Planner
DAZN
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Job Description
Why Join DAZN?
Joining DAZN in London means working at a global sports streaming business from one of the UK’s fastest-growing digital hubs. You’ll collaborate with smart, passionate people, move quickly, and help connect millions of fans to the sports they love. If you’re excited by working with a business growing at scale and the pace of live sport, DAZN is a great place to grow your career.
The Role: Planner
DAZN is looking for a Planner to support in pre-sale for brand campaigns across DAZN’s advertising inventory in the UK region. You will be responsible for creating brand opportunities with research and data to the very highest level across DAZN’s partner channels, the DAZN app, DAZN’s linear channels, and social media. You will be organized and communicate effectively but most of all you will be passionate about client servicing and advertising excellence.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Client Briefing & Pre-Sale Support: Support the sales and planning teams in responding to client briefs by helping clarify objectives, target audiences, and success metrics ahead of campaign activation.
- Media Planning & Proposal Development: Assist in building media plans and responses to RFPs, including channel selection, budget allocation, and rationale that aligns with client goals.
- Audience & Market Insight: Use internal data, research tools, and industry insights to help define target audiences, inform planning decisions, and strengthen the strategic narrative in proposals.
- Forecasting & Performance Modelling: Support pre-sale forecasting by analysing historical performance, benchmarks, and available inventory to help set realistic expectations and KPIs.
- Sales Enablement & Materials: Help prepare pre-sale materials such as media plans, presentations, and planning documentation that support compelling client pitches and commercial conversations.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with sales, activation, and insight teams to ensure proposals are accurate, feasible, and aligned with delivery capabilities.
- Value & Idea Generation: Contribute ideas that enhance proposal value, identify upsell opportunities, and support innovative thinking within pre-sale responses.
- Team Collaboration & Organisation: Support the project management team in managing timelines, coordinating inputs, and keeping pre-sale workstreams organised and on track.
What You'll Bring:
- Proficiency in Excel.
- Understanding of digital/media marketing and social media.
- Familiarity with the TV and digital sports industry.
- Creative thinker with excellent cross-team communication skills.
- Highly entrepreneurial, organized, and capable of working independently as well as collaboratively with internal teams.
- Adaptable to rapidly changing priorities and business circumstances.
About DAZN
At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. 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. 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.
Key skills/competency
- Media Planning
- Pre-Sale Support
- Digital Marketing
- Social Media Strategy
- Data Analysis
- Client Servicing
- Forecasting
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Coordination
- Sports Industry Knowledge
How to Get Hired at DAZN
- Research DAZN's culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- Tailor your resume: Highlight experience in media planning, digital marketing, and the sports industry, using keywords from the job description.
- Showcase problem-solving: Prepare examples demonstrating your analytical skills, especially with Excel and data for pre-sale forecasting.
- Emphasize collaboration: Be ready to discuss how you've successfully worked with cross-functional teams in fast-paced environments.
- Demonstrate passion for sport: Articulate your genuine interest in the digital sports industry and connecting fans globally.
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