Delivery & Business Operations Director - Football

About the role

The Delivery & Business Operations Director is responsible for building a world-class delivery organisation to execute strategic priorities, customer programmes, and technology deployments across the global football business. Reporting to the Managing Director, this role establishes and leads the Football PMO while ensuring strategic initiatives are translated into successful execution. The director will solve complex operational problems and ensure the organisation consistently delivers to world-class standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the successful delivery of Football's strategic initiatives, customer projects and technology programmes.
• Maintain executive ownership of major and business-critical programmes.
• Establish effective delivery governance, reporting, accountability and portfolio management across Football.
• Own delivery planning and pipeline management, ensuring leadership has clear visibility of progress, risks and priorities.
• Lead, coach and develop Project Managers, Programme Managers and Technology Delivery Managers, building a high-performing delivery function.
• Own the delivery budget and contribute to the successful commercial delivery of new projects.
• Partner with Commercial during customer discovery, due diligence and bid activities to ensure deliverable, well-planned solutions.
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, Operations and Global PMO to ensure new technologies are successfully developed, tested, deployed and transitioned into live operation.

Required skills

• Sports technology
• Enterprise technology
• Technical programme management
• Stakeholder management
• Strategic thinking
• Team leadership

Nice to have

• Sports data
• Officiating technology
• Product development
• Operational deployment

About the Company

Hawk-Eye Innovations is a leader in sports technology, focused on solving real-world problems at scale.