General Manager – Europe

🕒 June 24

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Twenty First Group

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11 - 50 employees

⚽ Sports

💼 Consulting

Sports • Consulting

Twenty First Group is a company focused on groundbreaking sports intelligence that drives success in sporting endeavors and unlocks commercial value. They specialize in understanding the intersections of quality performance, compelling competition, and fan passion, which are essential pillars for sports. Utilizing their proprietary Intelligence Engine, TFG combines strategy, data science, software engineering, and design to deliver insights across four key areas: Performance Intelligence, Competition Intelligence, Investment Intelligence, and Fan Connection. This approach supports various stakeholders in the sports industry, including athletes, teams, brands, investors, and media. With offices located in the UK, Continental Europe, North America, and Asia, TFG aims to enhance the performance and commercial viability of its clients through data-driven strategies.

📋 Description

• Direct and manage all Twenty First Group operations within continental Europe, establishing and growing a presence, with a flexible primary base within the region. • Formulate and execute the strategy for the strategic development and commercial expansion of the business across the European market. • Act as the senior Advisory Lead and Advisory Project Manager for key client consulting engagements across the region. • Ensure the successful, timely, and high-quality delivery of diverse sports and business-related projects. • Recruit, mentor, and guide local and project-based consulting teams to maintain high performance standards and support regional scale. • Provide high-level consulting and retained analytical support to strategic clients.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience as a consultant or manager at a top-tier management consulting firm or an equivalent senior advisory role. • Minimum of five years of professional experience, with a significant focus on business development and project delivery within continental Europe. • Extensive experience within the sports industry is required, with a deep specialisation in football preferable. • Demonstrated track record of leading and successfully delivering complex advisory projects for high-profile organisations across sport. • Strong leadership qualities with the ability to build, manage, and mentor a high-performing regional team. • Exceptional analytical and commercial acumen, with experience in conducting detailed sporting, commercial, and financial analyses. • Demonstrable experience working with AI-driven technologies, with a high level of comfort adopting, integrating, and leveraging AI tools to enhance workflows, generate insights, and drive efficiency across day-to-day responsibilities. • Proficiency in at least one and ideally two languages of the key markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain). • Deep understanding of the sports ecosystem, media rights, club operations, and market dynamics specific to continental Europe. • Highly skilled in strategic planning, transformation, and developing long-term strategies for sports organisations. • Excellent presentation, negotiation, and cross-cultural communication skills to manage senior-level client stakeholders across the diverse European markets. • Proficiency with software required to deliver market leading consulting work, and ability to manage complex consulting projects end to end.

🏖️ Benefits

• Private Healthcare Plan • Pension Plans • Work From Home • Training & Development