Commercial Media Production Manager – Liverpool FC

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team on a fixed term contract as a Commercial Media Production Manager. The main purpose of the job is to support the Commercial Content Team and project manage the complex production and asset requirements of commercial content demands from across the club into the media department.

What will you be doing? The key accountabilities of this role are:

  • The day-to-day project and operational contact in the department for all commercial, partner and other club department requests for resource, footage, video creation and social media.
  • Oversee all activity coming into commercial content team and work with the senior manager to create a clear and manageable plan of delivery and execution. 
  • Manage relationships with 16 partnership account managers of all work in progress and pipeline. With guidance from the senior manager, work to find operational solutions to deliver contracted and non-contracted partner requests.
  • Project manage the delivery of contracted bespoke content projects and Club departments such as retail, foundation, PR where needed on campaigns that contribute to key revenue targets and growth.
  • Manage the tracking of both IVU Revenue and cost of sale budgets of the commercial content including compiling and providing quotes, raising invoices after the completion of work and tracking payment is received within the relevant budget line. Monitor and update the cost of sale tracker ensuring all resource/facility hire, footage costs and production work in accounted for within the budget.
  • Responsible for raising all POs for any cost of sale projects. Monitoring and reporting on budget and any incoming revenue.
  • Manage the production operations within the commercial content department and create production schedules, advising of delivery dates and organising crew and equipment for shoots. Co-ordinate freelancers hire when needed in line with available cost of sale budget.
  • Work with 3rd party agencies providing club assets and staff to align the deliverables to be as suitable for club platforms as possible.
  • Filter all requests for footage from external and internal departments and liaise with media management to fulfil requests.

Who are we looking for? To be successful it is essential that you have experience of agency methodologies and have project management skills including software use. You must also have proficient IT skills for creating reports, report and schedule creation and budget management. You must have effective stakeholder management, excellent problem solving, organisation and efficiency skills and the ability to work as part of a team.

Why should you apply? This is a full-time fixed term role working 35 hours per week Monday to Friday. Your main base will be our Head Office in Liverpool City Centre which is close to local bars, shops and restaurants and has great views over the river Mersey.To reward your hard work and commitment we offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays and the option to purchase up to an additional 5 days) and a contributory pension scheme.You will have access to our benefits kit bag where you can get high street discounts, and a selection of benefit schemes you can join. There are opportunities to get involved with volunteering through our LFC Foundation to give back to the local community.We aspire to be the most inclusive club in world football – providing fair and appropriate opportunities to as many people from different backgrounds as possible, being welcoming and meeting their needs as best we can. We are committed to hiring great people representative of a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, not just because it`s the right thing to do, but because we believe it makes our Club stronger. If you share our enthusiasm and passion for inclusivity, then we want to hear from you.Liverpool FC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all Colleagues and Volunteers to share this commitmen

Head of Risk and Compliance – Tottenham Hotspur Football Club

Founded in 1882 and based in North London, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club has a tradition of playing an entertaining and attacking style of football.

In April 2019, the Club opened a new 62,303-seat technologically advanced stadium that sits at the heart of a £1billion sport-led regeneration of North Tottenham. The stadium is the largest football club stadium in London and as a multi-use venue with the ability to host a variety of events 365 days a year, including NFL, rugby, concerts, and other corporate and private events, is a key step towards catapulting the Club from a Football Club to a globally renown Sports and Entertainment brand. 

We are looking to appoint a Head of Risk and Compliance to take full responsibility for the management of the Club’s risk and compliance obligations, ensuring all statutory requirements are being met or exceeded and delivering to the highest of standards.

The purpose of the role is to: 

