Data & Project Manager (All Genders)

Prematch Sports GmbH; Köln; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

VSOP participation

Modern tech setup

AI-powered work

27 vacation days per year

Remote work 1–3 days onsite

Office in Cologne + Berlin + London

Team events and offsites

Job summary

Prematch Sports GmbH in Cologne seeks a hands-on BizOps professional to lead the brand partnership, coordinate partner meetings, and drive European expansion. You’ll own partner reporting and translate data into actionable recommendations for management.

With 2–5 years in consulting, strategy or operations, you’ll thrive in a fast-paced startup, manage a team of 5+ working students, and help steer cross-border growth with the Head of Teamwear.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years in consulting, strategy & operations, BizOps, key account or project management.
• Fluent German and English.
• Passion for grassroots football and community.
• Startup mindset; capable of shaping things, not just following a plan.

Responsibilities

• Lead the brand partnership; prepare partner meetings and decks; ensure Head of Teamwear has a clear story.
• Own partner reporting from monthly updates to quarterly reviews and market share report.
• Drive strategic projects: market/competitor analyses, upsell potential, European expansion (France, UK, Spain, Italy).
• Track department KPIs and manage a team of 5+ working students.

Skills

Brand partnerships

Strategic reporting

Stakeholder mgmt

Team leadership

Excel

Slides

German & English

Fast pace

startup mindset

Tools

Notion

Google Sheets

PowerPoint

AI tools

Job description

Hey!

Imagine amateur football finally had the platform it deserves.
Every weekend, millions of people write their own personal football stories – on pitches, in clubs and on the sidelines. We believe this passion deserves a digital home too.
That's exactly what we're building every single day.

tl;dr

We’re looking for a hands-on all-rounder who runs our partnership with a global sports brand: from management reporting to strategic projects and our European expansion.

Main information

• Start:Immediately
• Location:Cologne
• Workload:Full-time
• Team:Teamwear

Is this a match?

The most important basics – so we both know if it could work.

• Location: You can see yourself in our Cologne office (Belgisches Viertel) and are able to come in at least 3 days a week.
• Experience: You bring 2 to 5 years of experience in consulting, strategy & operations, BizOps, key account or project management, ideally in a fast-paced environment.
• Languages are no problem: You speak German and English fluently.
• You know football: You're genuinely interested in grassroots football and have a feel for what moves this community.
• Startup spirit: You'd rather shape things than just tick boxes - even when that means figuring stuff out without a finished roadmap.

What you'll do - your playing field

This is how you move our mission forward every day.

• You’re the engine behind our brand partnership. You prepare our partner meetings and decks, coordinate day to day with your counterpart and make sure our Head of Teamwear walks in with a clear story and recommendations.
• You own our partner reporting. From the monthly update to the quarterly business review and the half-yearly market share report, you turn data on tens of thousands of grassroots teams into a clear story with recommendations.
• You drive strategic projects. Market and competitor analyses, upsell potentials and market analyses for our European expansion (France, UK, Spain, Italy).
• You drive your own Key Results and keep track of the department’s KPIs, so our Head of Teamwear always knows where we stand.
• You steer a team of >5 working students and mini-jobbers. You set priorities, split the work and make sure the quality is right.

In addition to your core responsibilities, you will also:

• Prepare ad-hoc analyses and presentations for the Head of Teamwear and the founders
• You report to our Head of Teamwear and work directly with our CEO

What you bring to the team

We're not looking for a perfect CV. But you should recognise yourself in these points.

• Hands-on & proactive: You don’t wait for a brief. You spot what’s missing, build the first version yourself and get it moving.
• Structured thinking: You break messy questions into clear steps and land on a recommendation.
• Organised: You keep deadlines, your own tasks and a small team’s work on track at the same time.
• Presenting: You build management-ready decks that turn numbers into a clear story, and you present them confidently to our founders and team.
• Stakeholder management: You align founders, colleagues and an external partner, and you get input from people who don’t report to you.
• Fast pace & startup mindset: You enjoy switching between a monthly deadline and an ad-hoc request, and you’d rather ship at 80% than wait for 100%.
• Tools: Advanced Google Sheets / Excel and Slides/ Pitch/ PowerPoint, Notion, and AI tools in your daily work.

Good to know

We want you to know what this role really looks like from day one.

• This is a hands‑on role at the intersection of partner management, reporting and strategic projects. It is not a data engineering role: no coding, no pipelines. A data team supports you on the technical side.
• Things move fast. One day you prepare the story for a major brand partner’s management, the next you steer a small team. If both excite you, you’re in exactly the right place.

Bonus

Not a must – but this'll definitely earn you extra points.

• Experience in sporting goods, teamwear or team sports
• Basic SQL or a BI tool

The Prematch Setup

We want you to love joining us - and still love being part of the team a long time from now.

• Employee participation (VSOP) - directly benefit from the company’s success.
• Modern tech setup - We provide the tools and devices you need to be productive.
• AI-powered work- We use AI tools to work smarter and more efficiently, and provide you with the tools you need to make the most of AI in your day-to‑day work.
• 27 vacation days per year - For your rest and to recharge. Plus special arrangements if you’re a parent, so you can better balance family and relaxation.
• Remote work - depending on your distance to the office, you work 1–3 days a week onsite and the rest flexibly remote - whatever suits you best. Tech & Product roles sometimes offer 100% remote.
• Three cool offices in Cologne, Berlin, and London - true startup vibes to work and grow together. Want to visit another office? We support that too!
• Remote, even from afar - Whether it’s a week of sunshine abroad or a few days with family - we allow flexible work from outside your usual location.
• Team events at our locations - Whether after work in Cologne, Berlin, or London: we regularly bring teams together to connect and grow stronger.
• Offsites with the whole team - Four days out of the daily grind with the entire team: trips, brainstorming, onsite collaboration, and real team spirit.

Still here? Sounds like a pretty good match.

If you've made it this far, we hope we've managed to show you one thing: how we work, what we believe in and why this role at PREMATCH is something special.
Maybe this is exactly the moment you've been waiting for: a team that thinks big, a vision that actually moves things and the chance to help reshape amateur football digitally – together with us.
Now it's your turn.