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VP, Business and Technical Transformation

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London - Stockley Park 4LW
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Job Description

Who We Are:

At IMG, our Studios business use content and technology to power the world's passion for sport, working with global clients including The Premier League, The R&A, DP World Tour, Euroleague Basketball and Major League Soccer. We've built Europe's best-connected broadcast centre at Stockley Park, London, distributing 35,000 hours of content globally and creating some of the world's best sporting coverage. Our facilities include four broadcast studios, fifty edit suites and a multitude of radio, podcast, dubbing and VFX facilities, with specialisms in remote production and carbon reduction thanks to our Green to Screen initiative. Whether it's live coverage, archive, highlights, social media, branded content or feature films, we give the audience a front row seat to the best sport in the world.

We are looking for a dynamic and experienced VP, Business and Technical Transformation to play a pivotal leadership role, bearing end-to-end accountability for the successful delivery of IMG’s transformation project. Operating at the intersection of project execution and enterprise strategy, the Project Owner ensures that defined objectives, scope, and quality standards are achieved, while maintaining consistent alignment with IMG’s overarching strategic priorities. This is an exciting and senior role reporting directly Barney Francis (Executive Vise President of IMG Studios). In addition, this role will be instrumental in setting and delivering strategy for a department with substantial turnover and a staff base of over 500.

IMG has production bases in UK, USA and KSA with capabilities to produce content globally. The department enjoys strong relationships with all major Networks in the UK and many Global Partners including Streamers and most major Tier One Federations.

IMG is the market leader for sports production in the UK and one of the biggest and prestige production partners globally. This is a high profile role forming a key part of the departments Senior

• Leadership Team with direct access into the C Suite of TKO.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

: End-to-End Project Accountability: ultimate responsibility for the delivery of this important change management project Strategic Alignment: Ensuring that all project activities and deliverables are tightly aligned with IMG’s strategic objectives, values, and long-term vision Objective and Scope

• Management: Define and agree clear project objectives, scope, and success criteria in consultation with key stakeholders; manage changes through formal processes to prevent scope creep Quality Assurance: Establish and enforce quality standards across all project phases, ensuring deliverables meet or exceed expectations and comply with IMG’s governance frameworks Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the principal liaison for IMG leadership, keeping them informed of project progress, challenges, and strategic implications.
• Build and nurture relationships with senior stakeholders to facilitate smooth project execution Consulting Team
• Leadership: Provide vision, guidance, and support to consulting teams and other project contributors. Set clear expectations, coach team members, and foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement Risk
• Management: Identify, assess, and proactively manage project risks and issues.
• Develop mitigation strategies and ensure timely escalation of critical matters to IMG leadership as required Resource
• Management: Secure and manage necessary resources, including personnel, budget, and technology, to deliver the project successfully.
• Monitor utilisation and address resource-related challenges to maintain project momentum Decision Escalation: Exercise sound judgment in decision-making, escalating high-impact or complex issues to the appropriate authority within IMG when necessary Performance Tracking and Reporting: Establish project performance metrics and reporting mechanisms. Provide transparent, timely updates to stakeholders, highlighting achievements, risks, and corrective actions Change
• Management: Champion and facilitate change management activities, ensuring adoption of new processes, systems, or structures introduced by the project Continuous Improvement: Capture lessons learned and recommend process improvements for future initiatives within TMO and IMG at large.

Knowledge and Experience

: A management qualification at degree level and significant • experience in organizational leadership within a complex global organization Demonstrated significant • experience of end-to-end management of large-scale organizational transformation and change projects in global, matrix organizations Demonstrated proficiency in project management methodologies • Demonstrated technical aptitude and familiarity with project management tools Proven track record of strategically aligning financial resources with people resources, ICT and other assets to achieve desired strategic outcomes.

• Demonstrated • experience in managing high risk and effective mitigation Demonstrated • experience of delivering change management within the media, broadcast, or creative industries Demonstrated • experience of translating strategy into delivery through plans, programmes, people and culture

Skills and Abilities

: Adept at successfully engaging a myriad of stakeholders both internally and externally and securing timely decision-making Highly developed negotiation and conflict-resolution skills Highly developed analytical and critical thinking capabilities Adept at navigating complex and dynamic environments, demonstrating adaptability and flexibility Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills able to convey a compelling and engaging vision of change across all levels Highly developed business acumen able to quickly get under the skin of the company, understand it and recognize commercial opportunities Strategic thinker able to align and re-align projects to evolving organizational goals and drive performance excellence Personal: Leadership: Demonstrated capability to lead diverse teams, inspire commitment, and deliver results in complex, fast-paced environments Strategic Thinking: • Strong strategic orientation, with the ability to translate organisational goals into actionable project objectives Stakeholder

• Management: Expertise in building credibility and influence at senior leadership levels, communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences Project
• Management: knowledge of project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid), tools, and best practices Problem Solving: • Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to anticipate challenges and devise effective solutions Change
• Management: • Experience in managing organisational change and driving adoption of new ways of working

Working Conditions

: This is a 3 year fixed-term contract at IMG.

This role will be based at Stockley Park, London with travel to other IMG offices for regular meetings (Chiswick Park) IMG is a leading global sports marketing agency, specializing in media rights management and sales, multi-channel content production and distribution, brand partnerships, strategic consulting, digital services, and events management. It powers growth of revenues, fanbases and IP for more than 200 federations, associations, events, and teams, including the National Football League, English Premier League, International Olympic Committee, National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, ATP and WTA Tours, the AELTC (Wimbledon), Euroleague Basketball, CONMEBOL, DP World Tour, and The R&A, as well as UFC, WWE, and PBR.

IMG is a subsidiary of TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company.

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Salary Information

Salary: $240,000 - $320,000

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