The Revenue & Yield Management teams develop and guide the revenue strategy for multiple brands across the Disney Portfolio. The team models, measures, sets, and executes these strategies across various marketplaces and deal types across all digital Disney advertising inventory. The Addressable Pricing & Planning team within Revenue & Yield Management focuses on optimizing digital ad inventory to maximize revenue by adjusting pricing based on supply and demand and by deploying inventory packaging strategies that drive demand and optimal mix. The Addressable Pricing & Planning team collaborates closely with Sales as well as various other functional teams across the Ad Sales organization to ultimately generate ad sales campaign plans that will turn into orders. Pricing & Planning team members are often client facing and have a key impact and responsibility for the advertiser and advertising agency customer experience.
Job Summary:
Disney Ad Sales’ Revenue & Yield Management division is seeking an Executive Director to join our dynamic Addressable Pricing & Planning team. This role will lead the pricing & planning function across Disney’s collection of brands, with ownership of the Agency and Brand lines of business. In addition, this role will also have accountability for leading Execution and Development across the Addressable Planning team. As Exec Director, Pricing & Planning, you will play a vital role in developing and executing monetization strategies that optimize the interface between supply & demand; this includes short-term & long-term pricing tactics, Upfront & Scatter partnerships, and inventory maximization strategies across the Agency and Brand advertising business. This role will also direct strategies around and have responsibility for Planner onboarding, training, Planning system enhancement readiness, and ad sales order quality assurance.
Reporting into the Vice President of Pricing & Planning, you will lead, manage, and scale a multi-regional team of Directors, Managers, Sales Planners, and Specialists with accountability for stewarding overall team performance towards departmental as well as agency or brand specific revenue targets and overall execution and development of the entire Addressable Planning team. This is a highly cross-functional role, which partners with senior leaders across Sales, Inventory Analytics, Account Management, Ad Platform, and Sales Enablement to both drive revenue through pricing and packaging strategies and provide exceptional customer service via automating workflows, creating operational efficiencies, and improving speed-to-market. In addition, the role will oversee strategies deployed to insure the Planning organization is sufficiently trained to operate successfully, prepared for planning system changes, and supported with plan and order quality assurance leveraging an offsite partner. In parallel, you will maintain strong business relationships with senior Sales and Operations leaders to expand partnerships with key clients, agencies, and industry categories.The right person for this role must be very detail-oriented, a strong communicator, a problem-solver, and is adept at building & maintaining relationships across business divisions. If you are someone who thrives in a results-driven, fun, and fast-paced Sales environment, then this is an excellent role for you.
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