VP, Content Acquisition

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

As the Vice President of Content Acquisitions, you will be responsible for evaluating, acquiring, and managing licensed programming for NBCUniversal’s Television & Streaming portfolio (Peacock, NBC, and Bravo). The Content Acquisitions team licenses SVOD, AVOD, and linear rights to entertain and delight our priority audiences. After negotiating these licensing deals, the VP is responsible for communicating critical deal terms to stakeholders across the company. The ideal candidate is proactive, meticulous, organized, solutions-oriented, and passionate about television series, films, and emerging content formats.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Identifying potential acquisitions via synopses, scripts, trailers, and finished product. Managing the process of tracking available programming opportunities including current and former TV series and films, as well as emerging formats.
• Negotiating programming deals for NBCU that drive customer growth, engagement, and retention.
• Working with the Head of Content Acquisitions to oversee budgets, ideate possible acquisition scenarios, and propose innovative new partnerships and deal structures.
• Effectively managing distributor relationships, interfacing with distributors at studios, agencies, and independent production companies.
• Assisting in managing inventory management across NBCU networks and platforms.
• Evaluating content performance to inform acquisition and renewal decisions.
• Managing acquisition team members, supervising tasks including financial analyses, deal flow, inventory management, and competitive tracking.
• Serving as an expert on new distribution rights, and effectively interpreting and creating legal language to ensure NBCU is at the forefront of the business.
  Updating boilerplate deal memos, by studio, to reflect current marketplace, as needed.
• In close partnership with Legal, finalizing acquisitions contracts to signature.
  Supervising the population of our content rights management system (Compass), or equivalent system, with all relevant information, for content to be programmed properly.
• Creating and presenting various reports to help manage the acquisitions process.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• At least 10 years of experience in the field of content licensing in the television and streaming industries, either as a content buyer or seller.

Desired Characteristics:

• Co-production experience and knowledge of both domestic and international content distributors is highly preferred.
• Cash licensing experience working with a yearly minimum budget of $20M.
• Clearly established knowledge of and long-standing relationships with agencies (e.g., Fifth Season, CAA, UTA, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to establish effective relationships and collaborate with senior executives and peers across a highly matrixed, high-volume, fast-paced, and innovative corporate culture.
• Experience in negotiating revenue-sharing deals is a plus.
• A keen instinct for potentially-successful content and the foresight to acquire this content ah