What is Footballco? Footballco is the world’s biggest dedicated football content and media business. Reaching more than 800m football fans across the world each month, and with a growing roster of brands including Goal, Voetbalzone, Koora Calciomercato and Spox, no one else has our reach or depth of understanding within the game. With over 400 employees globally, we’re a young company with some established brands and serious investment behind us. About the Role We are looking for a Newsdesk Manager to join our team in Munich with immediate effect working for SPOX and GOAL, SPOX is one of the leading multi-sports portals in Germany, GOAL is the football website with the widest reach worldwide. What You'll be doing: You keep our engine room running, coordinate the day-to-day business, identify the topics of the day, keep an eye on the news situation, set and coordinate topics. You keep an eye on our distribution channels and manage our content. You monitor the development of traffic, both in real time and in the long term, and know the levers to optimise reach. You promote quality and are jointly responsible for building our journalistic brands. You will edit and produce the articles written by our editors, reporters, SEO writers and video contributors. You create and optimise headlines and teasers for articles and videos, and are also responsible for writing titles and copy for posts on our social media channels. You keep an eye on the international editions of GOAL and are also prepared to translate articles from other editions. What You Have: A degree in media, communications, journalism or similar - ideally in the field of sport. Or professional journalistic experience, ideally in a digital editorial office. Experience with SEO and strong copywriting skills. A passion or at least a keen interest in professional sport. Social media also has grey areas for you. A (basic) understanding of AI tools. Exciting teasing is not a chore for you. You take users and their interests seriously. You like working with numerical tools and enjoy maximising your reach. You don't shy away from weekend and shift work. You are fluent and have no problems communicating in English. This is what we offer: Collaboration on an ambitious project that is always looking to develop further and doesn't just focus on Germany. A young, committed, very collegial, helpful and sports-enthusiastic team. Employment at the earliest possible date. Personal and professional opportunities to develop yourself. A centrally located office in Munich with good public transport connections. The opportunity to work hybrid. Sounds good? We look forward to receiving your application SPOX and GOAL are portals of Mediasports Digital GmbH, a company of Footballco Limited. Footballco operates GOAL, the football website with the widest reach in the world, and is active on all continents. Footballco is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.