Reporting organizationally to the Executive Director Administration (Mexico) and to the Senior Manager, Uniforms (Miami). The Manager, Uniforms will work in close collaboration with the FIFA Uniforms/Workforce teams and other key individuals responsible for delivering the uniform workstream for FIFA World Cup 26™ and any other relevant events in lead up to the tournament.
The main responsibilities of the Manager, Uniforms for the FIFA World Cup 26™ include:
- Positively and collaboratively support the FWC2026 Uniforms program with all initiatives leading up to and including tournament-time delivery.
- Maintain shared responsibility for business assets and uniforms, ensuring fair and equitable entitlements of goods to relevant parties.
- Lead on strategy for planning of uniform distribution operations for Host City delivery model.
- Become an expert with new systems, technological applications which will serve the distribution process of uniforms across the tournament.
- Critical to deliver both the strategy and implementation uniform program in lockstep with Senior Manager to various stakeholders, ensuring consistent approach across 16 Host Cities, 3 countries.
- Maintain awareness and established control mechanisms of inventory throughout product lifecycle, to be rolled out to each distribution centre.
- Develop and support dissolution process for key assets and facilities.
- Work in collaboration with the Senior Manager to define the uniform training program and related materials; deliver trainings across multiple Host Cities collaboratively.
- Uphold established workforce and uniform guidelines, policies, and procedures.
- Demonstrate exemplary communication skills within the FWC2026 functional areas, supporting uniform team members with information dissemination.
- Execute tasks with a focus on Customer Excellence to clients, internal and external, across the business.
- Travel will be required to support tournament and pre-tournament deliverables.
- Shift work will be required during delivery of the tournament.