Project Manager - Olympics

Job Description

Position Summary

Discovery Networks is a TV house with a wide spectrum of channels, exciting programs and popular profiles. As content creators in the digital space, Discovery Digital Media continuously leverages our technological capabilities to create immersive viewing experiences for iconic brands including Eurosport, GOLFTV, MotorTrend and DPlay.

Dplay is a streaming service with both an SVOD (subscription video on demand) and AVOD (advertising video on demand) proposition. Part of Discovery Networks, Dplay gathers the best content from a local country - and the world's - largest TV channels, including Channel 5, Channel 11, TLC, Discovery Channel and Eurosport. It means world-class content, from breath taking entertainment to gripping documentaries.

Dplay is covering the Olympics next year and we are on the lookout for a Project Manager with a passion for sports to join our fast paced team. We are looking for that rare candidate with strong organizational skills, exemplary written and verbal communication skills to support our dedicated Sports Programme Manager on this high profile piece of work.

Responsibilities
• Responsible for planning, managing and delivering the Olympics content to their specific product and technical requirements

• Responsibility for the quality of the project deliverables and communications to the greater Programme

• Ensure constant and high level of reporting on the project to senior management

• Manage a distributed team across Europe

• Resolve issues, be able to liaise with technical teams to get things done

• Identify and manage risks and issues, escalating as necessary

• Establish solid, constructive relationship with Product Owners and/or Managers

Requirements
• Agile experience managing technology projects

• Self-starter and self-learner, ability to work independently with little direction and tight deadlines

• Pragmatic problem-solver able to adapt to continuous change and handle ambiguity

• Comfortable communicating with different audiences, being able to manage upwardly and downwardly to a broad range of stakeholders

• Ability to turn requirements into a viable project plan and marshal resources required to deliver commitments and manage risks

• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery principles

• Adaptable and resilient with a high attention to detail

• Strong follow-through & business process orientation

• Ability to juggle multiple tasks and priorities

• Ability to put administrative structure and organisation in place on new or existing projects

• Ability to motivate others and provide a positive project environment

• Ability to manage third parties and external resources

Desirable
• Experience working in a VOD environment would be beneficial

• Experience with Confluence and Jira

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