Department: 92-492 - COO - Commercial & Corporate Strategy
Location: Spain - Madrid
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 General 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