Sr. Director, Distribution & Sales Analytics

Position Overview: Sr Director of Distribution and Sales Analytics is a key leadership position responsible for overseeing the distribution analytics function. This position sits within the Data, Insights, and Strategic Analytics team, a group whose charter to provide actionable insights that enable decision-making across SpinCo’s properties. The role will traverse the many distribution avenues that put SpinCo’s content and products in front of audiences. Areas of focus include leading analytics for linear network and digital product carriage deals, informing go-to-market approach, distribution valuation analyses that span linear and streaming, SpinCo’s portfolio of FAST channels, and distribution market intelligence to contextualize performance and support our growth. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker and media industry enthusiast who enjoys leading high performing teams to solve complex problems in novel ways. Delights in building for the future while optimizing current distribution channels, to drive business value and deliver on consumer needs. An adept collaborator able to develop strong relationships cross functionally and with key stakeholders. Responsibilities: Lead a team of data and business analysts to gather, analyze, and interpret data, identifying trends, opportunities, and challenges across our distribution channels to provide strategic guidance to senior management. Develop frameworks and strategies for evaluating distribution value and shaping SpinCo’s positioning in distribution renewals. Prepare thought provoking executive level presentations on the video landscape, informing competitive performance across streaming, linear and FAST. Evaluate impact of distribution, partnerships, or programming changes in collaboration with stakeholders Establish relationships with research teams across the company to share insights and maintain a well-rounded view of the media landscape  Be the expert in a wide array of media data sources (3rd, 2nd and 1st party), knowing what is best to use for the task at hand. Shape the direction of SpinCo’s distribution, evaluating new opportunities, tracking the landscape, proactively generating ideas for leadership, and coordinating across teams to execute. Advance contractual reporting terms in distribution deals and manage vendor relationships, evaluating new vendors as needed to keep pace with evolving business demands. Leveraging data visualization tools and technologies to present findings in a compelling and easy-to-understand manner for stakeholders at all levels. Lead analyses that involve querying large datasets to evaluate opportunities and address distribution evolution.