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SPSportradar

Senior Operational Lead – Live Sports Data Production(m/w/x)

Leipzig
Full-timeWith Home OfficeSenior

Managing live sports data production workflows and KPI reviews for global clients. Strong operational leadership and stakeholder management skills required. Task autonomy and flexible working hours.

Requirements

  • Background in operations, program management, or operational leadership
  • Success in fast-paced, high-stakes environments
  • Ability to run recurring workflows, syncs, and KPI-driven processes
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to influence without authority
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented
  • Comfort navigating ambiguity and changing priorities
  • Ability to drive process improvements
  • Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives
  • Financial acumen
  • Comfort reading reports, tracking budgets, and managing cost controls
  • Genuine passion for sports
  • Understanding of live data importance and context
  • Experience building something from scratch
  • Experience initiating transformational change in complex operational environments
  • Experience working with C-level or senior stakeholders
  • Background in media, betting, content rights, or similar industries
  • Track record of working effectively with global teams
  • Proactive mindset
  • Ability to proactively identify and solve problems
  • Exceptional communication skills
  • Strategic awareness to navigate a global organization
  • Ability to tailor messages across time zones and cultural contexts
  • Understanding of communication driving operational excellence
  • Meet most of the listed requirements

Tasks

  • Drive weekly operational syncs and KPI reviews
  • Track actions across the business unit
  • Support quarterly planning cycles
  • Conduct OKR reviews
  • Perform workflow health checks
  • Lead retrospective sessions
  • Identify operational bottlenecks
  • Establish clear escalation pathways
  • Synthesize performance trends for leadership
  • Provide insights on risks and opportunities
  • Oversee scout onboarding and training
  • Ensure consistency in training programs
  • Drive continuous improvement in training
  • Manage new rights-deal workflows end-to-end
  • Ensure cross-functional alignment on workflows
  • Execute workflows in a timely manner
  • Document workflows clearly
  • Establish governance frameworks
  • Maintain governance frameworks
  • Establish reporting standards
  • Maintain reporting standards
  • Establish operational documentation
  • Maintain operational documentation
  • Drive improvements in operational reporting
  • Drive improvements in dashboards
  • Drive improvements in insights generation
  • Provide high-level operational insights to Unit lead
  • Provide high-level operational insights to top management
  • Serve as central coordination point for leadership
  • Serve as central coordination point for stakeholders
  • Break down silos between teams
  • Maintain structured communication channels
  • Strengthen cross-functional ways of working
  • Manage operational escalations with clarity
  • Manage operational escalations with speed
  • Ensure timely resolution of escalations
  • Provide transparent updates on escalations
  • Strengthen the leadership team's operating model
  • Help leadership function as a unified unit
  • Act as an operational partner to the SVP
  • Design operational improvements
  • Implement operational improvements
  • Design scaling frameworks
  • Implement scaling frameworks
  • Absorb coordination load
  • Absorb operational load
  • Free up leadership time for strategic initiatives
  • Free up leadership time for partnerships
  • Free up leadership time for long-term planning
  • Proactively surface issues for leadership attention

Work Experience

  • approx. 4 - 6 years

Education

  • Bachelor's degreeOR
  • Master's degree

Languages

  • EnglishBusiness Fluent

Benefits

Flexible Working

  • Flexible working hours
  • Workday flexibility

Purpose-Driven Work

  • Task autonomy

Informal Culture

  • Collaborative environment
  • Inclusive community

Team Events

  • Social events
  • Teambuilding
  • Vibrant community

Other Benefits

  • Women in Tech group
  • Pride group

Mental Health Support

  • Global Employee Assistance Programme
  • Calm and Reulay well-being apps

Learning & Development

  • Online training videos
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