Senior Director, Programme & Delivery

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Is this role for you?

In 2025, Channel 5 and My5 are joining forces under one powerful new brand: 5 – delivering an all-new, unified experience across TV, streaming, and digital platforms!

We are looking for hardworking individuals to help craft this next chapter. This unified brand will revolutionize TV, streaming, and digital platforms, offering expanded free streaming services, more UK drama originals, and specially curated FAST channels!

With personalisation and groundbreaking, data-driven advertising solutions, 5 is set to lead the future of entertainment. After an impressive year of industry-leading growth, including a 40% surge in viewership in 2024, 5 is gearing up to transform the viewing experience- and we want you to be a part of it!

Help us build a brand that delivers unlimited entertainment, always free. Join the team driving the 5 relaunch and craft the future of how the world watches.

What will you be doing?

1. Lead all aspects of the end-to-end delivery of streaming projects, ensuring timely execution against the project roadmap.
2. Handle product prioritisation process in collaboration with streaming product director and other 5 stakeholders.
3. Working closely with business analysis lead to oversee the project intake process, ensuring all initiatives are properly refined and assessed before entering the delivery pipeline.
4. Lead a team of project managers and business analysts and ensure accountability for delivery within the streaming team.
5. Establish and refine project governance frameworks across the streaming team.
6. Drive quarterly planning cycles with internal and external teams.
7. Champion process improvements, identifying areas for increased efficiency and effectiveness in project delivery.
8. Communicate progress and any associated issues/risks regularly to senior leadership teams across Paramount.
9. Act as the primary point of contact for third-party development vendors and ensure accurate resource planning and forecasting.
10. Be an Ambassador for 5 streaming both internally and externally.
11. Partner with teams across Paramount where initiatives require shared services for 5 streaming platform.
12. Handle an annual budget of £10M+ ensuring accurate allocation of funds and resources across projects.
13. Define and track streaming team OKRs (Objective Key Results).
14. Contribute to and help shape the wider digital/non-linear strategy with the 5 business.

What are we looking for?

1. 5-10 years’ experience in leading internal delivery teams and external development vendors, ensuring high performance.
2. Build and maintain strong relationships with external platform partners (ETV, Amazon, Youview, Sky) and internal 5 leads.
3. Track record of delivering process improvements across teams to improve efficiency.
4. Experience of leading technical programmes of work across globally distributed teams.
5. Management of budgets over £10M.
6. Experience of working with agile delivery frameworks and quarterly planning methodologies.
7. Skilled in quickly evaluating options, influencing partners, and driving swift resolutions.
8. First-class written and verbal communication skills at all organisational levels.
9. Strong partner management skills to communicate risks, issues, and mitigation options.
10. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
11. Intermediate level Excel skills.
12. Comfortable using standard planning and collaboration tools (Smartsheet, Asana, JIRA, Confluence).

Desirable

1. Extensive experience in the broadcast and media sector.
2. Strong understanding of streaming technology and content distribution.
3. Project management qualification.

Channel 5 is an award-winning public service broadcaster and the UK’s third latest commercial TV station, reaching 3 in 4 of the UK viewing public each month. The channel has a diverse schedule of original programmes across genres including issue-led documentaries, popular factual, accessible history, stunning natural history, inclusive entertainment and reality, top-level sport, high-quality scripted programming, headline-grabbing current affairs, and critically acclaimed children’s and news programming. Channel 5 is a unit of Paramount Global.

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

At Paramount, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off. From the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources, and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. Paramount is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status.

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