Head of Rights - France

Job Description

Are you looking to take your Rights career to the next level? Are you organised, collaborative and a proactive communicator who can work well under pressure? Do you want to play an integral role in ensuring DAZN’s relationships with Rights Holders, clubs and other key stakeholders are reaching their potential and driving maximum value throughout our term? As Head of Rights – France, you will facilitate, improve and conduct DAZN’s ongoing relationships with third parties such as rights holders, leagues, federations, intermediaries, clubs and players. The role requires you lead relationships with key Rights holders through collaboration, trust, expertise, and DAZNs objectives and linking them together in creative and innovative ways, demonstrating value and success and providing useful insights to maintain and drive rights partnerships forward. You will be a team player with all DAZN functions, notably: Subscriptions, Content, Strategy, Delivery, PR & Comms, Advertising and many more... It’s important that you become a point of contact and expertise for Rights in France so that anyone at DAZN can come to you. You will also give commercial recommendations and support the broader market objective with ideas regarding our rights holders and partners. You will also provide additional support and contribute towards the shared aims of DAZN’s rights team, as we continue to strengthen our content portfolio in France. If this sounds like your next challenge – we would love to hear from you! This role will be based in our Paris office.

As our new Head of Rights, France, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Establish strong working relationships and manage day-to-day aspects for key rightsholder partners and participating clubs (in particular with Ligue 1) to maximise our commercial value during the term of our agreements.
• Plan, brief, coordinate and execute activations around key media rights in France.
• Generating viewership and performance reports on monthly and ad-hoc bases to provide to rightsholder and internal teams.
• Be a subject matter expert on our rights in France and act as a single point of contact for all French rights related questions/issues/ideas.
• Ensure that live rights and non- live content is supporting the overall objective of the market.
• Support the senior management in rights acquisition or renewal processes and in advising DAZN management regarding the long-term rights strategy.
• Support our international rights team with queries or ad hoc tasks where required and play a pivotal role in coordinating rights acquisitions in France (both tender process and existing agreements in DAZN markets)

You’ll be set up for success if you have:

• Senior level experience in the Sports media industry, working in a Rights focussed environment / role
• Excellent knowledge of the French Media Landscape with active industry contacts
• Committed team player mentality, with great interpersonal skills and enthusiasm for solving problems
• Highly organised work approach with strong attention to detail and commercial acumen
• Ability to prioritise, work under pressure and work to deadlines
• Ability to communicate and present clearly and effectively, particularly with senior stakeholders
• Languages – French (Fluent), English (Business fluency)

At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be. As part of our team,you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop. DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO: AMBITIOUS – people who want to make a big impact and drive DAZN forward. INVENTIVE – people with bright ideas who deliver great new experiences for our customers – and improvements for our business. People who come up with better, simpler ways of doing things. PASSIONATE – people who are proud of our product, our content and our business – and love to shout about it. People who love what they do and show commitment every day. BRAVE – people who take difficult decisions to help us focus on improving DAZN, our performance and our results. SUPPORTIVE – people who know that we achieve more as a team than as individuals. People value inclusion and look out for each other, helping their colleagues enjoy their work and develop their careers. People who consider others before making decisions. At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities. Everyone has the opportunity to make change and impact our DEI journey by joining our ERGs: Proud@DAZN, Women@DAZN, Disability@DAZN and ParentZone. If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience. Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can. We look forward to hearing from you. Apply for this job