Sports Desk Editor

Gracenote is an entertainment data and technology provider powering the world’s top music services, automakers, cable and satellite operators, and consumer electronics companies. At its core, Gracenote helps people find, discover and connect with the entertainment they love. Daily, Gracenote processes 35 billion rows of data and is quickly becoming a world-leader in return path “big data”. Over the past 3 years, the company has grown to more than 2000 employees in 17 countries, including over 600 of the world’s top engineers with a passion for music, video, sports, and entertainment technology. Founded in 1998, Gracenote is one of America’s most iconic and respected media companies.

Currently, we are looking for a full-time Sports Editor to become part of our Sports Desk team. This position is based in Nieuwegein (The Netherlands).

This candidate should have a passion for sports and sports facts. Are you an expert in football facts, do you know all about Formula One and tennis, and are you also interested in Olympic Sports like alpine skiing or weightlifting than we have the perfect job for you.

The Sports Desk team is part of the Gracenote Sports Editorial team and produces newsworthy sports information, by analyzing sports data from our extensive sports database.

We provide sports information to global sports media outlets, sports federations and event organizers of big sporting events like the Olympic Games.

As a Sports Desk Editor, the successful candidate will be responsible for creating newsworthy and factual match previews and recaps for sports media clients, by interpreting the sports data in our database. You will be covering an extensive number of football leagues, for example, the English Premier League, Dutch Eredivisie, UEFA Champions League. You will also report on Wimbledon, the Tour de France, World Cup Ski Jumping, Archery World Championships and the Olympic Games

As most live sports events are scheduled outside regular office hours, evening and weekend shifts are part of the job. During these shifts you will be sending out live facts and you will be the contact person for our media clients, answering their questions on live sports events.

WHOM ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• Extensive sports knowledge and interest in a wide variety of sports.
• Strong verbal, written communication skills in English and Dutch.
• Good problem solving/analytical skills. 
• Good computer skills mainly Word and Excel. You will become an expert in using our applications.
• Understanding sports journalism, work accurately with a creative mind.
• You are a team player, but you can also make your own decisions and set priorities when working alone.
• You will be working a rotating schedule within your team (including evening and weekend shifts).
• You live in the Utrecht/Nieuwegein area, or you are able to make it home. 

WHAT CAN WE OFFER YOU?

• Benefits - Besides a starter's salary, you will get the following non-financial benefits package - voluntary hours paid, flexible and family-friendly schedules, lunches paid partially by the company, travelling cost reimbursement, pension plan and disability insurance.
• Professional Growth - You will be provided with training to become an expert in the field of sports data and journalism.
• Great Culture - Our values in Nielsen are: Personal, Open, Integrated & Useful. You will experience a dynamic, open, international and sports-minded environment where you can simply be yourself.

#LI-AM1

Are you #heretocreate the future of sport with us? Are you ready to put the books aside and get hands-on experiences? Here is your chance to join the best sports brand in the world.

adidas is a truly global company with its roots in Germany. Around the world we employ over 57,000 people. Every year we produce over 900 million sports and sports lifestyle products and we believe that through sports we have the power to change lives.

An internship at adidas provides you with a unique opportunity to apply what you have learned at university, use your knowledge in practice and live your passion for sports.

Join our Global Consumer Acquisition team!

During the period of your internship, you will support the Global Consumer Acquisition team and will learn and explore the role of an Assistant Product Owner. As an Intern at adidas Digital you are assisting a Product Owner who is responsible for the quality and strategic impact of a medium or complex digital product. Together with your agile team you work on continuously improving and evolving the assigned products in order to optimize the value for the consumer.

Collaborating with IT and markets to define a robust product backlog, managing capability expansion increments and contributing to new functionalities & best practice definitions are a few examples of the activities that will be expected from this role. Additionally, you will be cooperating with various internal stakeholders, including Markets and other Digital areas to drive consumer engagement and satisfaction, as well as incremental revenues by delivering digital experiences with the Focus on KPI`s #of members, opt-in rates and enrichment rate.