  • Identify and mitigate risk.
  • Streamline processes and increase efficiency.
  • Ensure compliance with regulations.
  • Track data and workflow.
  • Automate basic tasks.
  • Approve and activate new suppliers and new technology platforms.
  • Centralise the risk function and subsequent mitigation processes.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The key responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Monitor compliance with data protection and privacy legislation and the Club’s
  • related policies in an environment dealing with significant amounts of personal data.
  • Advise and support teams across the business to meet their obligations to protect personal data in line with legislation.
  • Monitor regulatory and legislative developments to devise and maintain policies and procedures to regulate the processing of personal data and set out how to interact with external bodies, regulatory authorities, and data subjects.
  • Establish and maintain influential working relationships at all levels necessary to successfully promote compliance strategies, and continuous improvement opportunities.
  • Review contracts to ensure that appropriate data protection wording is included.
  • Manage data subject access requests within stipulated timeframes.
  • Co-manage data incidents and breaches to ensure reporting obligations are adhered to.
  • Document new processes and assist the business in completing relevant assessments, e.g., privacy impact, legitimate interests, and data protection impact assessments.
  • Co-manage the Club’s system asset register to ensure all platforms used to process personal data across the Club are documented and assessed.
  • Manage the Club’s Risk & Compliance systems including GRC and Due Diligence platforms.
  • Review completed assessments and take any identified risks through a treatment process with the business, assigning and managing the completion of tasks where required.
  • Manage third party relationships for the maintenance of existing Risk & Compliance platforms and create business requirements for any identified enhancements.
  • Perform ongoing compliance reviews of all active vendors to cover a broad range of compliance checks.
  • Carry out rationalisation exercises to identify any overlap in vendor services and, where appropriate, question business plans to change existing arrangements.
  • Manage the compliance on-boarding of new vendors to ensure adherence with Club policy.
  • Based on the nature of the engagement with new suppliers, co-manage the external assessment process with the Club’s Cyber Security Team.
  • Manage ad-hoc customer compliance analysis requirements.
  • Board level reporting of key risks and subsequent mitigation plans.
  • Oversee internal PCI DSS audit processes and subsequent ongoing management.
  • Act as key stakeholder for an ISO 27001 implementation.
  • Oversee the Club’s insurance policy portfolio by identifying gaps in current cover and making informed recommendations to mitigate.
  • Co-manage the Club’s risk register along with other departments, e.g., Safeguarding, EDI, Health & Safety etc.
  • Act as a key stakeholder on compliance related projects e.g. new system implementations, brand protection and Net Zero initiatives legal
  • Oversee and implement ongoing staff compliance training program.
  • Ensure that staff are aware of their compliance responsibilities, accept accountability and understand reporting obligations.
  • Assist in the management of regulatory examinations and enquiries and represent the Club on issues as required.
  • Sustain a strong risk culture that identifies and provides oversight and escalation of existing and emerging compliance issues across business units, legal entities, geographies, and jurisdictions.
  • Develop and articulate sound proposals to key stakeholders which influence and drive timely decision making.
  • Cultivate relationships and collaborate with multiple stakeholders, including Heads of Departments, internal and external Legal counsel, regulatory bodies and auditors.
  • Establish a large-scale vision, developing the strategy to support the vision, gaining consensus across key functional leadership areas through effective communications and successful delivery against goals and objectives.

KEY EXPERIENCE

The key responsibilities for the role include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Extensive experience in managing a compliance function with a focus on data protection.
  • A solid understanding of European and UK data protection law.
  • Both CIPM and CIPP/e qualifications or relevant alternative.
  • An understanding of other relevant compliance functions such as ESG, PCI-DSS, AML and EDI.
  • Demonstratable experience of delivering sustainable compliance frameworks.
  • Management and subsequent treatment experience of a digital risk register.
  • Ability to work autonomously in creating and executing strategies.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Experience in process and data flow mapping.
  • Experience in using GRC and due diligence technology.

The Executives in Sport Group are retained on behalf of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club to appoint a Head of Risk and Compliance. All direct applications and CV’s will be forwarded to The Executives in Sport Group.

Senior Digital Content Manager – FA

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 excited to be searching for a Senior Digital Content Manager to lead the FA’s owned and operated digital team across England and competition brands. The successful candidate will oversee the direction of day-to-day output, in order to grow our channels and reputation both within and outside of the FA, in line with the Commercial and Marketing strategy.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Leading the team of direct reports, including performance and career development with regular 1:1s, quarterly performance check-ins and development of performance development plans.
  • Part of Content department’s leadership team, shaping and supporting overall strategy, culture and departmental processes.
  • Devise brand-specific content strategies that support best-in-class output across domestic and international
  • Overseeing day-to-day content, setting and improving standards, driving creativity and ensuring strong planning across the team, including visibility for key stakeholders.
  • Play a key role in developing internal relationships, enabling other sections of the organisation to realise B2C and B2B content propositions.
  • Play a key role to champion the use of data to inform the day-to-day content strategy and overall direction.
  • Managing key external relationships, including core agencies, technical suppliers, social media platforms, etc.
  • Drive innovation and content execution at significant competition events and international tournaments.
  • Contribute to the success of campaign executions across commercial and broadcast partners.
  • Support the FA’s equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives across our England and competition brands.
  • 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?

