Senior Consultant [Sport Communications]

Responsibilities

• Shape communications strategy
• Advise clients
• Drive and deliver client work
• Use AI to drive better outcomes
• Contribute to the business
• Build a collaborative environment

Requirements

• 5–7 years of corporate communications experience with exposure to sport, investor, transaction-led or consumer brand clients
• A strong working understanding of the business of sport, including ownership and investment, media rights, governance and regulation, and commercial models. This can come from client work, an in-house role, study or sustained personal interest, as long as you can show it
• A drive to go deep into unfamiliar territory, find the angles others miss, and produce work grounded in a thorough understanding of the subject matter.
• Strong written and editorial skills: you can take a complex brief and produce something clear, compelling, and accurate without losing the substance.
• The ability to get up to speed on unfamiliar territory quickly and do something useful with it.
• Experience building advisory relationships with senior stakeholders, such as owners, chairs, chief executives and investors, and the presence to hold your own in those conversations.
• Experience developing media strategies and working with journalists across national, business and sports media outlets.
• Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) effectively, safely, and critically in a professional setting.
• Project management experience: planning and delivering work against agreed goals, timelines, and budgets.
• Experience managing junior colleagues and delegating effectively.

Preferred

• Experience in-agency advising sports owners, investors, leagues or governing bodies, or working in-house at a sports organisation or sports investor.
• Corporate or financial communications experience, particularly around transactions, or experience working with private equity, hedge funds or other investors.
• Familiarity with sports policy and regulation, or experience working with supporter groups.

Benefits

• competitive pay with transparent salary bands, twice-yearly bonuses, professional development opportunities guided by our career framework and progression pathways, private healthcare, mental health support, 26 days holiday plus public holidays (outside of our annual Christmas break), and a hybrid working model (three days in the office: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday)