About this role
Join DAZN as our new Head of On-Screen Talent to lead talent strategy and relationships across its English-language markets, shaping the on-air talent roster across sports including boxing, football, NFL and CFL. Working closely with on-screen talent, creators, athletes, agents and management, you’ll lead the selection, appointment and negotiation of talent, overseeing contracts and building strong, long-term relationships. As part of the Content team, you’ll collaborate across Production, Rights, Marketing, Communications, Social and Advertising, acting as the go-to expert on all things talent. This is a high-impact role combining talent management, commercial negotiations and strategic relationship building. You’ll play a key part in ensuring DAZN delivers exceptional content, consistent on-air talent standards and maximum value from its talent partnerships.
A passion for sport, proven on-screen talent management experience and strong commercial and negotiation skills are essential.
- This will be a 12 month maternity cover.
- Build a collaborative working relationship with key stakeholders across production and content, marketing, brand, comms, and service all talent related needs for these arms of the business.
- Work specifically with DAZN’s head of boxing to ensure talent teams across all live and non live events and activations are adequately assigned and well balanced.
- Own and manage the day-to-day administration of on-air talent and their management.
- Serve as a key day to day contact for talent concerns, questions and – crucially – scheduling.
- Pinpoint, target, negotiate, book and manage all on air talent bookings Ensure the effective dissemination of information, and assets, to talent and ensure teams internally are integrating talent into their plans and activations.
- Work in collaboration with DAZN’s social teams to ensure full integration of talent third party social channel output, as well as overseeing key talent announcements and campaign releases Support DAZN’s Canada team as it embarks upon its debut CFL season, leading the onboarding, contracting and activation with all new CFL broadcast and social talent (including being on site in Canada for key events and games). . Ensure talent contracts are properly executed and maintained, from signature through to delivery and activation, and that talent are utilised across the breadth of the business in line with commercial agreements.
- Work closely with DAZN’s in-house legal and finance teams throughout this process.
- Attend key events, broadcasts and shoots where required to serve as key POC for talent, supporting the live production team.
- This will include international and UK wide travel.
- Maintain oversight of overall talent access and usage, ensuring talent budgets are adequately maintained and worked within.
- Serve as the voice for talent selection, usage, positioning and budgeting when reporting back to the senior management team.