Job Summary:

The Manager of Disney Cross Portfolio (XP) and Hulu Insights on the Disney Media Entertainment & Distribution (DMED) Research, Insights & Analytics – Forecasting & Analytics team will help lead a growing team of data and business analysts that will be responsible for cross portfolio and Hulu insights across the addressable landscape in support of the ad sales and ad sales finance organizations. This is a new team that will be responsible for the end-to-end execution of these insights from data mining, user level analytics to industry level trends for Senior Leaders across DMED. The Manager will work with their team in driving and managing projects from the Director and leadership as well as uncovering new insights, trends, and contextualizing supply drivers. This role will sit between a tactical team and the Director and will need to be able to manage both strategic and tactical operations as well as day to day organizational strategy of a growing team. This person will need to successfully manage workload for the team as well as perform as an individual contributor and meet leadership expectations and deadlines. The Manager will need to successfully communicate and manage a variety of roles within the group to ensure each team member is meeting expectations and thriving in their role.

Research, Insights & Analytics – Forecasting & Analytics is a highly collaborative team that works in an incredibly fast paced environment. The XP and Hulu Insights Manager will be responsible for building strong partnerships across multiple segments and cross-functionally with stakeholders across digital product and ad tech, ad sales, finance, distribution, programming, and marketing. They will work closely within their team executing ad-hoc requests and projects while managing leadership expectations as well as working across multiple teams.

Job Summary:

• Leadership: 
  • We are looking for a proven leader who has a demonstrated past of leading successful teams, setting priorities, driving initiatives in a fast-paced environment. We are looking for a leader who is results oriented and relationship driven. Someone who can motivate a variety of different functional positions and can effectively communicate complex initiatives/trends/data issues to internal/external stakeholders.
• Experimentation: 
  • Develop and test hypothesis and theories, define success metrics, and ensure accurate results methodologically, technically, and statistically.
• Deep-Dive Analysis:
  •  Analyze user behavioral data to identify patterns, uncover opportunities, and create common understanding of how people are interacting with the platform and content. With the ability to tie these granular trends back to broader XP and industry stories by connecting dots and trends that otherwise go unnoticed.
• Partnership: 
  • Partner closely with business stakeholders to help identify and unlock opportunities and projects. Create relationships across the portfolio to ensure the team has the most up to date information (data, programming, strategy, etc.).
• Data Quality:
  • Collaborate with data teams to help streamline and align data quality, MDM processes and anomaly detection. Develop SME level understanding on data sources and KPI definitions to ensure anomalies/bugs are escalated and when needed workarounds developed to ensure the data is as clean as possible.
• Operations:
  • Help Lead projects related to the usage of the XP and Hulu addressable landscape
  • Assist in developing processes and workflow to align the team to and disseminate information
  • Analyze usage metrics and user behaviors behind content consumption, conduct frequent and ongoing viewership and market analysis to inform strategy and highlight risks and opportunities to the business
  • Full process development of onboarding and integrating new team members

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

Leadership: lead direct reports, projects, and priorities in partnership with director

Experimentation: Develop and test hypothesis and theories, define success metrics, and ensure accurate results methodologically, technically, and statistically

Deep Dive Analysis:

• work with teammates and across internal teams effectively

Data Quality: ensure clean and accurate data across KPI’s

• manage team priorities, deadlines with effective communication and relationship building

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

• 10+ years entertainment/analytical experience, with 3+ years of team management
• Exceptional skills with Excel and PPT with an ability to create a narrative and persuade partners
• Strong working knowledge and previous experience with a variety of coding and query languages (i.e., SQL, Python, java, etc.), data visualization tools (i.e., Tableau) and BI tools (i.e., Looker, Platfora, Microstrategies, etc.).
• Passionate about entertainment, TV, and technology with a deep knowledge of the evolution of the digital/media industries
• Strong analytic skills, high attention to detail and accuracy in a high-paced ambiguous environment either in a team setting or independently
• Excellent verbal and written skills with an effortless ability to tailor messages for different audiences; proficient in delivering prepared presentations to executives
• Strong organizational and time management skills; ability to prioritize, multi-task and work with multiple teams and stakeholders on a variety of projects
• Reliable; resourceful; pro-active in approach to questions, looks for solutions and information in creative ways
• Flexible; embrace new assignments with a can-do attitude; will seek out opportunities to contribute without being asked

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree and MBA a plus (but not required)