Senior Awards Manager

The Senior Manager of Awards will lead on individual title awards strategy, submissions, campaigns and event management across Sky Original Series (Scripted, Entertainment, Arts, Factual, Kids) & Film. The role reports to Head of Awards within a dedicated team of three and is a highly cross-functional role within the organisation. This job would suit someone from an Awards and/or publicity background and is a great opportunity to work on ambitious Sky Originals, as well as the broader range of content on Sky.

Please note some ad hoc weekend, evening work and travel will be required.

What you'll do:

• Awards Strategy & Submissions: Work with the Head of Awards to devise individual Awards strategies for priority titles throughout the year. The role leads on the day-to-day submissions process for major and regional Film and TV awards, including BAFTA Film, BAFTA TV, RTS, Grierson’s and UK craft guilds, collating and seeking sign off on submission materials from producers and internal commissioning teams.
• Event Support & Management: As part of our year-round Awards work, this role oversees awards ceremony logistics, including talent travel, scheduling and hospitality, and plays a critical role in delivering Sky’s presence at Award ceremonies, programming industry events to engage voters, including screenings and panels, and delivering Sky’s sponsorships.
• Relationship Management: This role will collaborate cross-functionally with partners within Sky, including Publicity, Marketing & Social, to deliver Awards campaigns and to maximise Awards opportunities for every show across their lifecycle include capturing on-set assets, junket requests/ activity, photography. The role will also liaise with co-production and international partners on FYC activity and hold relationships with awards bodies and guilds in the UK.

What you'll bring:

• Experience working within the UK Awards space and can bring knowledge and existing relationships to the role.
• Critical skills include strategic communications, creative campaigning and an ability to understand editorial from page to screen, coupled with a proactive and can-do mindset, strong project management, event management and operational expertise.
• A natural ability to build trusted relationships with on and off-screen talent and the agility to work in a complex and matrixed organisation with multiple stakeholders.

Team Overview
We want to make Sky famous for exceptional content and a place where Europe’s top creatives want to do their best work. We’re agile, seeking out untold stories while working in creative partnership with today’s best writers, producers and on-screen talent - bringing viewers content they wouldn’t find anywhere else.