Senior Director, Corporate Strategy

Company Description

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.

As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain, and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests, and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced, and heard. Together, we’ll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.

Job Description

Role Purpose: 

Reporting to the VP, Corporate Strategy & Development you will have responsibility for critical strategic projects. You will oversee market assessments, sizing of new opportunities, specific company evaluations, partnership structures, and M&A work. 

In this highly visible position, you will be a critical member of NBCU’s Corporate Strategy & Development leadership team and partner with key functional leaders across many divisions of NBCUniversal, including international business lines and corporate parent Comcast.

Here’s what you’ll do in this role:

• Work independently and lead small teams of corporate strategy and business unit resources in critical strategic projects including market assessments and sizing of new opportunities, specific company evaluations, partnership structures and terms, and M&A
• Analyze consumer and market trend data as well as prepare and present financial modeling for ongoing engagements
• Communicate findings effectively both verbally and in written form including end-to-end, polished, executive-ready presentations
• Identify and evaluate opportunities around new businesses and extensions of existing businesses with a predominant focus on international territories, rapidly growing digital sectors and emerging market segments
• Continually evaluate new market trends and competitive opportunities/threats; support Comcast’s overall corporate strategy and business development planning with focus on long term growth for the combined businesses
• Develop strategic relationships with companies operating across a variety of platforms in both traditional and digital consumer segments
• Unlock strategic opportunities across NBCU’s network of partners; work to strengthen the cohesiveness across Comcast and NBCU’s operating units
• Identify new trends, categories, concepts and businesses that will profitably grow the corporation in alignment with the strategic plan
• Assess fit, feasibility, and financial impact of new corporate and divisional strategic investments and work on variety of high level special projects, including competitive due diligence
• Contribute to the building, mentorship and retention of an outstanding, high performing team. Provide inspiring leadership on multiple levels— thought leadership, operational excellence, performance orientation and collaborative leadership throughout the organization

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of strategic planning experience across various media and consumer business lines, including digital / mobile content and services, linear / non-linear content creation and distribution, filmed entertainment, parks and attractions and other consumer intimacy models
• Excellent quantitative analysis skills as evidenced by 5+ years analyzing consumer and market trend data
• Ability to integrate market, competition, trends, organizational state and other issues into a coherent vision for change, development and growth
• Ability to accurately assess longer term implications of changing business models with simultaneous focus on optimizing the short term; you are someone who understands the growth drivers of the business and prioritizes initiatives that will accelerate momentum

Desired Characteristics:

• MBA or other advanced degree