Director, Media Ops Planning & Projects

AMC Networks•Bethpage, NY

3d•$145,000 - $155,000•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, coordinates media projects and resources across departments and external partners, and communicates request status and performance metrics to senior management. It also supports project prioritization and execution, vendor engagement, and the delivery of sales initiatives while aligning work to business KPIs.

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 project 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 effectively across personnel levels, from executive 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 and Partners and Platforms teams to assess sales requests against Media Operations & Engineering capacity.
Use system tools and Power BI to report, present, and compare forecasted and actual metrics to senior management.
Create and share capacity plans, forecasts, and reports.
Track internal and external resources and communicate the status of in-progress requests.
Represent B&T’s capacity interests in discussions with teams outside B&T.
Train internal and external teams on company resources and tools to encourage self-service access to information.
Collaborate with departments to set realistic project deadlines based on supply chain capabilities, capacity forecasts, resource availability, and request prioritization.
Gather supply chain metrics to inform 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 and align cross-department staff scheduling.
Lead vendor engagement to address capacity gaps and complete collateral creation projects.
Scope personnel time and operational costs for sales team requests.
Track approved sales initiatives from kickoff through completion.
Determine project execution approaches and required project step completion dates.
Determine when and which vendors to engage for collateral acquisition.
Commit to projects during PI Planning sessions with the VP to support business KPIs.