Senior Media Rights Manager

The UEFA Media Rights and Broadcaster Services unit manages the sale of media rights and associated servicing across all UEFA’s national team competitions. The Senior Media Rights Manager is responsible for the implementation of media rights strategies, ensuring revenue optimisation and a broad distribution platform for UEFA competitions.

Job Information

Division/Unit: Marketing / Media Rights & Production Services
Contract type: Permanent
Start date: 01/04/2025

Main goal
The UEFA Media Rights and Broadcaster Services unit manages the sale of media rights and associated servicing across all UEFA’s national team competitions. The Senior Media Rights Manager is responsible for the implementation of media rights strategies, ensuring revenue optimisation and a broad distribution platform for UEFA competitions.

Key responsibilities
Management:
- Supervising the Media Rights Specialist

Strategy and targets:
- Together with the UEFA management, defining UEFA’s strategic media rights targets and associated day-to-day go-to-market strategy
- Providing comprehensive and regular reports to the management team on progress, issues and opportunities
- Contributing to the creation of standard documentation (rights agreement templates, tender documentation, bidding forms, etc.) used in the relevant sales processes together with UEFA’s commercial legal team

Day-to-day agency management:
- Managing the media rights sales processes in coordination with the relevant agencies and UEFA’s legal services
- Defining timelines and rights packages, preparing associated tender documentation, evaluating bids received, managing UEFA’s internal approval processes and negotiating media rights agreements
- Ensuring consistency in the implementation of the agreed strategy
- Supervising the delivery of rights for ongoing competitions and managing arising issues, such as requests for contractual amendments, breaches of contract or scheduling conflicts
- Ensuring relevant monitoring of media rights exploitation and account management issues

National association liaison:
- Defining the framework within which UEFA’s member associations can exploit certain (delayed) media rights to their own matches
- Providing information and support to UEFA’s member associations to ensure the correct delivery of rights to UEFA and broadcasters

Other:
- Taking responsibility for the media aspects of all or some of the official competition documentation (e.g. regulations, manuals and guidelines)
- Attending workshops, briefings and other events both as a speaker and a participant
- Helping UEFA's football division to define match schedules for relevant competitions by providing commercial evaluations
- Supporting the unilateral broadcast services and broadcast information unit in defining a service portfolio, communication needs and arbitration matters
- Supporting UEFA’s commercial operations unit with the implementation of in-season broadcast services

Great Place to Work

• Enhance your skills with training and professional development opportunities
• Get access to different health and well-being activities
• Take advantage of remote work options
• Enjoy our amazing campus offering numerous sports opportunities
• Get financial support for your health insurance costs
• Benefit from financial support for child-care

Requirements

Experience:

• More than 7 years' experience in sports media rights or the broadcast industry

Education:

• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in media and communication, marketing or similar

Languages:

• English / Proficient

Other requirements:

• Strong interest in football
• Additional languages would be an asset
• Strong understanding of the sports federation environment

About UEFA

UEFA – the Union of European Football Associations – is the game's governing body in Europe. It is a representative democracy, and is the umbrella organisation for 55 national football associations across Europe. 

Our objectives are, among other things, to deal with all questions relating to European football, to promote football in a spirit of unity, solidarity, peace, understanding and fair play, without any discrimination on the basis of politics, race, religion, gender or any other reason, to safeguard the values of European football, to maintain relations with all stakeholders involved in European football, and to support and safeguard its member associations for the overall well-being of the European game. 

We have a clear vision: a united European football family working together to improve enjoyment of the game.

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