Job Vacancies

Sports Marketing Surveys employs enthusiastic professionals who are passionate about sport. Vacancies for jobs will appear on our site and often are not advertised elsewhere.

We are always very happy to hear from people who feel they may like to work for Sports Marketing Surveys. Even if we do not have current vacancies, if you have special skills to offer us, we can always keep your details on our files until a suitable opportunity presents itself.

For general recruitment issues please contact Penny Watson.
e: penny@sportsmarketingsurveys.com

Our current vacancies are:

Business Development Executive
We have an opportunity for a sales focused individual in our Market Research Department. This Business Development Executive will be responsible for selling and developing relationships in three areas:

1. European Player & Fan programme
2. Sponsatrak – specialist sponsorship tracker
3. Sporting Insights panel building

1.  European Player & Fan programme
• This 2007 European Study into Sports Participation and Sports Following measures participation, following and lifestyles amongst a nationally representative sample in seven markets.
• Target clients include sports goods brands, sports federations and event rights holders, sponsors and sponsorship agencies.

2.  Sponsatrak
• A UK based specialist sponsorship tracker which operates weekly amongst a nationally representative sample.
• Target clients include major national and title sponsors, sports governing bodies and Federations.
• Programme enables tracking and impact of sponsorship around a particular event or during a season.

3.  Sporting Insights
• Our international sports community is an online panel of sports’ fans.
• Development of relationships with major sports websites and high traffic lifestyle sites.

Skills
The following skills will be required:

• Business development and management of client meetings
• Telephone selling skills
• Excellent written communication ability
• Powerpoint presentation preparation
• Microsoft Office experience of Word, Email and Excel

Experience of market research and data analysis using research packages such as SNAP or SPSS would be useful.

For more clarification please contact:

Penny Watson, Human Resources Manager - e:penny@sportsmarketingsurveys.com

International Monitoring

We are always interested to hear from people in countries other than the UK who have access to local television and would like to monitor television coverage of global sporting projects in their own homes.  Please contact David Bromley.      e: davidb@sportsmarketingsurveys.com

Interviewers

Sports Marketing Surveys has a number of part-time market researchers who collect data each month on golf equipment. These interviews take place at golf courses throughout England, Scotland and Wales.  Occasionally there is also a need, on an ad hoc basis, for data to be collected on various sports.  If you would like to be considered for interviewing, please contact Diana Gilder. e: dianag@sportsmarketingsurveys.com