Knowledge:

  • Evidence of consistent high-quality output and driving standards across B2C and B2B/B2B2C,
  • Ability to translate brand plans into actionable content plans,
  • Strategic thinking,
  • Content planning,
  • Creation of tone of voice/style documents,
  • Strong stakeholder communication and collaboration (internal and external)
  • Execution of marketing campaigns, brand activations and data acquisition,
  • An interest in both men’s and women’s sport.
  • Willingness to innovate and embrace new technology.

Experience:

  • Minimum five-years’ experience working in a similar role,
  • Line management of a small or mid-sized team (objectives setting/career development support,)
  • Managed a range of agencies and vendors,
  • Calm under pressure,
  • Commercially minded,
  • Developed owned and operated content strategies for largescale channels (domestic and international.)

Technical Skills:

  • Expertise producing highly engaging social media, website, and video content across all channels,
  • Strong project management and organisation skills,
  • Excellent editorial skills across owned and operated,
  • Strong planning and organisational skills,
  • Extensive experience using data analytics tools and systems,
  • Highly creative,
  • Passionate about content and standards,
  • A broad understanding and appreciation of various content forms (lifestyle, technology, entertainment, etc.)

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.

This advert is live until 31st December 2022, however, if we find a suitable candidate in that timeframe there is a possibility the role may close early. Therefore, we highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible.

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

Senior Planning and Projects Manager – Premier League

The Premier League Policy and Corporate Affairs team are recruiting for the exciting new role of Senior Planning and Projects Manager. The Policy and Corporate Affairs department remit covers: Policy; Public Affairs; International Football; EU Affairs; Communications; Supporter Engagement; Safety and Security; Corporate Purpose; Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and the Premier League’s support for Wider Football and Communities.


The team has an increasing focus on promoting awareness among key stakeholders and decision makers of the positive work, influence and impact of the Premier League. This encompasses economic, social and soft power impact, as well as the League’s public purpose investments – not least, the Premier League’s unparalleled contribution to the wider football pyramid and support for communities. Other policy topics covered by the team are wide ranging, and include sustainability, grassroots football, broadcasting rights, online safety legislation, the Gambling Act and ongoing immigration / access to talent policies.


The role


As the Policy and Corporate Affairs department grows and adopts a matrix management approach to workstreams and team coordination, we are recruiting a new role to develop and embed procedures to keep departmental and cross-departmental projects and workstreams on track. The Senior Planning and Projects Manager will work with colleagues across the department and wider business to coordinate strategy development and operational delivery. The role will focus on project management and resource planning to address strategic priorities. This includes tracking and evaluating projects, coordinating working groups, risk and budget management and production of documentation that meets Board and Shareholder requirements.


Key Responsibilities


The main duties will include, but are not limited to:

  • To develop and implement strategy and project planning procedures across all Policy and Corporate Affairs workstreams 
  • Develop projects that help the department meet its strategic objectives – this will include project management of workstreams which include representatives from across the business 
  • Work closely with each team in the Policy and Corporate Affairs department to develop an in-depth understanding of our work and aims; also establish working relationships with departments around the organisation to help facilitate cross-departmental working 
  • Support the Director of Operations and Strategy in departmental resource planning and budgeting, including forecasting and developing recommendations 
  • Support the Director of Operations and Strategy and other senior leaders in setting the department’s strategy, involving input from across the team 
  • Establish forward planning and reporting procedures to monitor progress within ongoing updates and recommendations on project progress, costs and deadlines
  • Own and deliver discrete projects where appropriate, contracting and managing consultants where necessary 


Requirements For The Role

  • Project management qualification and/or experience utilising project management tools
  • Experience in a management consulting or corporate strategy role (or similar)
  • Significant experience of managing multiple concurrent projects / programmes, ideally with variety of project focus 
  • Experience in leading projects from initial concept to evaluating success
  • Budget management and reporting experience 
  • Delivered written reports or proposals for consideration by senior management
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills
  • Detail-oriented with excellent organisational and interpersonal skills 
  • High standard of presentation; keen to champion company style / format in documents, presentations and other materials 
  • Able to present information effectively to a range of audiences 
  • Self-motivated and goal-oriented 


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.


