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Sr. Specialist, Inventory & Yield

Ad Sales - Inventory & Yield Job ID: R240388 New York, New York   JOIN THE PARTY

As a Senior Digital Inventory & Yield Analyst, you will be in a high visibility role responsible for sales planning, budgeting, supporting, and forecasting areas for maximizing DIRECTV’s revenue and the utilization of its inventory.

Here’s what you’ll do:

  • Play a key part in measuring and optimizing the overall health of DIRECTV’s digital business, including analysis of revenue, supply, and demand, managing complex reporting projects related to sales, planning, finance, and sales channels.
  • Drive inventory and yield execution planning for digital strategy implementation.
  • Develop digital inventory strategies on initiatives for distributing and providing services through sales channels and/or geographic area.
  • Assist in defining optimization standards, pricing, growth metrics, and benchmarks across internal and external clients.
  • Analyze and distribute executive level digital reporting; highlight key benchmarks, closely monitor market trends, and progress against daily revenue targets.
  • Identify new opportunities for monetization that align with marketplace demand and demonstrate DIRECTV’s thought leadership in market.
  • Work collaboratively with sales region and marketing leadership to identify issues, develop solutions to maximize revenue, and build executive support.
  • Work closely with yield and analytics teams to optimize pricing and inventory volume through direct and programmatic platforms for the explicit purpose of maximizing revenue.
  • Work closely with the System Ops team onboarding and reporting on our unified auction solution.
  • Identify and investigate day-to-day revenue fluctuations, anomalies, and inconsistencies.
  • Vet new technology platforms and capabilities to optimize; quantify revenue potential as well as risks (and how to overcome them); work with product and platforms teams to understand resource allocation against prioritized initiatives.
  • Collaborate with Sales and Planning on vetting new campaign/partnership opportunities by evaluating inventory availability and pricing.

What you’ll need to be successful:

  • 3 - 4 years of digital media business experience (digital inventory, pricing, and planning yield), or similar field with fundamentals of the role.
  • Microsoft Excel savvy is a requirement in this Excel driven role. Skills must include Excel formulas and pivot tables.
  • Knowledge / experience in Freewheel MPP, Looker, Opt1.
  • A self-starter who takes on and proactively betters the business as an independent thinker while also creating an environment that supports teamwork and collaboration within the department and across the organization.
  • A strong capacity to learn on the job in an ever-changing digital media landscape, especially as it relates to new systems and technologies.
  • Thrive in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to multi-task and manage multiple priorities.
  • Strong communication and writing skills. The role focuses heavily on using numbers to tell a story in a digestible manner.
  • Exceptionally organized and detail oriented.
  • Proven leadership and problem-solving skills.
  • Effective time management skills – ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.

This role requires 2 days/week in the New York City office.

A career with us comes with big rewards:

DIRECTV's compensation structure is designed to be market-competitive and fully supports efforts to attract and retain employees. It is the company's policy to offer pay that is competitive with other employers in the local market. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.

The Base Salary range displayed below reflects the minimum and maximum target salary for the position and work location(s) listed in the job posting US Labor Market Zone(s). Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

DIRECTV WAGE ZONE

N4: $96,140 - $144,210

Please note that the salary ranges reflect base salary only and do not include bonus or benefits - when you consider all of these together, it represents a pretty impressive total compensation package.

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