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.

Bid For World Triathlon Championship Series, World Cups, Para Triathlon And Multisport In 2023 And Championship Finals In 2024 & 2025

World Triathlon is pleased to announce that is now welcoming bids for the 2024 and 2025 World Triathlon Championship Finals, the 2024 and 2025 World Triathlon Sprint & Relay Championships and the 2025 World Triathlon Multisport Championships. Applications are also open for cities bidding to host a World Triathlon Championship Series, World Triathlon Cup, World Triathlon Para triathlon events, World Triathlon Multisport Cup or World Triathlon Winter Championships & Cup, all of them in 2023.

World Triathlon Championship Finals 2024 & 2025

Host Cities, with the endorsement of their respective National Federation, can now bid to host a World Triathlon Championship Finals in 2024 or 2025, the crown jewel of World Triathlon’s annual calendar. Previous hosts have included such cities as London, Budapest, Beijing, Auckland, Chicago, Gold Coast, Lausanne or Edmonton, with the next ones planned in Abu Dhabi in 2022 and Pontevedra in 2023.

The World Triathlon Championship Finals Host City will also welcome the annual World Triathlon Congress with delegates from up to 167 countries, making decisions on the future of the sport. The World Triathlon Championship Finals Host City can expect to attract an audience of millions of people from around the world. This includes international TV distribution of the live coverage, international mainstream TV and print media distribution, full coverage on Triathlonlive.tv and extensive social media presence.

Bids for the Championship Finals ’24 & ’25 have to be submitted before 30 August 2022, with the announcement of the Host Cities planned for 28 November 2022.

World Triathlon Sprint & Relay Championships 2024 & 2025

World Triathlon is also welcoming bids from Host Cities, with the endorsement of their respective National Federation, for a World Triathlon Sprint & Relay Championships in 2024 or 2025. The host of the inaugural edition of this event will be Montreal in June 2022.

The World Triathlon Sprint & Relay Championships creates an instant economic impact by bringing in a significant number of international tourists to the Host City, consisting of over 4,000 competitors, support teams, officials, family and friends. With the addition of local races, the number of competitors can exceed 8,000.

Bids for the Sprint & Relay Championships ’24 & ’25 have to be submitted before 30 August 2022, with the announcement of the Host Cities planned for 28 November 2022.

World Triathlon Multisport Championships 2025

World Triathlon is also welcoming bids for the 2025 edition of the World Triathlon Multisport Championships, a mega event that includes the World Triathlon Long Distance Championships; World Triathlon Duathlon Championships (Sprint and Standard); World Triathlon Cross Championships; World Triathlon Cross Duathlon Championships; World Triathlon Aquathlon Championships and World Triathlon Aquabike Championships.

The World Triathlon Multisport Championships are designed to provide a well organised event in all triathlon-related multisport disciplines, with a wide global reach and high-quality competitions for athletes.

Taking place over approximately 10 days, the World Triathlon Multisport Championships is more than just a sports competition for the athletes. It is also an important development opportunity from the grassroots to elite level, giving athletes from a wide range of Age-Groups the opportunity to race. The entire occasion is a visual spectacle designed to inspire and motivate, from the experienced to the newcomer. The estimated number of athletes participating at the championships is close to 4,500.

The deadline for presenting bids for the Multisport Championships ends on 30 August, with the selected city to be announced on 28 November, 2022.

2023 Season events

The World Triathlon Championship Series (WTCS) is the premier triathlon series and features the world’s best racing head-to-head in up to 10 races around the globe, including the flagship Championship Finals.

The World Triathlon Championship Series comprises Olympic Distance (1.5km swim, 40km bike and 10km run), Sprint Distance (750m swim, 20km bike and 5km run) and the new super-sprint format, and may include a Mixed Relay.

Elite triathletes now compete in these prestigious events in search of the World Triathlon Championship title. Since its launch in 2009, the profile of the World Triathlon Championship Series has grown rapidly, establishing itself as the pinnacle of Olympic and Sprint distance triathlon racing across the globe.

