Manager, Creative Operations

Company Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.

Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('Versant') comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. The well-capitalized company will have significant scale as a pure-play set of assets anchored by leading news, sports and entertainment content. The spin-off is expected to be completed during 2025.

Job Description

Position Overview Responsibilities:

The Manager, Creative Operations- Peacock, is a dynamic, production savvy project professional responsible for managing and supporting the creation of compelling creative for NBCU’s single title original marketing campaigns. This position requires excellent production management skills across video, print, digital and events, as well as exceptional communication, organization, and prioritization skills. This position will report to the Sr. Manager of Creative Operations and will be a key stakeholder to creative, social, strategy and marketing teams within the Peacock Brand Marketing organization, as well as external agencies and freelancers. Team-player mentality and commitment to building team culture are an absolute must.

• Project manage all facets of creative development from strategy and production, through to delivery and execution for Peacock Original Series campaigns
• Manage and support project planning, timelines, and budgets with the goal of delivering world-class creative on time, on budget and with minimal error
• Support campaign execution across various workstreams including post-production and media versioning.
• Facilitate version control, approvals, and delivery of all campaign assets.
• Oversee the media management and organization of confidential show material and ensure proper access for all required teams
• Create and improve required project documentation and reports, including asset trackers and production budgets, as well as meeting agendas, notes, and action items.
• Identify risk within a campaign and mitigate and/or escalate as necessary
• Represent Creative Ops and advocate for project management standards and best practices
• Help lead special initiatives and projects to help establish more efficient processes across team.
• Act as a point of contact for cross-functional partners, ensuring alignment and support.
• Provide day-to-day logistical and administrative support to ensure campaigns remain on track.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

• 3+ years' experience leading production centric projects
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, and an ability to use the right method for the task and situation.
• Excellent written and verbal communications, ability to tailor to all levels of an organization
• Strong leadership skills, with the proven ability to coordinate team members across teams and locations

Desired Characteristics:

• Self-starter, able to consistently deliver without requiring significant oversight and direction.
• Strong political acumen, able to tailor style and approach to influence teams and individuals to gain the commitment and performance required to deliver
• Passion for producing highly detailed work, and for leading correctness and accuracy across wide breadth of assignments
• Highly collaborative, able to build mutually beneficial relationships with delivery teams.
• Comfortable with uncertainty, but with the drive to establish order and struc