Your tasks:

 Assisting a (Sr.) Product Owner with:

Product Strategy & Delivery

• Contribute to the optimization of the product’s value for the consumer and the company (ROI).
• Monitor product delivery in line with the roadmap and committed delivery dates. Raise delivery issues on-time.
• Support the specification of user stories where required.

Stakeholder management

• Communicate with stakeholders regarding the product, its features, etc.

Backlog Management

• Contribute to prioritizing the items in the product backlog. Specify the definition-of-done for backlog items in cooperation with the Product Owner and the product team.
• Support the refinement of the product backlog in collaboration with the (Sr.) Product Owner to ensure that the product team is delivering the right enhancements to drive consumer and business value.

Monitoring

• Monitor, optimize and enhance the configuration, features and functionalities related to the product.
• Use data sources and feedback loops to help the team to focus on the right enhancements.

Potential projects

• Supporting and driving Invite a Friend roll-out across both brands for existing touchpoints in close alignment with Market and global stakeholders
• Managing referral program and identify new opportunities for Invite a friend feature including briefing with UX, Research, Solution Design, Stakeholder alignment  
• Prioritized Contextual Enrichment consumer journeys: UX, Research, Solution Design, Stakeholder alignment  
• Gamification of existing signup touchpoints: UX, Research, Solution Design, Stakeholder alignment  
• Best practice guide: review and create an acquisition best practice guide with other stakeholders

Your profile:

• Bachelor or Master student of Business, Digital Marketing, or eCommerce
• Enrolled in university/college for the complete duration of the internship [6 months]
• Domain relevant knowledge is a big plus
• Good knowledge of Agile working methods e.g., Scrum/Kanban is a plus
• Familiarity with A/B testing or other multivariate testing
• Basic understanding of IT
• Good communication skills, comfortable presenting to stakeholders at various organizational levels both in person and remotely
• Solutions-oriented approach and entrepreneurial mindset

• Excellent command of English both verbal and written

Key Facts:

• Application Deadline: March 15th, 2021
• Start Dates: August 1st, 2021
• Duration: 6 months [1 Aug 2021 - 31 Jan 2022]
• Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Interested?

• Please apply by submitting your CV and your Motivation Letter
• Make sure you apply in the same language as the job description

Are you #heretocreate the future of sport with us? Are you ready to put the books aside and get hands-on experiences? Here is your chance to join the best sports brand in the world.

adidas is a truly global company with its roots in Germany. Around the world we employ over 57,000 people. Every year we produce over 900 million sports and sports lifestyle products and we believe that through sports we have the power to change lives.

An internship at adidas provides you with a unique opportunity to apply what you have learned at university, use your knowledge in practice and live your passion for sports.

Join our Digital Trading Analytics team!

The Digital Trading Analytics (DTA) team provides analytical solutions to optimize the pre-season and in-season online performance on a global scale.

The aim of the team is thus to optimize pre-season volume buying and increase in-season sell-through. The analytical solutions include: Dynamic Pricing, in-Season and pre-season Forecasting algorithms, Markdown Optimization and Seasonal Sell-Out performance reporting.

Your tasks:

• Analyze data using e.g. SQL, Python to draft relevant insight to present to business stakeholders
• Analyze the demands from the DTA Product Owners, collect the requirements and create user stories to pitch to the Big Data Engineering team
• Support in documenting the current processes on Confluence
• Proactively identify business-relevant use cases for the DTA team
• Contribute to the development of best practice guidance for markets and other adidas stakeholders to maximize the use of analytics capabilities

Your profile:

• Bachelor or Master student of Business/Economics, Econometrics, Statistics, IT, Digital Marketing, or a similar field
• Enrolled in university/college for the complete duration of the internship [6 months]
• An interest for delivering data-based recommendations for quantifiable improvements in business results
• Knowledge or interest in learning SQL, Python for data manipulation
• Knowledge or interest in learning data visualization
• Knowledge or interest in learning about e-Commerce and Digital Products
• Knowledge or interest in working within IT and Business
• Team player who enjoys working in an international team

• Advanced MS Office skills
• Excellent command of English both verbal and written

Key Facts:

• Application Deadline: March 15th, 2021
• Start Dates: August 1st, 2021
• Duration: 6 months [1 August 2021 - 31 January 2022]
• Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Interested?