The hosting of Championship Series events offers cities opportunities to showcase their cities to millions of people via a live international television broadcast as well as to attract thousands of local, national and international guests and race participants. To date, annual on-site spectators for the Series events are upwards of 1 million.

The World Triathlon Cup competitions are the World Triathlon’s second-tier events, intended to provide a solid and professional base for triathletes pursuing entry to the World Triathlon Championship Series. These events are aligned with the World Triathlon Development programmes. They carry a substantial prize purse, have significant media, television and internet coverage and are also attractive for tourist destinations and major cities.

Cities hosting World Cup events can expect to attract an audience of millions of people around the world, including live internet streamings on Triathlonlive.tv and the distribution of features and interviews on all World Triathlon platforms, as well as international news distribution and international print media coverage.

The Para triathlon events open for bidding are the 2023 World Triathlon Para Series, the World Triathlon Para Cups and Continental Triathlon Para Cups.

Bids are also welcomed to host Multisport Cups in 2023. Following on from the success of the Multisport World Championships, the Multisport Cups will be held throughout the season, with events providing new opportunities for top Elite athletes to compete for prize money, as well as mass participation Age-Group races, in multisport disciplines outside of the standard and sprint-distance triathlons. To be considered to host such an event, organisers must offer two of the following events; Long Distance Triathlon (including Aquabike), Duathlon, Cross Triathlon, Cross Duathlon and Aquathlon.

For cities interested in hosting Winter events, bids are welcomed for the 2023 World Triathlon Winter Cups and Championships. Triathletes from all over the world will contest the winter sport over a 6km run, 12km mountain bike and 9.6km ski course.

Cities interested in hosting the 2023 World Championships, World Cup races and Para triathlon events in 2023 or Winter Triathlon events must submit their bid documents before 31 July, 2022. World Triathlon will review all candidatures and will announce the winning cities on 15 September 2022, after the approval of the Executive Board.

Bid documents:

– 2024 & 2025 World Triathlon Championship Finals
–  2024 & 2025 World Triathlon Sprint & Relay Championships 
– 2025 World Triathlon Multisport Championships
– 2023 World Triathlon Championship Series
– 2023 World Triathlon Cup
– 2023 World Triathlon Para triathlon events
– 2023 World Triathlon Multisport Cup 
– 2023 World Triathlon Winter Championships & Cup

Director, Club Marketing – Major League Baseball

About the job

As a Director, Club Marketing you will work with assigned Major League Baseball Club personnel and internal departments within Major League Baseball to implement and optimize the overall performance of MLB Marketing Initiatives at the local level as well as Club initiatives to grow the game of baseball through both digital and non-digital consumer touchpoints.

Job Responsibilities

  • Acts as a primary liaison between assigned Clubs, MLB Marketing personnel, and various MLB business stakeholders
  • Work day to day with assigned Clubs to build a strong and collaborate relationship that enables the League office to strategize, service and assist the Clubs in their localized Marketing efforts
  • Oversee the activation of Club specific Marketing Campaigns tied to driving ticket sales, fan growth and engagement, and brand awareness
  • Project manage Club specific initiatives in the digital landscape
  • Provide guidance on Club needs and points of view at the league level as it relates to global Marketing Initiatives
  • Optimize overall performance of specific Club sites, emails and app as it relates to increasing engagement, audience and revenue generation
  • Fulfill other project responsibilities as assigned by Marketing Executives
  • Manage a team of 5-10 website content producers
  • Provide sound feedback and suggestions for enhancing the user experience for the club.com platform to further MLB and Club Marketing priorities and goals
  • Work cross functionality to coordinate, promote and implement league level programs and initiatives with Clubs

