Manager, Content Research - Remote

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Office locations include New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Stamford, CT.

Our list of eligible states in which employees may work remotely includes:California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

THE ROLE: Manager, Content Research

Play a critical leadership role in shaping A+E Networks' global digital strategy by managing the analysis of viewing data and implementation of data-led optimization efforts. Directly impact Programming, Scheduling, Marketing, Sales, and Strategy teams, ensuring that all efforts align with overarching business goals. Serve as a trusted advisor to senior management, providing expert analysis to inform high-level business decisions that steer the company's growth and market leadership. Leverage advanced analytical systems to design sophisticated, data-driven strategies and forecasts, driving cross-functional collaboration and optimizing multiplatform performance. Manage and support analyst, ensuring they are equipped to achieve performance objectives. Foster analyst development through clear guidance and feedback. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a mastery of transforming complex data into compelling, actionable narratives, combining strategic vision with meticulous attention to detail, critical thinking, and exemplary communication skills.

MORE ABOUT WHAT YOU'LL DO: Manager, Content Research

Strategic, Data-Driven Impact on A+E's Global Digital Business

• Drive strategic, data-led decision-making by delivering in-depth analyses of global cross-platform content performance and market trends.
• Guide senior leadership with high-impact recommendations that shape A+E Networks' global content strategy and positioning in a competitive marketplace.
• Craft executive-level presentations and reports, synthesizing data into clear, actionable insights that inform strategic direction.
• Act as a strategic consultant to several President/EVP level executives, alongside VP of Content Research.
• Translate complex data into strategic insights that influence programming, scheduling, marketing, and sales initiatives, ensuring maximum alignment with global business objectives.
• Ensure data-driven insights drive business success across all platforms and territories.

Global FAST Channel Viewership Optimization

• Lead strategic forecasting efforts for FAST viewership across multiple channels, partners, and regions.
• Collaborate with high-level executives to enhance FAST performance by developing methodologies and recommendations that maximize audience engagement.
• Spearhead the creation of comprehensive FAST business review presentations and strategy decks for executive leadership, providing essential insights that support large-scale strategic initiatives.
• Foster and manage relationships with key data providers, ensuring the ongoing flow of critical information and insights to drive competitive advantage in the marketplace.
• Proactively deliver data-driven recommendations to optimize FAST partner and channel viewership, leveraging marketing, scheduling, and programming solutions.
• Manage and enhance all FAST monthly reporting processes, ensuring consistent and accurate delivery of performance updates.

Data Stewardship and Advanced Analytics

• Oversee the management of Global FAST data sets, ensuring accuracy and timely availability for informed decision-making across the organization.
• Lead the development of innovative dashboard solutions to meet evolving business needs, delivering accessible, real-time insights that support data-driven decisions.
• Coordinate across teams to ensure seamless integration of FAST reporting systems and enhance cross-platform performance tracking.

Team Management and Development

• Manage and mentor a dedicated analyst, guiding analytical methodologies, performance metrics, and reporting processes.
• Oversee the analyst's day-to-day responsibilities, ensuring the delivery of high-quality insights and reports that support business needs.
• Foster professional growth through regular feedback, skill development, and training opportunities, ensuring the analyst evolves alongside the organization's analytical needs.
• Ensure alignment between the analyst's work and broader organizational objectives, supporting their contributions to high-level strategy and decision-making processes.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: Manager, Content Research

As the media industry grapples with fragmentation and disruption, a key facet of Research is to be the driving force in helping their company capture, report on, monetize, and understand audiences. An opportunity lies in Research to work across divisions and departments to create a unified language that ensures that internal clients understand-and take advantage of-complex metrics. The key is giving the necessary context so that decisions can be made. While this sounds disarmingly simple, it is a challenge to get the majority of the company to speak the same language and understand new vernacular. Research is a central force within the broader organization in gaining an objective perspective for a wide array of complex questions. It may sound academic - and certainly there is a portion of the job that requires a love of learning - but the primary attribute that will bring you success is curiosity. For example, you'll gain a deeper understanding of what motivates someone to tune into a show, buy a product based on placement of an ad, become a fan on social media, or why certain types of programs are successful across regions of this country and abroad. Ultimately, each research candidate gets a better understanding of the rigor that goes into making business decisions by uncovering not boulders, but pebbles along the path to connecting to A+E Networks core asset, its content.

YOUR STORY: [+BEHAVIORS] (what you need to have)

• Bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g., Media Studies, Communications, Statistics, Data Analysis).
• 4+ years of demonstrated experience; Preferred experience in television, research, or data analysis
• Familiarity with the television and digital media industry, especially in the context of FAST.
• Advanced skill in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, as well as Tableau
• Strong analytical skills, with an ability to identify trends and make insightful recommendations.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex data insights to non-technical stakeholders.
• Detail-oriented, organized, and capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously.

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