• Please apply by submitting your CV and your Motivation Letter
• Make sure you apply in the same language as the job description

Department Overview:

Our quantity surveying team at RLB proactively manage the cost of a building project, from the initial design stages through to completion and sometimes even through maintenance and operation. We pride ourselves on the quality of our service to our clients and enjoy long term relationships with a majority of them.

We are a sector focused business actively operating and investing in Commercial, Residential, Education, Sports, Nuclear and Retail clients and projects. Surveyors work in close contact with the client, advising them on financial and legal matters that arise during the project.

Overview of Role:

This role presents an excellent opportunity for a proactive Associate Quantity Surveyor to be based in Amsterdam, who can take responsibility for a number of projects, acting as the sole contact with each client as well as provide support to the existing team in the delivery of projects.

There will be a focus on professional work on a wide variety of selected projects ranging from £5m to £500m including:

• Data centre experience preferable
• Commercial new build and refurbishment projects
• Major residential and mixed use developments
• Sports and Leisure/Stadium projects – both nationally and globally

Key Responsibilities:

• The individual will be an integral part of a team that is accountable for the commercial and contractual performance of a project
• To support business objectives of delivering value for money in all circumstances
• To carry out assigned duties efficiently and in accordance with processes and procedures
• Comply with established commercial/procurement/ contractual strategies
• Take personal responsibility for complying with Environmental, Health, Safety, Security and Quality Standards
• Individually or as part of a team operate processes for the selection, appointment and management of construction and engineering contractors

• Preparation of indicative cost budgets and appraisals
• Preparation of elemental cost plans in accordance with NRM
• Provide advice and opinion in respect of our client development plans and expectations
• Value engineering studies

• Providing advice on procurement strategy
• Assembling and seeking agreement to long and short tender lists
• Preparing and issuing tender documents.
• Running a competitive tender process including managing queries from tendering contractors
• Managing and contributing to structured and documented tender evaluations
• Preparation of Contract Recommendation Reports
• Preparation of contract documents
• Complaint tenders

• Scrutinising and verifying applications for interim payments
• Preparing certificates
• Managing change control in accordance with contracts
• Producing cost reports and cost forecasting
• Assisting Project Managers in preparing Early Warnings, Instructions and Compensation Events
• Attending progress meetings

• Promote commercial awareness throughout project
• Support formal dispute resolution process and contract close out strategy as required
• Advising and liaising with internal project and cost control team
• Developing Commercial Strategies
• Developing Acquisition Strategies

Person Specification:

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a positive proactive approach to the role, and will be committed to delivering customer service excellence, with good commercial results.

• MRICS or professionally qualified in either a surveying or engineering discipline
• Data centre experience would be advantageous
• Technical background with a degree in quantity surveying, engineering, or another construction related subject or equivalent
• Pre and Post contract experience of large complex schemes in the range of £5m - £500m
• Cost planning and managing a design to budget experience on projects with a minimum of supervision
• Feasibility and cost planning, procurement advice, tender documentation and post contract services
• Previously employed by a consultancy or end user client
• Well organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute
• Excellent communication and presentation skills both written and verbal
• Excellent customer service, communication and client/external interface skills
• Stakeholder management with a clear focus on developing client accounts and forging new business relationships
• A track record of effective working with teams and managing projects by prioritising workloads and delivering to deadlines
• A team player, outgoing, flexible, enthusiastic and ambitious
• Ability to identify and develop potential opportunities to secure more business for RLB

RLB is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, “race” (includes nationality, national / ethnic origins, colour) marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender reassignment, religion and belief.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during any stage of the application or interview process, please contact our recruitment team at: 

careersinbox@uk.rlb.com