About the Role
This 12-month Fixed Term Contract role ensures all marketing activity is delivered on time, within budget, and with maximum efficiency. You will partner with Marketing Program Managers to ensure marketing plans run smoothly and are delivered on time by various capabilities including content, digital & social, events, and creative resource. The role requires meticulous attention to detail, the ability to manage multiple projects concurrently, and precise time management.
Responsibilities
- Maintain a single view of all activity across every program, including committed, in-flight, and at-risk items.
- Own the critical path for each program and their interdependencies.
- Ensure the consolidated view is a standing artifact accessible to all.
- Run the operating rhythm, including planning sessions, status reviews, prioritization forums, and post-delivery reviews.
- Oversee the briefing, scheduling, review, and approval process, ensuring adherence.
- Track deliverables against agreed dates and manage follow-ups effectively.
- Identify delivery risks early and escalate them based on defined triggers.
- Escalate risks directly to the Marketing Controller and Head of Marketing when triggers are met.
- Maintain a live view of capability workload with the Marketing Controller and flag overcommitments proactively.
- Support Program Managers in building deliverable plans.
- Provide consistent reporting for easy comparison of programs.
- Continuously simplify processes and eliminate inefficiencies.
Requirements
- Proven project or delivery management experience in a marketing, creative, or agency environment.
- Experience running multiple concurrent workstreams with shared, constrained resources.
- Excellent organization and attention to detail, with the judgment to prioritize effectively.
- Confidence in raising uncomfortable information early to senior stakeholders.
- Ability to build processes that are practical and user-friendly.
- Strong influencing skills, with responsibility across the function but no direct authority.
- Formal project management training or accreditation is desirable.
- Experience with resource and capacity management tooling is desirable.
- Experience in the media, broadcast, or advertising sector is desirable.
- Experience introducing delivery disciplines into a newly formed function is desirable.
- Must have the appropriate right to work in the UK.
- Sky does not offer sponsorship for this position.
Skills
- Project Management
- Delivery Management
- Marketing
- Creative
- Agency Environment
- Workstream Management
- Resource Management
- Capacity Management
- Attention to Detail
- Time Management
- Process Building
- Influencing Skills
- Risk Management
- Escalation
- Reporting
- Media Sector Experience
- Broadcast Sector Experience
- Advertising Sector Experience
Location
- Osterley
Work Type
- Fixed Term Contract
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Benefits
- Free NOW package, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema
- Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution
- Private healthcare with mental health support
- Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance
- Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass and Sky Protect
- Sharesave and Tech schemes
- A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
About the Company
- Sky Media is the advertising sales arm of Sky.
- Sky is a leading media and entertainment company connecting millions with entertainment, sports, news, and arts through innovative products and services.
- Working at Sky means bringing the joy of a better experience to more people, every day, to do better and deliver better for customers, colleagues, and society.
Equal Opportunity
- Sky is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at the company.
- Sky is a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, welcoming and encouraging applications from all candidates.
- Sky will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support candidates where appropriate.
- If your application is successful, a criminal record check will be completed.
- Depending on the role and nature of convictions, an offer may be withdrawn.
