develop club commercial activity and respond to commercial queries.
  • Development and delivery of commercial workshops for BFAWSL and FAWC clubs.
  • Work with the Senior Commercial Manager (Women’s Football) on commercial aspects of League governance – including the Club Licence, Commercial Regulations and Broadcast Regulations.
  • Liaise with FA legal counsel and other relevant FA internal teams on future updates and amends to commercial aspects of League governance – including the Club Licence, Commercial Regulations and Broadcast Regulations.
  • Work with the Senior Commercial Manager Women’s football on the review and rewording of commercial elements of BFAWSL and FAWC Club Licence Application.
  • Coordination of and associated reporting/delivery of agreed actions from BFAWSL & FAWC Commercial Committees.
  • Oversee implementation of league matchday ground dressing across BFAWSL and FAWC (in conjunction with the appointed League Ground Dressing Supplier and FA Partnerships, Marketing and Facilities teams), ensuring delivery of commercial rights for all stakeholders.
  • Coordination of internal reports and presentations as required. (e.g. Board reporting, KPIs)
  • Budget management as appropriate. (e.g. ground dressing, partnership client servicing)

What we are looking for

  • Understanding of commercial programmes, commercial partnerships/sponsorships and associated legal documents, (sporting context)
  • Understanding of brand marketing,
  • Understanding of UK sports sponsorship market,
  • Experience of developing & delivering commercial programmes and partnerships (sports focus)
  • Experience of working with cross-functional project teams,
  • Experience of managing external suppliers,
  • Strong relationship building and relationship management skills,
  • Strong leadership and influencing skills that can be used to good effect both internally and externally,
  • Strong communication skills,
  • Excellent project management skills with a particular focus on attention to detail,
  • Ability to create presentations and present to a wide range of key stakeholders,
  • Proactive approach to problem solving and ability to navigate contractual issues,
  • Proficient skills in Microsoft Office.

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.

Venue Hospitality Infrastructure Manager – FIFA Qatar 2022

About the job

FIFA and the Qatar LOC has created a new Joint Venture, which will be responsible for the operational delivery of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022TM.

This role is key to ensuring the successful delivery of the Commercial Hospitality Programmes with focus on the readiness of all technical aspects of Power, Utilities and Overlay builds and providing support to stakeholders where remedial action is required.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Directly responsible for ensuring construction readiness and overlay installation of Hospitality Facilities, Requirements, Utilities (power, Water/Sewage, IT&&, CATV) and Overlay for Indoor hospitality Areas (including kitchens) and Hospitality Villages.
  • Prepares any necessary paperwork for the handover of the HOS facilities, indoor and outdoor, from SC/Q22 to the Rights Holder.
  • Attends all HOS inspections, including the FIFA-LOC inspection, Rights Holder inspections, Affiliates Visits, Supplier visits etc. Reports on the inspection to FIFA HOS, ensures issue resolution at venue level.
  • Ensures updated technical documentation from FIFA/MH for all HOS facilities and utilities (power, water/sewage, IT&T, CATV etc) is correctly distributed to the LOC Venue Team, Overlay supplier and Stadium constructor, etc.
  • Ensures operational readiness of Hospitality Infrastructure and Utilities, such as: Maintenance of facilities (HVAC, lifts/escalators, kitchen systems, hydraulic systems, CATV, and other stadium-owned equipment in general), Power availability (including ensuring generator operations and maintenance as per HOS needs/schedule), Logistic Routes, etc; including on match days.
  • Acting as FIFA HOS first point of contact at the Venue for Infrastructure related issues.
  • As part of venue HOS team, provides feedback, operational readiness status and general support during key operational phases to Venue Management Team.
  • Any other duties that may be required.

