Role/Team overview
Following the successful launch and continued growth of Sky Mobile, we are looking for a commercially minded, customer-focused leader to help take the business to the next level. The Commercial Mobile Controller will play a central role in delivering our Mobile commercial KPIs, working across Sky Ireland to grow sales, reduce churn, strengthen customer value and support sustainable revenue and EBITDA growth.
This is a broad, high-profile role spanning SIM and device performance, quarterly planning, offer strategy, customer lifecycle management and major device launches. You will combine a forensic understanding of performance with the ability to bring teams together, turn insight into action and respond quickly in a highly competitive Irish mobile market.
What you'll do
- Own and deliver quarterly Mobile targets across SIM and device portfolios, with clear accountability for sales, activations, churn, net growth, revenue and EBITDA performance.
- Build robust commercial plans, forecasts and mitigation actions, identifying emerging risks and opportunities and bringing the wider business together behind the right response.
- Lead device portfolio performance and major launches, working with Product, Supply, Finance, Marketing, Digital, Operations, Route to Market teams and external partners to maximise customer and commercial outcomes.
- Shape Mobile offer and lifecycle strategy across acquisition, retention, recontacting, upgrades and customer engagement, using customer insight and market trends to optimise lifetime value.
- Maintain a deep understanding of the Irish mobile market and competitor activity, translating external developments into clear recommendations and timely action.
- Provide concise, insight-led performance updates to senior leaders, ensuring decisions are grounded in a clear view of customer behaviour, commercial drivers and delivery priorities.
Essential Criteria
- Strong commercial judgement, with proven experience owning KPIs and translating performance insight into actions that deliver measurable outcomes.
- Excellent analytical capability and confidence working with complex data, forecasts and business plans to identify underlying drivers, risks and opportunities.
- A decisive, delivery-oriented approach, with the ability to simplify ambiguity, prioritise effectively and maintain momentum in a fast-moving environment.
- Outstanding stakeholder management and collaboration skills, with experience influencing across a matrix organisation and bringing multiple functions behind a common plan.
- Credibility and confidence presenting to senior leaders, with the ability to communicate complex issues clearly and secure support for recommendations.
- A strong customer mindset, balancing commercial outcomes with doing the right thing for customers and protecting the long-term health of the business.
Desirable skills and experience
- Experience in the Irish mobile, telecommunications or another highly competitive subscription market.
- Knowledge of device portfolio management, OEM or partner relationships, supply planning and major product launches.
- Experience developing acquisition, retention, recontacting or customer lifecycle propositions and offers.
- Understanding of digital and assisted Routes to Market, including the commercial levers that improve conversion and activation.
- Experience working closely with Marketing, Finance, Product, Operations, Trading and Customer Service teams.
- An entrepreneurial, curious and energetic style, with a bias for action and a desire to continuously improve how the team works.
Benefits and perks
There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to life at Sky: the perks. Here's a taster:
- Free Sky TV including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema
- Pension package with up to 8% employer contribution
- Private healthcare with mental health support
- Dental insurance
- Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass and Sky Protect
- Sharesave and Tech schemes
- A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
How you'll work
At Sky, we want to be a community that thrives by being together. Flexible working remains a key part of that. We want our people to have the best of both worlds - time working at home, as well as time in the office.
The hybrid working expectations for this role are 3 days in the office per week .
Your office base
Dublin:
Burlington Plaza is the home of Sky Ireland, a central, well-connected base for our Dublin teams. We're just a 20-minute walk to Dublin's city centre with connections via Dublin Bus, Luas and DART. Our nearest train station is Grand Canal Dock .
Who we are
We're Sky, a leading media and entertainment company that connects millions of people with entertainment, sports, news and arts through innovative products and services. Working with us means bringing the joy of a better experience to more people, every day, so we can do better and deliver better for our customers, colleagues and society.
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