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

Senior Partnership Planning and Creative Manager – Manchester City

At City Football Group, making moments matter is a part of our DNA. Recognising and developing the best talent allows us to achieve success in the right way.Driven by a passion for our winning culture, you will help deliver on our shared goals of sustainability through a uniquely global yet local community environment.The Partnership Strategy and Creative team plays a crucial role in supporting the Partnership Departments primary objective of securing new, and renewing existing, commercial partners to support the continued growth of Manchester City Football Club and all City Football Group (CFG) properties. Helping to create a competitive advantage in the marketplace by developing a differentiating partnership proposition, informed and powerful proposals. The team also provides a level of planning and creative support to existing Group/Club PartnersThe person in this role will be expected to lead the development of new platforms, ideas, approaches and proposals that add tangible value to our partnership proposition and contribute to the delivery of the annual revenues budget as well as the continued development or our approach and proposition.

  • Identify and uncover all relevant insights and intelligence required to develop a truly informed proposal (including exploratory sessions with prospect/partner) 
  • Creative planning to capture inspiration, develop thinking and ideas 
  • Develop partnership territory, narrative and big concepts 
  • Work with design and other departments to bring proposal to life in most powerfully way 
  • Ability to positively contribute to and influence pitches 

Contribute to delivery of annual revenues budget through increased creativity, sophistication and impact of involvement in sales pipeline & partner renewal / upsell opportunities 

  • The ability to comfortably lead, prioritise and deliver a high volume of varied creative and strategically important projects whilst having a key focus on where improvements and developments can be made that add value to qualified conversations and increase the appeal, value and success of our proposals. 

Lead creation and development of key team and departmental strategic projects 

  • Lead and positively contribute to the development and roll-out of major departmental projects and initiatives assigned by Chief Commercial Officer / VP Partnership Strategy & Creative 
  • Responsible for overseeing the development and delivery of core project phases and outputs to achieve agreed objectives 
  • Ability to comfortably prioritise, progress and deliver project in line with dynamic project phasing and challenging deadlines 
  • Individual to establish themselves as the key point person providing clear project briefings and direction to internal departments as well as external agencies and stakeholders 

Lead identification and development of key processes, tools & practices to increase effectiveness & efficiencies of team’s contribution to department’s commercial effort 

  • Focused on increasing the volume and agility of the team’s contribution and quality of its outputs. Working with sales, design and wider teams to understand challenges in order to identify and deliver solutions to improve team’s involvement and quantity and quality of its outputs. 

Ensure wider department is aware of, understands and is inspired by the latest marketing trends and insight from across the sports and wider industry and help identify how these can positively impact our proposals 

  • Developand leadinitiatives to inform and inspire department with key marketing trends & ideasas they happen –helping colleagues understand their relevance, considerations and impact for their respective prospects/partners and how it can be powerfully and authentically integrated into their respective proposals or projects 
  • Provide regular inspiration to team to continue to innovate ideas and approach to aid competitive advantage 

Ensure team aware of individuals personal areas of expertise and insight to positively impacting initiatives in these areasRole specific knowledge, skills and experience: Essential: 

  • Degree or equivalent deep technical expertise 
  • Significant knowledge and understanding of commercial football, sports and entertainment landscape as well as prospect and partner challenges – a strong understanding of their consumer, customer and audience landscape, habits and behaviours 
  • Experience in an agency, brand or rights holder working in sports marketing and/or commercial partnership development 
  • Proven ability to develop creative, professionally structured and presented proposals & supporting sales materials 
  • Creative thinker with an innovative outlook and ability to inspire creativity in others 
  • Results-driven with strong analytical skills 
  • Proven ability to lead and prioritise a varied project workload in a dynamic environment and manage senior stakeholders 
  • Strong communication & interpersonal skills with internal and external stakeholders 
  • Proactive and entrepreneurial approach 
  • Proven problem-solving skills 
  • Ability to work in a cross-team / inter department environment and positively influence peers and senior team leads 

Desirable: 

  • Knowledge and understanding of core marketing competencies and principles 
  • Proven track record in business development and/or driving value from partnerships for the benefit of the benefit of Partner and respective business 
  • End-to-end involvement in pitch process from development of ideas and approach to pitching the proposal to Partners and/or Prospects 

City Football Group promotes equal opportunities in employment and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.We will screen all applicants and select candidates whose skills and experience seem to meet our needs. We will carefully consider your application during the initial screening and will contact you only if you are selected for an interview.Employment is subject to the provision of proof of eligibility to work in the UK.Due to our safeguarding promise, all UK based CFG roles will be subject to a DBS check upon commencing employment with us. This will be either a basic, standard or enhanced check depending on the job role and responsibilities.

