Working at Fanatics (International) Ltd

Fanatics International is headquartered in Manchester, UK. It is the international arm of the world's largest retailer of licensed sports merchandise. Fanatics International offer best-in-class e-commerce and integrated omnichannel retail solutions to many of the world’s leading sports clubs and organisations.

Our e-commerce football partners include Manchester United, Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Valencia and Olympique de Marseille and we run omni-channel retail operations for Manchester City, Everton and Aston Villa.

Fanatics International’s other sporting relationships span online, store and event retail across motorsports, rugby, tennis and golf. This includes Formula One, McLaren F1, Wimbledon, Le Tour de France, Team GB, England Rugby, Leicester Tigers, America's Cup, Williams Martini Racing, the European Tour and the Ryder Cup. In addition, we operate the e-commerce businesses for the NFL, NBA. MLB and NHL in Europe. Fanatics International works with major brands in sporting goods such as Adidas, Nike, Puma, Umbro and Under Armour.

Previously known as Kitbag Ltd. (until the acquisition by Fanatics Inc. in February 2016) the business has grown and flourished with a strong, fast-paced culture where the employees are united by an innovative, forward-thinking work ethic and a strong passion for sports. It is this passion and enthusiasm that means the business continues to live up to its promise of being run “by fans, for fans” and makes it such an exciting and rewarding place to work.

The majority of departments are under one roof in our brand new head office based in Ancoats, they are as follows:

• Buying
• Merchandising
• Ecommerce
• Digital Marketing
• Creative Design
• IT
• Finance
• HR
• Legal
• Apparel Design & Development
• Retail Marketing
• Events Retail 
• Business Development

Our operations departments are based at our previous office in Middleton.

We have many long-standing employees who have vast amounts of experience within each department. 

You'll work with all types of sports fans across each department ranging anything from Football to Tennis.