Executive Director, Advisory Services

FreeWheel, A Comcast Company, comprised of FreeWheel Publishers, FreeWheel Markets, and FreeWheel Advertisers – empowers all segments of The New TV Ecosystem. We are structured to provide the full breadth of solutions the advertising industry needs to achieve their goals. We power the technology, data enablement, and convergent marketplaces required to ensure buyers and sellers can transact across all screens, across all data types, and all sales channels, in order to ensure the ultimate goal – results for marketers. With offices in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Paris, Beijing, and across the globe, FreeWheel, A Comcast Company, stands to advocate for the entire industry through the FreeWheel Council for Premium Video.

Job Summary

FreeWheel, a Comcast Advanced Advertising Company, is the industry’s most complete advertising management solution. We enable our collective client base to manage and monetize their premium video inventory in the brand-safe ways they require. Companies including AT&T, Fox, NBC Universal and ViacomCBS depend on our robust advertising management / monetization platform, leverage our private marketplace for premium television inventory and seek out our Advisory Services, so they can generate revenue from their ad supported content.

Responsible for managing a high functioning global consulting team supporting revenue, product recommendations, strategic development initiatives and thought leadership across the business unit leveraging voice of the customer, product expertise, business and analytical skills and their ability to identify and elevate high level opportunities for the company, our clients, and partners both short and long term by leveraging voice of the customer, product expertise, business and analytical skills. Be able to execute complex multi-workstream engagements at scale to drive successful client engagements that deliver maximum value to customers, help drive thought leadership, and promote Freewheel’s initiatives. Responsible for establishing and maintaining internal and external partnerships needed for the group to advance and achieve its goals. Provides leadership and direction for diverse and complex functions. Contributes to the development of the organization’s business strategy. Interprets business strategy and develops organizational objectives to align with this strategy. Typically manages multiple teams of professionals by working across functional peer groups.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

• Oversee management and technology consulting team executing projects with leading media companies, pay-TV operators and online publishers.
• Develop and own “Trusted Advisor” relationships with large size clients identifying, scoping and overseeing consulting projects to drive their business objectives specializing in new name sales.
• Own new business development by identifying, scoping and pitching project engagements.
• Oversee the work of managers, providing coaching and guidance to improve their performance and ensure they deliver against their responsibilities.
• Guide team on how to provide hands-on guidance, problem solving, and expertise to support clients connecting their business needs with an appropriate technical solution specializing in new technology and business trends.
• Carry out regular and robust monitoring of all team projects to ensure quality delivery of outputs and activities.
• Set performance metrics and operating agreement structure and evaluate performance.
• Contribute to the growth and develop of the team through trainings and guidance.
• Report on the outcomes and impact of partners and projects to internal executive teams.
• Maintain and develop working relationship with executive leaders of Sales, Engineering and Product teams to align on projects and recommendations that wrap around our core technology offerings.
• Contribute as a stakeholder for internal strategic projects and liaise with peer groups through planning and execution.
• Provide strong thought leadership and presence across large, premium clients Executive teams as well as industry committees.
• Conduct special studies for top management in areas such as the organization's operational effectiveness, product adoption and use cases and other ad hoc requests from senior management team.
• Keep abreast of new developments in consulting management methodologies, agile practices, best practices and industry standards.
• Work with other organizations to continuously improve business processes.
• Readily and decisively intervene and find resourceful ways to remove obstacles in order to move the work forward and get efforts back on track.
• Make business-impacting decisions on the ground-floor.
• Thought-leader and influencer of strategic plans, agreements and competitive response. Present strategic