Head Of Digital Trading

We are searching for an 'Enquiring Mind' to ensure we go beyond explaining the data and instead asks the all-important question 'so what?'. Someone who looks for anomalies, both good and bad, with a strive to repeat successful strategies and remedy underperforming areas. Who seeks out opportunities to go faster against our commercial goals, challenging the team to ensure our best performance against our target metrics

What you'll do:

- Own the trading forums for the DC labs team - They ensure that the trading personnel within each lab report in at the appropriate forums the performance of their lab GOALS, the reasons for performance and their plans to remedy underperformance or go harder and faster in areas that are performing well.
- Coordinate all aspects of performance including site stability resilience any outage times should be evaluated and costed
- Chair Trading meetings; ensuring all enquiries ladder up to coherent narrative for the Executive Trading meeting. The Lab Directors performance is their responsibility, the HoD of Performance challenges them on the progress they are making towards our LRP
- Planning, including analysing current course and speed as well as doing the work, thinking and planning towards our go faster ideas and opportunities
- Working with the whole of DC labs and our vertical partners to lay
- out our quarterly plans. Collaborating closely with digital marketing to determine the spend and strategy to meet the target (BuB) as well as identifying all the key levers in the quarter that are required to deliver performance.
- Complimentary insight work to assist the directors in their efforts to find opportunities. This includes call listening, session data analysis and tailored queries with DTA. They will work close with trading and the verticals to surface opportunities directors may have missed or need support in certain areas
- Working with strategy director to establish the return on investment at a lab level, looking specifically at things like the value of experimentation over program thus advising choices around the distribution of resources for future roadmap planning

What you'll bring:

- An enquiring mind - someone that's constantly asking the question 'why?'
- Someone who is resilient and never settles for the status quo and is always looking to set a higher standard
- Able to present with confidence, motivational and optimistic about the future and our ability to deliver our plans.
- Highly collaborative and able to converse at all levels.
- Capable of working and reporting into senior teams as well as encouraging more junior colleagues to perform at their best
- Able to navigate difficult scenarios/topics that people don't understand particularly well, as well as handling difficult trading period

Team Overview:
We bring the best from the global market into Sky - we buy technology, marketing, corporate, operational services and editorial production solutions. We are an international team working with our stakeholders our partners to curate the most effective and efficient customer-led operating model. High ethical standards are embedded in our team, and we engage our supply chains in creating a sustainable future

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:
- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place- A generous pension package- Private healthcare- Discounted mobile and broadband

Where you'll work:
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.

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