Cricket Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Hybrid)
Posted: 13 July 2022
Link to Apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3162084510/
About the job
Head of Competition Development & Strategy W/BBL
- Permanent Full Time role in a Leading Sporting Organisation
- An extra week off a year!
- Melbourne Location
Here’s the deal…
We’re looking for a driven senior sports administrator and strategic thinker to join our Big Bash team. Reporting to the General Manager, Big Bash Leagues you’ll be responsible for the ongoing improvement, development, and strategy of the WBBL and BBL Competitions – taking a League-wide and product-centric view.
This is an amazing opportunity to join a purpose driven organisation. Uniting and inspiring communities through Cricket is our culture, and we’ve never been prouder of the role our people play in making Cricket a sport for all Australians.
About the role
The Head of Competition Development and Strategy will lead a small, high performing team of experts across critical long-term competition pillars such as scheduling, competition format / structure, player contracting, broadcast optimisation and onfield product development and innovation. This role will require strategic and creative thinking, complex problem solving and negotiation and outstanding relationship management skills.
The management and development of the BBL and WBBL competitions will be a key focus area, partnering with key internal experts and external stakeholders to optimise the quality of the onfield product (think schedules, rules, players and conditions) to optimise fan, broadcast, cricket, and commercial outcomes while balancing with best practice governance to ensure competitive balance and competition integrity.
You will also take a direct hands-on leadership role in the future strategy of the WBBL competition to ensure it remains the biggest and best cricket competition in the world for women.
A complex stakeholder environment will include BBL Clubs, Broadcast partners, the Australian Cricketers Association (ACA), player agents and various internal experts.
About you
It’s pretty clear, our ideal candidate will bring demonstrable experience to this role. You’ll be leading the way on many fronts so previous experience in a leadership role in a complex stakeholder environment is preferred. If you’ve got significant contemporary experience in a professional League or Club environment – awesome!
We are looking for someone who prides themselves on building outstanding stakeholder relationships and is a well-seasoned, inspirational people leader – we’ve got a high performing and dedicated team for you to bring on the journey.
You will have proven commercial and negotiation skills, experience working with complex contracts and have demonstrable entrepreneurial and creative initiative – you won’t be afraid to present new ideas, in fact you’ll thrive off it!
Sound like you? Let’s do this!
The work we do across Australian Cricket stretches across the sporting and entertainment industries – which means there are all kinds of opportunities for bright-minded, passionate and friendly people.
Cricket’s a sport for all Australians and our workplace reflects that. To deliver the best services and to achieve our vision of being a sport for all Australians, we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and LGBTIQ+ people.
Vaccinations for our workers provide a key contribution to getting Cricket on, and keeping our players, workers and fans safe this summer. In order to support this, Cricket Australia is mandating vaccinations for all of their employees and will be asking about vaccination status as part of our employment process.
At Cricket we are committed to providing a safe environment for everyone involved in our sport including children.
Perks!
We work flexibly and offer extensive employee benefits including a range of discounts from fashion and travel to groceries and electronics! Salary packaging options and discounts with our corporate partners. We also have an 5 extra days off a year!
If you want to learn more about how we play then apply now – we are looking forward to meeting you!
Please submit your resume & cover letter outlining your experience meeting the key criteria by 5pm Thursday 28 July 2022.