Qualifications and experience

  • Experience as venue manager either in Hospitality or Infrastructure at multi stadium events
  • 5 years’ experience of mega events
  • 2 years’ project management
  • 2 years’ experience of management of multiple suppliers
  • Technical, architectural or design experience
  • Excellent knowledge of infrastructure and overlay delivery management
  • Experience of large-scale event operations
  • Experience in high volume, multi-site 5* Hospitality operations and delivery
  • Proficient in spoken and written English, Arabic would be an advantage
  • Proficient in use of Microsoft Applications Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook

Partnership Marketing Executive – Professional Squash Association

Salary – Based on Experience

Location – Leeds

Contract type – Permanent (Full time)

Closing date9 May 2022

Interview date – 6 June 2022

(Growth and Commercial Team)

Holiday entitlement of 25 days (+ UK bank holidays) plus benefits including pension

Full time 37.5 hours per week

The Professional Squash Association (PSA) is the global governing body responsible for the administration of both men’s and women’s professional squash around the world. With over 200 events taking place around the globe every year, the PSA World Tour showcases the game of squash at its highest level in some of the world’s most unique and stunning locations.

Squash Media & Marketing (SMM) – the commercial arm of the PSA – is responsible for working with our partners to deliver these engaging events, while creating new opportunities for our athletes and exciting propositions for our fans.

This is a brilliant opportunity for a new graduate or someone early in their career to break into the exciting sports industry in a marketing / content / creative role.

About you:-

  • A graduate in media, marketing, social media or other marketing / business discipline
  • Experience editing websites, newsletters, using social media
  • Experience with copywriting and editorial/writing skills
  • Some experience with creative tools (photoshop, video editing)
  • A strong communicator both written and spoken
  • Ability to interact with and build strong relationships with partners and internal contacts at all levels
  • An interest in sport in general or squash
  • Possess strong analytical skills (experience with Excel or other insights tools)
  • Well organised, good time manager and inter-personal skills with attention to detail
  • Have the energy to learn new skills and develop professionally and personally
  • Proactive in seeking opportunities, finding solutions, and making things happen!

The role:-

The Partnerships Marketing Executive is a key new hire and will be responsible for day-to-day execution across website, social, content and events for activations of partners assigned to the individual. In a highly visible role both internally and externally, the key responsibilities for the role will include:

  • Being the first point of contact for partners that this role manages and responsible for building strong relationships with them.
  • Being the first point of contact for internal stakeholders regarding activities and updates on the partners that this role manages.
  • Work with the Marketing Manager, PR & Media Manager and Head of Growth to understand objectives for each partner, agree on execution elements and implement actions on a day-to-day basis.
  • Responsible for day-to-day execution across website, social, content and events for activations of partners assigned to the individual.
  • Work with the partner to identify athletes they want content on and manage distribution of content through agreed means within timelines on a day-to-day basis.
  • Collaborate with the Content, Social and Media teams on content plans, social activations, and PR opportunities.
  • Stay up to date on contractual requirements for partners and ensure delivery of all assets from all parties.
  • Monitor, evaluate and report on key metrics to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Identify new activations, ideas and opportunities to enhance the partner relationship, while adding value to the partner, SMM, athletes and fans.
  • Proactively stay up to date on latest goings-on in the partnership / sponsorship space, new opportunities, new technology, thought leadership and activities by other brands and rights holders.

The role will be based in the Calls area of Leeds and requires occasional travel for meetings and regular travel to events for fulfilling partner requirements.

The PSA Group values the diversity of their global multi-cultural following and aims to have a workforce reflecting this; therefore, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

To apply email your CV and covering letter to Julie Shimmin at careers@psaworldtour.com

Only applicants who currently have the right to work in the UK will be considered.

How to apply

To apply email your CV and covering letter to Julie Shimmin at careers@psaworldtour.com

Chief Executive Officer – Commonwealth Games Foundation

The CEO will be responsible for the Foundation’s day-to-day running. Ensuring it adheres to its mission whilst delivering against its goals and objectives while staying true to its values.  Key priorities will be finalising the operational establishment of the Foundation (ensure the effective delivery of governance, policies and procedures etc.). Working with the President and Board, ensuring the execution of mutually-beneficial agreements between the CSF and the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) and CGF Partnerships; negotiating and managing the CSF’s interests, obligations, and opportunities for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.  Define and establish the CSF’s role, opportunities, and responsibilities in future Games.

