Job Description

Effectv, the advertising sales division of Comcast Cable, helps local, regional and national advertisers use the best of digital with the power of TV to grow their business. It provides multi-screen marketing solutions to make advertising campaigns more effective and easier to execute. Headquartered in New York with offices throughout the country, Effectv has a presence in 66 markets with nearly 35 million owned and represented subscribers. We\xe2\x80\x99re dedicated to helping our clients meet their business goals by connecting them with their customers through multiscreen television advertising. Working with companies from local startups to nationwide corporations, we provide support to help each business reach its target customers. By applying data to television advertising in new ways, we\xe2\x80\x99re able to bring our clients the best of digital media, coupled with the power of TV. To learn more, check out www.effectv.com.

Job Summary Responsible for being a thought leader with a mastery of program management skills. Follows the organization\'s strategic plan and leads the most enterprise-The Strategic Portfolio Manager delivers plans and frameworks to ensure strategic programs in their assigned portfolio segment are prioritized, effectively resourced, deliver good return on investment, and align with strategic objectives. This individual is an exemplary influential manager who effectively collaborates with enterprise stakeholders on evaluating and managing program priorities for their assigned program segment. Strategic programs may include innovation on products, customer experiences, and insights, as well as building foundational capabilities to improve go-to-market or business operations. This role also contributes to framing the strategy and target business outcomes for their assigned segment to align enterprise programs with strategy. The Strategic Portfolio Manager liaises with program business owners and cross-functionally to effectively assess program / project ideas for strategic fit, feasibility, and P&L impact. Collaborates with the Project Business owners and assigned project managers to ensure approved projects are initiated and planned effectively to deliver timely benefits while managing through interdependencies. The Strategic Portfolio Manager is responsible for overseeing the health of all strategic programs and projects in their assigned segment, from initiation through to completion. And manages escalations including changes to scope, resourcing, and budget to drive decisions on these and overall program portfolio rebalancing.



Core Responsibilities

Effectively structures program portfolio for assigned segment to align to strategy and deliver optimal value for Effectv.

Facilitates program identification, intake, strategic fit, and feasibility assessment. Understands the scope of programs as defined by the business requirements and budget process. Participates in key planning milestones.

Ensures project delivery resource baseline and plans are complete, current, and accurate. Ensures team clearly understands roles and responsibilities for the duration of the program.

Creates and builds program plans. Facilitates and drives the core team to identify and schedule all the work for end-to-end deployment required to fulfill program scope. Performs management of upstream and downstream dependencies.

Effectively facilitates internal meetings, large working sessions and interviews with mid- to senior- level stakeholders.Raises conflicts and resolves with the appropriate level of management engagement to build consensus. Obtains and assigns resources to the program plan.

Collaborates with Finance and Program Business Owners on the program business case. Determines the cost and budget; performs resource forecasting. Facilitates development of resource plans and assessment of resource availability.

Collaborates with Strategic Governance Leadership, Business Owners, Finance, and other functional leaders as needed to develop ELT presentations for individual programs.

Creates and maintains portfolio views and dashboards to convey portfolio composition and overall health. Works across Strategic Portfolio Management peer group to consolidate input into an Enterprise view for C-level review.

Packages green-lit projects for change assessment and kick-off.

Facilitates high impact strategy alignment and implementation sessions with project delivery teams to ensure a shared understanding of project objectives and effectively kick-off execution activities.

Collaborates with Business Owners, Finance, Strategic Partnerships, and Value Delivery teams on the initiation of approved projects, including assignment of PMO and other delivery staff, project plan development, budget allocation, external delivery partner identification and onboarding.

Establishes and maintains success metrics, project health dashboards, and periodic project communications to the ELT and other internal audiences. Develops project insights that surface both predictive and real-time decision needs.

Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.

Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary.

Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

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.
• Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
• Do what\'s right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Preferred Additional Qualifications:

4-6 years of experience in strategy, program portfolio planning, budgeting, and resource capacity management

A combination of corporate experience in Media, and Technology and Management Consulting with a Big 4 or other Top Tier strategy consulting firm is preferred.

Experience in product innovation & development, customer experience & insights, go-to-market transformation, or operational transformation programs.

Ability to internalize Effectv strategy and business objectives and alignment to strategic programs.

Extensive experience company-wide and program level P&L analysis

Experience with various project management / delivery methodologies and best practices

Excellent cross-functional facilitation and presentation skills at all levels of the organization

Effective communicator and storyteller with the ability to develop and/or influence completion of quality deliverables and ELT communications materials.

Effective and inclusive leader with the ability to inspire and develop talent for optimal performance and maintain standards of excellence.

Effectively balances attention to detail and deliverable quality with speed and agility.

Experience with operating model design for effective program portfolio and resource management and value realization

Excellent MS PowerPoint and Excel skills

Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in business administration or equivalent. MBA from a top-tier program preferred.

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 EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer.

Comcast is proud to be 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, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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

10 Years +

Salary:

Pay Range: This job can be performed in Colorado, with a Pay Range of $116,131.57 USD - $174,197.35 USD

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience.

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. 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\xe2\x80\x99s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality \xe2\x80\x93 to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the on our careers site for more details.

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