VP, Business Strategy & Performance

ABOUT LIV GOLF

The LIV Golf League is the world’s only global golf league featuring 13 teams, a 14-tournament schedule, and many of the world’s best golfers. Launched in 2022, the League was designed to expand the sport on a global level and create new value within the golfing ecosystem while enhancing the game’s societal impact. A landmark investment by LIV Golf also launched The International Series, a set of 10 enhanced events sanctioned by the Asian Tour, with elevated prize funds in world-class destinations, offering a pathway for leading professional and amateur golfers from around the world into the LIV Golf League.

Only four years into operations and with tournaments across North and Latin Americas, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Europe, LIV Golf remains committed to developing the sport at every level and exposing more people to the positive virtues of the game through its unique blend of intense competition and entertainment.

LIV Golf is owned and operated by LIV Golf Investments whose vision and mission are centered around making holistic and sustainable investments to enhance the global golf ecosystem and unlock the sport’s untapped worldwide potential.

HISTORY

LIV Golf launched in 2022 as an eight-event Invitational Series with tournaments across the U.S., Europe and Asia. 2023 saw the first official season of the LIV Golf League, establishing the sport’s first professional golf teams captained by many of the game’s most decorated superstars competing in 14 events around the world.

The format respects golf’s history and traditions with updates for modern-day sports fans; three days, 54 holes, no cut, shotgun start, and simultaneous team and individual competitions, offering a faster tournament that drives engaging storylines and offers an immersive fan experience. The League’s award-winning events, each wholly owned and operated by LIV Golf and broadcast to over 500 million homes worldwide, showcase world-class competition within a family-friendly environment. Music entertainment, live concerts and a festival-style atmosphere play a signature role with LIV Golf, a two-time winner of the World’s Best Golf Event from the World Golf Awards and a Sports Business Awards Finalist for Sports Event of the Year.

LIV Golf continues to expand its reach by bringing the League to new and returning markets featuring some of the most iconic venues in the world. It has also introduced free agency to professional golf, integrating end-of-season player promotion and relegation, team trades and off-season roster movement that drive year-round fan engagement, embraced by many of the world’s most popular sports.

Away from the entertainment on the course, LIV Golf is dedicated to enhancing the well-being of the communities it visits through its ground-breaking social impact and sustainability strategy, ‘Potential, Unleashed.’ Named a 2024 Most Impactful award winner by Front Office Sports for utilising its platform to make a positive impact off the course, the League is committed to giving back and improving the world through golf.

As a VP, Business Strategy & Performance, you will play a key role in writing the future for LIV Golf through developing and owning LIV’s Strategic agenda. You will lead a team responsible for investigating the most important enterprise and functional business questions that explore new growth horizons, explore and support any merger and acquisition activity, identify sources of competitive advantage, and strengthen LIV Golf’s position within the golf ecosystem. You will also drive cross-functional partnerships around critical business questions and lead our annual strategic planning process. Reporting to the SVP of Corporate Strategy and Performance, key stakeholders for this role will be LIV’s CEO and COO, our Executive Leadership Team, the Chief of Staff, and peers in Finance and Insights, among others.

Who We Are Looking For

As our VP, Business Strategy & Performance, you will:

• Partner with executive leadership to identify strategic and operational risks and opportunities that unlock both immediate and long-term value

• Create, prioritize, align and direct LIV's company-wide strategic agenda, covering the most critical strategic questions across the enterprise

• Lead cross-functional strategic projects against priorities, in close partnership with League and Team leadership

• Connect the dots across functional strategies to drive cohesion and integration, unlocking sustainable value

• Develop and institutionalize processes and ways of working across the company to ensure strategies are set, tracked, and executed in close partnership with Finance and the functions.

• Own the creation of materials and oversee the successful delivery of touchpoints with the Board, investors, advisors, and key partners across the golf landscape

• Provide strategic thought leadership to the executive leadership team, strategy leadership team, and beyond as relevant

• Develop a team of strategy directors, managers, and analysts

Required Experience

• 10+ years strategy development experience in global companies or at a top-tier consulting firm

• Sports industry expertise with deep golf knowledge is highly preferred

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience, or training

• MBA or other relevant post-graduate qualification would be advantageous

• Experience in corporate development, mergers & acquisitions

• Strong analytical and financial skills, including business modelling expertise

• Ability to drive work through ambiguity in a dynamic, fast-paced, results-oriented environment

• Demonstrated ability to create compelling presentations that story-tell, influence, and persuade

• Experience partnering with leadership across all organizational levels

• Bold, curious, blue sky thinking capabilities

• Demonstrated growth mindset

• Highly capable leader of teams – develops and coach talent

LIV Golf is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees.

We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on age, gender, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, race, ethnicity, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations where we operate. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organisation, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeships.

LIV Golf Investments makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.