Who We Are:
Seven League is a fast-growing digital sports agency. The company was founded in 2011 and has since grown to over 50 full-time staff with additional associates in 14 European countries. Seven League is part of the Endeavor Group which is a global sports business and includes companies such as IMG, UFC and 160/90.
We have a wide range of clients, national and international, reaching all sectors of the sports business including the NFL, FIFA, Spurs, LCFC, the NBA, the NHL, Sport England and England Netball.
What You’ll Do:
As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for driving brand presence via content and community building through digital channels. This role requires creation of strategic programmes to engage with digital communities, partners and athletes to grow content distribution and syndication, looking for trends and insights, and growing overall digital revenue streams. The right candidate will be able to work across different stakeholder groups to proactively research, plan and identify content syndication opportunities and negotiate and deliver on these opportunities, whilst proactively developing, implementing, tracking and optimising content distribution programmes across various digital channels.
Key Responsibilities Include But Not Limited To:
- Identify, cultivate and maintain meaningful relationships with a broad spectrum of digital content partners across all channels to drive content distribution and revenue growth.
- Create strategies to build, grow and manage online communities.
- Lead the end-to-end syndication of our content to key media partners and manage the ongoing development of optimised content syndication workflows
- Work closely with colleagues across marketing, production and commercial teams to ensure that syndication and distribution of content is considered at the ideation and planning stage
- Research and build relationships with media partners and content creators across the world of sport and entertainment more broadly (these could include publishers, creators, streamers, podcasters, bloggers, influencers etc)
- Initiate, negotiate and close distribution agreements with key media partners across web, mobile, apps, streaming services and connected TVs
- Work closely with the internal marketing and content teams to develop initiatives designed to increase content views and engagement levels
- Work closely with broadcast delivery team to help deliver more value for rights holders through content and liaise with them on delivery formats
- Working with proprietary software to manage content distribution
- Onboarding and managing stakeholders to guarantee commitment and investment in the tools and project
- Liaising with sports teams, athletes, broadcasters and sponsors for day to day content management
- Reporting on campaign metrics
- Presenting ideas, campaigns and strategies to clients of all levels of digital maturity
- Understanding the latest digital trends, and reporting this back to the wider team and clients
- Other duties that are within the scope of the role may be required.
You Will Have The Following Strengths:
- Experience in a digital content distribution role.
- A keen understanding of digital technologies, social media platforms, websites, apps and content production
- Experience working with post production houses and understanding of types of media.
- Experience with reviewing content licence agreements
- Experience of building relationships and creating commercial opportunities through 3rd party publishers and outlets
- Prior experience working with key decision-makers in the content distribution system is an asset
- A passion for digital culture and sport.
We’d Love If You Also Have These:
- Solid experience in digital content, social media, marketing or commercial roles
- Technically savvy and passionate about the latest digital trends and developments
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Demonstrable ability to learn new skills with a readiness to share those skills among other members of the team
- Strong initiative with a ‘can do’ attitude and willingness to be flexible in approach to achieve desired outcomes
- Enthusiasm for the opportunities presented by digital technology
- Hard-working, flexible and adaptable
- Customer or client-focused approach
Our Values:
- We are fueled by Persistence, adapting and seeking solutions in the face of challenges.
- We support and elevate diverse voices, promoting equity and Inclusion within our company, industries and community.
- We operate with a spirit of Entrepreneurialism, a willingness to take risks and mindset that is built to disrupt.
- We rely on Collaboration across our network to power culture and unite people around the world.
- We hold ourselves to the highest standards of Excellence in every aspect of our work, including how we interact with one another, our clients and our partners.
Our Work Ethic:
We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.
We’ve adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You’ll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process, but we are currently excited to have our employees experience our office culture as much as possible.
Endeavor unites and brings people together in our love of sport, culture, and entertainment. We understand this can only be accomplished when we harness the entirety of our company and lead with a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. It means that we engage in anti-racism and ally-ship the way we do anything. Fiercely and fearlessly. As a global company that drives culture we endeavor to reflect the world’s diverse voices both internally and externally to ensure success in our mission.
If you require reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please let us know. We will work together to best meet your needs.
Seven League is part of Endeavor, a global entertainment, sports and content company, home to the world’s most dynamic and engaging storytellers, brands, live events and experiences. The company is comprised of industry leaders including entertainment agency WME; sports, fashion, events and media company IMG; and premier mixed martial arts organization UFC. The Endeavor network specializes in talent representation; marketing and licensing; content development, distribution and sales; event management; and a number of direct-to-consumer offerings.
Benefits:
- Income protection
- Life insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Pension contribution
- 23 days holiday + x-mas week off + bank holidays
- Dental insurance
- Green car scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Eye Care
- Endeavor Wellness – lunch and learn events
- EAP – range of practical and emotional support services
- Dependent care – 5 days subsidized emergency child, pet, elder care
- Subsidized gym membership / Class-pass
- Health Screening
- Dynamic office environment with great people!
- Regular team and company networking events/celebrations
- Access to free tickets to sporting and entertainment events
The Process:
We appreciate the time take to apply for the role and your recent interest in IMG. We will review all applications within five working days and be in touch with those who have been shortlisted to the next stage. Unfortunately, due to volume we are not able to get back to everyone individually so if you have not heard back from us unfortunately you have not been successful on this occasion and wish you all the best in your search.
Endeavor LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/endeavor-co/mycompany/
Endeavor Website – https://www.endeavorco.com/
IMG Media LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/img-media/
IMG Media Website – https://img.com/expertise/media/
Seven League
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