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- Digital Acquisition Media

Location: UK
- Leeds

Description

DAZN is the world's leading sports streaming platform, delivering premium live and on-demand sports content to millions of fans worldwide. With an expansive presence in multiple global markets, DAZN is reshaping the way the world consumes sports. As we continue to scale, our commitment to operational excellence, innovation, and customer-centricity remains core to our mission.

As the Vice President of Marketing Procurement, you will be responsible for overseeing and optimising the global marketing procurement strategy across all markets. This executive role demands deep expertise in marketing categories (including media, creative, production, sponsor ships, and digital), stakeholder engagement, supplier innovation, and commercial performance.

You will partner closely with the Chief Marketing Officer, regional marketing leads, and finance teams to drive value, increase efficiency, and ensure our marketing investments deliver maximum ROI while aligning with DAZN’s strategic and brand objectives.

As our new Vice President Marketing Procurement, you’ll have the opportunity to:

Global Strategy Leadership:
Design and execute a global marketing procurement strategy aligned with DAZN’s growth objectives and brand vision.
Category Management:
Lead strategic sourcing initiatives across media buying, creative and content production, influencer and social media partnerships, sponsor ships, PR, and martech platforms.
Stakeholder Collaboration:
Partner with CMO, Marketing, Finance, Legal, and regional teams to understand needs, manage budgets, and ensure procurement adds value.
Supplier Management & Innovation:
Build and manage strong supplier relationships to foster innovation, performance, and commercial benefit.
Governance & Compliance:
Ensure procurement practices meet compliance, risk, and governance standards across markets.
Leadership:
Ability to work with, and influence, multiple marketing teams globally to coordinate and drive tenders
Data & Insights:
Leverage procurement analytics and performance data to drive continuous improvement and cost optimization.

You'll have:

Demonstrable procurement experience with a strong focus on marketing spend in a global organization
Proven track record managing large, complex marketing categories at scale
Experience in RFPs, multi-supplier tenders, and working on media and marketing benchmarking and negotiations
Previous negotiation training and/or significant hands-on experience in negotiation
Deep understanding of the global media, digital, and creative agency landscape
Experience with in the sports, entertainment, media, or consumer tech sectors is desirable
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills with senior executives
Commercial acumen and a data-driven mindset
Demonstrated ability to deliver both cost savings and strategic value
Excellent leadership, communication, and negotiation skills

Benefits

Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind), learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.

Seniority level

Seniority level Director

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

Marketing and Sales

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