Operations Manager (UEFA Women's Football)

We are Two Circles, a Sports & Entertainment Marketing business that grows audiences and revenues by understanding fans best. We work with clients to help them understand and influence fan behaviour, including spending habits, event attendance, and content consumption. Our platforms and services are trusted by over 1000 clients globally, including the English Premier League, Red Bull, UEFA, VISA, the NFL, Nike, and Amazon.

Since 2017, Two Circles has been UEFA’s exclusive sales agency for UEFA Women’s Football (UWF) commercial partners, managing marketing rights, media rights, and partnership management for UEFA Women’s EURO (WEURO), UEFA Women’s Champions League (UWCL), youth competitions, and Women’s Futsal EURO.

The Partnership Operations Manager will project manage and lead the delivery of partners' contractual commercial rights across UWF competitions, covering a portfolio of global brands such as PepsiCo, Amazon, Vodafone, Adidas, and Heineken. This role ensures that all partner entitlements are executed accurately, consistently, and in compliance with governing guidelines, while maintaining strong coordination with internal teams, external agencies, and competition stakeholders. The role will involve occasional European travel.

Key Responsibilities

• Ticketing & Hospitality Operations: Manage ticket allocations across competitions, ensuring accurate distribution aligned with partner entitlements. Oversee ticketing processes, including requests, approvals, and reconciliations. Ensure seamless coordination with stakeholders for matchday access.
• Matchday Operations & LED Delivery: Lead matchday LED advertising approvals and execution. Coordinate with relevant teams to ensure correct content delivery.
• Brand & Asset Approval Management: Approve partner logo usage across all channels, ensuring compliance with brand guidelines. Oversee implementation across digital inventory (broadcast graphics, websites) and maintain consistency and protect brand integrity across all touchpoints.
• Accreditation & Access Management: Manage accreditation processes for partner staff and guests. Ensure timely submission, tracking, and distribution. Oversee system access provisioning for partners and agencies.
• Operational Planning & Workflow Management: Develop and manage operational calendars and timelines. Track deliverables and ensure deadlines are met across multiple stakeholders. Implement and maintain structured approval workflows.
• Stakeholder & Rights Delivery Coordination: Act as the primary liaison with operational teams for rights delivery logistics. Coordinate with internal departments and external partners to ensure smooth execution. Support cross-functional alignment on partnership activations.
• Workshops & Events Delivery: Own end-to-end delivery of several partner workshops and events held throughout the season. Coordinate internal teams and external partners, overseeing event logistics, including staffing, guest management, and on-site delivery. Monitor and control budgets, ensuring cost efficiency and financial accountability.

Requirements

• Strong experience in partnership operations, sponsorship delivery, or sports/event management.
• Excellent organisational and project management skills.
• High attention to detail with a focus on accuracy and compliance.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and deadlines in a fast-paced, process-driven environment.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• A proactive and solutions-focused mindset.
• Experience working with ticketing systems, accreditation platforms, or content approval workflows is a plus.
• An interest in building lasting relationships with clients, sponsors, and stakeholders.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

What can we offer you?

• Renowned Team Days often throughout the year.
• Summer Away Days.
• 23 standard days of holiday (+ 1 Birthday, +2 for a ‘Big Life Event’ and +1 Admin Day), closure of office over Christmas (plus Bank Holidays).
• Discretionary Bonus based on company performance.
• Performance Reviews every 6 months with discretionary salary increases.
• Private healthcare (Vitality) and/or Health Cash Plan (Medicash).
• 2x annual kit drops.

Though these are the basics written down, we will principally be recruiting for energy, values, and leadership capability, as well as commitment to Two Circles and to your own professional development. Our recruitment process will be honest and thorough, and so will our roles. In return, we offer integrity, autonomy, and the opportunity to progress quickly as you grow with the business. Two Circles is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability or background.