ICC Releases ITT For Rights To Pathway Events

The International Cricket Council releases its Invitation To Tender (ITT) for various rights for ICC Pathway Events from 2025 up until the end of 2027.

Following the successful conclusion of the production and distribution of ICC Pathway Events from 2021-2024, the ICC is now starting the process for the next cycle.

The one combined package consists of 56 Pathway events comprising of 1246 matches across Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025, Men’s and Women’s T20 World Cups 2026 and 2028 and Men’s Cricket World Cup 2027. The bundled rights include Broadcast Rights, Event Sponsorship Rights, Data Rights and the successful bidder will also have the obligation to produce all matches. The successful bidder will have exclusivity to show the events live in India while the matches will be beamed live on the ICC’s OTT platform, ICC.tv in the rest of the world.

ICC Chief Commercial Officer, Anurag Dahiya said: “This is an incredibly exciting time for ICC Pathway Events. They play an important role in the development of cricket across our Emerging Members and provide context to ICC global flagship events. With the competitive and exciting cricket showcased in these events, the next three years present a fantastic opportunity to engage and strengthen relationships with fans across markets globally.”

The ITT will be released today, and interested parties need to email iccmediarights2024-2031@icc-cricket.com to access the tender documents.

Commercial Operations Coordinator – Women’s RWC England 2025 LOC

Commercial Operations Coordinator (Women’s RWC England 2025 LOC)

FIXED-TERM CONTRACT UNTIL OCTOBER 2025

BASED IN WEBB ELLIS HOUSE, TWICKENHAM

Women’s Rugby World Cup England 2025 (Women’s RWC 2025) will be the 10th edition of the women’s tournament. World Rugby, in partnership with the Rugby Football Union (RFU) and UK Sport, have formed a Local Operating Company to plan and deliver the event.

Ambitions for the tournament are at an all-time high as women’s rugby is one of the fastest growing team sports in the world. Women’s RWC 2025 will be the ultimate stage for the best players, teams and coaches from 16 nations across the globe and is set to be the biggest and most widely watched women’s rugby event ever. If you are interested in being a part of a tournament that will celebrate a generational moment for global rugby, apply today!

We are looking to appoint a Commercial Operations Coordinator who will sit in the Venue Operations team within the LOC and report into the Commercial Operations Manager. A key focus of the role will be ensuring the Commercial Rights of the various RWC stakeholders are delivered at the selected RWC venues (to include Official RWC Fan Activation locations). This role will support in the delivery of the commercial programme at all venues in the lead up to the Tournament and will then become Commercial Venue Manager at one or more venues during the Event. They will form part of a broader delivery team responsible for managing the commercial rights and contracts for the RWC 2025 Commercial Partners.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Work closely with the Commercial Operations Manager within World Rugby to understand the deliverables of all partners, and support the RWC 2025 Commercial Operations Manager at the LOC in their delivery
  • Work alongside the Image and Look manager and supplier to review all commercial branding items to ensure they reflect commercial agreements.
  • Support in the exclusive category rights delivery of commercial partners eg. retail, pourage and payment systems.
  • Support in the successful planning and delivery of Commercial Partner Unique Promotions during the tournament both in venues and in our official host locations.
  • With support from the RWC 2025 Commercial Operations manager, to coordinate accreditation requests for all commercial partners throughout tournament time.
  • Help in the planning and logistics of the Commercial Venue Managers and Coordinators who will work across the venues at tournament time.
  • Be part of the venues and tournament operations team and take on other responsibilities as reasonably required during planning and delivery.
  • Coordinate commercial partner requirements at matches to include parking / catering.

