Director, Media Ops Planning & Projects

AMC Networks•Bethpage, NY

16h•Hybrid

About The Position

AMC Global Media is seeking a Director, Media Ops Planning & Projects to join its Media Operations & Engineering team in Bethpage, NY. The role plans and forecasts team capacity, prioritizes and tracks media projects, coordinates internal and external resources, and reports operational metrics to senior management. It works with departments across the organization and external vendors to align project commitments with supply chain capabilities, staff availability, and business priorities.

Requirements

At least 10 years of management experience with an industry focus in media.
At least 5 years of experience in media linear broadcast or non-linear distribution.
Bachelor’s degree in communications, project planning, or media.
Proven success in capacity planning and forecasting.
Previous leadership experience overseeing one or more teams.
Experience in project planning and successful delivery.
Ability to incorporate new tools and statistics for metrics, resource reporting, and forecasting.
Experience with media supply chain software and products.
Strong collaboration, problem-solving, listening, and presentation skills.
Excellent time management and prioritization skills, including the ability to manage multiple sales and management requests while delivering core responsibilities.
Ability to communicate across personnel levels, from executive-level summaries to mid-management explanations.

Nice To Haves

MBA.
Project management certifications.
JIRA experience.
Background using Xytech Media Pulse.

Responsibilities

Liaise with the Tech Delivery team and Partners and Platforms team to compare sales requests with Media Operations & Engineering capacity.
Use system reporting tools and Power BI to present forecasted and actual metrics and comparisons to senior management.
Create and share capacity plans, forecasts, and reports.
Track in-progress requests across internal and external resources and communicate their status.
Represent B&T’s capacity interests in discussions with teams outside B&T.
Train internal and external teams to use company resources and tools and encourage self-service access to information.
Collaborate with relevant departments to set realistic project deadlines based on supply chain capabilities, capacity forecasts, resource availability, and request prioritization.
Gather supply chain metrics to guide personnel time allocation, supply chain improvements, cost-to-market, and time-to-market.
Work with the Manager, Cross Department Planning, to prioritize and execute media projects in alignment with cross-department staff scheduling.
Lead vendor engagement to fill capacity gaps and complete collateral creation projects.
Estimate personnel time and operational costs associated with sales team requests.
Track approved sales initiatives from kickoff through completion.
Determine execution approaches and required project step completion dates.
Determine when and which vendors to engage for collateral acquisition.
Make project commitments during PI Planning sessions in conjunction with the VP to support business KPIs.