Broadcast Operations Manager (Live Sport)

Two Circles; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Team Days

Summer Away Days

Holiday entitlement

Discretionary Bonus

Salary reviews

Private healthcare

Kit drops

Job summary

Two Circles, a sports and entertainment marketing business, is seeking a Broadcast Operations Manager for live sport to oversee broadcast logistics and the rights delivery process for UWCL partnerships. You will manage on-site facilities, coordinate with broadcasters, and serve as the primary contact for the host broadcaster.

You will travel across Europe to attend matches, oversee bookings, and ensure timely communications with international broadcasters.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a broadcast operations role, onsite at sports events or managing transmissions/content operations.
• Good knowledge of live media production workflows and onsite activities.
• Excellent communicator and relationship builder with problem-solving flair.
• Strong project management discipline with bias for process improvements.
• Proactive, can-do attitude with ambition to grow in the role.
• Ability to travel regularly across Europe for matches and client meetings.
• Fluent written and spoken English; additional languages a plus.

Responsibilities

• Set up and manage the UEFA broadcasters bookings platform throughout the season to ensure live transmissions and rights delivery.
• Oversee onsite facilities bookings and arbitration between media partners before each match week.
• Act as main contact for the UWCL host broadcaster, manage meetings with host broadcaster and UEFA teams.

Skills

Broadcast Ops

Live Transmissions

Stakeholder Mgmt

Project Management

Travel Coordination

English Fluency

Job description

Broadcast Operations Manager (Live Sport)

We are Two Circles. We are a Sports & Entertainment Marketing business. We grow audiences and revenues. We do that by knowing fans best. We work with clients to help them understand & influence what their fans are doing – the way fans spend their money, the events that fans attend, the channels fans respond to, the content fans watch and more. And we use the understanding this gives us to help our clients grow. Grow their audiences and grow their revenues - both direct to consumer and business to business revenues. Our platforms and services are trusted by over 1000 clients globally, including the English Premier League, Red Bull, UEFA, VISA, the NFL, Nike and Amazon. We are over 1000 people, based out of 15 offices, and we deliver work for sports and entertainment businesses of all shapes and sizes all over the world.

Our Media Rights & Live Production unit helps the world’s leading sports organisations maximise the value of their media rights through strategic packaging, sales and delivery. This role sits within the Media Partnerships team dedicated to the UEFA Women’s Champions League (UWCL).

Two Circles is the exclusive sponsorship agency for UEFA Women’s Football and the exclusive media rights sales agency for the UEFA Women’s Champions League. As part of this partnership, we work closely with UC3, the joint venture between UEFA and European Football Clubs (EFC), to manage and service the competition’s global network of media partners throughout the 2025–2030 rights cycle. The Broadcast Operations Manager plays a central role in this process, overseeing broadcast operations and ensuring the seamless delivery of rights to 48 broadcasters worldwide.

What you’ll be doing

• Setting-upandmanagingtheUEFAbroadcastersbookingsplatformthroughout the seasonensuringlive transmissions, content and facilitiescan be bookedby broadcastersaccording to rights granted.
• Overseeingallonsitefacilities bookingsand managingarbitration betweenmedia partnersahead of every match week.
• Acting as the main point of contact for theUEFA Women’s Champions Leaguehost broadcaster throughout the season. This includesmanagingthe preview and review meetings with thehost broadcasterand UEFA operational teamsand overseeingthehost broadcastactivity.
• Being a connectorbetween the clubs, UEFA, the host broadcaster and international broadcasters, gathering feedback from VOBM onsite and reporting to internal and external stakeholders.
• Managing the relationship withUEFAfeeds distribution provider, ensuring bookings are communicated in due time and being Two Circles’ first point of contact if any transmission issues occur on match nights.
• Managing all communicationsto UWCL broadcastersrelated to broadcast operations (includingcommunicatingbookingsdeadline,distributing criticalinformation,sharingTVproduction guidelinesetc.).
• MaintainingUEFAbroadcaster platforms up to datethroughout the seasonwith latestdocuments,guidelines andassets.

Requirements

What we’re looking for

• 3+ yearsin a broadcast operations role, either onsite at sports events or managing transmissionsor content operations
• Goodknowledge of live media productionworkflows,broadcast operationsand onsite activities.
• A brilliant communicator and relationship builder who is confident and can creatively solve problems
• Excellentprojectmanagementskills, constantly interrogating our work and suggesting new processes & opportunities
• A proactive, can-do approachwithambition to growin the role
• Excellent time management,organizationalskills and attention to detail
• Abilityto travelregularlyacross Europeto attend matches and participate in client meetings
• Fluent written and spoken English. Additional languages are a plus
• An interest in sport and women’s football

We offer a benefits package to suit you and your lifestyle! Out of a core monthly budget, you can choose your own comprehensive benefits package:

• Renowned Team Days often throughout the year
• Summer Away Days
• 23 standard days of holiday (+ 1 Birthday, +2 for a ‘Big Life Event’ and +1 Admin Day), closure of office over Christmas (plus Bank Holidays)
• Discretionary Bonus based on company performance
• Performance Reviews every 6 months with discretionary salary increases
• Private healthcare (Vitality) and/or Health Care Plan (Medicash)
• 2x annual kit drops

Though these are the basics written down, we will principally be recruiting for energy, values and commitment – both to Two Circles and to your career. Even if you feel you don’t tick 100% of the boxes but feel you could bring value to the role, we’d still love to hear from you!