Experience & knowledge you’ll need:

  • Proven experience within commercial operations, involving planning and delivering venue and event operations
  • A Strong understanding and delivery of quality client service
  • Ability to build strong and authentic working relationships
  • Solutions focused
  • IT literate, with a good knowledge of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook

Nice to Haves:

  • Experience managing relationships with a range of stakeholders and varied teams on complex projects
  • Ability to operate in a dynamic working environment, handling multiple tasks within a multicultural environment
  • Persuasive and articulate with good communication and presentation skills

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

  • A passion for sport and to contribute to the further growth of the women’s game.
  • Role-models World Rugby’s values of Discipline, Respect, Integrity, Passion, and Solidarity.
  • A positive, ‘can-do’ attitude; someone who is resilient, flexible, curious, and delivery focused.
  • Adept at working under pressure in a fast-paced environment, delivering work to deadlines and honouring commitments.
  • A collaborative team player, who builds strong relationships with colleagues and a diverse range of stakeholders.
  • Excellent planning and organisational skills, managing multiple workstreams at once; meticulous attention to detail.
  • Can navigate ambiguity and cut through complexity, taking a logical and creative approach to problem-solving.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:

Women’s RWC 2025 LOC is committed to building a diverse workforce and therefore strongly encourages applications from underrepresented groups. We are committed to equality and inclusion and welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of their background. We strive to be a diverse and inclusive workplace, which reflects the global sport we want to be and where everyone can be themselves and feel they belong.

Apply here.

Senior Communications Manager – Campaigns – The Premier League

About the job

Overview

The Premier League is looking for a Senior Communications Manager – Campaigns to support the wide-ranging work of the Communications Department, specifically focusing on supporting the delivery of central campaigns, as well as wider activity and events linked to the Premier League’s international offices.

The role will report to the Head of Communities and Campaigns – Communications and will require the candidate to work collaboratively across Premier League departments, clubs and external stakeholders to assist in promoting the League, responding to media enquiries and proactive communications planning.

Who we are

The Premier League is home to some of the most competitive and compelling football in the world. The League and its Clubs use the power and popularity of the competition to inspire fans, communities and partners in the UK and across the world. The Premier League brings people together from all backgrounds. It is a competition for everyone, everywhere and is available to watch in 900 million homes in 189 countries.

We have a wide variety of responsibilities. These include organising the competition and its Handbook as well as managing the centralised broadcast and commercial rights. The work we do in conjunction with the Clubs also goes far beyond the 90 minutes. We support and provide a framework for youth development, we protect the organisation’s intellectual property, support the wider game and community programmes, undertake international development work and liaise with governing bodies and other leagues.

The Premier League is an equal opportunities employer and strives to create an inclusive culture where talent can flourish. We believe in the potential of everyone and open our doors to those who share those values. All appointments will be made based on merit; however, we particularly encourage applications from women, people from minority ethnic communities, LGBTQ+ people and disabled people.

Our hybrid-working model also allows you some variety on your place of work, offering you the chance to work from home on some days each week. Where possible, you will attend the office or site visits in line with our company policy. All staff liaise closely with their line manager to manage their time appropriately and according to their work and team requirements.

The role

The main duties will include but not be limited to:

  • Working with the Director of Public Relations, the wider team, external agencies and partners to develop and coordinate strategic communications and campaign-related activity in the UK and internationally. This will include promoting international office activity, key programmes, events and cause-related campaigns
  • Drafting relevant communications materials such as press releases and campaign toolkits
  • Liaising with club communications teams to coordinate relevant activities
  • Media relations
  • Working in collaboration with Marketing and Digital content colleagues to coordinate activity across multiple channels
  • Media monitoring and reporting duties including evaluation
  • Working with the Premier League and Premier League Charitable Fund’s safeguarding teams to ensure appropriate consents and approvals across all relevant activities

Requirements for the role

  • Significant experience working in a communications role in a fast-paced and high-profile environment
  • Proven track record in delivering communications campaigns and proactively generating media coverage to communicate key messaging
  • Experience working as part of an integrated marketing team and managing multi-channel campaigns
  • Experience managing international campaigns
  • Experience managing external agencies
  • An appreciation of the Premier League’s structure, policies, issues and context in the industry
  • Confidence to deal with senior internal and external figures in a professional manner
  • Strong communication skills, including excellent writing ability
  • Proactive with strong organisational and time management skills
  • Availability for out of hours work as required, in accordance with our flexi-working guidelines

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.

To apply please visit our careers page and apply with your CV and a cover letter. The closing date for applications is Sunday 24 November 2024.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact recruitment@premierleague.com

Commercial Relationships Director – The Ocean Race

About the job

The Ocean Race and our Evolution

The Ocean Race is the toughest test of a team in sport, and a leader in sustainability. The Ocean Race has been undergoing a significant transformation in the last 6-7 years, taking a new direction that is seeing the platform of the race utilised to drive impact for a healthier ocean, using the emotion, interest and global reach of sport to inspire action and drive advocacy.

