Production Manager M/F/D

Production Manager M/F/D

Department: 84-405 – Content – P&E – Resources

Employment Type: Permanent – Full Time

Location: Germany – Munich

Reporting To: Maja Hummel

Description

Why Join DAZN?

Joining DAZN means becoming part of a disruptive force in sports media, redefining how fans experience live sports. As a global streaming leader and rights holder of the UEFA Champions League, Bundesliga, and top-tier European football, DAZN offers you the chance to work at the heart of world-class productions. You’ll be joining a creative and ambitious team delivering best-in-class content to millions of fans across multiple territories. In this role, you’ll help shape our Bundesliga coverage and contribute to how live football is experienced in the DACH region and beyond. It’s a unique opportunity to bring your passion for production and your organisational talent to a dynamic, high-performance environment that puts innovation, fan-first thinking, and storytelling at its core.

The Role

As Production Manager at DAZN, you’ll play a key part in the planning and execution of our host broadcast and unilateral productions for the DACH market, with a particular focus on our new Bundesliga Conference airing every Saturday. You’ll be responsible for coordinating all production logistics—technical planning, crew scheduling, and onsite operations—and will act as the central point of contact between the programming team and production crew. Your fluency in German and English, along with your sharp organisational skills, will be essential to ensure smooth delivery and clear communication across departments. The role requires on-site attendance at live outside broadcasts throughout the Bundesliga season, primarily on Saturdays. You’ll be a critical part of a passionate production management team delivering premium football content to a global audience.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Maintaining communication with DFL, Sportcast, rights holders, delivery partners, suppliers, and between internal departments.
• Hiring crew & freelance contractors.
• Managing a team of freelancers.
• Controlling and monitoring all production spending & reporting back to the Operation Director and Senior Production Manager.
• Updating risk assessments for all events with the production team and making sure all contractors & 3rd parties are aware of the work health and safety requirements.
• Producing and issuing supplier and crew contracts.
• Travelling to events as and when required and acting as an onsite point of contact for the Production.
• Organizing and attending site surveys.
• Ensuring all suppliers and freelancer invoices are processed and paid promptly.
• Issuing invoices for rights holder add ons.

What You’ll Bring:

• Fluent English & German language skills.
• Previous experience of working as a Production Manager in high profile Football outside broadcasts essential.
• Working with a vast array of different contacts in different global territories.
• Previous experience as a line manager of a team (beneficial)
• Production Safety Passport – or equivalent up to date health and safety training for the film and TV industries.
• Full driving licence an advantage.

Benefits

Benefits include access to DAZN, 30 days’ annual leave, pension contributions up to 3%, a family friendly community, learning and development resources, opportunity for mobile working and access to our internal speaker series and events.

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