Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 7 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

The Trading Performance Lead will be at the heart of providing business direction in relation to NOW Sports and Boost weekly trading KPIs via robust stakeholder management, data analysis and forecast management. They will need to be data savvy but importantly be an excellent collaborator who can work seamlessly across a wide range of stakeholders, providing timely and well-informed recommendations which will be critical to moving the business forward.

What you’ll do:

• Trading Expertise – Be the expert in Trading Performance for your area. Have a deep understanding of the drivers of all important metrics including Demand & conversion down to a product and sales journey level.
• ·Trading insight & idea generation – using large and complex data, clearly communicate findings in a simple and timely manner answering, “what is happening, why & what should we do.” Developing ideas to improve Performance across all key performance indicators.
• Reporting/trading governance – use your expertise and trading insight to deliver accurate channel reporting including root-cause diagnosis of any over or under performance.
• Provide mitigation or go-faster recommendations – use your knowledge to make recommendations across various senior partners, and the routes to market (channels)
• Coaching and leading hard-working teams – Managing a team of 2 you need to use your technical & managerial expertise to lead, coach and develop a strong team. Ensuring teams are delivering output to a high standard, regular 121s, development plans and have strong direction for their role.

What you’ll bring:

• Highly numerate and analytical combined with excellent communication skills to present findings in written, PowerPoint, spreadsheet and verbal format to senior partners.
• Experienced in fast paced work environments with large & complex data, delivering quick decision making that is commercial. Sectors might include but are not limited to, telecoms, Media, Pharmaceuticals, FMCG.
• Proven experience in coaching and manging impactful individuals.
• Solid working understanding of key financial performance indicators and how these are to be used when making decisions and recommendations. Confident and credible, able to present work up to the Director of Performance, with excellent written, verbal, PowerPoint and spreadsheet communication skills
• Brilliant collaborator, able to work across a matrix organisation with the product owners, Commercial, Ops and finance to ensure the Sky leadership team makes informed and timely decisions

The Team:

The role will sit in NOW’s Performance and Planning team within the wider Sky Consumer Customer Growth department. More specifically the role will report into the Head of Trading – NOW & Premiums who is responsible for end-to-end net growth of NOW and Premium products across all routes to market.

The rewards:

There’s a reason people can’t stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

- Free NOW Membership or Sky Q bringing all the great TV you love in one place

- A generous pension package

- Private healthcare

- Discounted mobile and broadband

- Access to a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences

Inclusion:

Recognised as an ‘Inclusive Top 50 Employer’ and a ‘Times Top 50 Employer for Women’, we’re working hard to ensure we’re a truly inclusive place to work. This means we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and the potential you’ll bring to Sky. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working.

And we’ll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

Your office base:

Osterley:

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon. 

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.