ECB: Head of Digital Operations

England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB)  
London, England, United Kingdom
Posted: 3 March 2021
Link to Apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2425941416/

Job Details

Seniority Level

• Mid-Senior level

Industry

• Sports

Employment Type

• Part-time

Job Functions

• Other

About the job

This role is for the Head of Digital Operations, within the Commercial department. This is a senior role within the ECB’s Digital and Data team, working with multiple stakeholders within different departments across the ECB, ensuring the smooth process of digital delivery and impact, as well as financial and business planning and supplier relationship management.  

WHO WE ARE

The England and Wales Cricket Board is the national governing body for all cricket in England and Wales, supporting the game at every level – from grassroots to professional.

We believe cricket is a force for good that can have an enduring impact on everyone’s lives and we have an ambitious strategy to inspire a generation to say ‘cricket is a game for me’. It provides great entertainment. It teaches important skills, both physical and social. It can help inclusion and social cohesion, bringing communities together.

The ECB welcomes applications from all backgrounds to ensure we deliver our Inspiring Generations strategy and fulfil our purpose to connect communities and improve lives through cricket.

OUR VALUES

• Stronger As One Team – We are stronger together. We allow for individual strengths and beliefs but head in the same direction. We respect, support and really listen to each other along the way.
• Push New Boundaries – We are bold, brave and curious. We challenge and don’t settle. We forge the future whilst remembering our roots.
• Be The Best In The Game – On & Off The Pitch – We train hard. We strive to be our best to help the team be the best. We celebrate our victories and learn from our let downs.
• Passion For Play – We are here to inspire & be inspired. We are serious about what we do, but don’t take ourselves seriously. We enjoy the journey and have fun.

YOU’LL LOVE THIS JOB IF

• You are excited by the challenge of joining a thriving digital and data team, that has a growing remit to make cricket a game for everyone. 
• You are a collaborative and open-minded team player with the confidence to deal with senior internal and external stakeholders
• You thrive on working in a high performing team acting as an enabler for digital and data delivery
• You seek to improve and maintain supplier relationships, business planning, ways of working and processes.
• You enjoy an environment which is busy, variable and at times, time-pressured environments where no two days are alike.
• You are equally energised by elite and grassroots sport.

YOU’LL BE DOING

• Acting as an evangelist for Digital and Data and ensuring that the digital strategy is well-understood and bought into across the organisation
• Reflect other departmental priorities back in to ECB digital thinking
• Representing Digital and Data in internal stakeholder meetings, and game wide meetings, in order to triage requests from across the ECB and the network
• Work across the team to understand what digital products and solutions are already available and propose solutions before agreeing to creating new ones
• Work with the Product, Content, Data, and IT teams to deliver solutions
• Working with vendors and agencies to align on short and long-term roadmaps
• Support on strategic commercial partnerships, ensuring digital rights delivery and implementing new commercial strategies
• Leading on reviewing the current digital landscape and delivery of digital across the ECB, identifying where digital tools or techniques can help more efficient and /or effective delivery of organisational priorities

Management

• Run regular business planning process and KPI setting and tracking across Digital and Data
• Managing annual digital and data budgets (including but not limited to editorial, video, product, channel management, vendor licenses, development), continually critiquing and assessing the approach to ensure maximum cost efficiencies are delivered year on year
• Management of all digital and data related agencies and vendor relationships, including contracting and RFP processes
• Managing requests from stakeholders around the business
• Working with the Director of Digital and Data on creating objectives that ladder up to Commercial Team and ECB-wide priorities
• Working closely with other teams within the business such as Marketing, Comms, Participation and Growth and IT to ensure shared objectives are delivered and supported by Digital and Data
• Keep up-to-date with industry developments and make suggestions where appropriate for improvements that could be made across the entire digital offering

YOU’LL HAVE

• Honed and effective collaboration and team-working skills
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and stakeholder requirements and influence at peer and senior management levels
• Excellent planning, organisational and communication skills
• Experience of working across frameworks of TV and digital rights from a broadcast/partner perspective
• Experience implementing agile practices to support improvements to ways of working, as well as in roadmap development.
• Demonstrable management of delivering complex digital design and build projects
• Previous experience of business planning, budgeting and contracting across a complex organisation
• Motivated and enthusiastic attitude
• Understanding of all aspects of a sport from elite to grassroots
• People management skills including direct line management, stakeholder management and partner management.

YOU’LL RECEIVE

• Competitive salary
• 25 days’ holiday
• Private medical insurance 
• Non-contributory 8% pension
• Life assurance
• 30% discount on New Balance items

Name of Author: ECB

ECB

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is the national governing body for cricket in England and Wales, formed on January 1, 1997. It combines roles from the Test and County Cricket Board, National Cricket Association, and Cricket Council, and integrated the Women’s Cricket Association in 1998. Based at Lord’s Cricket Ground, the ECB oversees all levels of cricket, including national teams for men, women, and various disability categories.