Norwich City F.C. hiring for managerial role

Article posted by Coliseum, March 2^nd, 2022

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The Premier League team Norwich City F.C. (UK) is looking for Senior Partnerships Manager.

The ‘Norwich City’ stated that the partnerships team at the Norwich City Football Club (UK) have two key purposes – to retain partnership investment, and to acquire new partners to support revenue growth.

The Norwich City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk in England (UK). As of the 2021-2022 seasons, the team competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football, after winning the 2020-2021 English Football League (EFL) Championship title. The club was founded in 1902.

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The 27,244-capacity Carrow Road Stadium is an association football stadium located in Norwich, Norfolk, England (UK), and is the home of Premier League side Norwich City. The stadium is located toward the East of the City, near the Norwich Railway Station and the River Wensum. The Norwich City F.C. originally played at Newmarket Road before moving to ‘The Nest’.

Job details

Job title: Senior Partnerships Manager

Location: Carrow Road primarily, with requirements to travel between other club sites.

Contract and hours: Full-time including requirements to work matchdays.

Salary: Up to £37,500 per annum, plus company benefits.

The ‘Norwich City’ further stated that the Senior Partnerships Manager position is vital in the club’s structure helping support the Head of Partnerships with the delivery of first-class activation campaigns and growth of principal and primary partner relationships.

The club is searching for a proactive, innovative and confident individual to drive and support these initiatives.

The successful candidate would join the team at an exciting time of launching a new growth strategy, based on innovation, technology and sustainability in line with the key club objectives. This is an excellent role for someone who is looking to expand on their experience in managing partnerships in sport, with wide exposure across the club.

Key tasks/responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Management of the front of shirt partner, and a mix of principal and primary partners within the club’s partnership portfolio as a single point of contact;
Responsible for driving all business objectives set at the start of each season to ensure a best in class service for every partner;
Design innovative initiatives to support retaining Premier League status revenue whilst delivering a sustainable financial model;
Planning, management, delivery, and reporting of individual partner activations, including working with the club’s communications and marketing teams to ensure player appearances, seasonal campaigns and bespoke plans;
Creation of best-in-class slide decks, reports and documents to support partnership management and organisation;
Matchday management and delivery of key English Football League (EFL)/English Premier League (EPL) rights;
Partner event planning, management and delivery;
Create and foster relationships with key stakeholders externally, as well as within the Norwich City business; and
In collaboration with the commercial leads, deliver a strategy to ensure maximum renewal rates with individual partners, and minimal churn.

Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to join the Canaries, click ‘Apply’ now on https://careers.canaries.co.uk/ to become our Senior Partnerships Manager!

Closing date: March 18^th 2022

The Norwich City Football Club are committed to ensuring equal opportunities are given to all and welcomes applications from all areas of the community regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnerships.

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