Project Manager, Sports (Fixed Term 1 year)

Our vision is to build a thriving entertainment ecosystem where stories and worlds are imagined, brought to life and experienced. We create for every age and audience, anchored by the strength of our content and experiences and the depth of our connection with fans. We are creator-first, audience-focused, tech-forward, globally scaled.

The role translates strategic decisions into coordinated execution across territories and platforms, aligning regional priorities with local market needs as the sports businesses come together under unified leadership. It develops implementation plans, maintains an integrated view of the project portfolio and tracks delivery across rights onboarding, strategic projects and production initiatives for multiple platforms (Linear, Streaming, YouTube and social). Working across areas, the role establishes and actively manages a structured engagement model with clear roles, decision-making forums, communication cadences and follow-up on commitments to support successful unification and delivery.

• Drive coordinated execution of leadership priorities, aligning regional and local needs and supporting business unification.
• Maintain integrated plans covering scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, budgets and deadlines.
• Manage roles, decision forums, communication cadences and commitments across multiple areas.
• Standardize processes, templates and playbooks; manage project tools; and apply AI, automation and lessons learned to improve intake, tracking, reporting and delivery across territories and platforms.
• Ensure complete, timely inputs from responsible teams to support leadership prioritization and investment decisions on territory-specific product challenges and strategic and production initiatives across Pay TV, HBO Max, YouTube and social.
• Align local needs with regional priorities and consolidate scope, feasibility, resources, costs, expected impact, assumptions and recommendations.
• Coordinate success metrics and consolidate audience, commercial and sponsor-delivery data. objectives;
• Coordinate the development of business cases for new and renewed sports rights, to make sure we can comply with all the related tasks under the proposed timeline for each case.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Communications or a related field
• Advanced English
• Experience in project or program management, PMO, business operations or strategy execution, preferably in media, sports, entertainment or broadcasting
• Proven track record leading complex, cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders and fixed, non-negotiable deadlines (e.g., live events, launches)
• Solid understanding of the sports media ecosystem and the calendar – rights agreements, production workflows, linear and digital distribution, advertising and sponsorship
• Experience with project management tools (e.g., Jira, Smartsheet, Monday, MS Project)
  
  

• Spanish skills
• PMP, CAPM, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2 or Agile/Scrum certification
• Experience in sports rights acquisition, business affairs, or working with leagues, federations or agencies
• Background in live sports production or broadcast operations, including vendor and production partner management
• Experience with ad sales or sponsorship delivery (managing advertiser commitments within live sports)
• Knowledge of streaming, YouTube and social media platforms and their monetization
• Familiarity with AI-assisted productivity tools and BI tools (e.g., Power BI)
• Experience setting up a new function or workstream from scratch

Skydance is a next-generation global media and entertainment company, comprised of three business segments: Studios, Direct-to-Consumer, and TV Media. Skydance's portfolio unites legendary brands, including Paramount, Warner Bros., HBO and HBO Max, Paramount+, Pluto TV, CBS, CNN, CBS Sports, TNT Sports, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, MTV, Food Network, BET, HGTV, and Comedy Central.

We embrace the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit. In line with the laws of the country or region in which the role is based, this includes consideration without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, religion or belief, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or protected veteran status, union status or any other category protected by applicable law.

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