Time left to apply: End Date: November 23, 2024 (12 days left to apply)
Job Requisition ID: RQ-030179
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Location: St. Mary’s Stadium and Staplewood Training Ground
Hours: Full time
Contract Type: Permanent
Criminal Record Check: Basic
What is the role?
We are looking for an experienced leader to drive our Digital strategy through a marketing lens to meet the Company objectives and support the Club to drive revenue growth.
What will you be doing?
This role involves driving digital transformation for Southampton Football Club and the Sport Republic Group, including enhancing the Saints App and creating strategies to expand our fanbase across local, national, and international markets.
You’ll collaborate closely with the wider commercial teams to develop revenue-generating initiatives, optimise retail operations, and grow our newly formed Creative Design Studio. Additionally, you’ll work closely with our CEO and Ownership Board to create and produce our digital strategy across other football clubs. This role will also oversee our content and production team, providing clear direction and creative input.
Budget management and maximising ROI will be key, along with a commitment to team development through mentoring, performance reviews, and ongoing support. This is a new role and may evolve as the needs of the Club change.
Is this you?
We are looking for:
1. A strategic leader with a history of delivering marketing success, digital expertise, and transformation.
2. Experience of presenting and working at Board level.
3. Understanding of international markets and growing within that space.
4. Experienced in creating a vision and bringing others along to achieve it.
5. Experience of leveraging data-driven decision-making to maximise impact.
6. A creative and innovative mindset with an ability to think outside the box.
7. Equipped to confidently challenge ideas at all levels within the organisation, and possess the authenticity and influence needed for success.
How this benefits you…
If you are successful, you can look forward to a healthy benefits package:
* Competitive season-by-season discretionary bonus scheme.
* Private Medical Insurance.
* 28 days’ holiday per year excluding bank holidays plus your birthday off each year.
* Contributory Pension Scheme.
* Worldwide Travel Insurance for you and your family.
* Free onsite parking.
* Discounted Southampton Football Club merchandise.
* Collaborative & inclusive working culture.
How can I apply?
Click on the apply button, enter your details and answer a quick pre-screening questionnaire, then attach your CV.
The closing date for applications is 22nd November 2024.
*We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a high volume of applicants are received.*
About Us
POTENTIAL INTO EXCELLENCE
Southampton Football Club is part of St. Mary’s Football Group, which also includes the affiliated registered charity – the Saints Foundation.
We as a Group compete as a Premier League club at the highest level of professional football with a culture that promotes respect, unity, aspiration, innovation, and discipline – this is The Southampton Way.
We look for people with integrity, compassion, and support for those around them; people who take pride in what they do with an honest approach, who embrace a challenge while also being accountable for their decisions; people who have the energy and passion to bring an innovative approach to their role and strive to be different from the rest; people with the aspiration to lead the way and become an example to others.
Within the walls of St. Mary’s Stadium, Staplewood Campus, the Bath Academy, and our other sites and development centers across the South of England, you’ll be given the platform to work in a vibrant, intelligent, and challenging environment with the potential to develop and become the best at what you do.
We don’t stand still; we are constantly moving forward.
Be part of it…
Winner of the 2017 Employee Engagement Company of the Year.
Southampton Football Club 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 have the Disability Confident Award, which we pride ourselves on with regard to the commitment to employing disabled people and judging people on their abilities alone.
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.
We make a commitment to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a job vacancy and to consider them on their abilities.
Southampton Football Club is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
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