Job title: Partnerships Executive
Employment hours: Full-time
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Glasgow
Salary: DOE
Closing Date: 1st May 2026
Description:
The Scottish Professional Football League is the senior national football league in Scotland, comprising 42 of the leading professional football clubs in the country across 4 divisions. The League is also responsible for identifying and managing collective commercial opportunities in the fields of sponsorship, broadcasting and licensing. The Scottish Professional Football League is seeking an enthusiastic Partnerships Executive in a role which will offer support across the output of the SPFL commercial team. This is an exciting opportunity to work on both domestic and international projects and partnerships for the League.
The role will offer the successful candidate fantastic progression to develop their expertise and experience of working in a high profile and fast paced commercial sports environment. As the role will involve working with partners on their rights activation and campaigns, some experience of working in a sports marketing position is preferred, but not essential.
The Partnerships Executive will work across the remit of the wider commercial team, reporting to the Head of Partnerships, and have scope to contribute to key strategic commercial discussions. The position represents an ideal opportunity for a candidate with 1 or 2 years’ experience and is looking for a new challenge.
Key Responsibilities:
Assisting the Partnership Manager with rights holder fulfilment, event delivery and relationship management.
Managing approval processes to ensure rights and Intellectual Property are correctly used on licensed products or partner campaign materials.
Administrative support for commercial and compliance duties.
Liaison with SPFL Member Clubs for sponsorship and licensing briefings.
Researching and identifying new partnership opportunities to maximise the organisation’s revenue growth.
Proof reading campaign materials and artwork.
Assisting the wider commercial team at SPFL events will be a key aspect and so availability to work weekends or evenings on occasion is crucial.
Key Skills and Requirements:
Experience of working within sports commercial marketing is preferred, but not essential.
Strong administration, communication and organisation skills.
An active interest in Scottish Football and global sports commercial and marketing trends.
Knowledge of and proficiency with standard office-based IT software such as Microsoft Office.
If you are interested in applying for this position, please send your CV with a cover letter to [email protected], listing ‘SPFL Job Application’ as the subject.