Broadcast Operations Manager

This role sits within the Media Partnerships team dedicated to the UEFA Women's Champions League (UWCL). It oversees broadcast operations and ensures the seamless delivery of media rights to 48 broadcasters worldwide across the 2025–2030 rights cycle. The role works closely with UC3, the joint venture between UEFA and European Football Clubs, and acts as a central contact for the competition's global network of media partners, host broadcaster and UEFA operational teams.

• Set up and manage the UEFA broadcasters bookings platform throughout the season, ensuring live transmissions, content and facilities can be booked by broadcasters according to rights granted.
• Oversee all onsite facilities bookings and manage arbitration between media partners ahead of every match week.
• Act as the main point of contact for the UEFA Women's Champions League host broadcaster throughout the season, including managing preview and review meetings with the host broadcaster and UEFA operational teams and overseeing host broadcast activity.
• Act as a connector between clubs, UEFA, the host broadcaster and international broadcasters, gathering feedback from VOBM onsite and reporting to internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage the relationship with the UEFA feeds distribution provider, ensuring bookings are communicated in due time and serving as Two Circles' first point of contact if transmission issues occur on match nights.
• Manage all communications to UWCL broadcasters related to broadcast operations, including communicating booking deadlines, distributing critical information and sharing TV production guidelines.
• Maintain UEFA broadcaster platforms up to date throughout the season with the latest documents, guidelines and assets.

• 3+ years in a broadcast operations role, either onsite at sports events or managing transmissions or content operations.
• Good knowledge of live media production workflows, broadcast operations and onsite activities.
• Brilliant communication and relationship-building skills, with confidence and the ability to creatively solve problems.
• Excellent project management skills, constantly interrogating work and suggesting new processes and opportunities.
• A proactive, can-do approach with ambition to grow in the role.
• Excellent time management, organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to travel regularly across Europe to attend matches and participate in client meetings.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• An interest in sport and women's football.

• Additional languages are a plus.

• Benefits package can be chosen from a core monthly budget, allowing employees to build a comprehensive package to suit their lifestyle.
• Renowned Team Days often throughout the year.
• Summer Away Days.
• 23 standard days of holiday, plus 1 Birthday Day
• 2 days for a 'Big Life Event' and 1 Admin Day, with office closure over Christmas plus Bank Holidays.
• Discretionary bonus based on company performance.
• Performance reviews every 6 months with discretionary salary increases.
• Private healthcare (Vitality) and/or Health Care Plan (Medicash).
• Mobile phone contribution.
• Sport Challenge contribution.
• Gym membership contribution.
• 2x annual kit drops.

Its Media Rights & Live Production unit helps the world's leading sports organisations maximise the value of their media rights through strategic packaging, sales and delivery, and Two Circles is the exclusive sponsorship agency for UEFA Women's Football and the exclusive media rights sales agency for the UEFA Women's Champions League; the company states it principally recruits for energy, values and commitment and welcomes applications from candidates who may not meet every criterion but can bring value to the role.