Manager, Client Partnerships

Job Description

Responsibilities
Job Purpose:

The Manager will support the Client Partnerships team to engage with our leading clients on custom opportunities across the NBCUniversal portfolio. Position will work closely with sales and marketing teams to develop client-focused efforts designed to drive revenue and grow our clients businesses.

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Ideate and lead cross portfolio marketing and creative solutions for agency/category specific advertising partners
• Liaison for designated agency portals and all categories
• Marketing Strategy: Synthesize brand advertiser client direction, sales strategy, cultural/market trends, and consumer insights into compelling strategic platforms that focus thinking and spark creative ideation
• Communication: Cultivate relationships, gaining trust and respect, and facilitate efficient, transparent communication with internal cross-functional partners: sales, network marketing, strategic partner liaisons, design, research, and content creative teams.
• Cross-platform dexterity: Develop and communicate ideas that stretch across platforms, leveraging them creatively and effectively in service of the idea, the client advertiser, and the consumer (linear, digital, mobile, social, VOD, second-screen, etc.)
• Pre-sale process: Attend media/marketing calls with brand advertisers and/or agencies to identify client needs, lead internal briefing sessions of cross-disciplinary teams, develop response proposals ensuring content ideas are purposeful, on-brand, and on-strategy, and pitch ideas succinctly & effectively
• Visual storytelling: Weave insights and ideas into compelling, coherent stories using PowerPoint and other desktop design applications
• Post-sale process: Oversee the execution of multi-platform campaign packages sold to brand advertisers by serving as a centralized point of contact and ensuring that all stakeholders are consistently informed and adhering to the terms of the deal

Qualifications/Requirements
Qualifications:
• BA/BS or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 5 years of sales, client solutions or agency experience

Eligibility Requirements:
• Must be willing to work in New York, NY
• Willingness to travel and work overtime
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
• Must be 18 years or older

Desired Characteristics
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Knowledge of sales, media and brand marketing process
• Strong knowledge of Power Point and building proposals
• Proficiency in excel
• Ability to solve problems and work proactively
• Passion for the content and distribution business
• Knowledge of the digital marketplace preferred

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-roo4x1-18-189-178-37-42 in your application.