The Ocean Race is also creating more on-water action than ever before. We are entering a new, ‘always on’ era, with our ongoing ocean health initiatives and two new races – The Ocean Race Europe (2025) and The Ocean Race Atlantic (2026) – building into our main, iconic, around the world event – The Ocean Race 2027.

This means we will engage with 15-18 Host Cities across each 4-year race cycle moving forward (whereas previously, this was limited to 8-10 host cities and one main event).

This new direction is now seeing the Global Partners of The Ocean Race having more opportunities to activate than ever before, and the focus on ocean health is providing a new way to communicate and drive value through these partnerships that are now “bigger than sport”. For example, Volvo Cars recently signed a new long-term extension of their 25+ year partnership with The Ocean Race, this time with biodiversity at the core of their partnership, and the importance of coastal health and mitigating impact on coastal areas being a key communications element. This partnership, extending well into the next decade, will allow both parties to work together on shared interests around Ocean health and its critical impact on people and planet. Jim Rowan, Chief Executive of Volvo Cars said “Together with The Ocean Race, we want to create a bigger voice for Ocean health and Ocean rights.” This is a concrete example of how partnerships with purpose through The Ocean Race are delivering an authentic point of difference in a crowded sports partnerships market.

Role Description

The evolution of The Ocean Race and the opportunity for more “always-on” engagement with race stakeholders has created the need for a new type of client engagement that maximizes value from innovative partnership models.

We are seeking a strategic leader for the role of Commercial Relationships Director, who will drive a proactive and value-focused approach to client management. This leader will oversee The Ocean Race’s partnership management strategy, ensuring the delivery of commercial value to race partners, host cities, teams and team sponsors and, maximizing value from these relationships.

The primary objective of this role is to secure stakeholder contract renewals and foster contract growth by providing outstanding client service, fulfilling rights and benefits, and demonstrating a return on investment that exceeds expectations.

The Commercial Relationships Director’s success will be measured through stakeholder contract renewals, client servicing assessments, additional value and revenue generated, as well as contributions to broader organizational goals. Cultivating a positive, professional, and proactive client service culture throughout the organization is essential for this role.

This role will be based in Alicante, and we are looking for a start date at the beginning of January 2025 or as early as possible for a permanent, full-time position.

Candidate Profile

The Commercial Relationships Director must possess the following key personal skills and attributes:

  • Strategic, commercially minded and value-driven
  • Inspiring commercial leadership, proactive thinking and self-motivate attitude
  • Excellent communication and relationship building skills
  • Strong entrepreneurial spirit, with a creative and innovative approach.
  • Strong planning and operational management
  • Outstanding collaborative skills, to drive and influence complex stakeholder relations at a senior level and to unlock commercial opportunities.
  • Outstanding social skills.

Responsibilities

General Commercial Support for Race Stakeholders:

  • Oversee and deliver Partner rights and benefits inventory, allocate resources, and drive creative concepts for Partner activation.
  • Provide commercial support for racing teams.
  • Manage commercial relationships with Host Cities, enabling value generation for their local sponsors while safeguarding the value for Global Race partners.

Stakeholder Relations:

  • Deliver comprehensive client servicing for partners and race stakeholders across all business areas per contractual agreements, including brand visibility, communications, purpose-based initiatives, B2B interactions, client hosting, and commercial activations.
  • Identify ways for Partners to support The Ocean Race’s ‘Racing With Purpose’ sustainability initiatives.
  • Coordinate stakeholder communications.
  • Offer activation consulting, strategic advice, and best practices to stakeholders.
  • Maintain an overview of stakeholder objectives and define a cross-company stakeholder relationship strategy.
  • Manage client servicing programs, processes, and systems (e.g., RaceNet).
  • Foster cross-partner relationships and networking among stakeholders, including premier partners, official partners and suppliers, host cities and their partners, teams and team partners, and key stakeholders such as WBD and purpose-driven organizations.

