Digital Pricing & Yield Analyst

Job Description

The Job

WarnerMedia seeks a Digital Pricing&Yield Analyst for the Sports STPL 2 department. As Digital Pricing & Yield Analyst, you will be the first point of contact for all Pre-sale inventory requests and plan submission reviews. In this position, you will review media plans, manage sponsorship calendars, approve entries within the order management system, and provide optimization solutions when required. In addition, you will collaborate with the Sports Digital Manager to provide various data performance reports for Sales leadership as well Turner Brand leads for digital platform site development analysis.
What brands will you be working on?
Turner Sports has a robust portfolio of world-renowned brands. You will work daily on influencing the businesses of NBA,.com and NCAA Digital.

The Daily
• Contract administration - review contract to ensure that it's booked correctly, matches signed IO, etc.
• Proposal Review - review proposal before agency submission to make sure inventory is available and pricing/packaging meets business needs-
• Work with Sales Planners to create packages within proposals
• Sponsorship Pricing and Impressions - Support Promo/Marketing teams to understand scale of sponsorship opportunities and collaborate with Sales management to price out all sponsorships.
• Pricing - collaborate with Sales Management on all pricing, including rate card maintenance.
• Inventory Management - manage sellouts and roadblock calendars to identify both high and low sellout concerns.
• Model impact of sales strategies, and develop new ad packages when appropriate
• Vertical Stewardship - identify UD trends by site inventory and work with Ops and Site to correct and deliver revenue-
• Inventory Booking Scenarios - Work with Ops and Sites to maintain booking guides and create new inventory selling titles
• Review/approve rich media IOs as well as invoices; consider rich media expense and consumer experience

The Essentials
• 1+ years of media experience in advertising sales or media industry
• Experience with digital ad serving systems, such as DFP and FreeWheel, and front-end sales systems such as Salesforce and Operative One.
• Experience with Business Intelligence tools such as Looker is a plus.
• Ad Exchange or Programmatic advertising experience is a plus.
• Strong analytical, communication and organizational skills required.
• Must be able to multi-task and prioritize under fast paced environment.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel (Pivot tables, vLookups, SumIfs, etc.)
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics or Science

What values are expected of candidates?
• Ask questions when uncertain, seek out the experts, and delegate when necessary
• Always be mindful of how an analysis or report can be better prepared and presented
• Pursue under-analyzed / overlooked business problems and investigate them
• Plan for contingencies and tailor your messaging to your audience's needs
• Follow industry news and how it relates to our company and our responsibilities specifically
• All meetings should have context, a focused agenda, and participants that will be engaged and follow-up

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gmx55m-18-227-48-131-42 in your application.