Broadcast Operations Manager
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 21, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 21, 2026. Two Circles scores A on the Alion truth index.
We are Two Circles. We are a Sports & Entertainment Marketing business. We grow audiences and revenues. We do that by knowing fans best. We work with clients to help them understand & influence what their fans are doing - the way fans spend their money, the events that fans attend, the channels fans respond to, the content fans watch and more. And we use the understanding this gives us to help our clients grow. Grow their audiences and grow their revenues - both direct to consumer and business to business revenues. Our platforms and services are trusted by over 1000 clients globally, including the English Premier League, Red Bull, UEFA, VISA, the NFL, Nike and Amazon. We are over 1000 people, based out of 15 offices, and we deliver work for sports and entertainment businesses of all shapes and sizes all over the world.
Our 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. This role sits within the Media Partnerships team dedicated to the UEFA Women’s Champions League (UWCL).
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. As part of this partnership, we work closely with UC3, the joint venture between UEFA and European Football Clubs (EFC), to manage and service the competition’s global network of media partners throughout the 2025-2030 rights cycle. The Broadcast Operations Manager plays a central role in this process, overseeing broadcast operations and ensuring the seamless delivery of rights to 48 broadcasters worldwide.
What you’ll be doing
- Setting-up and managing the UEFA broadcasters bookings platform throughout the season ensuring live transmissions, content and facilities can be booked by broadcasters according to rights granted.
- Overseeing all onsite facilities bookings and managing arbitration between media partners ahead of every match week.
- Acting as the main point of contact for the UEFA Women’s Champions League host broadcaster throughout the season. This includes managing the preview and review meetings with the host broadcaster and UEFA operational teams and overseeing thehost broadcast activity.
- Being a connector between the clubs, UEFA, the host broadcaster and international broadcasters, gathering feedback from VOBM onsite and reporting to internal and external stakeholders.
- Managing the relationship with UEFA feeds distribution provider, ensuring bookings are communicated in due time and being Two Circles’ first point of contact if any transmission issues occur on match nights.
- Managing all communications to UWCL broadcasters related to broadcast operations (including communicating bookings deadline, distributing critical information, sharing TV production guidelines etc.) .
- Maintaining UEFA broadcaster platforms up to date throughout the season with latestdocuments, guidelines and assets.
Requirements
What we’re looking for
- 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.
- A brilliant communicator and relationship builder who is confident and can creatively solve problems
- Excellent project management skills, constantly interrogating our work and suggesting new processes & opportunities
- A proactive, can-do approach with ambition to grow in the role
- Excellent time management, organizational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to travel regularly across Europe to attend matches and participate in client meetings
- Fluent written and spoken English. Additional languages are a plus
- An interest in sport and women’s football
Benefits
We offer a benefits package to suit you and your lifestyle! Out of a core monthly budget, you can choose your own comprehensive benefits package:
- Renowned Team Days often throughout the year
- Summer Away Days
- 23 standard days of holiday (+ 1 Birthday, +2 for a ‘Big Life Event’ and +1 Admin Day), closure of office 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
Though these are the basics written down, we will principally be recruiting for energy, values and commitment - both to Two Circles and to your career. Even if you feel you don’t tick 100% of the boxes but feel you could bring value to the role, we’d still love to hear from you!