How to apply

Please send your CV and Cover Letter via email with the subject title ‘CEO Commonwealth Sport Foundation’ to myra@myramcglynn.com by 17:00 BST on Friday May 14th 2022.

For the full application pack, please click below.

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Director, Hospitality – Excel Sports Management

About the job

Excel Sports Management is an industry-leading sports agency representing top-tier talent, blue-chip brands and marquee properties.

Excel Sports Management is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).

Position Summary:

Excel Sports Management is seeking an experienced executive to support key clients, internal teams, and new business efforts. He/she is passionate about events, creative ideation, developing concepts, and executing with excellence. He/she is willing to get their hands dirty, coachable, willing to learn, flexible, and multi-faceted. A self-starter who can work with a small team and communicate to larger teams is a critical quality. We expect the ideal candidate to be someone who impresses everyone around them with their work ethic and willingness to go above and beyond.

Responsibilities:

  • Provides the day-to-day management of key clients’ strategy, sponsorship activation, hospitality, and marketing initiatives.
  • Build and maintain positive client relationships that result in increased reliance upon Excel.
  • Interact daily with clients and all appropriate agencies/properties to support hospitality and event initiatives.
  • Develop ideas for engaging event branding, collateral and on-site materials.
  • Create planning tracking tools and on-site materials: rooming lists, confirmation documents, food and beverage schedule, transportation manifest, etc.
  • Negotiate contracts, secure products and services based on clients needs
  • Provide event portfolio analysis, identifying relevant opportunities that support strategic recommendations for the clients.
  • Manage the client-vendor relationships and coordinate necessary activation and leveraging deliverables on behalf of client.
  • Create event briefs, recaps, event itineraries and staff plans.
  • Plan client status calls including scheduling and preparing agendas or status documents.
  • Provide on-site leadership/management of hospitality events.
  • Support event ROI/measurement processes.
  • Build, update, manage, and reconcile budgets, along with providing client budget updates along each step of the process.
  • Manage internal resources and vendors to be accountable for delivering work to the highest standards.
  • Understand the businesses and industries of our clients and focus on creating the best opportunities for the brand and our business.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree required.
  • 6 to 8 years of relevant experience planning and executing high-level corporate events and hospitality experiences, experience with sponsorship activation, sports marketing, or other relevant industry experience.
  • Experience working with a variety of vendor types: hotel, transportation, catering, production, etc.
  • Experience managing day-to-day relationships with clients, agencies, and vendors.
  • Experience leading a team, managing projects, building budgets, leading clients.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

  • Comprehends and respects budgets, budget management and planning experience a plus.
  • Ability to think strategically and creatively.
  • Ability to problem-solve independently and in groups.
  • Excellent time management, written and oral communication skills.
  • Exceptional interpersonal and client services skills.
  • Excellent technical/computer skills and presentation know-how.
  • Ability to multitask effectively in fast-paced environments.
  • Goal-oriented and results-driven.
  • Maintains composure under pressure.
  • Ability to interface with colleagues, senior executives, talent, and clients effectively and personably, recognizing the need to adjust communication style according to the audience.
  • Proactive and productive, recognizing opportunity and implementing procedures to achieve better job efficiencies.
  • Strives to increase industry knowledge, able to self-educate to be ahead of the curve
  • Values truth, openness, and pursues excellence.
  • Has a strong sense of ownership – ensures goals are met and high level standards are upheld.
  • Has uncompromised ethics, integrity and discretion with company and client information.
  • Engages in internal activities (team building, events, off-sites, etc.) and embraces internal culture.
  • Ability to travel frequently and work nights, weekends and holidays.

