Content Strategy & Analysis Manager - Italy Milano

Content Strategy & Analysis Manager - Italy
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

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**Your New Role

As a Manager of Content Strategy & Analysis, you will be joining the team responsible for developing and implementing content strategy across WBD's global streaming portfolio, evaluating content performance and trends, and providing insights and recommendations to leadership to influence decision making.

This role requires a high level of collaboration with partners across WBD - the right person for this role is the kind of person who obsesses over details, thrives in ambiguity, and jumps at the opportunity to take on new challenges.

The Manager position will play a key role in supporting relationships across teams and delivering high quality work in one of the highest priority business initiatives at Warner Bros Discovery.

**Scope of the Role

- Key point of contact for Italian team and lead for the CS&A function for Italy reporting to the CS&A Director for Southern Europe.

- The role will be key in ensuring the success of the upcoming market launch in Italy by preparing and executing a content strategy for the market in very close cooperation with top leadership (VP of Original Productions, Acquisitions and GM for the region).

Additionally, the role entails the day-to-day management of content strategy, performance, and analytics for our existing products in Italy.

- Rich WBD ecosystem across the region (streaming platforms; 10 linear channels; local theatrical productions) with growing complexities

- Critical role advising senior stakeholders, both from streaming and across WBD (VP level or above) and providing regular updates to GMs.

The Italy Manager will oversee a content budget and give critical advice on how to spend it to optimize our content offering, defining how Max will look to consumers in the country.

**Your Role Accountabilities

- Lead key content forums in the country, including performance and business reviews, and be the single source of truth for anything content performance in all other cross functional meetings.

- Own the Italy content strategy reporting directly to the CS&A Director for Southern Europe, leading end-to-end strategies for the country and delivering results that will feed into our Global Streaming Strategy.

- Help lead development of global frameworks and analyses for assessing key strategic questions facing the business, including such areas as:

- Evaluating how much and what type of content to invest in

- Identifying content performance indicators and trends

- Assessing title and portfolio level performance

- Core driver of green light analysis for original titles in the country with very limited guidance and feedback from managers, presenting at PIC for approval from of the Streaming CFO and CEO.

- Conduct deal valuation for licensed content, determining our willingness to pay and delivering recommendations to the Acquisitions VP and GM for the country.

- Drive in close cooperation with acquisitions leads (VPs and above) country content licensing strategies to maximize return and drive profitable growth.

- Develop and implement benchmarking systems and processes to support analyses and recommendations.

- Clearly and efficiently communicate to partner with, teach, influence, and/or manage internal stakeholders and external peers based on the work to build the tools and processes necessary to drive strategy and analysis initiatives.

- Develop strong relationships within partner organizations and support Content and other DTC teams in understanding current performance on the platform, connecting content insights to business opportunity.

- Maintain advanced knowledge of industry trends and competitive activity, becoming an expert on high impact areas.

- Proactively identify strategic opportunity areas, drive elements of project management of key initiatives and independently "manage up" and raise to managers.

**Qualifications & Experience

- Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, engineering, mathematics, statistics or other relevant field that demonstrates extensive quantitative orientation.

- 6+ years of work experience, including 3 years in top management consulting, investment banking, private equity, hedge funds and/or Corporate Strategy; ideally experience in a content strategy role in streaming or media and entertainme