Manager, Forecasting

Job Description

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Vice President, Client Strategy; you will help support the Client Strategy team and broader sales organization in three ways by:
• Applying analytical skills in analyzing advertising spend across the market to uncover opportunities and threats in ad spend
• Creating, maintaining and inventing analytical approaches to forecasting aspects of the advertising market
• Convey macro trends into insightful materials that showcase their potential impact to marketers. You will help the team deliver unique and compelling insights and analytics to support the broader sales organization.

Duties and Responsibilities
• Maintain and optimize existing forecasting models
• Proactively use data and forecasting to uncover and quantify sales opportunities
• Proactively use data to generate captivating analytics and insights to support client communication and marketing strategies
• Coordinate and collaborate across the organization to build compelling narratives in support external sales strategy
• Procure, clean and ingest data for mid to large scale analytic projects
• Aid in procuring and testing new data sources
• Create, test, and operationalize new analytic approaches
• Develop knowledge of the entire NBCUniversal portfolio
• Leverage macro and micro economic data to create new forecasting models and methods to uncover insights about the advertising market

Qualifications

Qualifications
• BA/BS or equivalent experience in Finance, Economics, Statistics, or similar field of study
• Applied analytical experience and familiarity with statistical, econometric, or financial modeling
• 4+ of relevant experience (including internships)

Eligibility Requirements
• Must be willing to work in New York, NY in a hybrid capacity. Tuesday - Thursday on-site, Monday and Friday remote with the flexibility to adjust as business needs dictate
• 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
• Willing to constantly ask questions and learn
• Strong organizational skills – ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Team player with strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Passion for story telling through data
• Excellent writing skills including presentation development
• Outstanding reading comprehension skills
• Understanding of the creative development process
• Passionate about the television and digital media space

Salary Range: $80,000 - $100,000, bonus elidgible

Additional Information

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