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

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

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 

2 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. 

3 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 

4 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. 

5 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.

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.

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.

Department: Partnerships

Hours of work: 35 hours per week, (Includes some Matchdays working Evenings and Weekends)

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £45,000 – £50,000 per annum depending on experience (plus commission)

Location: Villa Park  

Closing Date: 16 October 2022  

1. The Department

The Partnerships department is responsible for acquiring and managing the commercial partners of Aston Villa Football Club. The partnership management team are the gatekeepers for delivering partnership rights and therefore work closely with all areas of the Football Club. The team works at a fast pace and due to the nature of delivering partnerships activations across a broad spectrum of brands, working days and projects will be extremely varied. 

2. The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Partnership Sales Manager to join our Partnerships team. The Partnership Sales team is responsible for developing the Clubs portfolio of commercial partners, playing a key role in the Club’s commercial strategy for success. As a key member of the Partnership Sales team, you will be focused on the acquisition process for new Club commercial partners.

The role will require you to build strong relationships with external parties and lead the sales process from first contact to successful lead conversion. You will work alongside key internal stakeholders to provide compelling partnership propositions and sales materials that help the club successfully convert leads and increase the value of the commercial partnership portfolio.

For further information about the Role, please see the Role Profile.

3. The Person

The ideal candidate will have experience in a sales environment with a proven track record of securing significant levels of new business. You must demonstrate strong skills in communication, with ability to build strong relationships both externally and internally. You will also be able to demonstrate clear initiative in order to meet objectives, conduct market research, build a sales pipeline, lead generation, contract management and sales completion.

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

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.