Master of Science in Sports Marketing & Customer Experience

étudiants inseec sport
MSc
3rd year undergraduate, 1st year postgraduate
September / October, February / March
Full-time, Work-study
Bordeaux, Chambéry, Lyon, Marseille, Paris, Rennes
French
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Why choose the Master of Science in Sport & Customer Experience Marketing ?

This training welcomes learners from different backgrounds wishing to acquire a specialty in marketing and customer experience in the sports sector (retraining athletes, STAPS stream, Business Schools, Engineering Schools, Faculty of Economics, AES…) but above all, enthusiasts of the sports universe. The program allows learners :

  • to be at the heart of sports news.
  • to be in contact with recognized professionals from the world of sport, major international organizations and federations;
  • to decipher the different possibilities and opportunities that open up to them in this coveted but demanding environment.

The various institutional partners (federations, groups of companies, distributors, agencies, etc.) are convinced of the interest of this type of training on the job market both in France and abroad.

As part of this Master of Science, I had the opportunity to do a six-month internship at the CROS of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. As a Communication and Marketing Assistant. After a wonderful student year in Bordeaux, I decided to take a gap year between my Master of Science 1 and 2. This is in order to gain experience and skills. This year consisted of two six-month internships. The first within the French Football Federation as Assistant Project Manager Partnerships. And the second, at PSG as Production Sponsorship Assistant.

Thomas LATIEULE

Sponsorship project manager at the French Football Federation
Alumni of the MSc

INSEEC is the official supplier of Olympique de Marseille since 2025

INSEEC and Olympique de Marseille join forces for an official partnership on the Marseille Provence campus. Since September 2024, students at the MSc in Sports Marketing & Customer Experience in Marseille have benefited from courses and business games led by OM staff and legends of this mythical club, on campus and/or at the Robert-Louis-Dreyfus or at the Orange Velodrome.

Discover our MSc in Sports Marketing & Customer Experience

A degree in 1 or 2 years to become an expert in sports management

  • Hourly volume 1st year of MSc: 441 hours
  • Hourly volume 2nd year of MSc: 441 hours

Objectives of the program

The objectives in terms of skills are to be able to :

  • Develop a customer-centric marketing strategy
  • Manage the operational implementation of the customer experience strategy
  • Design and deploy loyalty levers to boost performance
  • Manage teams and unite around the customer experience concept in agile mode
  • Coordinate and deploy the customer experience marketing strategy in the sports sector

How to apply for the MSc Sports Marketing & Customer Experience at INSEEC ?

The required prerequisites

The conditions for accessing the certification system (excluding VAE) are:

  • To enter the 1st year of the course (MSc 1): to have validated 180 ECTS (level 6, License or equivalent) in the field of marketing, commerce, management or communication. He must have a professional level of English for the English-speaking program.
  • To enter the 2nd year of the course (MSc 2): to have validated 240 ECTS (level 6, Master 1 or equivalent) in the field of marketing. He must have a professional level of English for the English-speaking program.
  • Executive training is subject to specific prerequisites with professional experience taken into account.

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What are the courses of the Master of Science in Sport & Customer Experience Marketing ? 

The courses presented below are given as an example, they may vary slightly depending on the teaching campus. The content of the courses is adapted each year to changes in the market and is updated before each start.

1st year courses

TRANSVERSAL & FUNDAMENTAL COURSES

BUDGET MANAGEMENT & DASHBOARDS

  • The objective is to acquire key skills in terms of budget management and reporting.
  • Particular emphasis will be placed on the budget architecture, with the implementation of summary documents, project management control and its link with budget management, the execution and management of dashboards.

BUSINESS ENGLISH

This module of Business English applied to marketing allows learners to implement and apply the right vocabulary and attitude.

NEGOTIATION

  • This seminar is focused on a negotiation in a national and international context.
  • It will be necessary to take into account the cultural dimension and define its impact in an international negotiation.
  • The national negotiation will focus on the sales process through role-playing.

SOFTWARE & DECISION-MAKING TOOLS

This module aims to deepen the skills of learners in IT to meet the demand of companies in terms of budget or commercial monitoring, project management, personnel management and communication: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, team work tools, business software.
It aims to be efficient with office tools, quickly identify and correct errors, customize existing tools or create your own tools.

