About Lexington Sporting Club:
Lexington Sporting Club is a professional soccer club with a men’s team competing in USL League One and a women’s USL SUPER LEAGUE team set to launch in August of 2024. In addition to the professional teams, Lexington Sporting Club is comprised of a youth club with over 1,000 players within its youth and academy systems, a pre-professional women’s team in the USL W League, two indoor soccer facilities, a $80 million soccer complex, and a soccer-specific stadium and performance facility coming in 2024. The club is a community-oriented organization focused on providing opportunities for youth development, fostering competition, and delivering exceptional professional soccer experiences.
Position Summary: Lexington Sporting Club seeks an exceptional leader as our Facilities Director, who will oversee all Club facilities and will provide a shared, leading-edge vision for the future stadium site. This is a critical role within the organization, as this person will oversee gameday operations as well as daily operations, including engineering, maintenance, security, set-up/tear-down, custodial/housekeeping and groundskeeping.
This person will provide overall administrative planning, direction, and policies to facility’s staff, assuring the highest quality service for soccer games, concerts and events. This person will also ensure an effective, high quality and cost-efficient outcome for all events and overall stadium operations. The Facilities Director will report to the COO and work closely to drive business revenues as well as provide the necessary resources to ensure the success of the Sporting Department. The successful candidate will also be expected to play an active role in the stadium development process, including but not limited to design input, information technology and fan experience.
This is a full-time, exempt position with competitive benefits and paid time off. Must be willing to work evenings and weekends for home matches and other events, as needed.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Ensure that the strategic vision for the stadium’s operation is defined, developed, and executed, including major parts of the organization’s P&L such as development of non-core revenue streams (e.g., concerts, college lacrosse, international soccer, facility rentals, etc.).
- Manage departmental staff and ensure the organizational structure of the facilities are sound and reporting/line-item responsibilities of staff are appropriate.
- Oversee and ensure budgets remain in line with the Club’s strategic plan.
- Manage and coordinate daily operations of the stadium, including engineering, maintenance, security, set-up/tear-down, custodial/housekeeping and groundskeeping.
- Spearhead all capital improvement projects.
- Review all services for optimization, considering internal and third-party options for all divisions of facility operations.
- Ensure fan experience is a primary focus and stay ahead of trends to achieve continuous improvement.
- Collect and distribute consumer research and feedback initiatives with other departments.
- Negotiate, administer and manage contracts with outside vendors and labor groups.
- Communicate with appropriate departments and staff relative to a master schedule for all stadium events.
- Collaborate with HR on the development of staff, including hiring, training, coaching and ensuring compliance with labor & safety regulations.
- Serve as liaison with local officials on facility-related functions (city/county codes, parking, transportation, security, police, fire, licenses, permitting, etc.).
- Responsible for the overall health & safety compliance of the facility in accordance with all OSHA regulations.
- Other duties and special projects as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in managing sporting/concert venues required.
- Previous experience opening a major sporting facility or as part of a company that interacts with large-scale sports events is preferred.
- Strong leadership skills with proven experience managing multiple personnel, projects and timelines.
- Ability to analyze and prepare a budget and project/forecast expenses based on industry and historical data with demonstrated success in improving quality and efficiencies.
- Extensive knowledge of facilities management, security, guest relations, fan experience, marketing, event planning/execution, logistics and the overall success of the facilities.
- Exceptional revenue generation abilities; looking to push the envelope and seek additional revenue streams.
- Exceptional knowledge and passion for the sport and culture of soccer preferred.
- Strong PC skills (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).
- Experience functioning in a 24/7 operating environment and ability to work extended hours and weekends and holidays when required.
- Ability to work evenings and weekends as necessary during the playing season.
- Successful completion of a pre-employment comprehensive background check.
- Must be legally authorized or able to obtain authorization to work in the U.S.
Benefits: This role offers a competitive salary and benefits including health, dental, and vision insurance, disability, life insurance and 401(k) retirement plan with employer match. Additional benefits include paid time off, paid holidays, discounted tickets and discounts on team merchandise.
NO PHONE CALLS OR EMAILS, PLEASE. Those selected for further consideration will be contacted directly.
The information contained in this job description is not exhaustive of all the duties and responsibilities, nor is it intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. At the discretion of management, duties, and responsibilities may change due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons at any time.
Lexington Sporting Club is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, class, religion, country of origin, political belief, disability, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any factor protected by law.
