Senior Programme Manager - Sports Content

Senior Programme Manager - Sports Content

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

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Spain - Madrid

Description

As the Senior Strategic Programmes Manager, 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.

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 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

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

IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU HAD THESE DESIRABLES TOO

• 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