Ui Strategy Lead

Want to do the best work of your life? Make your mark at Europe's leading entertainment brand. Our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work - a place where you can be yourself and let your skills shine.

What you'll do:

- UI roadmap: Define and deliver a robust roadmap, ensuring a clear delivery plan and holistic UI strategy for new products, merchandising capabilities and content partners.
- Develop merchandising capabilities: Drive improvements to UI toolkit and capabilities (personalisation & automation) by championing merchandising requirements, influencing key Product stakeholders to ensure that we continue to evolve to meet ever changing needs across all platforms - Sky Glass, Q, Sky+, and Go.
- Define and deliver aggregation strategy: Work closely with content partners and internal stakeholders to optimise our aggregation strategy and drive 'All in one place' credentials. Oversee new app onboarding, partner relationships and holistic app merchandising strategy meeting business and customer expectations.
- Manage commercial relationships: Lead on commercial merchandising discussions with internal and external stakeholders and oversee the delivery of contractual obligations on the UI.
- AB testing: Responsible for AB testing strategy, delivering an efficient test and learn plan that optimises our merchandising approach across all platforms. Use successful learnings to roll out tangible changes to improve the UI experience for customers and better meet business KPIs.

What you'll bring:

- Excellent communication and influencing skills: Proven ability to communicate orally (one to one and to large groups) and in writing to inform, explain and influence to Managing Director level. Experience in producing presentation decks for senior stakeholders without manager input.
- Industry expert: Broad understanding of the TV landscape with strong content knowledge across Sky, partner channels and apps.
- Management skills:. Experience in people management to lead and motivate a high performing team ensuring work is delivered on time and to the right standard.
- Analytical expertise: Experience using data and insight to inform decision making.
- Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to work collaboratively and effectively across a wide range of teams and lead multi-stakeholder projects, both internally and externally.
- Technical competence: Operationally and technically minded able to understand complex back end systems that power the UI and ability to learn front end content scheduling tools

Team Overview:
As a UI Strategy & Aggregation Lead within Content Engagement you'll play a pivotal role in the development and delivery of merchandising strategy across all Sky platforms to ensure we maintain and grow our market leading credentials. Own and manage relationships with Product, Commercial and Proposition teams to improve UI capabilities, onboard new content providers and drive engagement in merchandising by delivering a successful AB testing plan. Line manage direct reports to successfully drive content engagement, build subscription value, and support key business initiatives.

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:
We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

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.

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 f