Pricing & Inventory Specialist Jobs

Job Introduction

• You must be authorized to work in the United States to be considered for this role.

At BBC Global Digital News & Streaming, (a team situated within BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC) we aim to help people understand the world around them, make informed choices, and take an active part in society and democracy. As we expand our footprint to meet increasing demand for our style of quality and impartial journalism and unscripted content in North America, we are seeking motivated, passionate, high performing individuals across a variety of skillsets to join our global team. Our primary locations are New York, Washington DC, and London, though as a distributed workforce we are open to applicants in any location where the BBC has a commercial presence.

Join us and be an essential part of one of the world’s most recognized brands and trusted news organizations.

Purpose of the role

The purpose of this role is to support the Business Intelligence & Yield Manager based in New York, with a focus on Pricing & Yield across the Americas business.

Role Responsibility

• Inventory Analysis – Provides inventory updates frequently and monthly inventory auditing
• Analytics – Updates data for regional Business Intelligence dashboards
• Media Plans – Assists with media plan approval process with a focus on pricing and inventory
• Data – Helps with co-ordination of 1st-party and 3rd-party data to help provide optimization suggestions/additions to better performance and help advertisers reach key marketing objectives on the BBC site
• Reporting – Provides support on insights on sell-through and rates on all direct and programmatic opportunities to find areas of growth and need
• Programmatic – Provides frequent updates on programmatic revenue performance for regional offices in the Americas

Scope & Impact

• Support Programmatic operations
• Plan approvals
• Optimizations/troubleshooting
• RFP stage
• Help support Pricing & Inventory management as well as the end to end process within the ad sales department, including but not limited to:
• GAM management

Relationships

• Ensure accurate reporting and a flawless, high quality advertising experience for all stakeholders and clients.

Are you the right candidate?

As a global business, diversity, equity, and inclusion among team members is essential to our success. We therefore encourage highly skilled candidates from traditionally under-represented groups to submit their applications, even if they don’t check absolutely every box on our list of desired work experience.

Knowledge & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree is required, or in place of a degree, 1-2 years of relevant experience
• Interest in data analytics and media advertising
• Strong Excel and analytical skills preferred

Professional Experience

• 1-2 years in the Advertising & Media industry

Behaviors

• Builds on the contributions of team members and facilitates dialogue between other colleagues when working on a team
• Attention to details and accuracy
• Responds to requests promptly and positively
• Displays enthusiasm and confidence in the successful outcome of tasks and projects
• Supports and provides details on campaigns to ad sales teams
• Develops and maintains a network of internal contacts to exchange technical and campaign information
• Is receptive to new ideas and approaches
• Reacts quickly and calmly when plans go astray and takes charge to get things back on track
• Sets themselves high work standards and works to continuously improve on them
• Manages multiple tasks and projects simultaneously
• Engages with team members in the creative process to test ideas and generate new thinking to build into account and opportunity plans
• Works problems through to resolution on their own initiative
• Links and aligns their activity to support the achievement of overall team objectives

Benefits And Perks

• Bagel Mondays, Thirsty Thursdays, and more!
• Flexible, Hybrid Working Arrangements
• Pet Insurance
• Free Retirement Consulting to All Employees
• Work/life balance
• Commuter Benefits
• The anticipated annual base salary for this position is $40k to $55k. This range does not include or other benefits that an individual may be eligible for. The actual base salary offered depends on the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and geographic location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.
• Generous Paid Time Off
• 100% Employer-Paid Medical and Dental Insurance (PPO plans)
• Gym Reimbursement

About The BBC

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here