Production Manager, Football Broadcasts

This is a Full Time Job

Join WBD Sports as a Production Manager, Domestic Football, and play a key role in the planning and delivery of domestic football productions. Working across editorial, production, engineering, technical facilities providers, freelance crews and external stakeholders, you will help deliver high-quality live broadcasts safely, efficiently and within budget. If you enjoy coordinating complex productions and making a visible impact across a busy sports portfolio, we'd love to hear from you.

Your Role Accountabilities...
• Oversee the operational planning and delivery of domestic football match rounds, coordinating multiple fixtures, locations and production requirements.
• Coordinate technical facility requirements, providing clear briefs, schedules and updates to support efficient delivery across each match week.
• Oversee freelance crewing plans, ensuring resources are allocated effectively against location, editorial ambition, technical specification and budget.
• Partner with editorial teams to understand production requirements and deliver creative ambitions in a practical and cost-effective way.
• Own production budget tracking, forecasting and reconciliation, maintaining visibility of costs and accountability throughout delivery.
• Ensure production protocols, risk assessments, health and safety requirements and approval processes are in place and followed.
• Build strong relationships across freelance crews, vendors, clubs, federations, venues and other stakeholders while maintaining proactive communication and supporting Production Coordinators and Assistants where required.

Qualifications & Experience
• Proven experience delivering large-scale live broadcast productions within sport or multi-fixture environments.
• Strong budget management capability, including forecasting, tracking, reconciliation and cost control.
• Good understanding of broadcast facilities, production workflows and technical delivery requirements.
• Proactive, solutions-focused approach with the confidence to take ownership and resolve challenges effectively.
• Ability to handle confidential information appropriately, work with key stakeholders and travel as production requirements dictate.

Location
• Chiswick

Hybrid Working - This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in-office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.