Value Creation:

  • Focus on embedding The Ocean Race within each Partner’s organization.
  • Assist Partners in developing innovative activation strategies to maximize reach, visibility, and impact.
  • Promote the sale of hospitality services and licensed merchandise within stakeholder groups.
  • Identify upselling opportunities to enhance stakeholder value.

Others:

  • Management of People: Participate in the hiring process for department members and lead, manage, and inspire the department members.
  • Financial Management: Create and manage the department’s budget.
  • Research:
  • Continuously monitor and analyze partnership performance to demonstrate value and ROI, fostering stakeholder renewals.
  • Collaborate with the research team on impact studies and media reports, creating case studies of successful activations to support partners and aid the Partnership Development team in securing new agreements.
  • Sales Materials: Work with the sales and marketing teams to develop new sales collateral and marketing materials.
  • Hospitality and Merchandise Sales: Promote hospitality services and official merchandise sales within stakeholder groups.
  • Host City Management: Guide host cities’ commercial activities, ensuring alignment with partner categories and avoiding overlap.
  • Media, PR, and Branding: Contribute to targeted media and PR initiatives as well as marketing and branding efforts.

Requirements

  • Experience in Commercial Account and Project Management: Over 10 years of experience in commercial account management or project management, ideally within the professional sports sector.
  • Commercial Partnerships and Event Expertise: Extensive background in managing commercial partnerships, events, and hospitality within global sports events, delivering value for B2B and B2C brands.
  • Sports Marketing Knowledge: Strong understanding of sports marketing principles, with experience tailoring strategies for both B2B and B2C audiences.
  • Large-Scale Sporting Event Experience: Proven experience working on high-profile, large-scale sporting events.
  • Agency and Client Management Background: Prior experience in an agency setting, successfully managing projects across multiple clients and delivering “big brand” campaigns.
  • Purpose-Driven Mindset: Genuine interest in working with an organization that prioritizes purpose and positive impact.
  • Language Skills: Proficiency in English is required; knowledge of additional languages, particularly Spanish, French, German or Italian, is a plus.
  • Presentation and Communication Skills: Excellent presentation and communication skills, with the ability to engage diverse stakeholders.
  • Technical Proficiency: Strong IT skills, including expertise in the Mac environment, Keynote, and Google Sheets.
  • Legal requirements: EU national or ability to obtain necessary EU working permits.
  • Location and Travel: Willingness to be based in Alicante, with occasional travel during non-race periods and intensive travel during event periods.

Apply here.

RFP FOR AUTOMATED VIDEO PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION – ICC

The Successful Applicant shall be required to provide the services listed below, such services to be
delivered by the Successful Applicant always in accordance with any instructions issued by or on
behalf of IBC from time to time.


The ICC is looking for a vendor that can provide near-real-time production of highlights videos and
clips, and enable those videos to be distributed to the ICC’s Content Management System and
social media platforms.


It is expected that Applicant will provide access to a platform that hosts the videos which would be
searchable by automated meta data tagging (eg: player name, shot type) and quality/importance.
The platform should also allow for the creation of ready-to-publish edits with graphics overlays etc.
As well as distributing to the ICC’s CMS and social media platforms, we are looking for a vendor
who can provide a public facing video playback service that leverages the meta-data to provide
social-media-like video viewing experiences to our users.


The ICC will engage the successful bidder to provide services for identified ICC event matches up
until the end of 2027 (see appendix C for full details).

Apply here.

CEO – Cricket West Indies

The role of the Chief Executive Officer is to lead the creation of a high-performance culture, the management and effective deployment of all human and financial resources, the implementation of a robust corporate governance and legal structure, the stewardship of the CWI brand & stakeholder relationships and the maximisation of commercial, marketing, event and cricket activities to achieve the company’s mission, vision and strategic objectives. 

Application Window/Deadline: Thursday, 12th September to Monday, 30th September 2024

Apply here.

ITT issued for delivery of Fan Parks for ICC Events up until the end of 2025

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has issued an Invitation to Tender (ITT) to partner with world-class and well-established agencies who are interested in delivering Fan Parks for multiple ICC events in 2024 and 2025.

Fan parks provide a platform for fans to connect with each other and with cricket in a unique and immersive way. Delivering into multiple territories allows ICC to tap into diverse markets, tailoring events to local preferences and building stronger connections with a broader fan base.

