Sr. Project Manager - Syndication Content Engagement Manager

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 ('SpinCo') 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

Our Media Group portfolio is a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands, supported by media industry leaders, Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky. When you join our team, you’ll work across our dynamic portfolio including Peacock, NOW, Fandango, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and TV Everywhere, powering streaming across more than 70 countries globally. And the evolution doesn’t stop there. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We’re always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we’re backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive.
 

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with key external and internal stakeholders at all organization levels, influencing and ensuring successful delivery of partner priorities.
• Act as the partner-facing lead for all content-related initiatives—across live/VOD operations, editorial alignment, metadata, playback, and content onboarding.
• Drive the end-to-end delivery of content related features and initiatives of varying sizes within the global roadmap, worth tens of million dollars of investment
• Act as a bridge between partner operations and GSP teams, ensuring partners are informed, enabled, and equipped for success with content supply chain activities.
• Be confident leading and chairing governance meetings with multiple senior, technical, product and business stakeholders and owning communication of the outputs (actions and key points).
• Be Proficient in creating and managing plans, including ramp-up planning for strategic content programs, and escalate risks as necessary to maintain delivery milestones.
• Clear and concise stakeholder communications up to exec level
• Provide regular internal and external reporting on content delivery health, operational milestones, and feature readiness.
• Facilitate decision making and deliver high quality presentations to senior stakeholders
• Partner with key stakeholders to ensure that program deliverables are developed and delivered to production as efficiently as possible.
• Be proficient in establishing and maintaining change control protocols.
• Have expertise and experience in establishing governance structures that define clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities for governance and delivery of initiatives / features, that align with organizational practice.
• Create processes, RACI’s, user guides and other documents to support the governance structure between NBCU/Sky/Comcast and the partner
• Show a willingness to go above and beyond, when needed to meet deadlines.
• Collect and address feedback from both external and internal stakeholders that feed into continuous improvement for our partners, collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement successfully and sustainably.
• Be the advocate for the partner and coordinate multiple teams across NBCU, Sky and third-party partners in multiple geo-locations and time zones to drive a best-in-class experience for