Senior Associate, Business Ops & Strategy

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we're making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.
Job Summary
We are looking for a Senior Associate to help grow our next chapter of strategic development and execution. This role will focus on analyzing strategic opportunities and building data driven business cases that accelerate FreeWheel's growth. In this role, you will closely partner with stakeholders across the company, facilitate executive level decision-making, and act as an advisor to functional leaders. You will also conduct market and competitive analyses, model the financial impact of new initiatives, support opportunity scans for inorganic growth, and support the team in defining strategic decisions and their implications. You will be a collaborative and resourceful self-starter, skilled at addressing open-ended questions using data, while leveraging your EQ skills, to ensure alignment in a fast-paced environment.
Job Description
Core Responsibilities

• Support strategy development and analysis of growth opportunities
• Lead market, competitive, and internal analyses rooted in quantitative and qualitative research
• Partner with leaders across various business and corporate functions to execute against strategic initiatives and deliver milestones
• Present business cases to senior leaders and internal groups to facilitate decision making
• Quickly build subject matter expertise in new areas of interest (e.g.: innovative technologies, new verticals & markets, competitive landscapes)
• Contribute to thought leadership and industry research as a subject matter expert
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• About You:
• 2+ years of experience in strategy, consulting, investment banking, or a related field
• Knowledge of the media landscape with a passion for TV, digital video, and ad-tech
• Experience building complex financial models using various data and research
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to frame and distill complex information and story lines for different audiences
• Ability to collaborate with people outside your immediate team
• Intellectual curiosity and ability to learn quickly through hypothesis-led problem solving
• Proactivity with staying current on important industry trends and analyst research

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer:

• This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Skills:
Industry Research; Business Cases; Strategic Initiative
Salary:
Primary Location Pay Range: $95,104.22 - $142,656.34
Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.
Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality - to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.
Education
Bachelor's Degree
While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.
Relevant Work Experience
5-7 Years