Content Planner

Why Join DAZN? 

Joining DAZN in Leeds means being part of a cutting-edge sports streaming company in a vibrant tech hub. You’ll work alongside passionate, talented professionals on innovative projects that reach millions of fans worldwide. Leeds offers a dynamic work environment with a great balance of career growth and lifestyle. If you’re excited about shaping the future of live and on-demand sports entertainment, DAZN Leeds is the perfect place to make your mark and grow your career. 

The Role: 

As the Content Planner at DAZN, you will play a key role in the operation of DAZN’s global live and non-live event planning. We are looking for a talented, diligent candidate with a strong attention to detail and organisational skills. You will help to manage the events we schedule onto our platform, working with regional editorial, production and operational teams to ensure that all factors relating to our broadcast output are considered. You will play a pivotal role in determining what content is played out to our subscriber base. This is an individual contributor role that requires sharp attention to detail, an editorial mindset, and a passion for global sports. 

Department

73-254 - Delivery - Planning

Employment Type

Permanent - Full Time

Location

UK - Leeds

Workplace type

Hybrid

What You'll Be Doing:

• Project manage broadcast rights deals from initial approval stage through to event selection, regional strategy, allocation of operational resource and broadcast. 
• Manage the planning of all live and non-live content that appears on the platform from multiple broadcast partners. 
• Act as key operational liaison between Central Planning, Production and Broadcast Operations teams to implement content strategy. 
• Advance plan broadcasts of all sports properties, estimating likely kick-off dates and times for all events ahead of fixture announcements. 
• Cultivate close relationships with suppliers, host broadcasters and rights holders to ensure accurate planning information comes into DAZN and supplier expectations are managed.  
• Manage DAZN’s broadcast channel capacity and resolve clashes. 
• Grow and develop expertise on key sports properties, leagues and competitions. 
• Handle production and editorial requests from regional programming teams. 
• Proactively manage schedule changes. 
• Act as key point of contact communicating DAZN schedule information to wider business units and external partners. 
• Attend weekly and monthly planning meetings with local and central teams. 
• Assist in ad hoc project work with the Central team 
• Provide support and assistance for the linear channel planning and presentation teams.  
• Learn and maintain a strong understanding of DAZN KPIs. 

What You'll Bring:

• Exceptional organisational and time management skills. 
• Strong attention to detail. 
• Ability to adapt to changing business needs, cultures, conditions and work responsibilities 
• Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines. 
• Interest in content production for multi-platform distribution. 
• Excellent knowledge of, or willingness to research and learn, sport competition formats 
• Knowledge of, and strong interest in, sports and sports media worldwide. 
• Knowledge of, and strong interest in, broadcast workflows, formats and operating systems. 

Benefits

Benefits include 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, and access to our internal speaker series and events.

About DAZN

At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be. 

As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop. 

DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO:  

Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen. 

Prioritising what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact. 

Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One. 

At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities. 

If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.

Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.

We look forward to hearing from you.