Vice President, Global Strategy

News Corp•New York, NY

About The Position

News Corp is seeking a Vice President, Global Strategy to help drive the development, execution, and growth of our global advertising and platform partnerships. This role plays a critical part in operationalizing our global monetization strategy, supporting cross-market commercial initiatives, and building the insights, materials, and partnerships that enable News Corp’s businesses to unlock new revenue opportunities. Working across a wide range of stakeholders—including News UK, News Australia, Dow Jones, The New York Post, Realtor.com and HarperCollins—the VP will contribute to the Corporate Strategy Team’s mandate: expanding platform relationships, accelerating innovation, fostering cross-business synergies, and strengthening our global strategic advertising partnerships. This is a high-visibility role for a commercially minded strategist who can blend analytical rigor, relationship management, cross-functional orchestration and compelling storytelling to help deliver on News Corp’s global revenue ambitions.

Requirements

10+ years in Strategy, Advertising Strategy, Commercial Strategy, or Business Development within a scaled media, technology or platform business; consulting or investment banking experience with a media focus is a strong plus.
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics or a related field; advanced degree preferred but not required.
Proven experience developing and managing advertiser and platform relationships.
Strong ability to evaluate market and technology trends and translate them into actionable commercial recommendations.
Exceptional strategic, analytical and project-management capabilities.
Outstanding communication skills—able to influence senior leaders, simplify complexity, and produce high-impact narratives for executive audiences.
Exceptional research and synthesis skills, with fluency in both internal and external data sources.
Strong understanding of the evolving media, advertising and consumer technology landscape.
High commercial acumen and experience developing business plans, financial models or opportunity sizing analyses.
A self-starter comfortable operating in a matrixed, fast-moving, unstructured environment.

Responsibilities

Identify and size new multi-market advertising opportunities; lead and support the sales process, from opportunity assessment to pitch development and partnership execution.
Map global client and agency relationships, unlocking new access points and identifying underserved client groups.
Carefully avoid sales channel conflict, tailoring detailed engagement plans for strategic clients to ensure a cohesive coverage plan for key customers.
Maintain and grow relationships with central agency leaders, digital and data teams, and global client organizations to complement and amplify BU sales activity.
Maintain a multi-market sales pipeline and convert opportunities into structured commercial delivery plans.
Lead the Global Solutions Team, ensuring cross-BU coordination and expanding global advertiser relationships.
Develop high-impact materials—including global strategy narratives, multi-market sales collateral and client-ready proposals—that articulate News Corp’s unique value across businesses and geographies.
Identify opportunities to reach new client groups, organizing customer events and coordinating presence at major industry events, such as Cannes Lions.
Provide commercial and analytical support for major advertiser partnerships, including ongoing relationship management and performance reporting.
Support the development of scalable advertising product strategies, incorporating market trends, partner feedback and BU requirements.
Translate the global Advertising Technology vision into actionable workstreams and materials that support BU adoption, monetization growth and consistency.
Partner with Product, Technology and Data teams to progress global monetization initiatives (Apps, Video, CTV, contextual and first-party data capabilities).
Evaluate market trends, competitive shifts and emerging technologies; provide insights that inform product strategy and global tech partnerships.
Support the Platform Partnerships team on the advertising implementation of platform relationships, ensuring they drive sustainable revenue growth.
Provide thought leadership as part of global councils, innovation forums and cross-business working groups, presenting perspectives on emerging formats (e.g., AR, video, audio) and platform trends.
Conduct market, customer and competitive analyses to inform monetization strategy and partnership decisions.
Produce white papers, executive briefings, landscape reviews and Board-level presentations on new opportunities, industry developments and key partnerships.
Serve as an internal consultant to operating divisions, applying structured analytical frameworks to assess commercial benefits, risks and financial implications.
Drive consistency and accuracy in global advertising dashboards and reporting for senior stakeholders.
Manage multiple concurrent strategic projects, ensuring clear objectives, timelines and deliverables.
Coordinate across Analytics, Operations, Engineering, Finance, Product and BU teams to ensure initiatives are aligned, well-executed and measurable.
Enable global transparency through structured communication, documentation and stakeholder management.
Support Corporate Strategy leadership in preparing materials for executive leadership, including quarterly board updates, partnership reviews and strategic outlooks.