City Football Group
United Arab Emirates
16th July 2025
2507-4222-3
Location:
Abu Dhabi, AE
Opening Date: 14 Jul 2025
Full Time / Part Time: Full Time
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Closing Date of Applications - 23rd July 2025
Our Story
Established in 2013, City Football Group is the world’s leading private owner and operator of football clubs, with total or partial ownership of twelve clubs across the world. City Football Group also invests in other football related businesses and serves as a global commercial platform for our partners, whilst fulfilling our purpose of empowering better lives through football on a local and global scale, consistent with what “City” football has meant to people for over a century.
Our Winning Team
Our purpose is to empower better lives through football. We are proud of the role City Football Group clubs play in their localities, delivering positive economic, social and environmental impact through our operations and through programmes and activities that bring about meaningful, lasting change.
Based in Abu Dhabi and reporting to the Senior Partnership Marketing Manager – MENA (12m FTC), the Partnership Marketing Manager will oversee a portfolio of CFG’s global and regional commercial partners, with a focus on the Middle East. This end-to-end role includes partnership planning, activation, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure high-quality delivery. As a key member of the EMEA Partnership Marketing Team, the role also supports wider departmental initiatives.
Please be aware that this role is a 12-month fixed term contract, ideally looking to commence in September 2025.
This is Your City
As part of our team, you will be entitled to 26 days annual leave plus an additional day off for your birthday, private healthcare and a simply health cash plan, an annual discretionary bonus, plus a range of partnership and lifestyle discounts.
Your Impact
Role Level: | Mid-Level | Work Type: | Full-Time |
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Country: | United Arab Emirates | City: | Abu Dhabi |
Company Website: | https://www.cityfootballgroup.com/ | Job Function: | Marketing |
Company Industry/ Sector: |
Marketing Services |
City Football Group (CFG) is the world's leading private owner and operator of football clubs – with 13 football clubs across five continents within the CFG family. Established in May 2013, the CFG approach ensures that every club remains authentic to its fans and community, plays entertaining football and benefits from being part of a global organisation that applies the world's best expertise on and off the pitch. CFG pioneers and delivers a consistent underlying approach to talent development, fan experiences, sports entertainment, commercial opportunities and community impact. Over 400 partner organisations are central to the CFG model and a commitment to positively shaping the future of football. More than one billion followers worldwide support and connect with their CFG clubs. CFG clubs include Manchester City FC, New York City FC, Melbourne City FC, Yokohama F. Marinos, Montevideo City Torque, Shenzhen Peng City FC, Mumbai City FC, Lommel SK, ESTAC, Palermo FC, Bahia, and partner club Bolívar. Starting from 1 July 2024 – 30 June 2025, CFG’s shareholding in Girona FC has been put into an independent blind trust to ensure compliance with UEFA rules and regulations.CFG is majority owned by Newton Investment and Development LLC, wholly owned by His Highness Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed, with a significant minority shareholding held by US-based global technology investment firm, Silver Lake (nearly 18%).
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