We’re the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.

Sportradar is the leading global provider of sports betting and sports entertainment products and services. Since 2001, we have occupied a unique position at the intersection of the sports, media and betting industries; providing sports federations, media, consumer platforms and sports betting operators with a range of solutions to help grow their business.  We’ve experienced a wonderful period of sustained hypergrowth through a highly focused strategy based upon industry leading product innovation.  

Imagine being part of one of the most supportive communities you will encounter in your professional career. Imagine the company where ‘teamwork’ is not just a buzzword, but one of the core values of each employee. Where you can become great at things you’re currently good at. All that while maintaining work‑life balance.

At Sportradar, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture and community. We partner with organisations and serve a customer base that is widely diverse. To best meet the needs of our partners and customers, we believe in ensuring our current and future employees feel empowered to bring forward their unique selves, opinions, and viewpoints. 

The Delivery and Evolution Practice in Sportradar is the home of engineering programme managers and agile coaches.  Our mission is to continuously improve business agility by equipping the organisation with insight and frameworks to support collaboration, alignment, fast decision-making and learning.   

This role, belonging to our Delivery & Evolution practice, will be responsible for effectively managing complex cross-team initiatives in a unit that strives to consistently enable Sportradar’s diverse engineering teams to deliver value and growth in a maturing organisation.

Join our team and become a part of the global, fast-growing success. 

THE CHALLENGE

• Help shape our engineering and business landscape to facilitate measurable improvements in delivery performance and outcomes
• Plan and design deliveries, proactively monitor their progress, resolve issues and initiate appropriate corrective action.
• Take a lead role in planning increments of business value, with input from the Product Owner who ‘owns’ the delivery of plans.
• Identify impediments early, actively working to resolve those impediments and escalate when required.
• Facilitate coordination interactions, take actions and own the co-ordination of the actions.
• Proactively communicate deliver targets, commitments and progress to stakeholder, driving transparency and visibility.
• Encourage a culture of team-driven decision making, trust and commitment.
• Manage and track dependencies across Tribe(s) and squads.
• Define and embed programme control and governance, operating a Spotify delivery model (we use Flight Levels) within a high-growth digital company.
• Ensure transparent and regular reporting to the key stakeholders to ensure project status is clearly understood and timely decisions can be taken.  
• Support the compilation of financial and KPI information so that initiatives are kept on track and within quality criteria. 
• Maintain and update a Risk Log, Action Log, Decisions Log, and Issue Register. 
• Coordinate retrospectives to distil good practice and continual improvement.

YOUR PROFILE

You have significant programme & delivery management experience and are keen to grow your career by taking on new challenges.  Learning is a natural part of your working life. You enjoy collaborating with a diverse group of people, you are passionate about what you do, and have a high interest in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise. You are a passionate enabler of diversity and inclusion at all levels of the organisation.   You are inspired by enabling effective programme delivery, maximising potential of people and teams, and stepping out of your comfort zone to drive progress.

Required 

• Experience of delivery management within an agile context for diverse programmes with minimal supervision.
• Strong skills in creating and maintaining programme plans, delivery dashboards, delivery roadmaps including risks, actions, issues and dependencies. 
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Experience of delivering objectives and key results, and Flight level coordination highly desirable. 

Personal Attributes  

• Collaborative approach and adept at building effective business relationships. 
• Self-motivated and self-sufficient. A desire to operate effectively with a fair amount of ambiguity.
• Excellent written/oral communication skills for reports and presentations. 
• Diplomatic ability to influence others at all levels of the business. 
• Demonstrated ability to build lasting relationships with key stakeholders. 
• Ability to competently mediate disagreements and negotiate agreeable resolutions. 
• A flexible and hands-on approach.
• Highly proficient with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Jira and Confluence. 

OUR OFFER

• A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world (Engineering offices in Europe, Asia and US).  
• Ability to shape your own work-day and career through high degree of freedom to choose technology and your personal development.
• Opportunity to work and develop within an inspiring and fast-growing company. 
• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Ability to work from home when needed.
• Vibrant and inclusive community, including Women in Tech and Pride groups which welcome all participants.

Sportradar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to encourage diversity within our teams. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to among other things, your background, status, or personal preferences