TOOLS & PROFESSIONAL METHODS

This module allows learners to improve their CV and their posture, notably through simulations (business game, professional simulation, speaking, etc.); practical and professionalizing workshops (CV, professional social networks, coaching, etc.) as well as professional and master class conferences.

CORPORATE STRATEGY & BUSINESS PLAN

  • This module aims to learn how to create a Business Plan or business plan: costed project design for business creation or development.
  • Several steps are addressed: feasibility study, market targeting, opportunities and risks, strengths and weaknesses, communication, financing plan and profitability.

SPECIALIZED COURSES

STRATEGY & CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

This module allows mastering the design of a coherent and sustainable business strategy with a strong emphasis on customer centric experience. Both sports brands and retailers must be able to stand out in order to improve their image and awareness.

SPORTS LAW

Master the fundamentals related to sports law, particularly contract law and image rights.

BUSINESS SKILLS

This module allows learners to dive into real or fictitious business cases and to practice marketing strategy, operational marketing, communication plan as well as peer exchanges in order to progress.

TECHAWAY : PROMPT ENGINEERING

  • Introduction to the fundamentals of interaction with generative artificial intelligences such as ChatGPT, DALL-E and other LLM models.
  • Learn how to write and optimize effective prompts to fully exploit the potential of these tools in various contexts, such as content creation, productivity, and automation.
  • This module also addresses the ethical issues, limits and biases of AI in order to promote responsible use.
  • Through practical exercises and concrete cases, this course provides a solid foundation to deepen the skills in generative artificial intelligence.

STRATEGIC & OPERATIONAL MARKETING

Depending on the general company strategy, strategic marketing and operational marketing will be addressed in this module. This module allows learners to be able to present and ensure that the entire marketing strategy and its action plan are coherent and understood by all stakeholders.

MARKET FOCUS

This module allows for specific focus on the sector and industry of sport in order to allow learners to be at the forefront of knowledge.

MASTER CLASS

This module will include practical and professionalizing workshops (CV, professional social networks, coaching, etc.) as well as business conferences and short interventions.

DIGITAL MARKETING & E-COMMERCE

Digital marketing and e-commerce are now essential facets for the development of companies in the sector. This module allows you to master the fundamentals.

CUSTOMER JOURNEY

This module trains learners to design and optimize the customer experience throughout its purchase journey. They will learn to analyze consumer behaviors, identify key touch points, create fluid and personalized customer journeys, and to measure the impact of these actions on customer satisfaction and loyalty. Learners will gain the skills to improve omnichannel customer experience and
strengthen the competitiveness of companies.

MARKETING & EVENT COMMUNICATION

Mastering the strategy and actions of both marketing and communication related to events is imperative. This module therefore allows learners to become real event project managers and in a sustainable perspective.

INFLUENCE MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGY

  • This course trains learners to develop and implement effective influencer marketing strategies on social media.
  • They will learn how to identify relevant influencers, negotiate partnerships, create engaging content, measure campaign performance and manage an online community.
  • Learners will acquire the skills to develop a comprehensive social media strategy and optimize their visibility on social networks.

CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR

  • This module aims to deepen the understanding of the psychological and sociological mechanisms that influence consumers’ purchasing decisions.
  • Learners will explore the different factors (personal, social, cultural) that motivate purchasing choices and behaviors.
  • They will learn to analyze market data, segment consumers and develop personalized marketing strategies.
  • This module will allow them to better understand consumer expectations and optimize product and service offers.

TEAM MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP

For future managers, mastering team management to become a responsible manager is today imperative. Will therefore be addressed in this module team management and its implementation as well as the concept of leadership to strive for benevolent and efficient leadership.

EXAMS & SUPPORT

WRITTEN EXAMS

The 2nd year courses

MARKETING STRATEGY & CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR & CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

  • Master the models and tools for analyzing consumer behavior and develop relevant and targeted marketing strategies.
  • Students will be able to understand consumer motivations, detect trends and anticipate their needs to optimize the impact of marketing actions and customer experience.