Job Requirements And Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • An individual with ten (10) or more years marketing management experience, working in either sports, media, entertainment or related field is preferred
  • Project management and/or client relations experience required
  • Understanding of the Interactive Media landscape strongly preferred – e-commerce, marketing, sponsorship, subscription products, social media platforms
  • Ability to develop cordial, professional relationships with all level of Club personnel and MLB staff
  • Detail-oriented, organized and excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Positive attitude, with the ability to think outside the box in order to achieve goals
  • Ability to multitask and work under strict deadlines
  • Engaging, enthusiastic communicator who can comfortably receive and deliver feedback
  • Ability to inspire and motivate others. Delegates effectively and promotes execution through direct and indirect influencing.
  • Familiarity and interest with the game of baseball
  • Flexible schedule: available weekends and late nights throughout the year, as needed.

Why MLB?

Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. Employees love working at MLB because of the culture of growth, teamwork, and professionalism. Employees who are most successful at MLB take initiative, know how to identify problems and provide solutions, and always put the Team first. For those ready to step up to the plate and join the Major Leagues, MLB takes the same approach as teams do with their players: empowering our “workforce athletes” to be at their best by engineering experiences that put employees in the best position to succeed. Major League Baseball is looking for candidates who are passionate about growing America’s pastime to best serve its fans for decades to come.

MLB’s vision is to be the global sport of choice for youth to play, fans of all backgrounds to enjoy and a desired destination for employment. With a belief that the journey to growth and greatness is ongoing, MLB gives employees the opportunity to continue learning and honing their skills with programs such as: tuition reimbursement; mentorship programs; lunch and learns; online course subscriptions; paid industry certifications; business resource groups; and more.

MLB provides its employees with exceptional medical, dental, and vision coverage. Premiums are 100% employer covered to help employees focus on being their best!

Major League Baseball is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Are you ready to Step Up to the Plate? Apply below!

All in-office and ballpark-based positions are subject to MLB’s mandatory Covid-19 vaccine policy

Head Of Social Media – Airspeeder

Head of Social Media Role

Job Title: Head of Social Media, Airspeeder & Alauda Aeronautics

Location: London, United Kingdom

Salary/Rate: £35-£47k DOE

Working Days: Full Time. 5 days per week. Monday to Friday (some weekend work required when on event)

Start date: ASAP

Seniority Level: Mid-level

About the Company:

Airspeeder is an upcoming, next-generation motorsport series for electric flying vehicles. It has been described as the “Formula 1 of the skies”. The series, founded by technology and space entrepreneur, Matt Pearson will be powered by performance eVTOL manufacturer Alauda.

Alauda Aeronautics provides teams with identical craft, known as ‘Speeders’. Teams will be given the freedom to set drivers and create strategy. Races will take place in remote locations across the globe. The speeders are manned racing electric quadcopters that can fly at speeds of up to 200km/h. The races will fuse mixed reality with live telemetry to create an air sport nobody has ever seen before.

At a time of significant digital growth and expansion for both the Airspeeder sport and the Alauda Aeronautics manufacturer of flying vehicles, we’re looking for a talented, highly motivated, proactive and resourceful individual, with a deep knowledge and experience of social media platform growth to join our team in London. This role requires someone with ambition to set the mark within both sport and social media.

Job Description:

As Head of Social Media for the group you will set the social media vision and lead a growing global team of talented Social Content Specialists to successfully manage and develop the social content output for the three brands, ensuring it aligns with the overarching strategy and meets KPIs.

You will also be the main point of contact for some of our biggest clients and responsible for developing image, video, mixed reality media campaigns across multiple channels.

Reporting to the Head of Media, you will work collaboratively to consistently evolve our social content (owned and paid) business strategy.

Developing and expanding relationships with partners, including broadcasters, producers and platforms would have to be within your capability in this role.

The ideal candidate will have strong metric results across a number of social platforms for an existing sports rights holder, and a proven track record of successful campaigns devised and launched.

Having experience with known sports properties or sports agencies would put you at an advantage for this vacancy.