Commercial Insights Executive – Aston Villa

The marketing department is responsible for supporting the growth of the Club across all departments aiming to deliver award-winning campaigns, excellent fan engagement and record-breaking commercial results. The team works at a fast pace due to the nature of providing support for our commercial, brand and fan growth across all areas of the club. As the club continues to progress in all areas, this is an exciting opportunity to be part of the journey.

The Data and Insight team within marketing is responsible for the management of all 1st party data, CRM integrations, third-party enrichment data, media valuation and research tools to support not only the Marketing team, but the wider Commercial operation at Aston Villa Football Club.

The team works at a fast pace and due to the requirement to deliver insights to multiple departments across the whole year.

  • The Role

This is a new role and an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Insight Executive to join an ambitious Data and Insight team based at Villa Park. The role will be responsible for creating and delivering insight through the utilisation of multiple datasets, with a particular focus on our B2B clients, including new and existing Club partners, as well as our corporate Hospitality members.

You will have the ability to create and maintain existing insight reports to enhance our B2B insight capabilities, support our commercial benchmarking, explore new commercial opportunities, and support senior decision-making.

  • The Person

The ideal candidate would be naturally inquisitive, with a passion for understanding fan behaviours and visualising/sharing such insight. You will be a self-starter who can take a pragmatic approach with any new initiatives, an effective problem solver with strong commercial acumen. You will be intuitive and be motivated to act upon this; comfortable with setting and testing insight hypothesis, subsequently collecting appropriate data before interrogating and visualising it.

Ideally you will have proven relevant experience working in a similar research/insight-based role with demonstrable experience of supporting strategic commercial projects/processes. B2B experience is preferred, particularly in sports/sponsorship (though not essential). Good attention to detail is essential and taking responsibility for the accuracy of you own work.

You will have the ability to be flexible with work duties and hours as required by the team.

As part of your application, please ensure you upload your CV and Cover Letter.

For further information, the Role Profile and to apply please go to careers.avfc.co.uk/jobs

Right to Close Vacancy Posting Early

The Club reserves the right to close any advertised vacancies earlier than the advertised closing date if sufficient applications have been received.

Equality Statement

Aston Villa Football Club celebrates the diversity of its Club and embrace equal opportunities for all. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and fully support The FAs Football Leadership Diversity Code.

We welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, race, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, sex and religion or belief.

Safeguarding Statement

Aston Villa Football Club is fully committed to safeguarding children and adults at risk across our Club. As such, we adhere to Safer Recruitment processes and for some roles a satisfactory enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure & Barring Service may be required prior to starting in a role at the Club.

Content Operations Manager – FA

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 exciting to be searching for a Content Operations Manager, who will specifically manage our technical workflow processes across content production and outsourcing with the aim of maximizing our capability, output and reporting to ensure delivery of a high standard across our England and FA Competitions channels.

Key Accountabilities:

  • WORKFLOW AUTOMATION: Development of technical workflows that utilise automation to communicate to stakeholders and maximise data tracking and reporting. 
  • MANAGING DOCUMENTATON: Manage workflows where key documents are centralised, accessible and updated regularly (via Microsoft Sharepoint) and relevant paperwork for rights and contracts are filed and managed alongside health and safety, permissions, and assistant supervisory guidelines for maximum clarity and accountability. 
  • BUDGET MANAGEMENT: Management of multiple budget lines and processes (including digital dashboards), leading regular stakeholder meetings, monitoring detailed month by month phased spend and developing further automation for prompt onboarding, payments and reporting. 
  • EQUIPMENT PROCESS SUPPORT: Lead management for FA owned equipment including purchasing, hiring and maintenance with regular review. 
  • PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT: Leading the streamlining of booking production resource, ensuring all processes, rates and contingencies are clear and consistent, working alongside supporting agencies and communicating clearly with all external providers around production via call-sheets and supported workflows. 
  • STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT: Work across our key brands as a central point of contact across high profile calendar events and tournaments for best way of managing resource against and ensuring clear roles and responsibility, as well as briefing and debriefing. 
  • ACCREDITATION AND EVENT MANAGEMENT: Oversee processes for team accreditation requirements and be a central point for key organisations (UEFA/FIFA) and FA depts (broadcast, media ops and events) across matchdays and tournaments. 

