Senior Manager, Strategy & Growth in London

Who We Are: 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 has a clear strategic agenda and growth plan in place across the business, and runs a consulting capability that advises sports rights holders and investors. The Senior Manager, Strategy & Growth will spend most of their time on the consulting side, delivering client engagements, with the rest of their time on IMG’s own internal strategy work. This role sits within the Strategy & Growth team, which covers both.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Deliver client engagements. Do the core of the work, run the analysis, and build the answer, working to the project lead on direction and staying close to the day-to-day.
• Do the thinking. Take a client question, work out what actually matters, and build a clear answer.
• Build the analysis. Size a market, model a business case, value a set of rights, pull apart a P&L.
• Work with more junior people on the engagement. You may have someone working with you on a piece, so set them up well and keep them moving.
• Help shape proposals and scope new engagements when they come up.
• Pick up internal strategy work as it comes. Sizing a new opportunity, pulling together an investment case, working through an organisational question.
• Help produce SLT updates and briefings for IMG’s President ahead of key internal and external engagements.

Knowledge and Experience:

• 4–7 years in strategy consulting, or in a corporate strategy or commercial role with real client exposure, ideally in media, entertainment, or sports.
• A strong track record of delivery.
• Comfortable with numbers.
• Experience working with senior people, on the client side or internally.

Skills and Abilities:

• You think clearly.
• Comfortable figuring things out.
• Good judgement around people and politics.
• Strong writer.
• Pragmatic.
• Able to work on a live engagement and pick up an internal question without dropping either.
• A team player.
• Experience in sports, media, or entertainment.
• Experience advising clients in a consulting or advisory setting.
• Familiarity with how professional services firms work commercially.
• Experience in a multi-business-unit or holding company structure.

Working Conditions:

• This is a permanent position.
• This role will be based at Chiswick Park, with some flexibility on remote working as appropriate.
• Working hours are 9:00 – 17:00, Monday to Friday.
• May be required to attend (and travel to) locations, including other IMG buildings and meetings.
• Unsocial hours may be required, as dictated by the demands of the business schedule.
• Adapting to use of new systems and technology where appropriate.

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