Planning Coordinator
About this role
Planning Coordinator
Department: 88-254 – Delivery – Planning
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: India - Hyderabad
Reporting To: Orianne Baker-Brown
Description
The Scheduler is responsible for creating, maintaining, and delivering accurate broadcast schedules across multiple channels and platforms. This includes linear TV channels and FAST (Free Ad-supported Streaming TV) channels, ensuring that all schedules are delivered on time and meet editorial, operational, and compliance requirements.
You’ll work closely with programming, operations, and media planning teams to ensure all live events, repeats, and promos are correctly scheduled and aligned with business priorities.
Key Responsibilities
- Create and manage daily, weekly, and long-term schedules for assigned channels.
- Ensure delivery of accurate playlists and EPG (Electronic Program Guide) data within required timelines.
- Schedule live events, filler content, and promotional elements according to editorial priorities.
- Coordinate with multiple departments (e.g., Programming, AdOps, Playout, Metadata, and OTT) to ensure smooth broadcast execution.
- Monitor and adjust schedules for last-minute changes, overruns, or live event delays.
- Conduct 6-week forward checks to identify missing or incorrect content.
- Handle updates for both FAST and Linear channels, including regional variations.
- Work with international teams (UK, Spain, Italy, etc.) to coordinate global scheduling standards.
- Ensure 14 days of advance planning and presentation.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Knowledge of broadcast technology including playout, video and audio encoding
- Experience working in a Broadcast TX/MCR would be beneficial
- Motivation, commitment, enthusiasm and drive.
- Experience in a broadcast environment
- Strong communication and organizational skills with a strong eye for detail, prioritising workload where required.
- Good understanding of the sporting landscape, and willingness to keep up with the latest news and thirst to learn more about sports you may not be as familiar with.
- Strong computer skills across Microsoft, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, etc.
- Interest in content production for multi-platform distribution.
- Ability to work as part of a team, and individually.
- Ability to adapt to changing business needs, cultures, conditions and work responsibilities.
- Experience of working 24/7 shift patterns.
Company at a glance
We are DAZN. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. Together, we bring ambition to life.
We are the digital leader in global sports media. We are home to the world’s largest, fastest-growing sports streaming service. We're using world-class technology to revolutionise the industry.
As part of our team you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere.
For us, it's all about Limitless Ambition - never settling, always restless, always wanting more for our customers. We're growing fast and have made a big impact so far, and that's just the beginning. There's so much we can do. Working with us is exciting, empowering and truly global.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment, both inside and outside of our walls, that values equality and diversity. A place where everyone can contribute at the highest level and have their voices heard. For us, this means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities.
If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, that’s fine. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience. Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible. We will do our best to accommodate adjustments for interviews.
If you're ambitious, inventive, passionate, brave and supportive, then you're the kind of person who's going to enjoy life at DAZN.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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