This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

Excel Sports Management provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Head Of Brand Marketing – Peak Performance

About the job

Are you a senior marketeer looking for a new opportunity working in a global company that is growing? A passionate storyteller with excellent knowledge of making consumers fall in love with a brand? If yes, this might be something for you as Peak Performance are looking for a Head of Brand Marketing to join the HQ marketing team in Stockholm.

As the Head of Brand Marketing, you are responsible to lead the Peak Performance brand marketing team and brand radiation towards our community/end-consumers. To drive the overall seasonal brand experience strategy and secure the implementation to ensure that we inspire and engage our community in all organic and bought media touchpoints, this includes PR, Media & Influencer partnerships, Athletes, Sponsorships & Social Media channels. You will lead with a digital and DTC first approach to grow our brand awareness, consumer engagement and to build long-term relationships with our community globally. To support & drive brand expansion into new immature/new markets will be a top priority.

Main Responsibilities:

  • Manage, lead, and develop the marketing team resources & functions. The team consists of three direct reports (Sponsorship Manager, Sports Marketing Manager, Senior Brand Manager) & two indirect reports (PR Manager & Social Media Specialist).
  • Support and drive market expansion projects in partnership with an internal cross-functional team.
  • Provide insights and feedback to creative team regarding specific touchpoint needs to ensure relevant content are developed for each initiative to ensure an inspirational and engaging communication towards our community.
  • Define and agree campaign objectives and KPIs per initiative including but not limited to brand awareness and positioning, traffic and revenue, new customer acquisition and retention/loyalty/frequency of purchase.
  • Keep on top of consumers and market insights, trends, and development on an ongoing basis. Consider different customer segments in marketing – always asking who we are speaking to and how. Think global, act local.
  • Work with external agencies & partners to support our brand & business needs (creative agencies, material partners, production companies etc.)
  • Manage & track overall brand marketing budget.
  • Together with VP Marketing – develop and execute overall brand marketing long term strategies, and short-term tactical plans to support our business goals.
  • Own seasonal go-to-market strategies for the brand marketing organic and bought media touchpoint and ensure its in line with the overall business strategy and our brand positioning.
  • Ensure x-functional alignment by actively partaking in the new product development (NPD) process, from idea to execution.
  • Delivery of impactful and effective brand marketing campaigns, on time and within budget.
  • Develop key cities specific plans and activations that drives brand awareness and consumer engagement.
  • In this role you will be part of the global Peak Performance Marketing & Consumer Experience Team reporting into our VP Marketing.

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS

We believe that you are a passionate and curious individual with a proven track record within marketing. An experienced and inspiring leader that challenges status que & appreciates change. You are a team-builder that supports your team, give them the spotlight & encourage them to grow every day. Strategic thinking, communication, building long-lasting relationships and creating brand heat are critical success factors in this role, which is naturally your top skills. In this role you will be a strategist and a doer, and to be able to be both is on your priority list when looking for a new job opportunity.

Last but not least, you are a true team player that live & breath our values of Togetherhood, Passion and Winning Spirit.

  • Minimum 10 years of experience within the field of marketing working at an international brand and/or agency.
  • Preferably work experience as Head of Marketing for an international brand.
  • Have done experience from introducing a brand in a new markets.
  • Strong digital marketing knowledge & know how.
  • Experience in running high performing international x-functional marketing teams.
  • Leadership skills with the ability to set and prioritize goals.
  • Analytical & strategic mind.
  • Education: Minimum Bachelor of marketing or/and similar.
  • Good IT user (word, excel, PowerPoint etc.).
  • Language: Strong communication skills and excellent in English (spoken and written).

Head Of Event Operations – Formula 1

About The Role

At F1, we are continually driving further to deliver the same end goal; to unleash the greatest racing spectacle on the planet.

So that we can reach these elite-level standards, Formula 1 are seeking a Head of Event Operations to provide strategic oversight for all aspects of Grand Prix delivery across all circuit venues.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

As Head of Event Operations, you will be leading the team to deliver the operational plan, development, and ongoing management of F1 suppliers at Grand Prix races.

