Description
DAZN is the world's leading sports streaming platform, delivering premium live and on-demand sports content to millions of fans worldwide. With an expansive presence in multiple global markets, DAZN is reshaping the way the world consumes sports. As we continue to scale, our commitment to operational excellence, innovation, and customer-centricity remains core to our mission.
As the Vice President of Marketing Procurement, you will be responsible for overseeing and optimising the global marketing procurement strategy across all markets. This executive role demands deep expertise in marketing categories (including media, creative, production, sponsorships, and digital), stakeholder engagement, supplier innovation, and commercial performance.
You will partner closely with the Chief Marketing Officer, regional marketing leads, and finance teams to drive value, increase efficiency, and ensure our marketing investments deliver maximum ROI while aligning with DAZN’s strategic and brand objectives.
As our new Vice President Marketing Procurement, you’ll have the opportunity to:
* Global Strategy Leadership: Design and execute a global marketing procurement strategy aligned with DAZN’s growth objectives and brand vision.
* Category Management: Lead strategic sourcing initiatives across media buying, creative and content production, influencer and social media partnerships, sponsorships, PR, and martech platforms.
* Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with CMO, Marketing, Finance, Legal, and regional teams to understand needs, manage budgets, and ensure procurement adds value.
* Supplier Management & Innovation: Build and manage strong supplier relationships to foster innovation, performance, and commercial benefit.
* Governance & Compliance: Ensure procurement practices meet compliance, risk, and governance standards across markets.
* Leadership: Ability to work with, and influence, multiple marketing teams globally to coordinate and drive tenders
* Data & Insights: Leverage procurement analytics and performance data to drive continuous improvement and cost optimization.
You'll have:
* Demonstrable procurement experience with a strong focus on marketing spend in a global organization
* Proven track record managing large, complex marketing categories at scale
* Experience in RFPs, multi-supplier tenders, and working on media and marketing benchmarking and negotiations
* Previous negotiation training and/or significant hands-on experience in negotiation
* Deep understanding of the global media, digital, and creative agency landscape
* Experience within the sports, entertainment, media, or consumer tech sectors is desirable
* Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills with senior executives
* Commercial acumen and a data-driven mindset
* Demonstrated ability to deliver both cost savings and strategic value
* Excellent leadership, communication, and negotiation skills
Benefits
Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind), learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.
At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be.
As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop.
DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO:
Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen.
Prioritising what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact.
Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One.
At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities.
Everyone has the opportunity to make change and impact our DEI journey by joining our ERGs: Proud@DAZN, Women@DAZN, Disability@DAZN and ParentZone.
If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.
Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.
We look forward to hearing from you.