VP of Strategy (Live & Sports)

Join Liberty Global as the VP of Strategy (Live & Sports) and play a central role in identifying, evaluating, and advancing high-impact investment and partnership opportunities across sports, live events, and the broader experience economy. You will explore attractive markets, business models, and potential investment opportunities, build and manage a strong pipeline of acquisitions and strategic partnerships, and develop compelling investment cases. You will also lead diligence on potential targets, make evidence-led recommendations to senior decision-makers, and partner with colleagues across various departments. This role requires a strong strategic mindset, excellent analytical and financial modeling skills, and direct experience within sports, live events, or the wider experience economy.

• Identifying, evaluating, and advancing high-impact investment and partnership opportunities across sports and live events.
• Building and managing a strong pipeline of acquisitions, investments, and strategic partnerships alongside business development teams.
• Developing compelling investment cases, combining sector insight with rigorous financial analysis and modelling.

• Experience within, or working closely with, digital or high-growth businesses
• The ability to operate effectively across M&A, business development, technology and finance and to lead teams both directly and indirectly.

Experience of acquisitions, investments or strategic partnerships would be particularly valuable, as would experience across portfolio businesses, technology and digital platforms, or driving fan and consumer growth in newer markets

• A strong strategic mindset, backed by excellent analytical and financial modelling skills
• An established ability to build and maintain relationships across the industry
• Direct experience within sports, live events or the wider experience economy
• A strong understanding of the commercial and operational models that drive value within these sectors
• The credibility to distil complex questions into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders
• We're looking for someone who combines strategic and financial capability with genuine, lived experience of how sports, live events or the wider experience economy works