Senior Manager / Head of Media Partnerships

Overview

MBC is looking for a senior professional to lead content partnerships for TV platforms business (MBCNOW & GOBX). Role is responsible for overall success of key partnerships as define by user engagement, financial results and other health and growth matrices. 

Key responsibilities and accountabilities

• Actively investigate, propose and justify future content partnerships strategies. 
• Leading partnerships discussions with various TV channels, OTT applications as well as other subscription-based services such as food delivery, e-commerce etc. 
• Selection and launch of new media content, communicating with partners and working internally with Finance, legal, product, technical and Operational teams.
• Drive communication, education, data management across partners.
• Leverage data, market research and insights to evaluate new content partnership opportunities as well as to performance of partner content.
• Create and present performance evaluations for partners, including comprehensive quarterly business reviews.
• Develop internal partner playbooks that offers s concise overview of partnerships along with actionable strategic plans.
• Build developing strong internal and external workflows to provide best-in-class service to partners.
• Collaborate with content acquisition, content operations, editorial, and marketing on deal lifecycle to provide feedback and insights.
• Assist in the development and implementation of marketing and editorial strategies that maximize user engagement.
• Work with product and analytics teams to drive automation, enhanced reporting and tools to improve the efficiency of content perfromance and measurement.
• Develop and present strategic recommendations to senior leadership, providing insights and data-driven analysis.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of experience in content acquisition and partnership management in a Pay-TV and/or OTT environment.
• Arabic speaker with deep knowledge of content attractiveness and "what works" in the MENA
• Understanding of commercial models for content partnership with deep understanding of content rights management.
• Demonstrate strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills with a track record of delivering results.
• Have excellent communication, and relationship management skills.
• Experience in conducting analysis to drive results leveraging data comprehension of video streaming business models (MVPD, TVE, SVOD, AVOD, TVOD, FAST).
• Ability to cultivate and build strong relationships with content partners and industry counterparts.
• Able to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.

Unfortunately, due to the high number of responses we receive we are unable to provide feedback to all applicants. If you have not been contacted within 5-7 days, please assume that at this stage your application has been unsuccessful.