What we are looking for?

Essential Skills:

Knowledge:

  • Building of advanced workflows using automation.
  • Working with freelancers and external production companies. 
  • Production equipment hire, purchase and management.
  • Delivering end to end production.

Experience:

  • Handling complex production budgets.
  • Working with important and high-profile stakeholders. 
  • Calm under pressure.
  • Managing centralised documents for budget planning. 
  • Project Management.
  • Working with project management tools (Asana, Trello, Slack…etc.) 

Technical Skills:

  • Expert experience of MS Excel, and other Microsoft Office products.
  • Elevated level of numeracy and problem solving.
  • Attention to detail and proactivity.
  • Agency and freelancer management.
  • Effective communication and relationship-management skills.

Desirable Skills:

Knowledge:

  • Social media platforms and trends.
  • Broadcast rights and embargoes.

Experience:

  • Working on large sporting events.
  • Assisting management of a small production team.
  • Working with multiple agencies.
  • Working with talent agents and agencies.

Technical Skills:

  • Basic Health and Safety knowledge.
  • Ability to create presentations and present to a wide range of key stakeholders.
  • Ability to build dashboards utilising Power BI or similar software.

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.

Please note, due to the Men’s World Cup taking place in next month, we can confirm interview dates have been pre-planned in order to give our candidates as much notice as possible. The first stage of our process will be on Friday 4th and Monday 7th November, with second stages taking place Thursday 10th November. 

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.

Communications Manager – Arsenal

We are looking for a Communications Manager who will coordinate and manage the delivery of our contracted and proactive media requirements across our Men’s First Team and Academy squads.This is fantastic role for someone to take control and lead on the delivery of our media activities across two of our three key teams. You’ll be working with our players of all levels on a day-to-day basis to ensure our communications strategy is delivered to an exceptional standard.

Who We Are: We are one of the most famous clubs in world football, with a rich heritage and history of success – read more about our history, here.Beyond that, we are passionate about our local community and, behind the scenes, we have a wide variety of opportunities and career paths for all. We have a very defined purpose: to act for a winning team, culture and community. We achieve this by ensuring we are courageous in the pursuit of progress, we champion our community and each other, and that we do the right thing (even when no one is looking).Your day-to-day

  • Coordinate and manage all media requirements for our Men’s First Team players, including the delivery of the Premier League TV broadcast contract and matchday media operations across all competitions. 
  • Manage the media demands for our Men’s First Team players and support on the demands for our Men’s First Team Manager. 
  • Organise contracted (and proactive) preview media opportunities with Men’s First Team players. 
  • Work with home venue colleagues to support the matchday media accreditation process and delivery. 
  • Manage matchday media requirements, including pre and post-match TV opportunities and press conferences. 
  • Be the key liaison point into counterparts from broadcasters, media, the Premier League, FA, UEFA and opposition clubs. 
  • Play a key role in relationship management for our football media operations; working closely with many stakeholders including players, broadcast media, written media, governing bodies, players’ representatives and opposition clubs. 
  • Respond to media enquiries and act as a point guard for external and internal stakeholders. 
  • Work as part of a wider team to provide support for PR and communication programmes across the club.  

What We Are Looking For

  • Relevant communications/sports industry qualification preferable. 
  • Strong experience working in a dynamic communications environment. 
  • Experience of working at a football club or elite sport is desirable. 
  • Experience of working in social media content creation is desirable. 
  • A good knowledge of football generally and a keen interest in football is preferable (or at least a willingness to learn!) 
  • Excellent relationship building skills with people of all levels, and someone who is a team player. 
  • Someone proactive, with a continuous improvement mindset. 
  • Someone willing to work flexibly to support our busy and exciting fixture schedule. 

