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Senior Manager, Strategy & Growth

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Who We Are:

IMG is a leading global sports marketing agency, specializing in media rights management and sales, multi-channel content production and distribution, brand partnerships, strategic consulting, digital services, and events management. It powers growth of revenues, fanbases and IP for more than 200 federations, associations, events, and teams, including the National Football League, English Premier League, International Olympic Committee, National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, ATP and WTA Tours, the AELTC (Wimbledon), Euroleague Basketball, CONMEBOL, DP World Tour, and The R&A, as well as UFC, WWE, and PBR. IMG is a subsidiary of TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company.

TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company. TKO owns iconic properties including UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization; WWE, the global leader in sports entertainment; and PBR, the world’s premier bull riding organization. Together, these properties reach 1 billion households across 210 countries and territories and organize more than 500 live events year-round, attracting more than three million fans. TKO also services and partners with major sports rights holders through IMG, an industry-leading global sports marketing agency; and On Location, a global leader in premium experiential hospitality.



IMG has a clear strategic agenda and growth plan in place across the business, and runs a consulting capability that advises sports rights holders and investors. The Senior Manager, Strategy & Growth will spend most of their time on the consulting side, delivering client engagements, with the rest of their time on IMG’s own internal strategy work.

This role sits within the Strategy & Growth team, which covers both. Most weeks you will be delivering a client engagement, which means doing the core of the work, running the analysis, building the answer, and staying close to the day-to-day of the project. The engagement will be led by one of the team’s project leads, and you will be the person making it happen underneath them. The rest of the time you will be on internal work, anything from the yearly planning cycle to a one-off question one of the SLT needs worked through. You will report to the Senior Director of Strategy & Growth.

We run a pool structure, so you will move across different engagements and work with different people on the team depending on what is live. The right person enjoys the client work, does it to a high standard, and is just as happy picking up a vague internal question and turning it into something useful.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

  • Deliver client engagements. Do the core of the work, run the analysis, and build the answer, working to the project lead on direction and staying close to the day-to-day.
  • Do the thinking. Take a client question, work out what actually matters, and build a clear answer. This is the core of the job.
  • Build the analysis. Size a market, model a business case, value a set of rights, pull apart a P&L.
  • Work with more junior people on the engagement. You may have someone working with you on a piece, so set them up well and keep them moving.
  • Help shape proposals and scope new engagements when they come up.
  • Pick up internal strategy work as it comes. Sizing a new opportunity, pulling together an investment case, working through an organisational question. This is the smaller part of the role but it still matters.
  • Help produce SLT updates and briefings for IMG’s President ahead of key internal and external engagements.

Knowledge and Experience

  • 4–7 years in strategy consulting, or in a corporate strategy or commercial role with real client exposure, ideally in media, entertainment, or sports.
  • A strong track record of delivery. You have done the core of the work on engagements and got it to a high standard.
  • Comfortable with numbers. You can build a growth model, value a business, and work out whether a case actually stacks up.
  • Experience working with senior people, on the client side or internally, and putting together materials they will actually read.

Skills and Abilities

  • You think clearly. You can take a messy problem, work out what actually matters, and explain it simply.
  • Comfortable figuring things out. You don’t need a brief with all the answers. You can take a vague question, client or internal, and turn it into something structured. You know when to push ahead and when to check in.
  • Good judgement around people and politics. You will be working with senior people who have strong views, so you need to know when to push, when to listen, and how to be useful without overstepping.
  • Strong writer. You can explain something complex in plain language and produce work a busy executive will actually read.
  • Pragmatic. You would rather get something useful done quickly than spend three weeks making it perfect.
  • Able to work on a live engagement and pick up an internal question without dropping either.
  • A team player. The pool model means you'll work with different people across different engagements - the right person cares about the collective output, not just their own piece.
  • Experience in sports, media, or entertainment.
  • Experience advising clients in a consulting or advisory setting.
  • Familiarity with how professional services firms work commercially.
  • Experience in a multi-business-unit or holding company structure.

Working Conditions

  • This is a permanent position
  • This role will be based at Chiswick Park, with some flexibility on remote working as appropriate
  • Working hours are 9:00 – 17:00, Monday to Friday
  • May be required to attend (and travel to) locations, including other IMG buildings and meetings
  • Unsocial hours may be required, as dictated by the demands of the business schedule
  • Adapting to use of new systems and technology where appropriate




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