What's your new role about?
DAZN is seeking an experienced and highly skilled Project Manager to join our team. As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing multiple projects and driving the successful execution of projects within our organization. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and vendors to ensure project objectives are met on time, within budget, and with high quality. This role requires strong leadership, excellent communication, and a proven track record of delivering complex projects in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage the full project lifecycle, from initiation to closure, ensuring project objectives are clearly defined, and project plans are developed and executed effectively.
- Work closely with stakeholders to understand project requirements, scope, and priorities, and translate them into actionable project plans.
- Develop and maintain project schedules, resource allocation plans, and budgets, and monitor progress against these plans.
- Identify and mitigate project risks, proactively resolve issues, and manage changes to project scope, schedule, and budget.
- Coordinate and collaborate with cross-functional teams, including development, design, operations, and testing, to ensure effective project execution and delivery.
- Communicate project status, updates, and risks to stakeholders and senior management through regular status reports, meetings, and presentations.
- Foster a collaborative and productive team environment, providing guidance, coaching, and support to project team members.
- Ensure adherence to project management best practices, methodologies, and standards.
Required Skills:
- Experience: 5- 12 years
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Business, or a related field. A relevant professional certification, such as PMP (Project Management Professional), is a plus.
- Proven experience as a Project Manager, successfully delivering complex projects within the technology industry.
- Strong project management skills, including project planning, scheduling, resource management, and budgeting.
- Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Solid understanding of project management methodologies and best practices.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities, with a focus on driving results and meeting project objectives.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) is desirable.
- Familiarity with software development and technology projects is a plus.
- Scrum masters are not a suitable for this role.
Here's a little more about us…
At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be.
As part of our team you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop.
If you're ambitious, inventive, brave and supportive, then you're the kind of person who's going to enjoy life at DAZN.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment, both inside and outside of our walls, that values equality and diversity and where everyone can contribute at the highest level and have their voices heard. For us, this means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities. We are supported by our talented Employee Resource Group communities: proud@DAZN, women@DAZN, disability@DAZN and ParentZONE.
If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.
Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.
We look forward to hearing from you.