Delivery Director, Hawk-Eye Innovations

• Significant leadership experience within sports technology, enterprise technology or similarly complex operational environments
• Proven track record delivering complex technical programmes at scale
• Exceptional executive communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills
• First-class problem-solving ability, combining strategic thinking with hands-on execution
• Excellent judgement and decision-making
• Highly adaptable, proactive and comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
• Demonstrated ability to anticipate issues, prioritise effectively and drive outcomes
• Experience leading, developing and motivating high-performing delivery teams

Desirable

• Reporting to: Managing Director, Football
• This is one of the most important leadership roles within Hawk-Eye Football
• Reporting directly to the Managing Director. The Delivery Director, Football is responsible for building a world-class delivery organisation capable of executing strategic priorities, customer programmes and technology deployments across the global football business
• The role will establish and lead the Football PMO while acting as the Managing Director’s strategic delivery lead, ensuring strategic priorities are translated into successful execution
• The Director, Football PMO will anticipate issues, solve complex operational problems and ensure that the organisation consistently delivers to world class standards
• Lead strategic cross-functional initiatives on behalf of the Managing Director, taking ownership from concept through execution and ensuring delivery against agreed business outcomes
• Build, lead and develop a high-performing delivery organisation through coaching, mentoring and clear accountability
• Own the prioritisation, governance and health of the Football delivery portfolio
• Continuously improve delivery governance, tools, methodologies and ways of working to increase organisational effectiveness
• Deliver customer implementations, technology deployments and strategic business initiatives
• Lead the successful delivery of Football's strategic initiatives, customer projects and technology programmes
• Maintain executive ownership of major and business-critical programmes
• Establish effective delivery governance, reporting, accountability and portfolio management across Football
• Own delivery planning and pipeline management, ensuring leadership has clear visibility of progress, risks and priorities
• Lead, coach and develop Project Managers, Programme Managers and Technology Delivery Managers, building a high-performing delivery function
• Own the delivery budget and contribute to the successful commercial delivery of new projects
• Partner with Commercial during customer discovery, due diligence and bid activities to ensure deliverable, well-planned solutions
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, Operations and Global PMO to ensure new technologies are successfully developed, tested, deployed and transitioned into live operation
• Represent Delivery within Product Steering, ensuring product roadmaps remain aligned to customer and operational priorities
• Drive continuous improvement across delivery processes, governance, tools and organisational effectiveness