Job Description

Job Summary:

The Walt Disney Company's Media & Entertainment Distribution (DMED) is a new, global business segment for The Walt Disney Company with the mission of providing consumers around the world access to the content they want most, on the latest platforms, at a time of rapidly-evolving consumer habits. Combining the Company's direct-to-consumer streaming services ESPN+, the Disney+ streaming service and its ownership stake in Hulu -- alongside Disney's international media businesses, DMED aligns cutting-edge technology with world-class content and beloved brands to expand the Company's global footprint and deliver highly-personalized entertainment experiences to diverse consumers around the world.

Responsibilities:

The Segment Content Planning & Analysis team drives analysis around the distribution of each of our content assets across Network, Content and Theatrical Sales, as well as DTC platforms in partnership with DTC CP&A. This team will inform the windowing strategy for content deployment across distribution platforms, optimizing the commercialization strategy of films and series across TWDC content brands. This role closely partners with stakeholders in platform distribution to provide support (including but not limited to) on availability decisions, forecasting, content specific deep dives and data analytics.

* Evaluate new business models / opportunities and participate in building business plans for key strategic initiatives
* Support business teams to evaluate and optimize current business models and optimize operational efficiencies
* Create sophisticated models for financial analysis to understand impact of deals on Disney and partner P&L used by senior leaders for deal negotiations
* Able to build tool prototypes for reports that create efficiencies and support insights; requires visualizing complex data sets and advanced excel formulas
* Partner closely with Data Science and Advanced Analytics team to leverage statistical results to inform business decisions
* Effectively communicate findings to clients, equipping them with timely, relevant, and actionable insight to support short-term tactical and long-term strategic decision-making
* Translate business requirements for the internal database into technical requirements for the technology teams
* Manage and communicate results from box office forecasting model used in release date decision making by senior management; requires understanding of statistical concepts

Basic Qualifications:

* 4-6 years of experience in finance, business planning or other quantitative field
* Strong analytical skills, ability to quickly understand complex business problems with high level of ambiguity and provide potential solutions
* Strong excel skills, leverage formulas including index/match, indirect, sumif, and embedded if statements; comfortable with finding new formulas to optimize models
* Superior financial modeling, ability to utilize millions of lines of data to create sophisticated and dynamic models and maintain / understand already built model
* Experience manipulating data using SQL and statistical programming package (e.g. R, python, etc.)
* Ability to lead projects independently from start to finish, working with internal and external teams to make decisions and maintain momentum
* Excellent time and project management skills, with the ability to manage detail work and communicate project status effectively to all levels
* Excellent communication skills, including presentation development and delivery; Ability to influence others by telling a story with data to make business improvements
* Proactive, highly collaborative and team-oriented work style

Preferred Qualifications:

* Prior experience in Media/Entertainment

Required Education

* Bachelor's degree in relevant field with strong academic performance