Senior Planning & Coordination Manager, Combat

Who We Are

On Location is a global leader in premium experiential hospitality, offering ticketing, curated guest experiences, live event production and travel management across sports, entertainment, fashion and culture. On Location provides unrivaled access for corporate clients and fans looking for official, immersive experiences at marquee events, including the Olympic and Paralympic Games, FIFA World Cup 2026, Super Bowl, NCAA Final Four, and more.

An official partner and/or service provider to over 150 iconic rights holders, such as the IOC (the Milano Cortina 2026 and Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games), FIFA, NFL, NCAA, UFC, WWE, and PGA of America, the company also owns and operates a number of its own unique experiences. On Location is a subsidiary of TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company.

TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company. TKO owns iconic properties including UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization; WWE, the global leader in sports entertainment; and P , the world’s premier bull riding organization. Together, these properties reach 1 billion households across 210 countries and territories and organize more than 500 live events year-round, attracting more than three million fans.

TKO also services and partners with major sports rights holders through IMG, an industry-leading global sports marketing agency; and On Location, a global leader in premium experiential hospitality.

The Senior Planning & Coordination Manager for On Location, Combat Sports team will play a central role in working with more than 10 functional areas across On Location that will sell, deliver, and innovate Hospitality and VIP Experience programs alongside UFC, WWE, Zuffa Boxing, and TKO.

• Collecting and evaluating functional area project deadlines, milestones and deliverables.
• Measuring the project health and summarizing project progress according to milestones set at the Rights holder partner level, or by the On Location functional areas. Making sure that all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules.
• Identifying key areas of risk or delay that require additional focus or escalation to executive leadership to ensure dependent milestones are not impacted.
• Serve as a client-facing team member, required to coordinate meetings, reporting, and project deliverables with our Partners and internally.
• Preparing status reports by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing relevant information.
• Establishing & maintaining effective project communication plans and ensuring their execution.
• Facilitating change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts (schedule, partner, financial).
• Serving as a central hub of information and support for the entire team so internal and external communication along with relationship building is crucial to the success of the role.
• Supporting special strategic growth initiatives within the Combat team from creation to completion by working with internal stakeholders and external clients to define that concept and create a process to bring it to fruition. This includes setting and managing client expectations, developing a detailed project plan, defining the scope of the project and assigning team members to specific tasks.
• Building, managing and training project management systems and new tools required to work effectively.
• Accelerating alignment across teams, integrating different functions, defining, and driving better processes, and coaching and aligning teams and leaders to achieve their desired efficiency.
• Establishing operational accountability (e.g., checklists, quality assurance tests) for the Combat team and share best practices across event teams.
• Ensuring teams are maintaining best practices with data across systems to ensure that when we bring it all together, it results in the correct information available to the correct teams.
• Working with people with different styles, and ability to navigate and endure learning situations where interactions and outcomes do not go as planned.

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