Head of Planning

5 months ago


Osterley, United Kingdom Sky Full time

Want to do the best work of your life? Make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

As the Head of Planning within Merchandising you’ll be responsible for driving content discovery and engagement that supports business priorities and maintains commercial and regulatory commitments across current and future platforms, ensuring our customers get the very best from their Sky subscription.

What you'll do:
- Deliver brilliance: Lead your department to deliver balanced and beautiful planning from the quarterly view to the daily implementation across all of our interfaces, driving efficiency, alignment and performance, with ultimate editorial oversight- Be the thought-leader: Challenge and push forward our planning strategies and thinking to continually deliver the best customer experience while meeting business critical metrics.- Drive Commercial value: Balance and optimise the commercial strategy of the UI.- Step-change capability: Drive the change to future planning processes and operational model to bring efficiency and personalisation to the heart of the UI experience.- Take ownership: Own the customer experience 24/7, from ensuring all imagery meets high standards, to managing and resolving customer facing issues and topical responses any time of day when necessary.

What you'll bring:
- Content Expert: A passion for Entertainment and Movies, and a demonstrable understanding of Sky, Partner and PSB channels, with the ability to develop Merchandising strategies and build merchandising plans that both serve customer viewing needs states as well as meeting business and editorial priorities.- Analytically sound: Be able to interrogate performance analysis and research with rigour, balancing conflicting perspectives and customer needs in order to draw fair and robust conclusions that are implicitly trusted by your partners.- Commercially astute: Experience working with commercial teams to design, develop and deliver trading initiatives, with experience delivering campaigns via digital sales journeys.- Customer centric: A demonstrable understanding of market dynamics and customer needs within the TV market, with a track record of designing and implementing user-centred initiatives.- Excellent communication and influencing skills: Shown ability to communicate orally and in writing to advise, explain and influence at all levels. Experience writing and delivering presentations to senior team members - Director & Exec Level- Strong Team member Management: Proven track record working cross functionally to stay aligned of the plan at the Director+ level - successfully leading the trade-offs and priority calls which are often required on the UI.- Strong Team Leadership & Management Skills: Experience leading, managing and motivating a team from Grad to Associate level.

The Rewards:
There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:
- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place- A generous pension package- Private healthcare- Discounted mobile and broadband- Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you'll work:
We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

Your office base:
Osterley:
Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion:
At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we're happy to discuss flexible working.

Why wait?

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media.



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