Senior Business Analyst, Studios

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 event management. It powers growth of revenues, fanbases and IP for more than 250 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, World Rugby, 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.

 The Senior Business Analyst will establish and maintain a programme-level, source-traceable baseline by consolidating information from email, Teams and meeting records, Jira/Confluence, action and decision logs, design submissions, workshops and third-party inputs. The role will connect business needs to technical, property, operational and delivery workstreams, translate complexity into decision-ready outputs, and provide constructive challenge without replacing the responsibilities of technical SMEs, architects or delivery owners.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• •Lead discovery workshops and stakeholder discussions with TKO, IMG and relevant third parties.
• •Elicit, document, validate and prioritise business requirements across Broadcast and Corporate.
• •Map current- and future-state processes, user journeys, interfaces and operational hand-offs.
• •Consolidate inputs from networking, cloud, Corporate IT/AV, Broadcast IT and Security into a coherent programme view.
• •Identify gaps, overlaps, assumptions, dependencies, risks, ownership issues and unresolved decisions.
• •Maintain traceability from business needs through to technical requirements, design inputs, decisions and delivery actions.
• •Support the Broadcast interface with dB Broadcast and the Corporate interface.
• •Map dependencies and hand-offs across TKO, IMG, G&T, MiX, Perkins & Will, Hoare Lea and other project contributors.
• •Provide analysis to inform scope, RACI, RAID, action logs, decision logs, change control and operational readiness.
• •Produce concise updates highlighting progress, gaps, decisions required and next actions.
• •Maintain a single, programme-level and source-traceable baseline across workstreams, drawing together email, Teams and meeting records, Jira/Confluence, design documents, action logs, decision logs and third-party inputs.
• •Coordinate inputs and follow-up from the regular Project IT/AV/Security forum, including MiX and relevant TKO, IMG, property, engineering and specialist supplier representatives.
• •Translate technical and design outputs into clear business requirements, interface definitions, acceptance criteria, ownership questions, operational impacts and decision papers.
• •Support definition of operational ownership, monitoring responsibilities, escalation routes, support processes, service levels and handover evidence for building and technology services.
• •Support scope, budget, lead-time and delivery-impact analysis where technical, property or operational decisions affect programme sequencing and readiness.

Key Skills & Experience

• •Senior-level experience as a Business Analyst on complex transformation, infrastructure, new-build, relocation, workplace or property programmes.
• •Strong requirements elicitation, process mapping, user-journey, documentation and traceability skills.
• •Experience working across business, technology, programme and third-party delivery teams.
• •Ability to create structure where information, ownership and requirements are distributed across multiple teams.
• •Strong workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
• •Experience working with technical SMEs across areas such as networking, cloud, AV, security or broadcast technology.
• •Understanding of live and non-live media workflows, or the ability to develop this quickly.
• •Experience supporting operational readiness, transition, service ownership or handover activity.
• •Comfortable working with ambiguity while maintaining clear, accurate and actionable outputs.
• •Familiarity with process modelling, requirements management and collaboration tools.
• •Ability to work across technical and non-technical domains and understand enough of network, cloud, security, broadcast, workplace and building-services interfaces to ask the right questions.
• •Ability to distinguish confirmed facts, working assumptions, decisions, risks, issues, dependencies and recommendations, and to challenge constructively when evidence or ownership is unclear.
• •Experience working within multi-party delivery and design-assurance models involving internal teams, consultants, integrators, suppliers and client-side stakeholders.
• •Strong analytical writing and presentation skills, with the ability to turn complex information into concise outputs for senior stakeholders and delivery teams.

Approach

• •Applies a robust and systematic approach to discovery, analysis, documentation and validation.
• •Integrates effectively with the wider Project Programme Team.
• •Collaborates across TKO, IMG, Broadcast, Corporate and third-party workstreams.
• •Reports transparently on progress, risks, dependencies, gaps and decisions required.
• •Creates clarity without taking ownership of technical architecture or design decisions.
• •Balances sufficient detail for traceability with concise outputs that support decision-making.
• •Operates at programme level, connecting workstreams rather than optimising a single technical domain in isolation.
• •Uses evidence and validation: clearly records what is confirmed, what is assumed, what has been decided and what remains open.
• •Treats the baseline as a living source of truth, updating it as new information is received and preserving source and version traceability.
• •Brings ownership and decision gaps to the right people early, follows through on actions and escalates where unresolved issues threaten scope, cost, schedule or readiness.
• •Balances enough technical detail for traceability with clear business language, practical judgement and concise decision support.
• •Knowledge of cloud media workflows, content-production environments or enterprise technology integrations.
• •Familiarity with Corporate IT/AV, Broadcast IT, networking, security and building-services interfaces.
• •Experience working in both Agile and Waterfall programmes, including RACI, RAID and governance activity.
• •Experience on a complex new-build, relocation, campus consolidation or technology-enabled workplace programme.

Key Competencies

• •Ownership, accountability and delivery focus
• •Structured analysis, requirements and process expertise
• •Stakeholder engagement, facilitation, collaboration and influencing
• •Constructive challenge, problem-solving and pragmatic judgement
• •Programme integration and cross-domain thinking
• •Risk, dependency, issue and interface management
• •Ability to manage ambiguity and complexity
• •Clear, concise written and verbal communication

Success Measures

• •A consolidated, validated and traceable Project baseline is established.
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