Intern - Merchandising Strategy & Analysis

Job Description

Intern, Merchandising Strategy & Analysis (Summer 2025)

As an Intern of Merchandising Strategy & Analysis, you will be joining the team responsible for championing a data-driven approach to editorial and merchandising activities in-app , assist in developing frameworks and benchmarks for assessing performance, and providing insights and recommendations to leadership to influence decision making. This role requires a high level of collaboration with partners across WBD – the right person for this role is the kind of person who obsesses over details, thrives in ambiguity, and jumps at the opportunity to take on new challenges. This position will play a key role in supporting relationships across teams and delivering high quality work in one of the highest priority business initiatives at Warner Bros Discovery.

Your Role Accountabilities…
• Help develop frameworks and analyses for assessing key questions facing the business, including such areas as:
• How are our editorial and merchandising decisions impacting show performance.
• What is the optimal way for editorial activities to live alongside machine learning algorithms.
• Be an advocate for data-informed decision-making, making recommendations about how content performance should impact our merchandising choices.
• Support the merchandising analytics team in developing dashboards and analysis that help stakeholders to understand performance.
• Collaborate with other teams, especially Data & Analytics, Business Intelligence, Tech, and Product to build the tools and processes necessary to drive strategy and analysis initiatives.
• Work with stakeholders across multiple offices and time zones
• Provide insights and recommendations that help drives content consumption and increase subscriptions on MAX.

Qualifications & Experience…
• Experience in Data & Analytics, Business Analytics and/ or Data Science field -- particularly in the media and entertainment and / or direct-to-consumer space
• Excellent analytical skills, with a deep attention to detail
• Superior ability to synthesize the output from analyses, identify the ''so-what,'' develop early hypotheses, and propose the next line of inquiry
• Experience in building executive-level materials, with a keen eye for presentation design, and the ability to distill complex concepts and analyses into clear, easy-to-understand presentations.
• Possess a high level of intellectual curiosity, focus on generating results, and exhibit the highest personal and professional standards of integrity and ethics.
• Passion for entertainment, love for content and avid viewer, as well as a passion for staying on top of industry trends while figuring out what the future will look like with a relentless focus on creating and improving consumer value.
• Collaborative and diplomatic by nature, but also willing to take and defend data- and analysis-backed positions in the ongoing process and dialogue around content selection.
• The successful candidate must be motivated, disciplined, taking initiative and be able to work effectively autonomously.
• Should be energetic, positive, and resilient with a demonstrated ability to deliver projects among cross-functional stakeholders in a fast-paced, constantly changing and deadline driven environment.
• Bonus points for modelling and statistical knowledge, such as forecasting, AB-testing, or statistical modelling and causal inference
• Bonus points for experience and knowledge in Adobe/Google Analytics, Python or R.
• Proficient in SQL query, Excel and Powerpoint
• Proficient in Looker or any other BI tools e.g. PowerBI/ Tableau
• Familiarity with the Google Suite of collaboration software
• Exceptional organizational skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Team player

Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d26y62-18-188-130-119-42 in your application.