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Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid
Who We Are:
IMG is a leading global sports marketing agency, specializing in media rights management and sales, multi-channel content production and distribution, brand partnerships, strategic consulting, digital services, and event management. It powers growth of revenues, fanbases and IP for more than 250 federations, associations, events, and teams, including the National Football League, English Premier League, International Olympic Committee, National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, ATP and WTA Tours, the AELTC (Wimbledon), Euroleague Basketball, CONMEBOL, World Rugby, DP World Tour, and The R&A, as well as UFC, WWE, and PBR. IMG is a subsidiary of TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company.

TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company. TKO owns iconic properties including UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization; WWE, the global leader in sports entertainment; and PBR, the world’s premier bull riding organization. Together, these properties reach 1 billion households across 210 countries and territories and organize more than 500 live events year-round, attracting more than three million fans. TKO also services and partners with major sports rights holders through IMG, an industry-leading global sports marketing agency; and On Location, a global leader in premium experiential hospitality.

Cingularity a highly specialised global fibre network provider enabling premium live broadcast TV transmission.
Our obsession with quality, performance, and network resilience, has allowed us to deliver services for companies including Amazon Prime, Warner Brothers Discovery, Premier League Studios, DP World Tour, amongst others where we are trusted to carry the live TV signals destined for their global TV audiences.
Cingularity was acquired by IMG Media in September 2022 to provide the expertise to guide IMG’s evolution towards a fibre-based contribution and distribution model.
The Role
Cingularity is seeking a Sales Engineer with a broadcast background to join the team to pave the way during our development and expansion over the coming years. You will play a crucial part in Cingularity’s growth, ensuring the client uptake in Cingularity solutions. You will be actively involved from client engagement until project initiation. You will aid company growth and utilise your knowledge to shape customer solutions. As part of a small, agile team, this is a genuine opportunity to make an impact, take ownership, and influence the direction of a growing business.
Identifying the technical requirements and designing specific solutions for both event-based and permanent services for prospective and current customers will be your primary responsibility. You will work with your counterparts in the sales team and directly with various accounts, while engaging with Cingularity’s engineering and operations team to ensure success.
We’re open to candidates based anywhere in the UK. You’ll work remotely most of the time, with attendance at our London office approximately once per month, plus occasional additional visits for important meetings or team events.
Why Join Us
Cingularity operates at every stage of the contribution and distribution workflow, delivering premium network and video services to the world's leading sports rights holders and broadcasters. As part of the IMG Group, you'll combine the scale and reach of a global business with the pace and autonomy of a start-up. You'll work on high-profile live events, shape solutions for marquee clients, and have your ideas heard.
Key Responsibilities
Identify and design appropriate solutions in line with Cingularity's offerings by working with the customer, the sales team, and the engineering team to exceed customer expectations.
Develop revenue-generating solutions that align with customers' requirements and delivery timelines
Grow and maintain healthy customer relationships, allowing you to gain a deeper understanding of the customer's business and allowing you to assist in their technology strategy.
Document solutions, including technical documentation, solution diagrams and drawings, used for both the end customer and internal teams.
Regular engagement with suppliers and vendors for proposals, quoting, and final bill of materials.
Be the technical point of contact for all technical questions, contribute to RFI/RFP responses, and assist with creating white papers.
Ensure the sales team is technically supported throughout the sales cycle while taking ownership of solution design.
Collaborate with Engineering and Operations to ensure that all solutions are supportable.
Assist in solution and service project initiation to ensure success and assist with further documentation of bespoke customer solutions working alongside project management as required.
Maintain and develop your technical knowledge, enabling you to continually improve and innovate technical designs and solutions.
Provide the sales team with technical training, enabling them to be more effective.
Carry out presentations and hands-on demonstrations as required.
Required Knowledge and Experience
Strong proven experience as a Broadcast Engineer or similar, ideally educated to a degree level or equivalent experience.
Experience in designing solutions in one or more of the following technology domains:
Global Telecommunications
Video IP delivery and Data Transmission - Contribution and Distribution
Broadcast services, Sports, and Event Broadcasting
An excellent working knowledge of telecommunications service providers' products, technologies, markets, and business models.
Demonstrated ability to work with highly technical solutions, comprehend customer requirements, and document those requirements.
Expertise in video media processing (encoding/decoding) with a solid understanding of industry standard codecs, including MPEG, JPEG 2000, and JPEG XS.
Familiarity with transmission and monitoring equipment usage, including encoders, decoders, video routers, DAs, IP gateways, multiviewers, and transport stream monitoring
Knowledge of the Net Insight portfolio, including experience on the MSR platform, is highly advantageous.
A working knowledge of Broadcast environments, workflows, and Broadcast IP technologies, including SMPTE standards, switching, routing, and multicast.
Knowledge of SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) delivery, including its use for low-latency video contribution and distribution over unmanaged IP networks.
Ability to use Microsoft Visio, Omnigraffle, or applications for solution design.
Experience in Office 365 or G-Suite, with excellent working knowledge of Excel or Google Sheets.
Familiarity with Salesforce or other CRM and opportunity-tracking software is advantageous.
Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn new tools and emerging technologies.
Soft Skills
Excellent listening skills, with the ability to articulate how our solution can meet the needs of prospects and customers’ requirements.
Ability to present complex technical solutions in a simplified manner that articulates benefits and solutions to stakeholders of different technical backgrounds. As well as being comfortable presenting to top management and senior executives.
Excellent skills in oral, written, and interpersonal communication.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, coupled with the ability to see the bigger picture.
Self-motivated and organised individual up for the challenge of a start-up
Exceptional attention to detail.
Capable of working on multiple proposals and projects simultaneously, with strong multitasking and task-tracking skills.
Working Conditions
This is a permanent full-time role
You can work remotely most of the time, with attendance at our London office approximately once per month, plus occasional additional visits for important meetings or team events.
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