Executive Producer (Sport)

Lead the editorial and creative vision for all sports content across Virgin Media Television. Ensure output is visually distinctive, authoritative, innovative and aligned with audience expectations. Oversee the execution of all major sporting properties, ensuring top-level editorial standards and creative ambition. Serve as a senior editorial decision-maker, ensuring accuracy, compliance and adherence to VMTV's editorial values. Drive new approaches to sports storytelling across live, highlights, long-form, and digital-first content. Continue to take an active, hands-on production role when required, including producing major programmes and providing support across the department whenever needed to ensure delivery of the highest standards. Acts as the final escalation point for editorial, operational and resourcing decisions within the sports production function. Lead short, medium and long-term planning for all sports output, including major events and rights-driven content. Work with the Head of Sport to develop long-range strategy and growth plans, responsible for delivering the overall sports content strategy. Create new formats, new digital strands, new franchises and innovative editorial concepts. Ensure VMTV's sports coverage is continuously refreshed, forward-thinking and positioned to evolve with audience behaviour. Identify upcoming editorial opportunities, talent, events and new content avenues. Provide senior leadership to the entire sports department, setting high standards, clear expectations and a culture of innovation. Line-manage and set direction and priorities for Supervising Producers and wider production teams. Lead editorial meetings, output reviews and staff development initiatives. Drive a culture of excellence, collaboration and continuous improvement. Develop on-air and off-air talent through structured coaching, feedback and growth opportunities. Role model the organisational values; Bold, Straight-up and Together in communication and leading teams. Offer input and advice on contributor and presenter selection where required. Serve as a senior point of contact for rights holders, sports bodies, agencies and external partners. Support the Head of Sport and Director of News & Sport during pitches for new rights and negotiations, providing editorial and production expertise. Work closely with Digital, Operations, News, Publicity, Marketing and Commercial to ensure cohesive, integrated output. Ensure commercial requirements are delivered authentically within sports programming without compromising editorial integrity. Represent the sports team in senior internal forums and cross-organisational projects. Lead innovation in sports content and production across broadcast, digital, social and emerging technology. Drive experimentation with new formats, workflows, digital techniques and AI-driven enhancements where appropriate. Own KPIs for social content performance and work with the Digital Department to expand VMTV's sports footprint across all platforms. Ensure seamless integration between broadcast coverage and digital/social storytelling. Keep VMTV's sports output at the forefront of industry trends, tools and techniques. Extensive experience leading sports production teams at a senior level across live, studio and digital content. Proven record of outstanding editorial judgement and strong knowledge of Irish and international sports. Visionary creative leadership with a proven track record of innovation in content and production. Demonstrated ability to lead, inspire and develop large multi-disciplinary teams. Strong experience working with rights holders and external partners. Demonstrated leadership in developing and leading teams to deliver a multi-platform content strategy, including social and digital-first programming. Excellent communication, organisational and decision-making skills. Strong financial management and experience delivering complex productions within budget. Understanding of emerging technologies including digital workflows, cloud tools and AI-enhanced production. Experience leading major international event coverage. Background in developing new sports formats or digital verticals. Familiarity with modern, cost-efficient production technologies. Experience in managing and overseeing Sport News. Senior, high-impact leader shaping the direction of sports output, balancing long-term vision with close oversight of day-to-day editorial performance. Big-picture thinker who defines and drives a clear, ambitious content strategy across broadcast, digital and social platforms. Established industry professional with significant senior experience, ideally within leading national or international sports broadcasters. Trusted editorial authority with exceptional judgement, deep sports knowledge, and accountability for maintaining the highest standards across all output. Driver of innovation and progression, evolving formats, storytelling and production approaches to keep content fresh and competitive. Strong people leader who supports, guides and aligns production teams, ensuring clarity, consistency and high performance across the department. Strategic operator connecting editorial priorities with commercial realities, rights opportunities and organisational objectives. Key collaborator and influencer, working closely with the Head of Sport, senior colleagues and stakeholders to shape direction and deliver results. Role model for culture and behaviours, reinforcing standards and ways of working that promote accountability, creativity and collaboration. Decisive and accountable figure who takes ownership of output quality, performance and delivery. Experienced production leader with a proven ability to manage complex live events and multi-platform output at scale. Practical contributor who remains comfortable taking an active role in production.Join and you'll be part of the Virgin Media family. You can trust us to do the right thing by you. We're a great place to work and we offer impressive benefits too. Get ready for a generous holiday allowance, birthday day off, contributory pension, healthcare and discounts on our fantastic mobile broadband and cable.Virgin Media is one of the country's leading connected entertainment providers and operates a cable and broadcast business in Ireland. Our cable business delivers multi award-winning services: broadband, TV, mobile and home phone connect thousands of people across the country. We are extending our cable footprint so that more communities can enjoy the benefits of the fastest, widely available broadband speeds from Virgin Media.Our broadcast division, Virgin Media Television is Ireland's number one commercial broadcaster operating three free-to-air channels (Virgin Media One, Virgin Media Two, Virgin Media Three, plus the Virgin Media Player) and is a significant investor in home produced content across news, current affairs and drama. We offer extensive sports coverage on our Virgin Media Sport and our 6 Extra Sport channels to ensure fans see all games across UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League fixtures and more.Through Virgin Media Business, we support entrepreneurs, businesses and the public sector, delivering the fastest speeds and tailor-made services.Virgin Media is part of Liberty Global, the world's largest international TV and broadband company. 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