Head of On-Screen Talent (12 Month Maternity Cover)

What You'll Be Doing:

• Build a collaborative working relationship with key stakeholders across production and content, marketing, brand, comms, and service all talent related needs for these arms of the business.
• Work specifically with DAZN’s head of boxing to ensure talent teams across all live and non live events and activations are adequately assigned and well balanced.
• Own and manage the day-to-day administration of on-air talent and their management. Serve as a key day to day contact for talent concerns, questions and – crucially – scheduling.
• Pinpoint, target, negotiate, book and manage all on air talent bookings
• Ensure the effective dissemination of information, and assets, to talent and ensure teams internally are integrating talent into their plans and activations.
• Work in collaboration with DAZN’s social teams to ensure full integration of talent third party social channel output, as well as overseeing key talent announcements and campaign releases
• Support DAZN’s Canada team as it embarks upon its debut CFL season, leading the onboarding, contracting and activation with all new CFL broadcast and social talent (including being on site in Canada for key events and games). .
• Ensure talent contracts are properly executed and maintained, from signature through to delivery and activation, and that talent are utilised across the breadth of the business in line with commercial agreements. Work closely with DAZN’s in-house legal and finance teams throughout this process.
• Attend key events, broadcasts and shoots where required to serve as key POC for talent, supporting the live production team. This will include international and UK wide travel.
• Maintain oversight of overall talent access and usage, ensuring talent budgets are adequately maintained and worked within. Serve as the voice for talent selection, usage, positioning and budgeting when reporting back to the senior management team.

What You'll Bring:

• A clear and demonstrable passion for working with household name talent (on-air) and professional athletes.
• Ability to nurture and build relationships with athletes, talent and their management teams – or rights holders - to garner trust and maximise time with them. Know their habits, likes and preferred ways of working without having to be told.
• Experience in devising, delivering and executing campaigns with talent…this role is not just about talent management, it’s about activation. A background in athlete communications and production and content is a big bonus.
• Ability to balance the need to protect and nurture talent…with the need to leverage access to deliver ROI for the business.
• Flexibility – this is a very wide-ranging role, which involves working across multiple time zones, understanding different markets and often working unsociable hours / traveling to be on location.
• Solid understanding of social media landscape and key channel delivery.
• Capability to balance the needs of multiple stakeholders, and encourage and facilitate internal collaboration. Proven ability to collaborate across multiple functions, cultures and markets.
• Knowledge of legal contracting and experience working with contracting teams.
• Experience in commercial negotiations and budgeting.
• Willingness to ‘get stuck in’ – this is an independent role, which requires a self-starter who is not afraid to do some running around where required!
• Solid understanding of the UK and US broadcast landscapes and key on screen sporting talent working across these markets and channels.

Benefits