You are passionate about delivering unique sport and entertainment experiences with an understanding of the OTT industry. You are as excited as we are at the opportunities in this space and will be the voice of the fan and the customer within the organization.
You are a "doer" who can deliver immediate priorities whilst also working through more strategic priorities. You work fast and are accountable both individually and as part of a team.
Programme Manager will take responsibility for strategic areas of focus, regularly working with a wide-range of relevant stakeholders across the TOD’s content, marketing, commercial affairs, third-party partners/platforms and technology functions to drive product improvement, innovation and growth. You will work closely with the global product/technology organization to ensure MENA market needs are fulfilled.
Key responsibilities:
- Work cross-functionally with TOD stakeholders to identify critical business blockers and collaborate to solve and optimize these.
- Oversee end to end product improvement workflow using our management tools and systems
- Identify and manage project risk through prioritization, bug management, and any other means necessary.
- Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities
- Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
- Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget.
- Manage independent projects within the workstream. Drive high quality output from process management. Lead project kick offs & meetings with cross functional groups for planning
- Manage product release cycle.
- Delegate requirements collection tasks based on product manager staff members' individual strengths, skill sets and experience levels.
- Assist in the definition of product scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
- Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence.
- Monitor the progress of development sprints, and product releases that are outsourced to technical vendors in accordance with allocated budgets.
Job Requirements and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- You are customer-focused Project Manager with 5-7 years of experience in delivering digital project; experience in sport or media/OTT products/projects as a strong plus.
- English language fluency; Arabic and other language skills extremely valuable.
- You are passionate, engaging, flexible and persuasive – able to engage across a wide range of technical and non-technical stakeholders, articulate strategic vision to key stakeholders.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to use data & metrics to back assumptions, recommendations and drive actions.
- A multidisciplinary approach to solving problems.
- Passion and enthusiasm for everything digital and, ideally, sports and entertainment.
- Customer-centric and outcome-focused approach to delivery.
- Strong track record in a Project Manager, Product Owner/Manager role, working in distributed scaled agile teams, preferably spanning multiple countries and cultures.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, management and consulting skills to draw out the real business needs.
- Pragmatism to support product team in building a roadmap to that makes the right trade-off between scope and speed to maximize the value created by the development team.
- Ability to priorities and multi-task with a flexible approach to work with changing deadlines and scope.