For the first time the ICC is asking for proposals for events over a longer term. Applicants can submit tenders that can include fan parks in one or more countries, for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 (Bangladesh), the ICC Men’s Champions Trophy 2025 (Pakistan), and the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 (India).

This ITT is intended to attract responses from companies with extensive experience in delivering Fan Parks for major international tournaments. It is expected that different agencies will be contracted in different territories. The ICC is also looking for innovative and different finance models for delivery.

The ITT is available here https://www.icc-cricket.com/commercial-opportunities/index

Responses should be emailed to fanparks@icc-cricket.com by Monday, 5 August 2024.

Queries should be addressed in an email with the subject line “ICC Fan Parks – Query” to the following address: fanparks@icc-cricket.com

More information about the ICC can be found on the official website: icc-cricket.com

FOR MORE DETAILS CONTACT
ICC Media and Communications Department
PO Box 500 070
Dubai, UAE
Tel: +971 4 382 8800
media@icc-cricket.com

ITT – BBC (host & domestic) TV coverage of the World Indoor Professional Bowls Championships, 2025 and 2026 with an option to extend to 2027

As part of the BBC Charter & Agreement the BBC committed to opening up more of the hours of programming that previously formed part of the in-house production guarantee by putting existing returning series out to tender, with the process open to any supplier.

  1. The programme

This is an Invitation to Tender (ITT) for host TV production and delivery of the BBC’s domestic TV coverage of the World Indoor Professional Bowls Championships in 2025 and 2026 with the option (at both parties agreement) to extend by one year to 2027.

Invitations will be welcomed from producers who qualify as an independent producer, within the meaning of the Broadcasting (Independent Productions) Order 1991, as amended, and can deliver a nations qualifying production in compliance with the published Ofcom criteria.

The anticipated tariff will be made available to bidders on receipt of (i) the Qualification Questionnaire (Appendix 1) (ii) a signed and dated non-disclosure agreement (Appendix 2).

Apply here.

Invitation for Expressions of Interest – FIFA World Cup 2026

FIFA is looking for interested and experienced companies to help deliver temporary infrastructure at the FIFA World Cup 2026™ (FWC2026).

FWC2026’s Stadium & Infrastructure Team has engaged BaAM Productions to procure and deliver temporary infrastructure at the tournament’s 16 stadiums. The selected suppliers will join BaAM as they endeavor to deliver a historic FWC2026.

If you think your organization can help deliver temporary infrastructure in the 16 host cities, please click on the link below to register your interest!

FIFA WORLD CUP 2026™ Request for Expressions of Interest (smartsheet.com)

ICC launches ITT process for the appointment of a Marketing and Public Relations Services Partner for ICC Events 2024-2026 in South Asia


The ICC would like to invite proposals from interested and qualified applicants to create, develop and implement an integrated Marketing and PR campaign to drive global awareness for the following events:

ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 in Bangladesh

ICC Champions Trophy 2025 in Pakistan

ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 in India

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 in India & Sri Lanka

Applicants should possess extensive experience in Advertising, Marketing, and Public Relations in South Asian markets, demonstrating a proven track record of crafting successful, innovative, and captivating consumer campaigns for renowned sporting events or other significant global occasions.

Expressions of interest are sought only from organisations who have the appropriate logistical and infrastructure competence, resources and financial capability to deliver the campaign to a world-class standard.

Interested applicants should request the Invitation to Tender (ITT) document by submitting the following information by email no later than 10h00 Gulf Standard Time on Tuesday 7 May 2024 to marketingITT@icc-cricket.com with the subject line “REQUEST FOR ITT – Marketing and Public Relations Partner ICC Events 2024 to 2026, South Asia.”

All interested applicants should submit, by email, the following:

Full legal name, company number and registered address;
Full name of primary contact at the interested company and office address of primary contact (if different from the company registered address) including a phone number and an email address;
Tax Registration Number if the interested company’s registered office is in the UAE; and
Any other relevant contact information.
Once the required information is received by the ICC, interested parties will receive a Letter to Interested Parties including a Non-Disclosure Agreement for signature and return, together with further instructions, before being issued with any of the tender documents.

  • Applicants are reminded that these dates may be amended by ICC, in its absolute discretion, for whatever reason and at any time.