Company Description
We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('SpinCo') comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. The well-capitalized company will have significant scale as a pure-play set of assets anchored by leading news, sports and entertainment content. The spin-off is expected to be completed during 2025.
As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we'll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.
Job Description
Overview
The Product and Delivery team are responsible for successfully implementing new business opportunities or changes to existing services across International Media Operations and our international business units. With responsibility across the Media Operations lifecycle from scheduling & playout to media ordering & fulfilment, the team are experts at delivering new services across the end-to-end workflow. Additionally, the team support and deploy IT Business Systems and solutions used by several international business units. The breadth of Product & Deliveries' responsibility includes:
- Business Development Support & Governance
- Business Analysis & Requirements Capture
- Project Management, Delivery Methodology, Reporting & Accountability
- Product Management, Product Roadmap & Solution Design
- Service Transition, Integration & Change Management
- Workflow Optimisation, Business Process Engineering & Productivity Improvement
Specifically, we require a Project Manager to join the team who can deliver technical integration projects within the Media Operations environment. The role will be based in London and may involve some international travel.
Key Responsibilities
- Work as a member of the Product & Delivery team
- Manage multiple concurrent projects through the end-to-end lifecycle from Inception to Completion, using standard project management methodologies. Ensuring that the projects deliver to the agreed timescales, budget and quality expectations
- Work with product and engineering teams to drive solution design and prioritise configuration & development tickets
- Work with business users to understand their business requirements so that you can ensure the resulting technical solutions deliver on business objectives
- Maintain project documentation including but not limited to; project plan, risk register, communications plans and status reporting
- Provide regular communication to project stakeholders including; business leadership teams, user groups & operational support teams
- Ambassador for International Media Operations when liaising with the business units supported by IMO and vendors that supply services to NBCU
Qualifications
Skills & Experience
Education and Qualifications
- Professional project management qualification (e.g.Prince2, APMP)
Skills & Behaviours
- Ability to deal with high pressure situations with senior stakeholders
- Excellent time management skills with ability to communicate across multiple time zones and territories
- Evidence of leadership capability and credibility and influencing skills across large virtual teams
- Strong understanding of the challenges of working in an international environment and sensitivities to regional differences in working & communication styles
- Ability to build relationships with internal teams as well as with stakeholders that may be more senior
- Focused on delivering excellence through detailed planning and paying attention to detail at every stage
- Independent thinker, confident to build and execute a strategy and direction for the project
- Has ability to make courageous decisions in pressured situations ensuring that all factors are assessed in the process
- Ability to work with subject matter experts, balancing their project deliverables with a recognition that they have day to day responsibilities that may conflict with project deliverables
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, prioritising where necessary
- Ability to work in a matrix organisation where resources are shared and may have conflicting priorities, including being based in other time zones
- Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation and influencing skills
Specific Previous Experience
- At least 3 years' experience of delivering projects in the media and broadcast industry
- Strong blend of technical experience and knowledge - both media and broadcasting technologies as well as information technologies, such as Agile software development
- Extensive experience of project and programme management in media organisations, with a proven track record of delivering major projects and business change programmes with >$100k budgets
- Strong understanding and experience with change management practices to aid smooth delivery of projects
- Proactive with an excellent interpersonal, written & verbal communication style as well as planning and time management skills
- Desktop skills - MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project (or similar applications)
The responsibilities associated with this position are not limited to the above description and may be modified at any time by the company.
Additional Information
As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].
Top Skills
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
From film, television, news, theme parks, interactive media, and streaming, our people are at the center of it all. Here, we solve complex and business-critical problems. That’s why we’re looking for people to help us continue our evolution, imagining and delivering the most innovative and disruptive products and services through the latest tech advancements in the industry.
Here you can develop solutions. You’ll develop solutions that allow engineers to broadcast live TV from the comfort of their homes. These solutions will enable the use of our collection of hundreds of thousands of distinct intellectual properties across our film, television and streaming brands.
Here you can transform. You’ll make decisions and solve complex problems by leveraging insights that come from data, building AI to help enable solutions to optimize every aspect of our content eco-system.
Here you can build. You’ll build emerging immersive technologies that are used to power the broadcasts and streaming of global events like the Super Bowl and Olympics. You can create secure, elastic cloud-based services connecting parts of our global platform ecosystem that effect tens of millions of viewers, consumers and businesses that consume and love NBCUniversal’s content. And while you design, build and architect your career, we have the culture to make sure you’re supported.
Here you can work and still live your best life!
We’re leaders in our fields. We hire smart people and trust them to get the job done. We are never too busy to develop a fellow colleague. We understand our goals – or we ask. When we see something that needs doing – we do it. We make data-driven decisions. We fiercely believe in our talent and their growth. If you're ready to make an impact, here you can.
Why Work With Us
For us, it's more than just a work life. It's a daily passion. We take great pride in our legacy. We find fun in the challenge. We collaborate and inspire others. We're always creating, always solving and always ahead of competition.
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