✍️ Rohit Singh

🗓️ Sep 20, 2024

There are multiple ways an individual can work directly with athletes or behind the scenes, supporting athletic events. Having a strong athletic background is not what is firmly required for getting a job in sports but holding an interest in sports is the necessary thing. Whether a sports enthusiast, industry professional, athlete, coach, or marketing professional, an effort in the right direction can translate your passion into a rewarding career. 

Here is the information about some of the highest-paying jobs in sports in the current market scenario:

General Manager

A General Manager is the one who looks upon all the administration tasks for a team. Just like a CEO is to a company, a General Manager is to a sports enterprise. They are the executive or the key decision-maker who work closely with coaching staff, athletes, and scouts. Their primary responsibilities include player trade and acquisition, team operations, managing budgets, and long-term strategic planning to ensure the team’s success. And as the General manager is the executive of the team so directly answers to the team owner.

Educational requirements for a General manager vary from place to place but a bachelor’s degree or higher in sports management can set you apart from the crowd.

Athletic Director

The job profile of an athletic director comes with a great responsibility, hence is the most interesting and well-paid job in the current market scenario. An athletic director handles all the daily operations within a high school, college, or university. Public dealing is the most critical component of an athletic director. Their other duties include creating and maintaining budgets and sponsorships, recruiting and coaching players, managing the team’s travel accommodation, and developing strategies for the big events.

Facility Operations Manager

A Sports job where exceptional communication and leadership skills come into play is of the Facility Operations Manager. Also known as the “Arena Manager or the Stadium Operations Executive”.They handle or operate stadium events, buying, leasing, supervising sports facilities staff, other construction and redesigning or the other managerial tasks, they are wholly accountable for it.  

Sports Statisticians

Sports Statisticians or simply Sports Analysts are generally who play with the data and present it in an understandable manner. They thoroughly analyze the sports data for the players, teams, and businesses to enhance their performance. Sports analysts use mathematical and statistical rules to provide both on-field and off-field analytics. So an individual having a bachelor’s degree in math or statistics is a plus.

On-field analytics involve evaluating the performance of athletes and making the necessary decisions regarding the recruitment or trade thus to improve team performance while off-field analytics properly go through the statistics and take the mandatory measures to upscale the growth and profitability of the sports venture.

Want to make a career in sports management in India?

ISM GLOBE provides a sports management masters program or PGPSM which allows students to get hands-on industry experience and acquire technical knowledge. Our master’s program helps the students to be exposed globally to international universities, and global brands to understand the dynamics and their functionality to get a pleasing and lucrative career.