VP, Business and Technical Transformation

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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.

Responsibilities:

• Change Management: 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.
• 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 organisational leadership within a complex global organisation.
• Demonstrated significant experience of end-to-end management of large-scale organisational transformation and change projects in global, matrix organisations.
• 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:

• Adapt 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.
• Adapt 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 recognise commercial opportunities.
• Strategic thinker able to align and re-align projects to evolving organisational 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).