Competition Delivery Manager

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The LTA's vision is ‘Tennis Opened Up’, and our mission is to transform communities through tennis, focusing on three areas – making tennis welcoming, enjoyable and inspiring to everyone.

The Role

The Competition team oversee the planning and delivery of all LTA staged competitions at an international and national level, as well as supporting regional, county, and local level competition activity. The team also oversees Padel competition, team competition, disability competition and associated GB representative teams. The team are responsible for servicing competition in Britain, which includes Officiating, Ratings (World Tennis Number) and Rankings, rules and regulations and the digital systems to find and enter competition.

This role will play an important part in delivering against the new Competition Plan 2025-29 and onwards. The primary aim of the role will be to lead on the planning and delivery of LTA Staged competitions, both Team and Individual and Disability and Padel competitions.

Please note, the application window for this role closes on Wednesday 15th January 2025.

Initial interviews will take place from the week commencing 27th January 2025.

Key Accountabilities

• Work with the Head of Competition and Tournament Managers to annually plan the Junior International and National and Adult National performance competitions calendar to best meet the needs of the player base, working in collaboration with the Performance and Major Events teams.

• Work with the Head of Competition and Tournament Managers to develop and deliver key national team competitions for adults and juniors across venues, schools and county competitions. • Oversee and manage the delivery of the Calendar including the allocation of Tournament Managers responsible for each.

• Responsibility to work with the Head of Competition, as part of the Competitions SMT, to manage workload across the team and successfully deliver the Competition Plan.

• Oversee the Competition Delivery budget and ensure each competition is delivered within the annual budget.

• Lead and motivate the Tournament Delivery Manager’s to ensure tournaments are delivered to a high standard and meet the needs of all customer groups.

• Oversee and manage the delivery of all relevant padel and disability competitions.

• Work with the Competition Operations Manager to select and deploy Officials for relevant LTA staged competitions and the Marketing and Communications team to promote and profile these competitions.

• Manage the ordering and procurement of all branded products, equipment, travel and accommodation services, so that it is as cost efficient as possible and supports the LTA sustainability policy.

• Lead on the Competition’s Team work in respect to the use of strategically important venues, maximising use of free court hours and support the Property team in the future development of competition venues.

• Ensure all tournament operational requirements are delivered to a high standard and within set timeframes by employing best practice event management approaches.

• Lead on annually reviewing all LTA Staged tournaments taking feedback from other areas of the business and ensure any learnings are applied for future years and budgeting.

Our Benefits

• 25 days annual leave

• Pension

• Life assurance

• Reimbursement of eye tests

• Long service awards, plus monthly and annual colleague awards

• Private Medical & Health Insurance

• Free onsite gym & use of the Tennis & Padel courts

• Cycle to Work Scheme

• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave

• Free mental health first aider support

• Colleague ticket offerings for Major Events and The Championships, Wimbledon

• Annual Bonus Scheme

• Free parking & bike racks

• Retail discounts from our partner brands

• Training & Development

• Summer and Christmas parties

• Free tea and coffee provided daily

• Electrical vehicle charging points

• Staff lockers

• 30% discounts in our café at the National Tennis Centre

Our Culture

The LTA, through its vision ‘Tennis Opened Up’, is committed to creating a diverse environment where all colleagues feel included and a strong sense of belonging. We are proud to actively invite applications from all candidates who meet the essential criteria and can work in the UK. We commit that everyone will receive equal consideration for employment irrespective of your ethnicity, religion, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, age, any disability, marital or civil partnership status, and pregnancy or maternity status.

We particularly welcome applications from:

• People from ethnically diverse communities

• Deaf and disabled people

• Members of the LGBTQ+ community

• People with lived experience of the UK's many and varied communities

The LTA Tennis Foundation is a new tennis charity that partners with brilliant people and organisations to improve lives through tennis. It shares the LTA’s vision of ‘Tennis Opened Up’, and it wants to use our sport to make a real difference to people across the whole country. All LTA colleagues have the chance to get involved with the LTA TF, with some directly involved in delivering and leading its work.

To truly deliver our vision of 'Tennis Opened Up', we believe it is critical that the LTA plays our part in contributing to a healthier and more sustainable society. We want to grow tennis in Britain, but do so in a responsible way, protecting and supporting the environment and working with everyone in the sport to tackle our climate impacts. We are committed to ensuring a lasting future for tennis in Britain, and our Environmental Sustainability Plan sets out how we will do this.