Senior Manager ESPN Production France

The person will pivot between, interact with and work together with Disney+ teams, ESPN teams (editorial, production, scheduling, digital, marketing, creative), talent and production companies. A deep understanding of sports and sports production is vital. Previous long-lasting experience in this areas is required. A strong multi-lingual knowledge is preferred.  

The role will be tasked with creating processes, workflows for the creation and distribution of all sports content for Disney+ and ESPN platforms in France and adhere to the Disney brand values as well as liaising between production companies, distributors and Disney’s and ESPN’s internal teams.  

It is essential to have worked within a sports production team and the coordination of various Host broadcasting and Unilateral productions previously.  

In addition, we will look for someone who is able to interact internally with multiple heads across different functions within the business as well as someone who has a deep understanding of sports and specifically football. 

 
Responsibilities 

• Responsible for live sports production on ESPN on Disney+ 

• Responsible for the team creating match highlights, clips and other VoD’s 

• Partnering with Programming, Scheduling & Planning department 

• Coordinate the sports coverage across ESPN in France and work together with editorial teams across EMEA and around the world 

• Create detailed content plans for matchday coverage of different sports events 

• Work together with Creative and Marketing teams to advise on sports-related artwork for Disney+ platforms across the region 

• Manages the relationship with production companies 

• Optimize promotion of Disney+ on ESPN platforms in France and creating content strategies that will lead to more awareness and leads to Disney+ 

• Identify new opportunities to develop content on emerging platforms with potential audience and business growth 

• Partnering and working closely with all colleagues within ESPN Production EMEA to ensure optimized production 

• Managing negotiations with production companies and facilities companies within company standards and creative parameters 

• Coordination (communication and information flow) of production process between the production company, Finance, Creative, Production, Legal and Marketing to ensure clear communication and effective translation of vision to production on basis of creative greenlight. 

• Understands the roles and interdependencies of Marketing, Research, Legal, Business Affairs, etc. and develop the relationships within these departments to assure high quality and efficiency 

• Attend and present at Production, Development, Programming, Finance and Legal meetings 

Job requirements 

• Experience in sports television production and host broadcasting for a minimum of 10 years 

• Thorough knowledge of the international sports world, specifically football 

• Fluent in English and French. Understanding additional languages is preferred. 

• Experience working with high-profile talent. 

• Excellent understanding of editing video 

• Excellent communication and editorial skills 

• Able to develop comprehensive matchday coverage plans and have them delivered promptly 

• Ability to inspire and enthuse producers and build strong collaboration with producers and with production studios worldwide 

• Ability to read, understand & consult on budgets 

• Understand production guidelines and talent agreements 

Skills requirements  

• Invested in sports, familiar with the international football landscape 

• Understanding of the live-production and post-production process 

• Understanding of the digital sports landscape 

• Ability to critically assess progress, anticipate production issues, provide solutions and promptly supervise the execution of new measures 

• Strongly organized and great attention to detail in all areas of production  

• Excellent time and budget management skills 

• Strong ability to multi-task and prioritize; and always ‘stay ahead of the game’ 

• Flexible and result-oriented: not afraid to challenge the status quo; and pro-active to suggest new approach. Always ready to ‘go the extra mile’ 

• Resourceful and strong initiative