Why choose us At Arsenal, we want everyone to feel a sense of trust and belonging, so we are proud of both our club values and also what we offer to our employees. As one of our Gunners, you will receive:

  • An exciting reward and recognition scheme 
  • Generous holiday allowance which increases with your length of service 
  • Great internal learning and development programmes 
  • A flexible hybrid working model 
  • Discounted Arsenal season tickets 
  • A competitive health and wellbeing benefits package 
  • A leading Employee Assistance Programme 
  • Great discounts with some of our Partners 

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Media Rights Specialist – UEFA

Job information:

Division / Unit: Marketing / Media Rights & Production Services
Contract type: Fixed Term
Start date: 01.12.2022
End date: 31.10.2023
Location: Nyon

Main goal:

The UEFA Media Rights Unit manages the exploitation of all UEFA’s media rights across all its competitions.

The Media Rights Specialist supports the Senior Media Rights Manager with the proper implementation of media rights strategies, ensuring revenue optimisation and a broad distribution platform for UEFA competitions, UEFA Women’s Champions League and UEFA Futsal Champions League.



Key responsibilities:

Leading the definition of the global sales strategies and supervising its successful implementation by:
– Managing the sales processes through regular consultation and liaising with the market/agencies on packaging, coordination of timing, tender documents, bid evaluations, deal approval forms and media rights agreements;
– Supervising the broadcast partners/agencies to ensure proper delivery of rights for ongoing competitions and managing arising issues, such as requests for contractual amendments, breaches of contract or scheduling conflicts;
– Being responsible for the media aspects of all or some of the official competition documentation (e.g. regulations, club manuals, broadcaster partner production manuals, guidelines);
– Ensuring relevant monitoring of media rights exploitation and account management issues;
– Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.

UEFA archive rights
Helping to define UEFA’s archive rights sales strategies and supervising their successful implementation by:
– Managing daily archive licensing sales, servicing and contract management;
– Developing and optimising the administration tools to simplify sales processes and increase sales;
– Updating the information required in SAP and uploading contract details and invoices;
– Collaborating internally with Legal and TV Production colleagues, and externally with national associations, clubs, broadcasters, production companies and agencies.

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League
Helping Senior Media Rights Manager to successfully implement the global sales strategies by:
– Supporting the sales process, e.g. bid evaluations, deal approval forms, media rights agreements, and assisting with specific requests, e.g. contractual amendments, public screening agreements;
– Liaising day-to-day with clubs on club media rights issues.

General support:
– Updating sales management tools comprehensively and in a timely manner;
– Supporting with internal and external media rights presentations;
– Bringing added value to the team with innovative ideas that could further enhance UEFA’s exploitation of media rights.


Profile:

Experience required:
– from 4 to 6 years’ experience in sports media rights or media rights acquisition

Education:
– Masters preferably in business or marketing

Languages:
– English / Proficient

Additional requirements:
– MS Excel / Advanced
– MS PowerPoint / Advanced
– MS Word / Advanced
– Good understanding of football, especially the European game
– Good understanding of the global media industry and sports rights issues
– Any additional language would be an asset
– Good team spirit

Partnerships Coordinator – FA

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.

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The Role

Are you organised and passionate about developing relationships within a commercial environment? We are excited to be searching for a Partnerships Coordinator who will provide Support across key accounts across The FA 2018-2022 sponsorship programme, which responsibility facilitating the delivery of the contractual obligations.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Develop the relationship with key partner personnel and ensure contractual delivery of rights.
  • Liaise internally with other FA departments to ensure efficient and effective lines of communication between the sponsors and The FA.
  • Support the Head of Commercial Partnerships, Senior Partnership Managers and Partnership Managers across all other FA Partners.
  • The planning, organisation and delivery of a variety of sponsor related activations and events including Wembley Company days.
  • Manage key Supplier accounts across FA Sponsorship program.
  • To work as a key part of the team in supporting the sponsorship framework and subsequent sales process.
  • Support match day branding rights across the England / FA Cup / Women’s FA Cup.
  • 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:

  • Good understanding of the sports industry in general and the football industry in particular.
  • Flexible approach to working hours.
  • Strong communication skills and willingness to learn and improve.
  • Experience of supporting and co-ordinating activations and events.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to remain organised in a fast-paced environment, whilst managing a large workload.
  • Strong numeracy skills.
  • Strong coordination skills with high attention for detail.

Desirable:

  • Experience in working at a large sporting event in a commercial environment.
  • Marketing and communications support experience.
  • Account Management Experience.
  • Qualification / degree in Marketing or Sports Marketing.
  • An interest in football and above basic understanding of the game and its business structure.

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.