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Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives
Comcast
Philadelphia, PA, United States
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ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY:
Comcast Cable Advertising is hiring a Strategic Initiatives Senior Director, focused on driving initiatives that are critical to the long term growth of Comcast's advertising businesses. The role is based in Philadelphia, PA and will report to the Head of Strategic Initiatives. In this position, you will coordinate, develop and execute strategy and business operations priorities in collaboration with cross-functional teams. The Senior Director will be expected to independently organize and drive teams to execute against goals in a timely fashion. He/she will collaborate with and update senior level executives across the organization. A successful candidate will require excellent communication and problem solving skills, talent for managing executive and day-to-day relationships, the ability to think strategically while remaining detail oriented, and will bring simplicity to complex issues. The ideal candidate will have experience in media and advertising with strong organizational and delivery skills.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Drive strategic initiatives that are critical to the long term growth of the advertising business. Work and partner with senior level executives across multiple business units and teams to execute against goals in a timely fashion. Independently build project plans, obtain appropriate buy-in and approvals for planned execution and timelines, and regularly communicate status of projects to relevant stakeholders.
Employees at all levels are expected to:
-Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job
-Own the customer experience think and act in ways that put our clients first, and make them promoters of our products and services
-Know your stuff be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services
-Win as a team make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas
-Be an active part of the Net Promoter System a way of working together that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company by joining huddles and elevating opportunities to do better for our employees and clients
-Drive results and growth
-Respect and promote inclusion and diversity
-Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and communities
Core Responsibilities:
• Drive strategic and operational initiatives that are critical to the long term growth of the advertising business.
• Quickly gain deep understanding of new subject matter and the related business practices and processes in place around it.
• Make well informed and thoughtful recommendations for process improvement or solutions to fill current gaps.
• Develop a thoughtful point of view on Comcast's opportunity in the advertising industry, and how we can work effectively with other parties in the industry (partners, frenemies, etc.) to drive our success.
• Interpret and utilize data to validate and support points of view and proposed decisions / solutions.
• Prepare effective presentation materials with data visualizations and concise messaging of relevant points.
• Work across senior-level executives with competing priorities and objectives to identify strategies and solutions that most benefit the organization.
• Build strong relationships at the executive level while performing these tasks.
JOB SPECIFICATION:
• Masters Degree preferred
• Generally requires 12+ years related experience
ABOUT YOU:
• Experience in media or adverting industry preferred
• Comfortable leading meetings and communicating with senior level executives within, and outside of Comcast partners, customers and competitors.
Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer