Senior Programme Manager

DAZN Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sports media company is looking for a Senior Programme Manager to spearhead strategic programmes across Global Sports. The role involves collaborating with various teams, managing complex projects, and efficiently delivering business-critical initiatives. The ideal candidate will have experience in the technology or sports media sectors, exceptional organizational skills, and the ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders. The organization offers competitive benefits including annual leave, medical insurance, and opportunities for flexible working.

Benefits

Access to DAZN

25 days' annual leave

Private medical insurance

Pension contributions up to 5%

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Experience in fast-paced technology or sports media environment.
• Proven ability to manage complex programmes across multiple business areas.
• Ability to adapt communication styles for different stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to scope, plan, and deliver programmes.
• Provide project governance and track progress across teams.
• Identify and manage key risks and develop mitigation plans.
• Present to senior stakeholders to keep them updated on deliverables.
• Support the Growth Markets team on key programmes.

Skills

Programme management experience

Excellent organizational skills

Strong problem-solving skills

Stakeholder communication

Analytical skills

Job description

Senior Programme Manager

Department: 92-492 - COO - Commercial & Corporate Strategy

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: UK - London

Description

As the Senior Strategic Programmes Manager – Global Content & Editorial, you will support the Global Content & Editorial Team to manage and execute business critical programmes across Global Sports.

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 process to support the EVP of Global Content & Editorial to efficiently execute complex programmes across a new Global Sports vertical, working collaboratively with the wider Growth Markets team. This role will focus on delivering programmes of work across News, Social, Content & Editorial.

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 communicate 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.

What You'll Be Doing:

• 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 Global Content & Editorial 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

What You'll Bring:

• 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

Benefits

Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind), learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.