Programme Manager - Sports

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 looking for a Program Manager with a passion for sports to join our fast paced team.
We are looking for that rare candidate with a sports background, exemplary written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational skills, and the ability to thrive with little direction, or oversight. This is a role inside a fast-paced start-up environment where we are also building process and structure. This position will appeal to a person who is excited by new product development while yearning to help shape project management practices.

Responsibilities
• Day to day oversight of a multi-stream programme

• Day to day leadership of projects managing multiple work streams and levels

• Define responsibilities and set direction and allocate with the wider team

• Hold responsibility for the quality of the project deliverables and communications of the Programme

• Ensure a constant and high level of reporting on programme to senior management

• Manage a distributed team across Europe

• Resolve issues, suggest process enhancements and generally 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 working with live sport streaming

• Experience with Confluence and Jira

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