Specialist, VOD Content Merchandising

Job Description

Key Responsibilities
• Responsible for executing day-to-day operations of Homepage as well as overseeing strategy and execution of local originals merchandising and other local content and country-specific differences in the region.
• Accountable for execution of select pan-European pages within the platform on other MAX markets in cooperation with the broader EMEA Merchandising team.
• Power user of Site Builder (our Content Management System) once trained.
• Collaborates with Merchandising Analysis & Insights team to receive the right data to inform merchandising decisions.
• Supports other merchandising team members on troubleshooting, diagnosing, and making sure high priority impact issues are being followed through by the correct teams and solved in a timely manner.
• Partner with the EMEA Sports team on strategy and page construction across relevant pages
• Acts as a Merchandising primary point of contact for the local stakeholders from the Marketing and Content teams
• Strategy
• Adapts Global and EMEA Merchandising strategies with an eye to make it relevant to local audiences.
• Create strategy for all LOP and reports back to leadership on progress. Work collaboratively with CEE Merchandising Team.
• Leverages merchandising strategies to improve content discoverability, minutes/impression, impression efficiency, content diversity, and other relevant KPIs that improve the engagement/retention of subscribers and the performance of content on D+. Leads initiatives to improve key metrics.
• Uses data to drive decisions; shares actionable insights and recommendations with the Global Merchandising team as well as other stakeholders.
• Makes relationship points with local market stakeholders and stays in sync and connected to the pulse of the market to leverage zeitgeist moments into content discovery opportunities.
• Actively participates to overall strategy through cross-team collaboration, sharing successful curation strategies that can be used outside their primary page.
• Provides recommendations for improvements in any aspects relating to day-to-day merchandising performance and operations, including product features and operational workflows.

Experience & Qualifications Required
• English/Russian or English/Hebrew language
• Passionate about all things content: Expert knowledge of local content, deep familiarity with WBD's catalog, strong familiarity with competitor's content generally.
• Data-Driven: Comfortable analyzing data and using it to optimize our work: level of effort vs consumer impact. Demonstrated evidence of implementing shifts in strategy based on quantitative evidence, working command of evolving performance metrics.
• Consumer Obsessed: Tenacious focus on the consumer, delivering seamless and delightful experiences.
• Relentless pursuit of operations and work-flow efficiency.
• Proficiency in digital merchandising operations and workflows with a commanding knowledge of various merchandising tools and CMSs
• Ability to quickly learn, assimilate, and train others on new processes and product innovations.
• High self-initiative with the ability to work well under pressure and with minimal supervision.
• If internal hire, working relationships with Scheduling, CS&A, Programming, Marketing, CRM, Content Ops, Enterprise Metadata, and Image teams; comfort collaborating with functions including Executive, Product, Data, Engineering, And Data / Reporting.
• Strong verbal and written and communication skills.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d9pn44-18-191-202-67-42 in your application.