Production Manager, Domestic Football

Warner Bros. Discovery is hiring a Production Manager, Domestic Football, based at Chiswick Park Building 2 in London. This role sits within WBD Sports Europe’s live broadcast operation, responsible for the end-to-end production delivery of domestic football match rounds across multiple fixtures and venues each week. It suits an experienced broadcast production professional who has managed complex multi-location live sport output and knows how to hold a production together when fixtures, crews, and technical requirements are all moving at once.

About the Role

The Production Manager, Domestic Football, works inside WBD Sports Europe, the division that carries TNT Sports and Eurosport across the UK and Europe, reaching over 130 million viewers monthly. Day to day, this person is the operational hub for domestic football coverage, coordinating technical facilities, freelance crew plans, editorial requirements, and production budgets across each match week. A typical week spans brief writing, schedule management, cost tracking, and stakeholder liaison with clubs, venues, and vendors.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver the operational logistics for domestic football match rounds, managing multiple concurrent fixtures across different locations and production setups.
• Brief technical facilities providers and manage scheduling updates to ensure smooth live broadcast delivery across every match week.
• Build and oversee freelance crewing plans, matching resources to editorial ambition, technical specification, and location requirements within agreed budgets.
• Partner with editorial teams to translate production requirements into practical broadcast workflows, keeping creative ambitions grounded in operational reality.
• Own full budget management across the football portfolio, including forecasting, cost tracking, and post-production reconciliation.
• Ensure all health and safety protocols, risk assessments, and production approval processes are in place and consistently followed across every fixture.

What You Bring

• Proven track record delivering large-scale live sport broadcast productions, ideally across multi-fixture or multi-venue environments.
• Solid budget management experience covering forecasting, tracking, reconciliation, and cost control on production-level spend.
• Working knowledge of broadcast facilities, live production workflow, and technical delivery across outside broadcast and studio environments.
• Confidence managing freelance crews and vendor relationships with clear, direct communication and strong organisational discipline.
• Ability to travel as production schedules require and handle sensitive production information with discretion.

Why This Role

Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe holds rights to some of the most significant live sports content on air, and this Production Manager, Domestic Football position puts you at the centre of a high-volume, high-profile broadcast operation. The scope of the portfolio, spanning football, cycling, tennis, and the Olympics, means genuine career development within a major international sports broadcasting organisation.

If you are a Production Manager with live sport broadcast credentials and want to bring your production management skills to one of Europe’s leading sports broadcast operations, apply for this role at Warner Bros. Discovery today.