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Delivery Director, IMG ARENA

7a56596

London, England

1 day ago

52169 - 98868 GBP ANNUAL

IMG Arena

London, United Kingdom

Freddie Longe

Unknown / Non-Applicable

Company - Public

2012


Job Description

Job Description
Contract Summary
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
This role requires a passionate, adaptable Delivery Director who builds great working relationships with different stakeholders whilst getting projects and programmes over the line.
Whilst not a technical role, the candidate will be expected to have delivered data driven Products and will be highly comfortable working with Product and Development teams to produce high performance, low latent integrations for our customers.
This role is key to the evolution of the business and reflects the modern-day challenges IMG faces as a market leader in the digital technology space:
  • Lead the delivery of significant multi-country IMG Arena client projects or multi-phased programmes including those delivering internal change benefits enabling accelerated up-scaling
  • Handle competing priorities across multiple functions
  • Set up and drive multi-disciplinary delivery teams
  • Create a delivery roadmap and drive the critical path
  • Expose, proactively manage and mitigate risks, issues and dependencies which jeopardise delivery whilst maintaining high pace and quality
  • Support internal and external stakeholders through the delivery
  • Build and maintain a good relationship with key clients and partners to ensure aligned and successful outcomes
  • Create a budget for any programme and track against it over time
  • Ensure that we make best use of our resources which are in constant and increasing demand
  • Play a proactive role in the constant improvement of our ways of working along with supporting processes
  • Support peers and other team members including those who operate on other projects in our client portfolio
  • Mentor Delivery Leads in the Portfolio team
  • Maintain strong working relationships with internal sales, business operations, technology teams and other parts of the IMG Arena organisation.
Unusual Challenges or Circumstances e.g. shift(s)/ unsocial hours/ travel etc
  • Occasional travel may be necessary
Key Results Areas
  • On plan delivery of portfolio digital and change projects to enable the realization of planned benefits
  • Benefits realization of internal improvement initiatives
  • Strong team and peer 360 feedback re value-add behaviours and attributes
Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
Mandatory
  • Proven experience leading international digital implementation projects or programmes, ideally with software products within time and budget requirements.
  • Experience leading internal change projects for tangible benefits with multiple stakeholders
  • Tenacious in the pursuit to delight users. Strives for excellence and always looking to improve services, products and internal employee experience.
  • Experience communicating, presenting and influencing key stakeholders at all levels of an organisation, including executive and C-level
  • Strong process management experience, with the confidence to contribute to building new processes and systems.
Desirable
  • Experience in the media, sports or gaming industries
  • Regularly seeks to turn ideas into action and injects creativity into every touch point. They question common practice to challenge the norm.
Skills and Abilities
  • You see the big picture and anticipate the gaps and questions to be asked providing proactive approaches to close them
  • You are a highly analytical, self-motivated multi-tasker with strong attention to detail
  • Excellent listening, communication and presentation skills
  • Ability to sort large volumes of data and draw out the most important points for the delivery
Qualifications and Training
Mandatory
  • Educated to degree level standard or equivalent
  • English speaker to business level
  • Project / programme delivery certification
Desirable
  • Languages other than English to business fluent level
  • Change management qualifications
  • Agile delivery methodology certification such as SCRUM practitioner
Aptitudes
Mandatory
  • Genuine entrepreneurial spirit
  • A self-starter who is able to see opportunities through from concept to completion
  • Forensic attention to detail and process management
  • Takes ownership and consistently delivers against what is agreed.
  • Has a can-do attitude and a positive viewpoint.
  • Is compassionate and caring towards others, respecting the views and ideas of others.
  • Works in a straight-forward, collaborative and inclusive way and is non-political.
  • Tenacious in pursuit of delighting users. They strive for excellence in all they do and always look to improve our service and product and internal employee experience.
Desirable
  • A passion for sports and sports tech
At IMG ARENA the job is yours. We want you to be yourself.
We are focused on building an inclusive and empowering environment that’s welcoming for everyone, where you are trusted and empowered to do what you’re good at. It’s your arena and your opportunity to shape it and your career.
You’ll have the opportunity to pick up the latest technology, develop your own ideas and run with them. There’s loads of room for improvement and innovation. You get to prove and own the process from start to finish.
Diversity Statement for Endeavor
Endeavor unites and brings people together in our love of sport, culture, and entertainment. We understand this can only be accomplished when we harness the entirety of our company and lead with a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. It means that we engage in anti-racism and allyship the way we do anything. Fiercely and Fearlessly. As a global company that drives culture we endeavor to reflect the world’s diverse voices both internally and externally to ensure success in our mission.


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