Senior Programme Manager - Sports Content

About the Position

As the Senior Programme Manager - Sports Content, you will support the execution of business critical programmes across the organisation.

The role will lead multiple programmes of high strategic importance – working with a range of senior stakeholders across Content & Editorial, Social, Commercial, Product & Technology, Rights, Marketing, Legal and more.

You will need to design and implement new ways of working and to efficiently execute complex programmes, working collaboratively with the wider Growth Markets team. This role will focus on delivering programmes of work across Marketing, Commercial, Content & Editorial, News and Social.

The role will require experience in managing multifaceted programmes - you should be comfortable digging into the detail of end-to-end programme delivery, whilst confidently communicating with and managing senior and executive stakeholders. The right candidate for this role should be very organised, a confident communicator, driven for success, able to identify and focus on the things that matter, able to get to grips with a broad range of programmes and projects across a complex business area.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with multiple internal and external teams to ensure your programmes are scoped, planned, resourced and successfully delivered
• Provide project governance, ensuring that issues, actions, and progress are tracked across the Boxing team and within the wider Growth Markets team
• Identify and proactively manage key risks / issues / gaps /dependencies and develop mitigation plans; resolve issues in a timely manner and drive/facilitate decision-making
• Regularly present to senior business stakeholders ensuring they are kept up to date on deliverables with expectations managed
• Support the wider Strategic Programmes / Growth Markets team on business-critical programmes of work

Requirements

• Relevant work experience, preferably in a fast-paced technology / sports media / broadcasting environment
• Programme management experience delivering complex programmes that span across multiple business areas
• Excellent organisational skills, able to oversee complex workstreams and engage across multiple teams
• Excellent at designing effective stakeholder reporting and able to adapt communication methods as required
• Strengths in problem solving and issue-resolution
• Good analytical skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions

Nice to Have

• Understanding of sports media, technology and boxing landscape
• Experience in reporting upwards to senior management, both in verbal presentations and documents
• Experience working in a matrix organisation across different countries and cultures
• Strong knowledge of Powerpoint, Excel and Word to articulate and visualise documentation, plans and reports to stakeholders

We Offer

• Opportunity to make an impact at a pioneering sports streaming service
• Be part of a team that is innovating and transforming the sports industry
• Inclusive environment that values equality and diversity

About the Company

At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be.

As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop.

**DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO: **

• Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen.
• Prioritising what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact.
• Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One.

At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities.

If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.

Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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