This will include input and coordination into circuit design, build & layout, venue overlay, permitting, partner activations, experience activations, promoter co-ordination, safety and security.

You will also be responsible for coordinating and communicating with relevant F1 departments to ensure a fully integrated approach to Grand Prix delivery, as well as liaising with F1 functions and race promoters to ensure of a successful Grand Prix production which is to global standards on event delivery and event fan experience management.

Permanent communication with F1 internal stakeholders will be another responsibility in this role so that, when necessary, you can adapt for specific experience and client requirements and to support commercial revenue streams across each grand prix.

To help inform future events, you will be responsible for conducting post-event data and strategic analysis.For further information, please view Additional Information.

About You

For this role, you must have a minimum education level of a BA/BS Degree. Having extensive experience in a related role and environment would also be essential as Head of Events.

Previous senior leadership would also be beneficial for this role, being able to serve as a proactive and decisive leader with excellent communication skills and a strategic mindset.

You must have the ability to manage activities within the functional area and make independent decisions using sound judgment.

As the Head of Events flexibility will be vital as you will often be working evenings, weekends and holidays. There will also be a lot of travelling involved within this role.

Finally, knowledge of the sports and live entertainment industry would put you at an advantage for this role.

As a united team we achieve great things together. Are you ready to unleash and develop your potential at F1?

Tender, Asia Media Rights FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 – FIFA

FIFA has opened an invitation to tender (ITT) on 28 April 2022 for the sale of media rights to the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ in selected territories across Asia.

Interested parties will be invited to make an offer in one or more of the following territories: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Korea Republic, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam.

Further information about the rights being offered, the bid process and the submission of bids will be provided in the ITT.

Media companies or organisations wishing to participate in the ITT can submit a request by email to FWWC23-asia-media-rights@fifa.org.

Since its inception in 1991, the FIFA Women’s World Cup™ has grown exponentially, becoming the most-watched women’s single-sport event globally. The most recent edition – the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019™ – attracted a record audience of over 1.1 billion viewers, smashing domestic viewing figures in many territories.

The 2023 edition of the FIFA Women’s World Cup will be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand and will take place in nine Host Cities across ten stadiums from 20 July to 20 August 2023. Following the amazing success of the 2019 event, the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 will be the first edition of the tournament to feature 32 teams, including more Asian teams than ever before.

China PR, Japan, Korea Republic, the Philippines and Vietnam have all already qualified for the final tournament; Thailand and Chinese Taipei still have a chance to qualify in the play-off tournament for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 early next year.

The tender process will allow FIFA to select the media companies that are best placed to achieve FIFA’s overall objectives to deliver high quality, comprehensive coverage of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ to help accelerate the growth and development of women’s football.

Bid submissions to FIFA must be received by 10:00 CEST on Tuesday, 7 June 2022.

Through the sale of media rights for its football tournaments, FIFA generates income which is essential to support and develop the game around the world, for instance through the FIFA Forward and FIFA Women’s Development Programme.

Athlete & Olympian Communications Manager – International Olympic Committee

Department: Athletes’ Department
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Contract Type: open-ended
Activity Level: 100%
Entry date: 01.06.2022
Application deadline: 01.05.2022

You will have a lead role in developing clear communication and promotion strategies throughout the entire athlete and Olympian lifecycle. You will manage the planning and content delivery process across athlete and Olympian-focused digital engagement platforms. 
 

Main responsibilities

Olympic Agenda 2020+5

  • Support the implementation of the Olympic Agenda 2020+5 recommendations. 
  • Ensure athlete and Olympian communications planning meets the targets set through the Olympic Agenda 2020+5 recommendations.
  • Work across the organisation and with external partners to facilitate the delivery of content on IOC athlete- and Olympian-focused digital platforms.

