Sports agent

Sports agents represent athletes, managing their careers and negotiating deals. The work involves negotiating contracts and endorsements, advising clients on career decisions, managing relationships with teams and sponsors, handling business affairs, and advancing athletes' interests on and off the field.

They work for agencies or independently. The role suits sharp, persuasive, well-connected people with negotiation skill and business sense who can secure deals for clients, advise on careers, manage relationships across the sports business, and combine the deal-making and relationship skills with the trust-building that representing athletes' careers and interests requires.