Senior Programming Manager, Prime Video Italy Bardi

Senior Programming Manager, Prime Video Italy
Bardi
Emilia Romagna, Bardi

DESCRIPTIONJob summaryDo you want to define the generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching Prime Video is one of the leading digital video services on the Internet today, and we? re just getting started changing the way millions of people around the world enjoy content.

Now available in more than 240 countries and territories, Prime Video offers customers the broadest selection of any on-demand video service, including our critically-acclaimed Amazon Originals Series such as the multi-award-winning The Marvelous Mrs.

Maisel, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, The Boys; Italy produced hit Amazon Original series like LOL, Celebrity Hunters, Dinner Club; exclusive TV shows like Amici Specials; and movies like Il principe cerca figlio, The tomorrow War and Cinderella, plus live sport including the Champions League Wednesday matches. We are seeking an Italy Senior Manager, Local Programming to be a part of the Amazon Prime Video team. We are seeking a Senior Manager, Local Programming in Italy to be a part of the Amazon Prime Video team.

This role will be a critical contributor within the Prime Video Italy organization.

This position will be the cornerstone between creative development, content acquisition, production, post, marketing and publicity to ensure the most customer obsessed schedule and portfolio for Italy.

Specifically, this role involves diving deep on the audience goals of each title, and making recommendations to maximize their success through release plans in combination with the entire portfolio.

The Local Programming Manager will support the development of the milestones and launching schedule for shows, working with stakeholders to ensure timely and successful delivery of our productions. This role also supports local programming and scheduling across originals and licensing, to drive customer acquisition, engagement, and retention.

The output is directing our development pipelines as we look to close gaps over a three-year horizon, and mechanizing licensing or other outputs in the case we have near-term shortfalls.

The role will rely heavily on influence over authority to drive project deliverables.

Effective cross-functional collaboration within the Global/EU Programming Strategy team and across Planners, Marketing, Finance, and Content teams (SVOD Originals/Licensing, TVOD, Channels, AVOD and Live Sports) is crucial to the success of this role. This position will be based in Italy and will require frequentcollaboration with local as well as UK/EU/US-based stakeholders. Key job responsibilitiesMake recommendations on TV series and Movie release dates, plans and related metrics, track progress, and manage through obstacles to achieve program objectives and audience goals

- Translate service

- and audience-level priorities into actionable release plans for our growing slate of titles

- Conduct analysis of tradeoffs, financial impact and service level metrics to make optimal release schedule recommendations to Leadership.

Work cross functionally with the Global/EU programming Strategy team to build new ways to understand and model optimizing our content portfolio for our customers across the Italian market.

- Execute portfolio and title programming strategy set by leadership across the full content lifecycle, working closely with our local Originals and Licensing teams on highlighting our audience and content needs

- Work closely with marketing on recommending audience acquisition and retention goals on a portfolio

- and title

- level

- Scale tools and mechanisms (audience targeting models, portfolio optimization) developed from the central team into other territories while adapting for local needs

- Work cross functionally with the Global/EU programming Strategy stakeholders, senior leaders, creative development, content licensing team, research, production, finance, marketing and legal departments to author business documents and reports to communicate state of the business or recommend new content business initiatives and support them through execution

- Create reporting and dashboards for key metrics to illustrate progress against goals to support team activities and report to management on weekly/monthly basis. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Multiple years?

experience in consulting, business, finance, marketing or related fields

- Extensive experience leading large-scale programs/projects with high impact

- Fluent in Italian and English

- Excellent analytical and quantitative skills; strong experience with modeling and data analysisPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- A background in Business Administration, Finance, Mathematics, Economics or equivalent experience is preferred

- A passion for content, technology, brands, digital media, and digital video

- Expertise in the media/entertainment industry a plus

- Confident leader who can prioritize well and communicate clearly, both verbal and written, across all levels of the organization with a proven ability to influence others

- Exceptional ability to collaborate, earn trust of stakeholders, and work cross-functionally

- Demonstrated bias for action with strengths in problem solving, issue-resolution, ability to work in a deadline driven work environment, attention to detail, and ability to multitask

- Expertise in excel, data mining, data analysis, data management, reporting and SQL queries