Candidates for the role should aim to provide inspirational and creative thought leadership on ways to reach and gain the attention of target audiences, including motorsport, drone racing, technology, aviation, extreme sports and pop culture.

Can collaborate with business leaders across the organization to identify and purposely create revenue enhancing content across ads, marketing partnerships, merchandise, and content initiatives.

This position is based in our London offices.

About You:

  • Previous sports properties or sports agency experience.
  • Solid experience in social media strategy development and activation.
  • Deep understanding of organic, paid and earned social media principles across key social media platforms globally.
  • Data-driven, analytical mindset, demonstrated knowledge in social media metrics, reporting and analytics.
  • Used to working with and interpreting research, data and social analytics to improve insight, strategy and delivery
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • An understanding of the latest pay-per-click and social media marketing techniques used across the top social media platforms today.
  • Have an understanding of video and image workflow and feedback.
  • Be able to create a killer strategy for engagement
  • Ability to work proactively independently as well as part of a team.

Key Skills and Knowledge:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Relevant Field; Minimum 5+ years of experience developing and executing Social Strategies and Content in an Agency or Sports Brand Environment
  • In-depth knowledge of the major platforms’ organic and paid features – spanning analytics, optimization, ad-formats, and bespoke content planning.
  • An integrated leader, with experience working not only Social-first campaigns, but also a champion for how the discipline fits into fully integrated 360 campaigns.
  • Can own monthly and weekly digital reporting across social channels.
  • Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work with internal and external partners at all levels, presenting ideas clearly and concisely, both written and verbal.
  • Excellent strategic planning skills with the ability to identify and prioritize projects with competing timelines
  • Keen sense of brand voice/strategy and how to bring it to life.
  • A passion for sports, with an awareness of all UK, European and major worldwide sporting events.
  • A natural knowledge of the Gen-Z audience.
  • Experience across reporting and utlizing tools e.g., Sprout, Hubspot, SEMrush.
  • Highly organized with a positive attitude and a strong desire to get things done.
  • Possesses expertise in Adobe Creative Suite, After Effects, Photoshop and InDesign or other appropriate software applications.
  • Proficient with social media platforms, including but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position manages one social media producer in Australia remotely, and two interns working in London.

General:

  • Able to be an ambassador to the core values of the brand.
  • Be a good communicator with strong relationship management skills.
  • Some travel to shoots in the community, races internationally and partner offices.
  • Some knowledge of technology and motorsport industries.

Airspeeder/Alauda is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with us is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, colour, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Communications And Project Manager – European Leagues

About the job

Communications and Project Manager

Starting Summer 2022

European Leagues (the employer):

The European Leagues (EL) – the Association of European Professional Football Leagues – is the voice of Professional Football Leagues on all matters of common interest and the official body representing the interest of domestic professional football competition organisers in the European stakeholder’s family. It is an association governed by Swiss law founded in 2005. The European Leagues represents 36 professional football leagues and associations of clubs from 30 countries, representing more than 1000 clubs from all over Europe.

During the past few years, the EL has been growing its membership structure as well as its institutional, political but also commercial influence in the football industry. The EL is now considered one of the leading international organisations in professional football and has the ambition to further develop the range of services it provides to its member leagues and their affiliated clubs. The new Communications and Project Manager will play an important role in this process.

Position Summary:

Based at the EL HQs in Nyon (Switzerland), the Communication and Project Manager will work and have responsibilities on projects and activities that make a measurable contribution to the execution of the EL’s new and ongoing related projects with focus on communications, relations/services to the member leagues and their clubs, and collective business/league development projects. The overall goal is to support the EL members and their clubs in their sustainable development on and off the pitch.

