Technical Manager, IMG Productions

Job Description Contract Summary
Who We Are: European Tour Productions, an IMG production produce and distribute golf coverage of the DP World Tour, The Challenge Tour, The Ryder Cup and The Open. In this capacity, ETP has produced the live coverage for hundreds of events around the world and not just in Europe. We travel to events in the middle east, Asia and Africa and have produced the last twelve Ryder Cups and The Open since 2016. In 2021, and despite COVID restrictions we delivered over 850 hours of live world feed golf coverage. Our award winning original and branded content is expanding, and we also produce a broad range of content for social media channels and The European Tour website. What You’ll Do: Are you experienced in broadcast engineering and looking to excel your career as a Technical Manager on a permanent basis, with the opportunity to work at the forefront of broadcast technology? Then come and join European Tour Productions! As the Technical Manager, you will be involved with shaping the future of multi- camera Golf production, helping to negotiate the transformational challenges as we move towards remote production and realising the significant opportunities that come with this journey. This is a very exciting time to join our Golf team to deliver the very highest level of golf content including live tournament coverage, highlights, branded content, documentaries, promos and short features. Key Responsibilities Include But Not Limited To:

• Management and planning of all live broadcast projects worldwide
• Working with Head of Production and the Operations & Technical manager to plan remote production projects
• Working with stakeholders and distribution team to manage contribution plans for remote and onsite broadcasts (whether that would be Fibre, Satellite, or IP)
• Project management of remote workflows including liaison with key technical stakeholders
• Contributing to RFPs to find the best technical solution based on budget and production needs
• Periodically review stakeholder technical workflows and engineering solutions to ensure ‘best in class’ production.
• To conduct site surveys and recces as required, producing all supporting documentation.
• Responsible for any technical drawings and technical sheets required for live broadcast.
• Maintain technical and operational procedures documentation (e.g. event reports, schematics or technical workflows)
• To be responsible for identifying and conducting the technical training and development of knowledge within ETP
• Weekend working and international travel during golf season, depending on schedule.

You Will Have The Following Strengths:

• Previous managerial experience of engineering in a live broadcast environment
• Comprehensive and extensive knowledge of broadcast technologies both current and in development including IP workflows, UHD, HDR, OB and remote workflows, vision and audio workflows and comms
• Demonstrated established and commercially productive relationships with clients and stakeholders.
• Relevant broadcast engineering qualification and/or relevant industry experience
• Production Health & Safety Training.

We’d Love If You Also Have These:

• Excellent organization and communication skills (both written and verbal).
• Excellent interpersonal skills (when to employ tact, diplomacy, discretion).
• Excellent Project management skills
• Provide creative solutions to technical challenges under pressure whilst working across multiple productions, effectively managing and prioritizing workload.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders whilst addressing technical issues.
• Ability to manage and balance stakeholder demands
• An ability to explain technical information clearly including preparing technical documents

Our Values:

• We are fuelled by Persistence, adapting and seeking solutions in the face of challenges.
• We support and elevate diverse voices, promoting equity and Inclusion within our company, industries and community.
• We operate with a spirit of Entrepreneurialism, a willingness to take risks and mindset that is built to disrupt.
• We rely on Collaboration across our network to power culture and unite people around the world.
• We hold ourselves to the highest standards of Excellence in every aspect of our work, including how we interact with one another, our clients and our partners.

Our Work Ethic: We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home. We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process, but we are currently excited to have our employees experience our office culture as much as possible. Endeavor unites and brings people together in our love of sport, culture, and entertainment. We understand this can only be accomplished when we harness the entirety of our company and lead with a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. It means that we engage in anti-racism and ally-ship the way we do anything. Fiercely and fearlessly. As a global company that drives culture we endeavor to reflect the world’s diverse voices both internally and externally to ensure success in our mission. If you require reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please let us know. We will work together to best meet your needs. IMG is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief. Benefits:

• Income protection
• Life insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Pension contribution
• 23 days holiday + bank holidays
• Dental insurance
• Green car scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Subsidized office canteen
• Free breakfast
• Free on-site parking
• Eye Care
• Endeavor Wellness - lunch and learn events
• EAP - range of practical and emotional support services
• Dependent care - 5 days subsidized emergency child, pet, elder care
• Subsidized gym membership / Class-pass
• Health Screening
• Will Writing
• Dynamic office environment with great people!
• Regular team and company networking events/celebrations
• Access to free tickets to sporting and entertainment events

The Process: We appreciate the time take to apply for the role and your recent interest in IMG. We aim to review all applications within five working days and be in touch with those who have been shortlisted to the next stage. Unfortunately, due to volume we are not able to get back to everyone individually so if you have not heard back from us unfortunately you have not been successful on this occasion and wish you all the best in your search.

• Tele/Virtual Interview – up to 30 mins with member of talent acquisition team
• 1st stage interview - Virtual/in person - with hiring manager and peers
• 2nd stage interview – if required

A Bit About Us: At IMG Production & Studios we use content and technology to power the world's passion for sport, working with global clients including The Premier League, The R&A, FIFA, Warner Bros. Discovery, DP World Tour and Amazon Prime. We've built Europe's best-connected broadcast centre at Stockley Park, London, distributing 35,000 hours of content globally and creating some of the world's best sporting content from our four broadcast studios, fifty edit suites and multitude of radio, podcast, dubbing and VFX facilities. From live coverage to archive, social to branded content, we give the audience a front row seat to the best sport in the world. IMG Media Website - https://www.imgmedia.com/ Endeavor is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment.