Manager, Sports Inventory

You will be responsible for strategically managing linear Sports media inventory to ensure maximum revenue and value in our sports programming. There will be a heavy emphasis on advising Sales Planners on how to build plans to best optimize available linear commercial inventory in order to deliver specific property P&L goals. You will be required to develop strong working relationships with the sales, sales operations, marketing, and finance teams to ensure maximum usage and placement. You will also be required to leverage your people management skills as you will oversee and manage Inventory Analysts, including training & development. Duties and Responsibilities Inventory guidance/approvals/feedback for sports media plans across NBC, Golf Channel, USA, CNBC, Telemundo and Universo. Sports could include Golf, NBA, B1G & ND Football, College Basketball, NASCAR, Premier League, US Soccer, Chivas, as well as other Tentpole Sports (Olympics, World Cup, etc). Approving media plans to hold/order in the system and ensuring each plan is labeled and booked correctly Analyze sales revenue pacing reports and apply your conclusions to inventory approvals Strategically Maximize inventory: move forward advertisers to fill avails and help clear watch list Manage re-expressions from schedule changes throughout the year Participate in the Ratecard process with suggestions on how to evaluate and edit, in order to continue to evolve within the Sports marketplace. Sports sponsorship and invoice adjustment workflow approvals Management of internal added value and non-unit form process from start to finish. Monitor deal stewardship reports and execution of Recap/ADU packages to fill upcoming avails, including referencing C-Suite for deals guaranteed with digital. Providing sales with most up to date plan building guide, avails, & programming information Coordinate Upfront materials (program descriptions and grids) Manage Inventory Analyst’s day to day responsibilities Contribute to the training & development of inventory analysts Creating, tracking, & maintaining our “deal point” documents Work with Subject Matter Experts to improve best practices and business processes Support various ad hoc reporting projects