Managing Partner, Sport and Real Money Gaming
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Occupation TypeFinancial managers and directors
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
Sponsorship Salary Threshold
£75,100
(£38.51 per hour)
Occupation rate applies
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Description
About LADbible Group
LADbible Group is one of the world’s most engaged digital entertainment businesses, reaching over a billion people globally and amassing more than 13.9 billion social views each month. With a powerhouse portfolio across general lifestyle, entertainment, sport, gaming, and tech, our brands: - including LADbible, UNILAD, GAMINGbible, and UNILAD Tech, are some of the most recognised and culturally relevant on the internet.
LADbible’s Commercial Team, LAD360, is a powerhouse of creativity, strategy, and innovation - partnering with the world’s most iconic brands, from Google and Nike to Disney and Tesco. With a headcount of 150 and growing, LAD360 has rapidly become one of the most formidable forces in media, delivering culture-shaping campaigns. Our work has earned us top industry accolades, including Commercial Team of the Year at the 2025 Campaign UK Awards and Media Brand of the Year at the 2024 MediaWeek Awards. At the heart of it all is a relentless drive to push boundaries, tell bold stories, and connect brands to youth culture like no one else can.
The Role
This role will own and grow some of our most important relationships in the sport and gaming verticals. You will operate at a senior client and agency leadership level and be accountable for commercial growth, as well as wider strategic and editorial partnership.
From a commercial perspective, your responsibility will be split as the primary lead across endemic sports clients (70%), while providing strategic consultancy and category expertise to non-endemic brands (30%).
From a publishing perspective, you will serve as the linchpin between Commercial and Editorial teams - helping create commercial products and packages on SPORTbible and ODDSbible that maximise direct client revenue while also driving the broader monetisation of owned channels and audiences.
What The Opportunity Looks Like
LADbible Group is one of the world’s most engaged digital entertainment businesses, reaching over a billion people globally and amassing more than 13.9 billion social views each month. With a powerhouse portfolio across general lifestyle, entertainment, sport, gaming, and tech, our brands: - including LADbible, UNILAD, GAMINGbible, and UNILAD Tech, are some of the most recognised and culturally relevant on the internet.
LADbible’s Commercial Team, LAD360, is a powerhouse of creativity, strategy, and innovation - partnering with the world’s most iconic brands, from Google and Nike to Disney and Tesco. With a headcount of 150 and growing, LAD360 has rapidly become one of the most formidable forces in media, delivering culture-shaping campaigns. Our work has earned us top industry accolades, including Commercial Team of the Year at the 2025 Campaign UK Awards and Media Brand of the Year at the 2024 MediaWeek Awards. At the heart of it all is a relentless drive to push boundaries, tell bold stories, and connect brands to youth culture like no one else can.
The Role
This role will own and grow some of our most important relationships in the sport and gaming verticals. You will operate at a senior client and agency leadership level and be accountable for commercial growth, as well as wider strategic and editorial partnership.
From a commercial perspective, your responsibility will be split as the primary lead across endemic sports clients (70%), while providing strategic consultancy and category expertise to non-endemic brands (30%).
From a publishing perspective, you will serve as the linchpin between Commercial and Editorial teams - helping create commercial products and packages on SPORTbible and ODDSbible that maximise direct client revenue while also driving the broader monetisation of owned channels and audiences.
What The Opportunity Looks Like
- Senior Client & Agency Relationships
Own senior relationships at CMO / VP / Agency MD / CEO level across key clients, agencies and strategic partners within the sports and gaming ecosystem.
Own revenue growth for the Sports & Gaming Hub / Vertical, with accountability for:
Bring Strategic Leadership Across
- Shape long-term strategic direction
- Solve complex commercial challenges
- Bring credible category expertise across audience, fandom and platform behaviour
Own revenue growth for the Sports & Gaming Hub / Vertical, with accountability for:
- Retention, Expansion and long-term partnership value.
- Lead Joint Business Plans (JBPs) and unlock integrated opportunities across brand, social, editorial and performance, using strong category and calendar insight to drive proactive growth.
- New commercial opportunities and product innovation
Bring Strategic Leadership Across
- Brand and platform strategy
- Marketing effectiveness
- Creativity and storytelling
- Audience and fandom behaviour
- Commercial trends across sport and gaming.
- Mobilise cross-functional teams to create best in class commercial output and category-leading work.
- Serve as the linchpin between Commercial and Editorial/Social Teams to identify new products, platforms or growth opportunities.
- Set the standard for what best in class looks like - set the tone for senior behaviour, client quality and strategic decision making.
- Manage, hire and develop a team beneath you.
- Experience across either marketing, commercial partnerships, sport sponsorship, consumer or fan products, or within a sporting agency
- Existing relationships from within the UK sporting and real money gaming industry
- Previous experience working for sport governing bodies, professional sport teams, television, radio or digital broadcast, sporting agency or bookmakers
LADbible Group is an equal opportunities employer. We are determined to create a diverse group at all levels of our company and we welcome all members of the community to apply for openings with us. As the leading social youth publisher, we have a powerful global platform to better represent our audience and enable those that do not have equal opportunities to have their voices heard. As a business, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce, in an environment where everyone feels comfortable to be themselves.