Full-Time
Posted 4 days ago (2026-09-25)
Company
World Sports
We’d love to hear from you.
Tell us a little about yourself, your experience and why you think you could help us grow World Sports Group and Ahotu.
Full-Time
Posted 4 days ago (2026-09-25)
Company
World Sports Group is looking for a Senior Sales Manager to help us grow our global endurance sports business. Through Ahotu and World’s Marathons, we connect athletes with races and endurance experiences around the world. Our platform brings together tens of thousands of events across running, trail, triathlon, cycling and many other endurance sports, reaching athletes in markets across the globe.
A big part of our business is helping event organisers reach incremental participants beyond their own channels. We are not a registration system. Instead, we complement organisers’ existing registration solutions by helping them attract additional bookings – with a particularly strong international audience looking for races and experiences outside their home markets.
At the same time, we are building a wider ecosystem around the athlete journey, spanning race discovery, travel, training, technology, memberships and global brand partnerships.
And we’re looking for someone who wants to be at the centre of that growth.
The role
Your primary focus will be to bring new event organisers onto the platform and grow our commercial relationships across the endurance industry. You will identify opportunities, open doors, build relationships and turn conversations into long-term partnerships.
This includes:
- Bringing new race organisers and events onto Ahotu
- Developing relationships with major event groups, rights holders and endurance brands
- Building and actively managing a strong pipeline of opportunities
- Identifying new commercial and strategic partnerships
- Managing opportunities from first conversation through negotiation and launch
- Growing existing organiser and partner relationships
- Working closely with our product, marketing, content and technology teams to make partnerships successful
- Bringing insights from organisers and partners back into the company and helping shape what we build next
- This is a hands-on role. We are looking for someone who enjoys both creating opportunities and making things happen.
Who we are looking for
- You are commercially minded, curious and highly effective.
- You enjoy meeting people, understanding their businesses and finding opportunities that create value for both sides.
- You are comfortable working independently and don’t need a large organisation around you to move things forward.
- You probably have several years of experience in sales, partnerships or business development, ideally within sports, events, travel, marketplaces or technology.
- An existing network within endurance sports would be a strong advantage.
- Most importantly, you are: Curious. You ask questions, understand what partners really need and spot opportunities others may miss.
- Driven. You enjoy opening new doors and turning ideas into commercial relationships.
- Efficient. You follow up, keep momentum and get things across the finish line.
- You understand that great sales is also about keeping a large, healthy funnel moving – consistently.
- Relationship-oriented. You build genuine long-term relationships rather than simply closing transactions.
- Collaborative. You know when to bring in product, tech, marketing or management and can coordinate effectively across teams.
- Comfortable with technology. You don’t need to be technical, but you should be curious about digital products, integrations and how technology can create new commercial opportunities.
Why join us?
World Sports Group is a Swedish company headquartered in Stockholm, with team members working both from our office and remotely around the world. We are passionate about endurance sports – and probably a little geekier than average when it comes to technology, data and building new products.
You also won’t be starting from scratch. We already work with thousands of organisers and partners across the global endurance ecosystem and have built a substantial international audience of athletes actively looking for their next event.
We are now taking the next step: expanding our organiser network while building deeper connections across the athlete journey – from discovering a race to preparing for it, travelling there and crossing the finish line.
You will have significant freedom to develop relationships, influence our commercial direction and help build partnerships with some of the most interesting organisations in global endurance sports. If you love running, cycling, triathlon or endurance events yourself, even better.
Interested?
We’d love to hear from you.
Tell us a little about yourself, your experience and why you think you could help us grow World Sports Group and Ahotu. work@worldssportsgroup.com