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Senior Operational Lead – Live Sports Data Production(m/w/x)
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
- English – Business 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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Senior Operational Lead – Live Sports Data Production(m/w/x)
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
- English – Business 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
About the Company
Sportradar
Industry
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Description
The company is a worldwide leader in sports data and audiovisual services for bookmakers, offering data-driven marketing services for betting operators.
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