Sports Recruitment International

The Eurosport Group is Europe's leading sports entertainment group.  With an unrivalled network of media platforms, Eurosport broadcasts in 20 languages and reaches 125 million homes across 59 countries. Eurosport an official broadcaster to the London 2012 Olympics.

Eurosport is currently looking to appoint a talented Head of Communications to work in their London offices (Feltham & Covent Garden) and direct the promotion of its media platforms in the UK. As an experienced communications professional you will work closely with production departments at the channel's UK studios to showcase the broad range of sports broadcast by the channel throughout the year.

The successful candidate will be tasked with driving the awareness and understanding of the Eurosport channel and its associated products, in the UK market to consumers and respective sport and media industry organisations. You will be responsible for enhancing the reach and ratings of Eurosport on TV, online and on mobile, whilst effectively managing the UK Communications department.

We are looking for:

• An experienced strategic communications professional ideally with experience from the UK media industry and a broad knowledge of the sports that Eurosport broadcast.
• Strong editorial instincts and experience of working with the media to promote consumer and commercial opportunities coupled with good initiative and budget management.
• The successful candidate will have management experience in a media, sporting, commercial or public relations environment and be able to demonstrate an ability to develop and deliver strategic plans to generate audiences and brand awareness.
• You will have previous experience of team management and the ability to develop internal and external partnerships.

In addition to working as a partner to the London 2012 Olympic games, there will be an opportunity to add value to Pan-European initiatives led by Eurosport's head office in Paris and deliver visibility for the brand in the UK.

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