As the Head of YouGov Sport UK, you will lead one of YouGov’s key verticals in a high priority market for the company and sport sector specifically. This role will oversee commercial growth and client servicing excellence for the UK Sport division, and will report to the Global Head of YouGov Sport.

Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff):

Leadership

Lead a commercially savvy, engaged, collaborative and high-performance team to support the Sport sector to achieve ambitious growth targets.
Create, develop and maintain strong relationships and implement success strategy across YouGov Sport and work collaboratively with key stakeholders

Commercial Strategy

Develop a sales strategy and plan for UK Sport that identifies new prospects and growth of existing clients across YouGov’s syndicated, custom, and media offerings, including developing sales targets for direct reports and ensuring alignment with global Sport budget requirements
Support marketing activity for the sector and drive a year-round calendar of thought leadership initiatives.
Manage contract negotiations and extensions, license management, data management/security and integrations
Support the Product & Data teams’ efforts to ensure the data we capture and the tools we use are appropriate for the sector

Client Servicing Excellence

Oversee the teams who service our UK Sport clients across syndicated subscriptions and custom projects
Maintain strong communication with other cross-functional delivery teams to jointly own responsibility for projects sold to clients through their final delivery
Support initiatives to evolve and improve our client deliverables and drive a culture of proactivity with client outreach aligned with the news cycle of the sport business industry

What do I need to bring with me?

Leadership experience including a proven track record of leading large high performance teams
Professional relationships and deep contacts in the UK sport sector
Experience on both the commercial and research/delivery side of a relevant B2B organisation (such as market research, sport sponsorship/consulting, etc.)
Passionate about process/work-flow optimization, sales acumen, and data hygiene
Category and product knowledge
Excellent communication and coordination skills along with being a highly organised person; ability to interact with all levels in the organisation.
Independent, self-starter who can work across the organisation and build strong working relationships with a wide group of internal and external stakeholders.
A passion for Sport

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Company Description and Culture

YouGov is a global online research company, offering insight into what the world thinks.

We speak daily to our panel of over 27 million registered members to understand opinion and behaviors around the world. We have a strong reputation as a source of accurate data and we’re trusted by the world’s biggest brands to get it right, making us the most quoted market research source in the world.

Why join YouGov?

Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities.

Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.

Life at YouGov

We are driven by a set of shared values. We are fast, fearless, and innovative. We work diligently to get it right. We are guided by accuracy, ethics, and proven methodologies. We respect and trust each other, bringing these values into everything that we do.

We strive to provide YouGovers with best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. We want our employees to have a sense of belonging and uniqueness in a supportive workplace, so they can bring their full selves to work.

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