Overall planning and coordination  

  • Assist with the creation of a rich library of content to support and engage athletes and Olympians throughout their sporting and non-sporting journey, from youth level to the post-retirement phase.
  • Manage all Athlete365 social media to continually increase engagement across the elite-level athlete community. 
  • Drive awareness of programmes and opportunities available at the IOC and across the Olympic Movement. 
  • Manage IOC-selected agencies for editorial, design and video production by appropriately allocating resources and ensuring business needs are met, whilst maintaining a balanced editorial calendar across all athlete digital engagement platforms. 
  • Identify and drive strong end-to-end processes and quality control measures across all areas of content and asset production. 

Communications planning 

  • Facilitate the creative content delivery process, bringing together key stakeholders and agencies to develop and deliver innovative campaigns that capture the attention of and engage the elite athlete and Olympian population. 
  • Work closely with IOC departments to develop a content plan to engage the athlete, Olympian and entourage communities.   
  • Support the implementation of Olympic brand expression and showcase best practices in delivery across all athlete and Olympian communications.

Olympian programmes 

  • Develop activations that foster growth and engagement with the Olympian community. 
  • Support the communications and digital engagement strategy with Olympians.
  • Support content planning and delivery for social media platforms.
  • Support the continued development of a strong Olympians’ alumni programme.

Reporting and analysis 

  • Provide regular reports and updates on activity across athlete communications.
  • Develop and maintain resources to support the IOC Athletes’ Commission in communicating about key athlete-focused programmes.

Other

  • Assist in the delivery of projects as delegated by the manager of the unit or the Athletes’ Department Director.
  • Perform everyday administrative tasks, prepare various reports, correspondence, expense forms and documents, filing, ordering supplies, etc.

Our requirements

  • Undergraduate degree in marketing, communications, business or a related field.
  • High level of computer literacy in design tools.
  • Excellent command of the corporate tools and adherence to the internal user rules (SharePoint, Outlook, Asana, etc.).
  • Strong knowledge of project management tools and methodology.  
  • Fluency in English, with good working knowledge of French.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
  • Minimum of five years’ experience in project management and online community development.
  • Being an Olympian or former elite athlete is an asset.
  • High level of competency in project management software and ability to manage tight deadlines.   
  • Knowledge of email marketing and analytics software such as Salesforce, Mailchimp or Google Analytics is a positive. 
  • Ability to take an active part in achieving shared objectives through personal involvement and ability to respect the contributions of all team members.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Strong sense of planning and organisation.
  • Familiar with online education and experience with various methods of learning.
  • Ability to write coherently in English and adapt tone of writing to the audience.
     

Come and join an organisation where the spirit of inclusion, gender equality and diversity is embedded in its DNA and which focuses on what unites us – a passion for sport and its values. Work in a flexible and rewarding environment which offers competitive employee benefits and numerous incentives to live a sustainable, healthy and active life. By joining us, you become part of the Olympic Movement and help to build a better world through sport. You will have the opportunity to work with people of more than 60 nationalities.

Head Of Insights – LiveScore Group

About the job

The Role

The Insights team is responsible for empowering stakeholders to make informed decisions, and a key part in fostering a data-driven culture throughout the business. With an abundance of data at our disposal our analysts provide senior leaders in the business with actionable recommendations through a range of analytical tools.

The core Insights functions cover all aspects of Marketing, Business and Media operations, with a view to optimising all functions. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing this operation, to make helpful contributions, to lead projects, and to assist in ongoing training. This is an excellent opportunity to join a core team within a rapidly expanding multi-sector, multi-territory organisation!

