About this role
As the Senior Strategic Programmes Manager (Boxing), you will support the Boxing Team to manage and execute business critical programmes across the organisation. 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 Marketing and SVP North America to efficiently execute complex programmes across the Boxing vertical, working collaboratively with the wider Growth Markets team. This role will focus on delivering programmes of work across Marketing, Commercial, Content & Editorial, News and Social. 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 communicating with 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 Boxing 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