Senior Manager, Programmatic Strategy

Job Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies.
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Job Description
The Senior Manager, Programmatic Strategy will report to the Director, Programmatic Strategy, focusing on supply strategy & insights, SSP relationship management, addressability, and business analysis.
This role will be instrumental at helping future proof NBCU's programmatic advertising business and will be very collaborative – working regularly with sales, ad operations, product, and planning teams.

Responsibilities:
• Own supply side strategy for the programmatic business. This includes analyzing business trends, measuring uplift of new initiatives, proposing optimizations and other highlights.
• Identify areas of opportunity to increase supply health and addressability, such as identity solutions and troubleshooting endpoints/devices.
• Day-to-day contact for SSP partners as well as internal programmatic teams (planning, ops, product, sales), clearly communicating performance and progress of new initiatives
• Recommend and evaluate new revenue opportunities to grow the indirect demand business, such as lead gen opportunities and identifying advertisers for sales outreach.
• Tracking performance for new launches (both video and display) and expansion of existing partnerships.
• Collaborate with business intelligence team on maintaining data integrity in internal systems and reporting capability enhancements
• Stay abreast to new developments within the broader media and advertising technology industry and within NBCUniversal's ad tech ecosystem.
Qualifications
Basic Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years' experience directly working in programmatic at a leading corporation, agency, technology platform and/or management consulting firm, with 1-2 years of business intelligence & SQL experience preferred
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to present results of complex analyses clearly.
• Strong PowerPoint skills and proven proficiency summarizing information/analyses into coherent and concise slides.
• Expert Excel user, working with large datasets, consolidating data from multiple sources, writing nested IF formulas
• Must possess a passion for media and strong intellectual curiosity

Desired Characteristics:
• Strong foundational understanding of advertising sales, advanced advertising and the programmatic marketplace.
• Superior attention to detail in written reports, emails, and PowerPoint presentations
• Strong organizational skills – ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines
• Highly adaptive to change in fast-paced environment
• Passionate about the television, ad tech, and digital media space
Additional Requirements:
Hybrid: This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week.
This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $115,000 - $140,000 (bonus eligible)

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