Manager, Advanced Advertising Strategy & Partnerships

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.

Here you can be your authentic self. 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

As the Manager, Advanced Advertising Strategy & Partnerships you will report to the Director, Advanced Advertising Strategy & Partnerships, supporting partnership relationship management and business analysis across a growing portfolio of programmatic partnerships, first-party data collaborations, and streaming distribution agreements with television OEMs (device partners like Roku, Samsung, Vizio, etc.).

As NBCUniversal’s advertising sales business shifts toward more automated, data-driven ways of transacting with strategic first-party audiences at its core, the opportunity to launch and scale partnerships with retail media networks and programmatic demand-side platforms is accelerating.

You will represent priorities future proofing NBCUniversal’s advertising business while maintaining distribution agreements with streaming device platforms, working closely with stakeholders across the entire Ad Sales division.

Responsibilities

• Project manage cross-functional retail media and device/OEM partnership workstreams including new technical integrations, innovative incremental revenue opportunities, improved business operations, and implementing other partner assets such as DSPs.
• Ensure partners adhere to contractual requirements and uniformity within NBCU’s programmatic technology offering.
• Partner closely with operations and planning teams to ensure advertising delivery obligations with OEMs are met in full and troubleshot when issues arise.
• Prioritize agendas with the Director for recurring, cross-functional meetings.
• Cultivate strong relationships within the organization to identify, initiate and lead partnership and growth strategy initiatives.
• Clearly communicate partnership status updates to programmatic leadership.
• Stay abreast to new developments within the broader media and advertising technology industry and within NBCUniversal’s ad tech ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience directly working in programmatic or advanced advertising at a leading corporation, agency, technology platform and/or management consulting firm.
• Proven quantitative analytical abilities, including Excel modeling skills.
• Strong PowerPoint skills and proven proficiency summarizing information/analyses into coherent and concise slides.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills; the ability to present results of complex analyses clearly.
• Excellent organizational, time and people management skills and the ability to work in groups and independently.
• Must possess a passion for media and strong intellectual curiosity.

Desired Characteristics:

• Demonstrable business acumen with a foundational understanding of advertising sales and the programmatic advertising marketplace.
• Proven communicator with the ability to simplify complex concepts and distill information down to concise, digestible bullets.
• Superior attention to detail in written reports, emails, and PowerPoint presentations.
• Strong organizational skills – ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.
• Passionate about the television, ad tech, and digital media space.
• Highly adaptive to change and willing to ask questions and learn.

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