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About the Role
The Head of Host Broadcast is responsible for the operational leadership, planning, readiness, and delivery of host broadcast and outside broadcast productions. This role provides operational ownership of live production delivery from planning through execution, ensuring productions meet safety, reliability, editorial, and technical standards within budget and governance frameworks.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, coordination, and operational delivery of host broadcast and outside broadcast productions.
- Maintain oversight across concurrent productions, prioritizing resources and providing senior operational direction.
- Oversee broadcast readiness, including transmission planning, resilience, backup arrangements, and venue infrastructure.
- Identify and escalate material delivery risks and ensure appropriate operational preparation and contingency arrangements.
- Translate editorial ambition and production requirements into practical broadcast delivery requirements.
- Provide specialist broadcast operational expertise during planning and live delivery.
- Manage the operational delivery and performance of production, broadcast, crewing, and specialist suppliers.
- Oversee the deployment and coordination of Technical Producers, Broadcast Operations staff, and freelance resources.
- Maintain operational oversight of Host Broadcast production spend at the event level.
- Review event requirements and supplier scopes to identify cost efficiencies.
- Act as the senior operational escalation point for host broadcast delivery issues.
- Ensure appropriate operational Health & Safety and duty-of-care considerations are incorporated into outside broadcast delivery.
- Support the assessment, mobilization, and delivery of major events and new rights.
- Lead detailed Host Broadcast planning and implementation.
- Provide operational leadership across Technical Producers, Broadcast Operations staff, freelancers, and delivery partners.
- Ensure delivery aligns with group standards, operating models, procurement requirements, and governance controls.
- Lead or contribute to post-event reviews, lessons learned, and process improvement initiatives.
Requirements
- Significant senior experience in live sports broadcasting, host broadcast, outside broadcast, or comparable live production environment.
- Demonstrable experience leading complex live productions from planning through transmission.
- Strong specialist understanding of live broadcast production and delivery, including outside broadcast workflows, cameras, audio, communications, replay, graphics, connectivity, contribution, transmission, resilience, and venue infrastructure.
- Demonstrable experience leading operational teams and specialist broadcast personnel across multiple concurrent productions.
- Strong people leadership skills, including resource planning, prioritization, performance management, development, and handling sensitive personnel matters.
- Experience managing outside broadcast, facilities, crewing, and specialist production suppliers.
- Ability to assess delivery performance, scope, and event-level cost.
Skills
- Live sports broadcasting
- Host broadcast
- Outside broadcast
- Live production
- Operational leadership
- Planning
- Readiness
- Delivery
- Broadcast production
- Broadcast delivery
- Outside broadcast workflows
- Cameras
- Audio
- Communications
- Replay
- Graphics
- Connectivity
- Contribution
- Transmission
- Resilience
- Venue infrastructure
- Team leadership
- Resource planning
- Prioritization
- Performance management
- Supplier management
- Cost control
- Health & Safety
- Duty of care
- Incident management
Location
- UK - London
Work Type
- Permanent - Full Time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Access to DAZN
- 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years)
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Pension contributions up to 5%
- Family friendly community including enhanced parental leave
- Electric vehicle benefit option
- Learning and development resources
- Opportunity for flexible working
- Access to internal speaker series and events