MARKETING STRATEGY

  • Analyze and understand all the elements influencing strategic decisions in the context of a new product launch, penetration of a new market, or modification of competition.
  • Mastering market analysis tools: demand, competition, products, environment.

MARKETING & INNOVATION

  • The objective of this module is to familiarize learners with the exercise of the function of brand/product manager in the management and launch of new products.
  • Develop the marketing plan, the provisional budget, draft briefings for providers, define action plans that are part of the strategic line defined with a view to achieving the objectives set realistically.

APPLIED RESEARCH DISSERTATION

  • Allow learners to know the expectations of the applied research thesis. Formulate an issue, build a review of the literature, choose the methodology of the study, issue recommendations.

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT

DIGITAL STRATEGY & E-COMMERCE

  • The new communication levers: Internet (web 2.0 and 3.0, social networks, e-mailing, podcasting).
  • E-reputation and brand protection on the Internet.
  • Management of brand communities..

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION & SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT

  • A particular focus will be made on the strategy on social networks with platforms, content creation and communities.

MARKETING, COMMUNICATION & PR

  • This Master’s programme explores the interrelated disciplines of marketing, communication and public relations (PR).
  • It aims to develop a thorough understanding of strategies and techniques for:
  • Understanding the market and consumers;
  • Develop marketing strategies;
  • Design and disseminate communications and Manage public relations.

TECHAWAY : NLP & LLM

  • Complete immersion in natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLM) such as GPT and BERT.
  • Learn to analyze texts, exploit the advanced features of LLMs and adapt them to specific needs.
  • Cover key concepts like tokenization, embeddings and semantic analysis, while exploring concrete applications such as text classification, content generation and sentiment analysis.
  • Particular attention is paid to ethical issues and the limits of these technologies, in order to ensure their responsible use in a professional setting.

LOYALTY & PERFORMANCE

CRM MARKETING

The objective of the module is to deepen the strategic and tactical aspects of customer relationship management (CRM) in an integrated manner.

BRAND MANAGEMENT & TRADEMARK RIGHTS

This module allows students to develop expertise in brand management and acquire the necessary legal skills to protect and enhance brands in a national and international environment.

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT & FORECASTS

This module explores the workings of financial management and forecasting, providing a thorough understanding of financial markets and strategic decision making.

CSR & RESPONSIBLE MARKETING IN SPORTS

This Master’s course explores the alliance between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sports marketing. It focuses on the ethical and environmental challenges of sport, sustainable marketing strategies, and responsible communication.

TEAM MANAGEMENT & AGILITY

TEAM & TALENT MANAGEMENT

  • Define a Team & Talent Management strategy, Motivate and retain employees and build high-performing and multicultural teams.

MANAGEMENT OF SPORTS ORGANIZATIONS

  • Integrate legal constraints into the development of marketing and commercial strategy (in the context of an event).
  • Manage and develop an efficient distribution circuit (ticketing).
  • Organize the operational aspects of the company’s commercial development with distributors.

MASTER CLASS

This module will include practical and professionalizing workshops as well as professional conferences and short interventions applied to sport.

MARKETING & EVENT DESIGN

This course focuses on event marketing, immersive scenario design, logistics and budget management, and event impact assessment.

HOSPITALITIES & SERVICES

  • Raise awareness of the importance of Public Relations for Businesses and Hospitals in the functioning of sports organizations in terms of economic development.
  • Train and prepare students for the different professions related to project management and marketing of sports hospitality.

E-SPORT

This course focuses on the analysis of the e-sport market, economic models, sponsorship, marketing strategies, team management and intellectual property rights.

EXAMS

  • Written exams.
  • Memory defense.

What are the beginnings and study schedules ?

There are two openings per year, in February/March and September/October. To check the opening of each intake, contact the admissions department directly.

The pace of the course may differ from campus to campus and depending on whether the course is carried out under an internship agreement (initial) or a professionalization/apprenticeship contract (continuing).

The work-study contract must be signed for a period of 12 months (MSc2) or 24 months (MSc1 + MSc2).

To find out the duration of the contract for our Spring intake, please contact the Admissions Department of the campus that interests you.

What are the career opportunities after a MSc in Sports Marketing & Customer Experience ?