Key Responsibilities

  • Ensure data is central to business output, using it to continually increase customer value and adoption, understanding the usage of our products and services
  • Understand all customer insight and data – using it to ask the right questions and make the right decisions
  • Ensure that customer data is at the heart of decision making across the organisation, working with all customer insight and data to ask the right questions and make the right data driven decisions
  • Be comfortable supporting analysts in presenting complex analysis to C-suite level stakeholders.
  • Able to collaborate, work cross-functionally and communicate effectively across multiple business functions and geographies, including Acquisition, CRM, Data, Product, Brand & Commercial teams across our European and African businesses.
  • Be someone who enjoys, and shows an appetite for, learning new skills and adopting new analytic methodologies and tools whilst being prepared to get into the details of the data warehouse.
  • Provide strategic and analytic guidance to a team of high performing analysts by helping identify the correct analytic/statistical solution and supporting your team in creating insightful, actionable recommendations to stakeholders.
  • Guide your team to deliver analyses and insights for stakeholders across the entire marketing department as well as at C-suite level, helping to drive business growth.
  • Be able to deal with uncertainty to help your team decipher complex problems, select an ideal solution, translate into actionable requirements and when needed be “hands-on” in helping your team to review code and insights.
  • Develop your team: You’ll be accountable for a team that empowers stakeholders and delivers results. You’ll need to coach individuals, input to technical discussions, recruit top talent and improve existing processes. You’ll be an example of LiveScore’s leadership principles and work to grow more leaders within your group.

Key Skills / Experience

  • Proven experience in an Insights and Analytics position within either a sports betting or digital marketing agency environment.
  • Advanced experience using GCP & BigQuery in a commercial setting.
  • Proven experience managing, growing and developing a team of 10+ people.
  • Excellent presentation skills alongside the ability to present to both internal and external stakeholders.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience working cross functionally in a global organisation.
  • Excellent interpersonal, relationship building and influencing skills.

The Person

  • Commercially minded: You are always thinking about ways to improve the companies bottom line, and every decision you take is designed to maximise growth.
  • Evidence based decision making: you are thorough in your assessment of the data, and you consider problems from multiple angles before deciding on the most appropriate course of action.
  • Team obsessed: You find and cultivate talent to be capable of achieving outstanding results. You help develop the creative atmosphere to let your team innovate, while holding them accountable for making smart decisions and delivering results.
  • Adept at handling uncertainty: You’re able to explore unfamiliar challenges and find solutions that others miss. You’re quick to identify any gaps in the team and can find the right person to fill them to best deliver value for the business.
  • Adaptive to change: Things move quickly at LiveScore, you will need to be flexible and eagerly throw yourself into new challenges.
  • Relationship focused: As someone who is responsible for influencing people throughout the business, you will be adept at building relationships and cultivating participation from your team, and other senior stakeholders from around the business.

What can we offer?

  • Performance bonus
  • Private Healthcare scheme
  • Subsidised gym membership
  • Ride to Work Scheme
  • 25 days holiday + bank holidays
  • Virgin Tribe – access to exclusive Virgin offers and experiences
  • Life Assurance (x3 salary)
  • Contributory Pension Plan
  • Festival summer and cracking Christmas parties

About Us

Welcome to LiveScore Group. We are home to LiveScore, LiveScore Bet and Virgin Bet, three of the most exciting brands in the sports and gaming industries today.

Whether it is LiveScore delivering real-time sports scores or free-to-air live streams to its 56 million monthly users across 200 territories, or LiveScore Bet and Virgin Bet offering innovative and trusted sportsbook betting opportunities, we bring our audiences closer than ever to the sports they love with our best-in-class products.

This is a truly exciting time to consider joining our team within the LiveScore Group. Across our core brands at LiveScore, LiveScore Bet and Virgin Bet we are offering the chance to work in the heart of the sport industry, as we look to quickly expand our successful, privately-owned business.

With offices and roles based in London, Stoke, Galway, Vienna, Gibraltar, Lagos and Prague, our staff are part of a truly international business that is training and growing together, and empowered to build a bright and rewarding future.

Anzo Group (holding company to LiveScore Group and Roxor Gaming)

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. The I.D.E.A (Inclusion, Diversity, Equality, Awareness) Forum is Anzo Group’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, critical to our business and fundamental to everything we do. Anzo Group are Disability Confident Committed – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.