Commercial Performance Controller - 12 Month FTC

Want to do the best work of your life? With 23 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

"This is an exciting opportunity to join the Commercial directorate, supporting delivery of all of our customer and product plans! The Trading Performance team is responsibility for driving customer and product growth in the right way across all our Sky and NOW products" - Head of Trading Performance & Analytics

Please, note this is a 12 month fixed-term contract position.

What you'll do:

Responsibility for a team of 2, leading delivery of annual, quarterly and weekly customer forecasts for Sky Broadband and Sky Mobile, with a focus on surfacing key assumptions & supporting insights to senior leadership.

Responsibility for timely and relevant performance updates on each business area, influencing customer growth by driving data-led responses to the competitive trading environment.

Seen as a subject matter expert, with emphasis on simplifying the complexity for all stakeholder - understanding the detail, but elevating presentations to deliver exec-ready materials to facilitate and shape decision making

Review accuracy and functionality of your team’s forecasting models to ensure ability to explain & contextualise performance

Develop manager capability on the team supporting people development with coaching and identifying training needs to build their skills

Engage extensively across functions, building and maintaining key relationships with colleagues in Ireland across Finance, Commercial, Marketing, Product and Operations teams, whilst also linking in with Group colleagues to keep your finger on the pulse.

What you'll bring:

Highly numerate and analytical, with strong skills in Excel, Powerpoint and Tableau as the key tools to identify and communicate insights.

You have prior experience of trend analysis & providing relevant business insights crucial, whilst forecast delivery experience is highly desirable.

Effective leader who takes time to coach and develop their team

Self-starter, able to identify trends, issues and challenges – a real get up and go attitude to tackle issues head on and who responds positively to change and/or ambiguity.

Brilliant collaborator, able to work across a matrix organisation to ensure the Sky leadership team makes informed and timely decisions.

You have a highly developed curiosity and a genuine dedication to problem-solving

Experienced in fast paced work environments with large & complex data, delivering quick commercial insights to drive business decisions. Sectors might include but are not limited to, Telecoms, Media, Pharmaceuticals, FMCG.

Solid working understanding of key financial performance indicators and how these are to be used when making decisions and recommendations.

The Rewards:

There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

Sky Now TV package for free

A generous pension package

Private healthcare

• •Discounts for up to 800 high street and specialist
• retailers

How you'll work:

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our outstanding office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home!

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

Your office base:

Dublin

Our striking Ireland HQ has an A-list location on Burlington Road, walking distance from central Dublin. Grand Canal Dock and Pearse train stations are both around 1.5km away, and we’re a short stroll from the buses of Baggot Street, Leeson Street and Waterloo Road. There’s plenty of parking for cyclists too.

Inclusion:

Recognised as an ‘Inclusive Top 50 Employer’ and a ‘Times Top 50 Employer for Women’, we’re working hard to ensure we’re a truly inclusive place to work. At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we're happy to discuss flexible working.

And we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

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Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.