Job Description
The Position
As Head of Business Operations you will play a crucial role in shaping Sky Sports’ direction from an operational perspective, by leading a team and collaborating across departments within Sky to deliver new operational solutions; fostering partnerships & ensuring best in class delivery throughout our leading portfolio of rights. You will develop & drive delivery of new ideas & workflows, as well as commercially building out growth & innovative opportunities. This new & dynamic position requires a forward-thinking leader who can understand the integration of operational excellence with cutting edge technology & innovation to help to build future ways of working, enabling the very best customer experience, whilst always considering simplification & business efficiency.
This role requires constant collaboration with our sports and wider business teams, as well as key strategic partners to align operational planning with editorial goals, building & bringing to fruition key business objectives.
What You’ll Do
- Lead & manage business requests: around commercial & strategic requirements, regularly building out plans to test & deliver opportunities, including rights related production plans across our portfolio of sports.
- Own sports data relationships & innovation partnerships: to continually build our data & innovation pipelines within sports for use across output & platforms
- Develop business cases for growth & efficiency: Always be ahead of industry trends, understanding emerging innovations & technologies and their use in the sports ecosystem.
- Lead a small team & virtual teams: to deliver strategic projects on time and within budget, ensuring operational excellence.
- Implement plans: to bring technological & editorial innovations to life on-screen and in production operations, simplifying workflows and always optimising our approach.
- Foster Collaboration Across Sky & Beyond: Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders at Sky & Comcast, as well as external strategic partners to build & deliver plans.
- Facilitate clear and effective communication: to align project objectives with broader organisational goals.
- Evolve key business metrics: Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track the success of initiatives.
The successful candidate will have a strong sense of mission around the provision of a best-in-class sports experience across platforms. The ability to work collaboratively across departments will be central to success.
What You’ll Bring
- Experience working in a complex operational environment, with exposure to shaping and delivering plans that support business, editorial and/or production priorities.
- Experience collaborating across multiple teams (such as content, product, technology, commercial or production), helping translate strategic objectives into practical delivery.
- Involvement in developing or supporting business cases for growth, efficiency or change, including assessing opportunities and contributing to delivery.
- A good understanding of live production and/or sports operations, including modern workflows and how technology, data and innovation are influencing the sports landscape.
- Experience working with external partners or suppliers (for example data, technology or innovation partners), contributing to relationships that deliver operational or on‑screen outcomes.
- Exposure to improving ways of working, whether through process optimisation, simplification, or introducing new tools, technology or approaches.
- People leadership experience, which may include leading a team, project teams or virtual teams, supporting delivery and creating an inclusive, high‑performing environment.
- Strong stakeholder skills, with experience engaging and influencing a range of partners to align priorities and move initiatives forward.
- Comfort using data, insight or performance measures to understand impact, track progress and support decision‑making.
Sky Sports
We deliver the most innovative and best Sports content experience to our customers across all platforms. We promote continuous innovation, driving value for our customers and high-quality output. Everyone is passionate about sport and proud of the work that they undertake both on screen and behind the scenes.
The Rewards
There's a reason people can't stop talking about . Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:
- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
- The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
- A generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband
- A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
How You'll Work
We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.
We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.
Osterley
Your office base:
Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers.
On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.
Inclusion
We are a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can.
Why wait?
Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.
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Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.
