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General Manager – Europe
Location
France
Posted
21 hours ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
General Manager – Europe
Twenty First Group
• 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.
Job 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
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