Strategic Partnerships Manager

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.

Job Summary

Responsible for driving revenue and product development efforts within the business unit through strategic planning and execution. Assesses business prospects, explores emerging markets and technologies, develops financial models, and prepares business proposals and requirements. Develops the organizationâ€s partnership strategy and manages external collaborations essential for achieving group objectives. Applies understanding of business and functional priorities to advance initiatives effectively. Serves as a vital contributor in a multifaceted and critical setting, providing expertise and guidance. May oversee teams or projects while sharing specialized knowledge and insights.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Identifying areas requiring external collaboration and determining optimal methods to establish effective partnership frameworks.
• Acting as the main external-facing lead, managing deals and relationships with significant external partners effectively.
• Maintaining relationships with external partners while ensuring alignment across product, engineering, sales, and the business unit's plan.
• Providing modeling, forecasting, and projections related to existing partnerships or potential new opportunities.
• Providing guidance on strategic planning development and managing daily operations with strategic revenue partners effectively and efficiently.
• Conducting regular and thorough monitoring of projects ensures high-quality delivery of all outputs and planned activities.
• Reporting on partner and project outcomes internally supports program growth and enhances overall development strategies effectively.
• Collaborating with various teams to develop and manage performance reporting for business units effectively.
• Responding to spontaneous requests from the senior leadership team as needed.
• Build and deepen relationships with clients, publishers and SSP partners to scale mutual businesses within Buyer Cloud.
• Develop and execute strategic roadmap for supply curation and private marketplace offerings, aligned with broader Freewheel and Buyer Cloud objectives.
• Exercising independent judgment and discretion consistently in significant matters.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Skills

Collaboration, Prioritization, Relationship Building

Compensation

Primary Location Pay Range: $115,165.14 - $172,747.71

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

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Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relevant Work Experience

7-10 Years

Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.