8 Unbelievable Jobs in Sport if You're Not an Athlete

After graduating from emlyon business school’s MSc in Sports Industry Management, you could could work your way up into a Chief Marketing Officer role at a famous football club, designing and implementing the football club’s sales and marketing vision across various channels.

Working as a regional marketing manager for a sportswear brand, you might get to manage product promotion through players, sponsorships and corporate events. Your job would entail developing marketing plans for the region and liaising with local offices to identify new opportunities and analyse campaign effectiveness to share with stakeholders.

Alternatively, you could also, like the Nürnberg-based emlyon business school graduate Pranav Vontivilu, work as a project manager for an international sportswear and footwear company. If you did, you could be involved in the management, planning, coordination and financing of an exciting global project.

If you end up working in finance and operations leadership, you could expect to be in charge of things like bookkeeping, calculating budgets, resource management, strategic planning and team leadership at one of the biggest, most successful teams in the world.

If merchandising isn’t your thing, you could help promote your city’s bid to host the Olympics, delineating a bid concept, looking at proposed venues, establishing a financing strategy and vision for the bid, as well as contributing to plans for the Olympic village.

You could also, like 22-year old emlyon business school graduate Nathan Constancias, work as a business-to-consumer marketing project manager at a famous football club. You’d be in charge of organizing stadium tours, VIP experiences, subscriptions and innovation.

90% of students on emlyon business school’s MSc in Sports Industry Management found a job within six months of graduation, so go on, apply here. Give it your best shot.