Senior Programme Manager - Global Content & Editorial

Senior Programme Manager - Global Content & Editorial

Department: 92-492 - COO - Commercial & Corporate Strategy

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Spain - Madrid

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 Global 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.

• 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

• 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 work streams 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