Senior Project Manager

3 days ago


London, UK, United Kingdom Footballco Full time

Footballco is the world's leading football media company, built for the next generation of fans. Our mission is to give fans more of the game by building football communities that entertain, inform, and inspire action. We cover everything in football from news and analysis, original reporting, and social media content, to web stores, video, podcasts, newsletters, and live scores. With over 3 billion video views per month, 100 million social followers globally, and a reach of 650 million across web, social, and video platforms, Footballco is the world’s largest football media company and one of the largest digital media companies in sport globally.


About the Role:


This Role can be based in our London OR Leeds Office.


The senior Project Manager will be responsible for owning the delivery of the technology department roadmap and end-to-end delivery of all projects and feature requests


Reporting into the CTO, the position will work alongside the technology senior leadership to optimise the output and delivery of the whole technology department, focusing the output on delivering revenue growth for Footballco.


Your team will lead the planning and implementation of all technology projects. Forecast resource allocation and sprint planning across both backend and frontend teams and effectively manage and communicate on capacity planning.


Define project tasks and resource needs for strategic decision-making, develop detailed project plans, defining scope, timeline, budgets, and deliverables.


What You'll be Doing:


  • Global delivery of technology roadmap
  • Resource planning and capacity management
  • Ensuring a project framework is adhered to for all projects and feature requests
  • With Product management, define each project scope, goals and deliverables
  • Define the responsibilities of key stakeholders involved in each project, including senior management, customers, project teams, vendors, and other affected parties.
  • Facilitate collaboration between cross-functional teams and external partners to drive project success.
  • Track project performance using appropriate tools and techniques to ensure timely delivery and achievement of goals. Provide detailed reports and updates to senior leadership and stakeholders on project progress, risks, and performance metrics.
  • Organise and conduct strategic project meetings, such as project kick-offs, steering committees, and executive updates to maintain alignment with company objectives.
  • Identify, manage, and escalate project risks and issues where necessary, and ensure proactive contingency planning to minimise impact on business operations.
  • Manage the agile project manager, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement


What You Have:


Technical Skills


  • Strong experience leading frontend and backend technical projects
  • Proficient in agile project management frameworks and methodologies (scrum and Kanban)
  • Proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget
  • Previous experience using project management tools such as Jira and Click Up


Individual Skills


  • Growth and learning mindset, collaborator, and team player
  • Strong matrix leadership skills
  • excellent communication skills with comfort speaking with business stakeholders
  • Strong problem solver with ability to manage and lead the team to push the solution and progress


Footballco is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, colour, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.



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