Managing Director

Job Overview

Managing Director role at Volo Sports

Company Description

Founded in 2010, Volo is the largest and fastest growing player in the social sports industry. We create year-round opportunities for adults 21+ to participate in a variety of sports, fitness, tournaments and social activities through league play. We bring together over 450,000 users across the U.S. in 8 major cities in sports leagues ranging from volleyball and soccer to bocce and kickball. Through our industry leading digital platform, Volo offers an increasing array of non-sports social activities to enable adults to connect with peers through play.

More than 450,000 users coast to coast leverage Volo to organize, meet, communicate and play within their community through fitness and social activities. Whether it's a performance sport like soccer, or a social activity like cornhole, Volo provides something real. Real interaction, real activity, real fun, and real impact. Volo is a movement—for people and by people who want to connect more meaningfully with each other. We are a grassroots uprising, helping others actually see who they’re connecting with, and share experiences over the length of a season.

Job Description

The Managing Director is responsible for the sales and operations within the market, including promotions and management of all leagues, activities, and events, in addition to regular managing and mentoring of their team.

Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for city performance related to both adult and youth programming goals.
• City strategic planning and use city knowledge to maximize product quality, revenue, and margins.
• Manage city budget, revenue, league plans & cash flow; create & execute city growth strategy for both youth and adult programs.
• Manage promotion and recruitment of new and past customers, create monthly, quarterly, and yearly budget reviews and forecasts based on city revenue, manage budget and ensure profit margins are being held.
• Ensure corporate sales & sports growth expectations are being met.
• Full time team recruitment, selection, hiring & training; build team office culture; ensure proper rollout of new company processes; office team evaluation & discipline; staff vacation management; confidential management of staff compensation; internal office & team communication – including both kids & adult staff; manage, mentor, train and coach team including status updates, budgets, goal setting and customer service response practices; help identify and recruit full and part time staff in the local market.
• Work with HR to ensure a pipeline for incoming interns and appropriate goals and projects are assigned.
• Stickler for branding, operational structure & integrating kids programming; assist in market-wide event planning, sponsorship activation and media relations as needed; collect program metrics and analysis throughout the season and develop tools for evaluation – for youth and adult programs; escalation point for customer service issues; anticipate and provide proactive solutions to prevent customer service problems from arising in the future.
• Oversee marketing budget; manage and execute all marketing partnerships and sponsorship activations; work with marketing team to create a marketing plan, themes and initiatives.
• Grow market by identifying new opportunities and relationships; develop relationships with current and future league venues; track the needs of each site including improvements; obtain permits for current and new locations; facilitate partnerships with community organizations, neighborhoods and potential funders; establish and maintain relationships with facilities, bars, sponsors and other vendors – update and record all facility and bar partner contact information; seek out and manage new business opportunities through development projects, bar, local sponsor, & local government relationships.
• This role will require periodic work out at our leagues, in the evenings and on weekends.

Qualifications

Additional Information

Volo is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. We do not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender‑identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws or company policy. We strive to create a healthy and safe workplace and we prohibit harassment of any kind. Don't see a position that matches your background or interests? We're a growing company and always looking for top talent. Drop us your resume and we'll contact you when there's a match!

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