Commercial Delivery Manager (Candidates residing in West Region - Freelance Role)

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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold\">The Company </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Asia Football Group (AFG) is the exclusive commercial agency for the Asian Football Confederation’s (AFC) competitions from 2023-2028. Our partnership with the AFC covers the commercial rights for all major AFC National Team and Club competitions, including the AFC Asian Cup, AFC Asian Qualifiers, AFC Women’s Asian Cup, AFC Women’s Olympic Qualifiers, AFC Champions League, AFC Cup as well as AFC youth and futsal competitions. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\"> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Driven by a shared passion and dedication to Asian football, our industry experts have a wealth of experience in global, regional, and local football marketing, and are devoted to delivering exciting and engaging Asian football content to fans on ground, on screen, and online. Working closely with the AFC and its stakeholders, Asia Football Group strives for the success and growth of Asian football, as well as redefining Asian football’s commercial standing within global football by addressing the shared business objectives of the AFC, its sponsors and media partners with solutions derived from optimising fan engagement and digitally driven innovations. </span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Location</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Candidates should already be residing in any one of the following countries: Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Contract Type</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Freelance </span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Successful candidates will be engaged by AFG on a freelance basis, i.e., a fee will be paid when services are provided for matchday operations and other commitments as required such as staff training and stadium site visits.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Candidates may be set up as their own business entity in their home country and must maintain their own business registrations, compliance, tax arrangements, employment law obligations and any required insurances. Freelancers will invoice AFG for their services at a standard, agreed rate</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Key Responsibilities</span></span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Liaising with the LOC and AFC staff on all commercial matters</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Managing adherence to AFC Commercial Delivery Guidelines (CDG) and other regulations and ensuring deliverables meet required quality/standards </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Overseeing delivery of a commercially clean stadium and monitoring partner rights and activities </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Coordinating the AFG Venue Team, commercial partners and supplier accreditation and access </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222; 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font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Management of logistics activity relating to delivery of in-stadia operations by AFG and its suppliers</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Solving any on-venue commercial matters or escalating issues to the AFG Regional Lead as necessary</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Event reporting prior, during and after matchday</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Manage the Assistant Commercial Manager (where an ACM is present) by providing clear instructions and tasks as required</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Manage the Local Assistant (where a LA is present) by providing clear instructions and tasks as required</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Attend training and site visits prior to the start of the relevant competition</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Any other tasks as required</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Skills, Experience and Qualifications</span></span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Minimum 5 years of sport events or venue management experience, ideally within Asia</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Understanding of sponsor rights delivery, ideally in match and tournament contexts</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Experience delivering the following will be considered:</span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px\">Live broadcast football matches or other venue-based sports such as basketball, volleyball, badminton etc. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222; 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