Basic information
Location
Manchester
Business Line
Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory
Job Type
Permanent / FTC
Date published
12-Sep-2025
Req #
20563
Job description
Connect to your Industry
The Sports Business Group is a market-leading team of industry specialists working exclusively on sports assignments. In particular, this includes supporting sports organisations to create efficient, effective and sustainable business models, and creating a regulatory environment which protects value and facilitates growth.
The group approaches the market via two primary routes:
Advisory: We equip our clients with world-class knowledge and insights, to seize opportunities within a rapidly evolving industry. Our breadth of expertise includes establishing long-term financial sustainability, driving transformational change and catalysing economic and social growth.
M&A: We identify, facilitate and execute M&A deals that propel the global sports industry forward via an end-to-end approach encompassing M&A strategy, lead advisory and due diligence.
Given the importance of media rights revenues to the economic model of sports organisations and investors, there is a growing need for them, and associated businesses, to have a better, more strategic understanding of sports media rights. With this context, the Sports Business Group has a vacancy for a Manager with media rights industry experience.
This role sits within the Advisory side of the group.
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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
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We are looking for a colleague to join our team as a Manager with relevant experience of working on advisory projects in the sports industry, and specific expertise in sports media rights.
Suitable candidates should have a strong track record of working on media rights-related projects and share our excitement about working with leading sports-focused organisations to enable them to thrive in an increasingly high-profile and competitive industry.
Your role will include:
* Advising sports rightsholders, broadcasters and investors with their media rights strategies;
* Providing media rights expertise to broader commercial advisory projects where media rights are a key driver/component of the work;
* Coaching and developing junior team members to become market-leading advisors;
* Assisting with market eminence activities such as the development of the Sports Business Group's leading publications, for example the Annual Review of Football Finance and the Deloitte Football Money League; and
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills including an ability to write precisely and articulate complex issues in a manner that facilitates common understanding;
* Evidence of strong financial and analytical skills and attention to detail.
* Assisting on a variety of wider sports advisory assignments, using outstanding technical, commercial and project management skills;
* Being comfortable working to project deadlines, adding value on high-profile and sensitive assignments;
* Working effectively as part of diverse project teams, taking accountability for your areas of work and supporting the high-quality delivery of projects, and dealing directly with clients and other stakeholders;
* Supporting business development activities, preparing discussion materials, responding to requests for proposal and participating in the maintenance and development of client relationships.
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Soft skills:
* Ability to tackle difficult challenges and articulate complex messages, using strategic thinking, frameworks and experience to structure, articulate and deliver recommendations, tailoring messaging depending on the audience/stakeholder.
* Collaborative, proactive in nature and enjoy working as a team to understand and explore complex challenges as well as collaborating and taking the initiative to deliver project objectives.
Essentials:
* Experience of media rights negotiations with one or more counterparties to negotiate content licensing agreements, preferably related to sports media rights;
* An understanding of the media rights sales process, including rights valuation techniques and pricing/sales strategies
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Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.
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"I've had the opportunity to make a positive impact on the success and sustainability of some of the most high-profile sports teams and leagues in the industry, assisting with the development and implementation of regulations and structures with a wide range of stakeholders' objectives in mind. The support I've had from the sport team has been instrumental in allowing me to develop the skills required to do so." – Fran Dow, Assistant Manager, Sports Business Group,
Our hybrid working policy
The Sports Business Group has dedicated teams in Manchester and London. This role will be Manchester-based and include both working from this Deloitte office and/or hybrid working. Our hybrid model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity. As well as remote working, you'll attend your local office, virtual collaboration spaces and client sites depending on the requirements of the role.
At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.
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Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?
For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So, we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.
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A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.
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