Senior Sports Manager Scale Multi-Sport Academies in Jeddah

Love Recruitment; Jeddah; On-site; SAR 279,000 - 324,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flight tickets covered

Visa fees covered

Healthcare insurance

30 days annual leave

5-day work week

Family relocation (if applicable)

Job summary

Love Recruitment is seeking an experienced Sports Manager to lead the Sports Academies division in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. You will own end-to-end operations, oversee junior academies and holiday camps, and drive P&L responsibility in a premium indoor multi-sport destination.

You will manage third-party partnerships, standardise curricula and safety across sports, and design annual programming calendars. A strong focus on safeguarding, team leadership, and commercial growth is required for this

Qualifications

• 8 to 10 years' experience managing multi-sport or large recreational facilities.
• Experience running children's programmes, holiday camps, or junior academies at scale.
• Strong commercial acumen with genuine P&L ownership experience.
• Working knowledge of child safeguarding practices and safer recruitment standards.
• Confidently leading, mentoring, and performance-managing a diverse team.
• Fluent English is essential; Arabic is a strong advantage.

Responsibilities

• Owning the end-to-end management of the Sports Academies division and P&L.
• Leading and managing third-party sports operator partnerships and SLAs.
• Standardising coaching curriculum, programming quality, and safety protocols across all sports.
• Designing and overseeing the annual programming calendar, including junior academies and holiday camps.
• Embedding child safeguarding compliance and age-appropriate training models across junior programmes.
• Recruiting, onboarding, and leading a multi-sport academy operations team.

Skills

Multi-sport facilities management

Children's programmes experience

Commercial acumen

Safeguarding knowledge

Team leadership

Fluent English

Job description

Love Recruitment is seeking an experienced Sports Manager to lead the Sports Academies division in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. You will own end-to-end operations, oversee junior academies and holiday camps, and drive P&L responsibility in a premium indoor multi-sport destination.

You will manage third-party partnerships, standardise curricula and safety across sports, and design annual programming calendars. A strong focus on safeguarding, team leadership, and commercial growth is required for this