VP of Strategy (Live & Sports)

Permanent contract
London
Occasional remote
Salary: Not specified
Experience: > 5 years
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Liberty Global
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Job description

  • You’ll play a central role in identifying, evaluating and advancing high-impact investment and partnership opportunities across sports, live events and the broader experience economy
  • Explore sports and live sectors to identify attractive markets, business models and potential investment opportunities
  • Build and manage a strong pipeline of acquisitions, investments and strategic partnerships alongside our business development teams
  • Develop compelling investment cases, combining sector insight with rigorous financial analysis and modelling
  • Lead diligence on potential targets, getting underneath business plans, commercial models and the opportunities for Liberty Global to create value
  • Bring practical experience of sponsorship, ticketing, events and fan growth into our investment thinking
  • Make clear, evidence-led recommendations to senior decision-makers
  • Partner with colleagues across M&A, business development, technology and finance, as well as our operating companies
  • Work with portfolio businesses, including Formula E, on value creation, commercial partnerships and growth opportunities
  • Support sports priorities across our operating companies, including the Ziggo Sport proposition in the Netherlands
  • Lead project teams and, as our portfolio develops, potentially represent Liberty Global as an observer or Board member within portfolio companies
  • This isn’t purely a strategy role, and it isn’t purely an investment role

Preferred experience

  • Experience within, or working closely with, digital or high-growth businesses
  • The ability to operate effectively across M&A, business development, technology and finance and to lead teams both directly and indirectly.

Experience of acquisitions, investments or strategic partnerships would be particularly valuable, as would experience across portfolio businesses, technology and digital platforms, or driving fan and consumer growth in newer markets

  • A strong strategic mindset, backed by excellent analytical and financial modelling skills
  • An established ability to build and maintain relationships across the industry
  • Direct experience within sports, live events or the wider experience economy
  • A strong understanding of the commercial and operational models that drive value within these sectors
  • The credibility to distil complex questions into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders
  • We’re looking for someone who combines strategic and financial capability with genuine, lived experience of how sports, live events or the wider experience economy works

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