Position Responsibilities:

The Communication and Project Manager responsibilities will evolve as priority areas and projects are defined, however, the role will focus primarily on the following tasks:

  • Support the EL Administration team in the strategic development of its social media channels and the Club Advisory Platform (CAP);
  • Content creation and delivery for the EL communication platforms but also for EL workshops, seminars and events for member leagues and their clubs;
  • Proactively support initiatives to drive the growth and development of our current international media rights collective project with ELEVEN and OneFootball; and
  • Research and editorial work related to EL Reports and Publications.

Position Requirements:

  • Valid work permit/visa to live and work in Switzerland or being a candidate that can apply for a work visa as an EU National.
  • Bachelor’s degree in communication, marketing, business administration, or a related field.
  • Excellent editorial and writing skills in English language (fluency in English language both written and verbal is essential for this position).
  • Good interest and understanding of structure and organisation of professional football competitions both at domestic and international level. Previous experience in professional football and/or any other professional sports related organisation is preferred.
  • Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to solve complex problems and easily communicate findings.
  • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with a team.
  • Strong work ethic with a flexible and can-do attitude to tackle challenges and opportunities while meeting project deadlines.

To be part of the EL Administration means:

  • Work in a truly international environment for a highly professional sport industry.
  • Be at the very centre of professional football ecosystem with the opportunity to work with Professional Football Leagues, Clubs, Stakeholders (FIFA, UEFA, FIFPro, ECA, Fans), Media and EU Institutions as well as with sports business companies.
  • Being part of a motivated, skilled, and passionate team of professionals.
  • Salary conditions to be agreed between parties.

Please send CV and (comprehensive) cover letter to: hq@europeanleagues.com by May 13, 2022.

Senior Partnership Sales Manager – NBA (EME)

About the job

The NBA are actively seeking a Senior Partnership Development Manager who will take a key role in the sponsorship sales process across EME at both a regional multi-market and national single market level.

The focus for the successful candidate will be on prospecting, pitching, negotiating and securing new marketing partners. The role is London based, with a hybrid working pattern, and likely to involve around three days in office each week and there will be regular European travel too.

The role would ideally suit someone from a Business Development, Partnership Sales background, ideally working in a major rightsholder / team / brand delivering forward thinking partnership deals.

Major Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement a sales strategy for the NBA Europe Game as part of the overall EME new business strategy and ownership of the new business revenue targets associated with the event.
  • Develop and implement a sales strategy for regional sales categories and ownership of the revenue targets associated with these.
  • Prospect, target and sell tailored NBA partnerships to multinational and national companies in relation to the above, utilizing data and research as well as an extensive external personal network.
  • Consult with both multinational and national companies to determine their sales and marketing objectives as well as the strategic direction of their business, markets and competitors and create integrated marketing partnerships/programmes that will meet these objectives.
  • Creatively develop new commercial opportunities and initiatives that can be successfully taken to market which will include IP, media, promotional, and event-based assets
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with external stakeholders and senior decision makers at potential partners and agencies in the region
  • Work collaboratively with other internal NBA functions, both in this region and globally, to help develop rights packages that can successfully be taken to market.
  • Work with the other members of the EME Business Development team on shaping the regional strategy and proactively contribute to sales efforts in other EME markets as required.

Required Skills/Knowledge

  • Successful track record in international sales (preferably within the sports sector)
  • Strong understanding of the sponsorship market and a network of relationships across all sectors of the sponsorship landscape
  • A track record of securing sponsorship contracts for rights holders
  • Ability to develop creative solutions which will meet the objectives of prospective marketing partners
  • Strategic thinker – able to shape, develop and execute the strategy for a diverse region
  • Strong persuasive and negotiation skills
  • A credible communicator, adept at operating at Board/Senior Executive level and with excellent presentation skills
  • Commercially minded and results driven – ability to meet and exceed sales targets
  • Ability to work well within a matrix organization
  • Fluency in English. Additional languages such as French / Spanish would be helpful but not essential.

The Executives in Sport Group are retained on behalf of the NBA to appoint a New Business Development Manager. All direct applications and CV’s will be forwarded to The Executives in Sport Group.