Manager, Commercial Planning & Analysis (New York, New York)
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
11 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About the Role
The Athletic is looking for a Manager of Commercial Planning and Analysis to serve as the primary architect and steward of our most complex and high-value commercial initiatives and partnerships. This is a high-visibility role that sits at the intersection of business development strategy deal-making and operational rigor; it is a hybrid role based in New York City reporting into a Vice President of Advertising Finance.
We are looking for a dual-threat professional: someone who has a deep reverence for analytical rigor paired with a commercially-minded approach that helps guide projects and deals to success. You will be the quantitative engine driving our commercial strategy; not just evaluating ideas before launch and deals before they are signed; but rigorously tracking performance once they are live.
Responsibilities
- Commercial planning and analysis: You will translate dense financial data and analysis into high-impact visual narratives for discussions with The Athletics leadership team. Youll articulate the why behind every major investment.
- Modeling and evaluation: Build clean flexible financial models to value complex and integrated deals and commercial initiatives across licensing and advertising as well as other revenue streams.
- Deal construction: Analyze and aid in negotiation of deal mechanics focusing on minimum guarantees (MGs) revenue shares and recoupment schedules. You will partner closely with Legal and Accounting to ensure term sheets translate into sound financial realities.
- Post-close performance tracking: Own the full-lifecycle of the deal. Once a partnership is live you are on the hook for tracking actuals vs. benchmarks managing P&L impact and providing the FP&A oversight needed to course-correct or double-down.
- Forecasting and variance analysis: Integrate live deal performance into our broader rolling forecasts explaining variances to leadership and identifying trends in audience monetization and rights costs.
Requirements
- 5 years of experience in corporate development strategic finance consulting or investment banking.
- Analytically rigorous individual with experience performing high stakes evaluation of potential deals ideally including content licensing.
- Deep understanding of the leverage points in a negotiation; can anticipate how a legal clause might impact a financial outcome.
- Someone who understands the value of accuracy; whether its a pre-deal valuation or a post-deal performance report you own the numbers from start to finish.
- Genuinely motivated by The Athletics mission; you understand the value of premium sports journalism and the gravity of the shifting media landscape.
- Expert-level financial modeling.
- Strong executive presentation development skills.
- Deep understanding of commercial deal terms negotiations and deal processes.
- Experience with key FP&A processes (budgeting forecasting and variance analysis).
- BS in Finance/Economics MBA a plus.
We are excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process. If you are a candidate for a technical role we will let you know what specific tools you are permitted to use for your technical assessment.
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