Head of Culture and Talent, Sport Buff
Sports fan engagement & gamification media
Job no longer available
Sports fan engagement & gamification media
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
Sport Buff's mission is to allow sports fans to experience, participate and be part of the story.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of career experience: Experience working within the start up, tech, sports, broadcast industry or similar is a bonus
- 2+ years of proven Talent and HR experience
- A university degree in HR and Business Administration or similar or CIPD qualified ( Level 7)
- Impeccable grammar, spelling and written communication
- Excellent attention to detail
- Amazing people skills
- A proactive approach to work. Initiative to work alone as a self-starter and collaboratively in a team environment with both senior and junior colleagues
- Strong presentation skills, with a keen interest in developing solutions
- Excellent networking and interpersonal skills
- Track record and history of creating culture initiatives: the failures are as important as the successes
- Experience working in a recruitment agency is a bonus
- Experience working with platforms for managing team, holiday, events, and more
- Experience working in a start-up to scale-up is a bonus
- A genuine love of Sport and the way that it is covered
- Ability to monitor and react to industry trends, developments and threat, pivoting accordingly
- An understanding of team monitoring, feedback, insight and reporting
- Ability to travel
What the job involves
- The Talent role is to provide strategic direction to the organization from an hire perspective
- The role will lead talent acquisition and HR overall with a key focus on new team, employee engagement, employer branding, manage performance, and overall help in scaling up of the organization and listening to our team needs
- Build on the existing culture and team activities of Sport Buff to build a powerful team experience, that supports employee well being and health, in addition to supporting the recruitment and retention of team members
- Help build, develop and activate the Talent plan, hands-on to start and then building out initiatives to deliver
- Spearheading and driving the people strategy in synergy with business strategy
- Designing organisational structure to support the required talent demand for smooth operations as per business plan
- Building employer branding, attracting and retaining great talent
- Forecasting talent requirements and overseeing hiring
- Conceptualising & driving Employee Engagement
- Work closely with all functions & business units to address employee issues proactively
- Building a great culture and make the Organisation a Great Place to Work
- Leading and leveraging HR processes within the business (Performance Management, Salary Planning/Reward Management, Succession Planning and Talent Management)
- Responsible for Handling Entire HR Operations
- Lead the leadership development interventions in line with future talent strategy
- Analysing compensation policies, government regulations and prevailing wage/salary rates for developing competitive compensation plans and maintaining equitable compensation system; implementing rewards & recognition programs
- Develop and implement innovative engagement schemes and HR interventions to achieve and sustain the highest engagement score
- Ensure all back-end HR operational processes are managed well in terms of accuracy, frequency & compliance leading to seamless service delivery
- Plan and deliver engaging employee and potential employee events
- Ensure the best support for team mental and general wellbeing
- Understand and love that this is around sports, so some of this will require work during unsociable hours, including weekends
Salary benchmarks
Our take
While sports broadcast media rights are worth $50 billion globally, Sport Buff points out that even though viewers are heavily engaged, much of their actual discourse, digital interaction, and crucially, spending, happens away from a broadcaster’s platform, on social media channels, chat groups, and betting apps.
In a bid to increase engagement, as well as monetization opportunities for broadcasters, Sports Buff allows them to insert interactive graphics such as game stats, polls, predictions, and quizzes into live streams.
Launched in 2019 by major sports media veteran Jonty Whitehead and serial sports tech entrepreneur Benn Achilleas, the company is growing impressively, already working with a number of major broadcasters including Major League Soccer (MLS), DAZN, and Fox Sports Australia, while its investors also include the owners of English Premier League Clubs Brentford and Southampton.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2022
$2.5m
SEED
Total funding: $2.5m
Company benefits
- Work directly with some of the greatest sports brands in the world.
- Work in an exciting fast paced tech start up environment.
- Direct access to business and industry leaders and top athletes.
- A hugely passionate team who will support you all along the way.
- Working with some of the latest technology creating a new experience for the public.
- Flexible start and finish times – though you need to be available for daily briefings.
- A fantastic learning experience, with long term potential from being one of the first hires in what will become a significant team and product.
- Being part of something very special as we change the way sports fans engage with content.
- At Sport Buff, you are a key person of the team and company, and you will actually own some of the company you are building (with the employee equity scheme). Being part of this business at this stage gives you power to shape the business for the future, not just the product but the culture and team too.
Company HQ
Soho, London, UK
Leadership
Benn Achilleas
(CEO)Has founded three previous sports tech companies - Playabl, TrueFan, and neoco, working with major brands like Sony PlayStation, 2K Games, Real Madrid, Juventus and Manchester City.
Jonty Whitehead
(President)Extensive sports broadcasting experience with Sky, Al-Jazeera, FOX, and beIN. Former beIN Head of Sports for MENA and Executive Producer for FOX Soccer.
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