Senior Producer - Women's Football (Sky Sports - Football)

As the Senior Producer for Sky Sports Women’s Football coverage, you will be required to lead your team, providing clear direction and cultivating a culture of high performance, continuous improvement and innovation.

What you'll do:

- Editorially lead and produce Sky Sports coverage of live Women’s Football, support programming, social-first programming and digital output.
- Create a high performing culture that encourages collaboration and creativity and empowers people to succeed.
- Lead, manage and develop on-screen talent and content teams, creating an environment where presenters, pundits and contributors can perform at their best
- Encourage diversity of skills, experience and culture
- Build and manage key relationships within Sky, WSL, and SWPL.
- Work closely with the Director of Football to ensure production and strategic alignment.
- Ensure your team stays connected to Sky’s wider business, overall direction, key current initiatives and the latest company results

Essential Criteria:

- A knowledge and passion for working in women’s football, preferably with experience of working in the women’s game.
- An inspirational manager with proven track record of managing and motivating large cross-functional teams

- Experienced in leading on-screen talent and production teams, with a strong track record of managing, developing and getting the best from presenters, pundits and contributors
- Trained and experienced both editorially and creatively to a high level in world-class live sport production.
- Experience of managing a team in challenging and demanding real-time live sport environments.
- Bring a track record of proactively identifying the next opportunity and turning it into compelling on-screen content through bold, creative and audience-focused storytelling
- A strong understanding of how to broaden and grow the Women’s Football audience, particularly among under-35s, through compelling, relevant and innovative content
- Able to create an environment where creativity thrives and people feel empowered to bring forward new ideas
- Strong communicator who will ensure all members of the team have the information, knowledge and tools to do their jobs
- A proven track record of collaborating effectively with the wider business to drive alignment, share ideas and deliver results
- To be agile with the ability embrace change to improve

Must be willing to travel & work weekends

Benefits and perks

There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to life at Sky: the perks. Here’s a taster:

- Free Sky TV or NOW package, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema
- Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution
- Private healthcare with mental health support
- Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance
- Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass and Sky Protect
- Sharesave and Tech schemes
- A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

Sky Sports

We deliver the most innovative and best Sports content experience to our customers across all platforms. We promote continuous innovation, driving value for our customers and high-quality output. Everyone is passionate about sport and proud of the work that they undertake both on screen and behind the scenes.

How you’ll work

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. The hybrid working expectations for this role are 3 days in the office per week.

Your office base

Osterley

Our Sky Group HQ. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology and workspaces, there’s plenty of space to see your big ideas come to life. Here you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants and cafes. You can re-energise at our gym, catch the latest films at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Our Osterley Campus is just a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station, or you can get one of our free shuttle buses from Osterley, Gunnersbury and Ealing Broadway stations.  Plus, there’s free onsite parking available for cars, motorbikes and bicycles.

Who we are

We’re Sky, a leading media and entertainment company who connect millions with entertainment, sports, news and arts through innovative products and services. Working with us means you’ll be bringing the joy of a better experience to more people, every day. All so we can do better and deliver better for our customers, colleagues and society.

We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We're a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need as early as you can.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.

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