Job Title: Director, Scheduling and Planning Strategy, BritBox North America
Department: Editorial & Programming Strategy team
Division: BritBox
Work pattern: Hybrid
Location: New York, NY
Reports to: Head of Editorial and Programming Strategy, BritBox North America
About Us
We are creators and champions of the best British TV, and hosts to the world's largest collection. It's our mission to bring the most engaging and relevant British TV experience to fans like us all around the world.
We're relentlessly creative and in this new world of content, where the possibilities are endless, we are charting our own course.
We are thriving in 5 markets already around the world and have ambitious plans ahead of us. This is where you come in…. we are on the lookout for talented individuals to join our BritBoxer family and help us to navigate the adventures ahead.
Job Purpose
This role is responsible for the supply of finished tape programming to BritBox across its North America market. This includes both library and premiere content sourced from both BritBox's parent company and a range of 3rd party distributors.
The person fulfilling this role will partner with a second Content Acquisitions Senior Manager to ensure BritBox has the strongest possible slate of programming to drive customer acquisition, engagement and retention. He/she/they will source & track projects, evaluate & recommend targets and negotiate & close deals.
Responsibilities
- Develop long range plans at a service and cohort level; set premiere dates for all priority series
- Work with senior programming stakeholders to set clear priorities across genres, audiences, and content types
- Plan and execute premium offers to retain audience with regards to business development
- Plan and track ungated content for subscriber growth and promotional opportunity
- Oversee short-term scheduling plans
- Create presentations to socialize programming priorities, positioning and USPs
- Partner with finance and analytics teams to pull inventory reports and conduct in-depth analyses of inventory supply
- Analyze performance to create efficient budget optimization, including right-sizing our offer at a service and genre level
- Develop guides for genre-based acquisitions
- Maintain a keen understanding of our KPIs and how they impact scheduling decisions
- Continuously ask critical questions to evaluate and refine our content rollout strategies
- Contribute to an efficient and accurate inventory database
- Screen available series and films to recommend well-suited content for the service
- Research competitive programming, including market trends, to inform rollouts
- Develop actionable insights and recommendations to enhance our competitive positioning
- Contribute to a culture of continuous learning and improvement
- Run ad-hoc projects and reports as needed
Skills and Personal Attributes
- Team player who sparks communication, collaboration and innovation
- Endless curiosity to understand and love our viewers
- Passion for British programming is a plus
- Confidence to strategically assess opportunities through sophisticated analysis
- Creative problem-solving skills with a flair for finding solutions through collaboration
- Growth mindset, continually looking to learn and challenge assumptions
- Aptitude to take initiative with confidence and escalate when necessary
- Proclivity to be an accessible and knowledgeable content champion within the organization
- Proactive, dedicated and nimble approach to achieve success in a dynamic environment with shifting priorities
- Curiosity about technology, such as machine learning, is beneficial
Qualifications and Experience
- 8+ years of experience in scheduling strategy, content planning or a similar role within the streaming and/or television industry
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data and translate it into actionable strategies
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the capability to convey nuanced ideas to various stakeholders
- Capacity to execute the details whilst envisioning the bigger picture
- Excellent organizational skills to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Understanding of programming budgets and good financial business sense
- In-depth knowledge of the streaming landscape, particularly in the US and Canada
- Extensive experience in a data analytics platform like Tableau is helpful
- Experience managing a direct report is a plus
- Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Google Suite, AirTable is essential
- Flexibility to occasionally work outside of standard US working hours to meet with colleagues based in the UK and Australia is essential
Salary Range: $120-140K base salary.
Please note that the salary range is intended to give as an indicator of the salaries that could be attributed to the breadth or experience for a given role. All candidates will be measured based on their level of experience.
We work flexibly at BritBox, to support new markets some work may be conducted outside of US business hours to coordinate with territories in other time zones.
This job spec is not exhaustive and may change from time to time in line with the evolving nature of a dynamic and growing business.