  • Responsible for customer experience (Chief Customer Officer);
  • Chief Experience Officer;
  • Director of Marketing (Chief Marketing Officer);
  • Marketing Manager Director of fan experience (Sport)
  • Guest relationship manager (Hospitality Management)
  • Clienteling Director (Luxury & Fashion)
  • Wine tourism mission director (Wines & Spirits)

What business skills are developed ?

Professional certification allows you to prepare the following skill blocks:

  • Develop a marketing strategy focused on the customer experience (“Customer centric”)
  • Manage the operational implementation of the customer experience strategy
  • Design and deploy loyalty levers for performance
  • Manage teams and unite around the concept of customer experience in agile mode

To these common blocks of skills, the following sectoral optional block is added:

  • Coordinate and deploy the customer experience marketing strategy in the sports sector

Certification is obtained by:

  • Validation of four skill blocks common to all courses as well as a specialization block depending on the candidate’s course (obtaining a score greater than or equal to 10/20 in each block skills)
  • Completing a period in a company of at least 132 days in the second year of the course (MSc 2)

Professional certification of «Customer Experience Marketing Manager» level 7 (EU), code NSF 312, issued by INSEEC MSc (CEE-SO, CEE-RA, CEE-OUEST, CEE-M, CEFAS, MBA INSTITUTE), registered under number 38598 at the RNCP (National Directory of Professional Certifications) on decision of the General Director of France Compétences of February 9, 2024.

The certification is delivered by capitalization of all skill blocks. Each skill of a block must be confirmed to obtain the skills block. Partial validation of a block is not possible. It is also accessible by the way of the Validation of Acquired Experience.

Find the skills blocks associated with this RNCP title by clicking here.

What are the educational methods of the MSc in Sports Marketing & Customer Experience ?

Teaching methods

  • Lectures and interactive courses
  • Situational exercises through collective and/or individual case studies carried out by the students
  • Conferences, seminars and/or educational visits

Evaluation methods

  • Individual or/and group case studies
  • Individual or/and group oral presentations
  • Individual or/and group files
  • Applied research disertation with individual oral presentation

Methods and tools

  • The evaluation methods are face-to-face, in the form of continuous assessment or final exams in the form of mid-term exams.

What are the 2025/2026 tuition fees to join the MSc Sports Marketing & Customer Experience training ?

FALL INTAKE – 2025

Initial training:

  • MSc1: €10,990   
  • MSc2: €12,950 

Apprenticeship program:

  • 24 months: €23,400 before tax  
  • MSc2:  €13,490 before tax

Mandatory fee of €700 for exclusive support services for international students living outside the European Union.

SPRING INTAKE – 2026

Initial training:

  • MSc1: €10,990   
  • MSc2: €12,950 

Apprenticeship program:

  • 24 months: €23,400 before tax  
  • MSc2:  €13,490 before tax

Mandatory fee of €700 for exclusive support services for international students living outside the European Union.

In the context of work-study training, tuition fees are payable by the OPCO and the company signing the contract.

Do you have any questions about work-study or our school in general? Consult our frequently asked questions.

  • VAE: €4,800 before tax
  • VAP: €850 before tax 

Mandatory fee for exclusive support services for international students living outside the European Union.

  • Fall intake (2025) – September/October: €700
  • Spring intake (2026) – February/March:  €700  

The application fee is €80.

What kind of financial help is available ?

INSEEC offers several financial aid schemes :

the key figures for RNCP n°38598 "Manager of marketing and commercial strategy"

Training certification title for the 2022/2023 promotions

94%

National success rate – Class of 2023

96%

Presentation rate – Class of 2023

87%

Overall integration rate – Class of 2022

74%

Satisfaction rate at 6 months – Class of 2022

*The details are available on this document made available to you (national results and by regional certifier).

What is the Disability policy in our school ?

The OMNES Education Group pays particular attention to the societal environment, including the disability dimension. Indeed, we believe that students with disabilities should not have any problems in pursuing their studies and starting a professional career. We accompany them to facilitate their access to the premises, offer them personalized advice as well as adapted accommodations throughout their school career.

Accessibility of premises: all our campuses are accessible to people with disabilities.

To learn more about the OMNES Education Group’s disability policy, click here.


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Updated 4 July 2025