Senior Yield Planner - FreeWheel
Role Overview
As a Senior Yield Planner, you will be at the intersection of data-driven strategy and commercial execution.
This role is critical in ensuring that our global video inventory is utilized efficiently to drive maximum revenue for our publishers while meeting the specific needs of our demand partners.
You will act as the strategic link between our Sales and Supply teams, turning complex data into actionable media plans and optimization strategies.
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Key Responsibilities
- Media Planning & Sales Support: Create comprehensive media plans and inventory forecasts in response to Requests for Proposals (RFPs). You will ensure that proposed campaigns are feasible, profitable, and aligned with available video inventory.
- Revenue & Margin Optimization: Monitor daily performance across various campaign types (DIO, Programmatic Guaranteed, Private Marketplaces, and Open Exchange). You will implement pricing floors and throttling strategies to maximize yield and safeguard margins.
- Reporting & Business Intelligence: Build and maintain automated dashboards using Looker and Excel. You will conduct deep-dive analyses on KPIs such as Fill Rate and eCPM (effective Cost Per Mille) to identify growth opportunities.
- Cross-Functional Projects: Contribute to a variety of projects that touch upon numerous disciplines and technical specificities. This role offers the opportunity to engage with various facets of the business, allowing you to adapt strategies and solve unique challenges across diverse departments and markets.
- Team Support: Provide coaching and subject matter expertise to junior team members while contributing to process improvements and operational best practices.
- Programmatic Expertise: A solid understanding of the programmatic video landscape, including header bidding, and the mechanics of an SSP.
- Analytical Rigor: Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, complex formulas, data modeling) and experience with Business Intelligence tools, specifically Looker.
- Strategic Mindset: The ability to translate raw data into clear, commercial narratives for the Sales team.
- Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English are mandatory, as you will collaborate with teams across multiple countries daily.
- Detail-Oriented: A methodical approach to troubleshooting delivery issues and optimizing complex auction environments.
- Industry Experience: Several years of hands-on experience in yield management, ad operations, media planning, or a related programmatic advertising role.
- We value transparency, agility, and data-backed decision-making. Our team operates on the principle that every data point tells a story about our business health.
- Working at the forefront of global video advertising technology.
- A collaborative environment where the Yield team is viewed as a strategic partner, not just a support function.
- The chance to manage a global footprint of inventory, providing exposure to diverse markets and ad tech challenges.
- 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's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality—to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.
- Please visit the benefits summary on our careers site for more details.
- 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.
- Certifications (if applicable)
- Relevant Work Experience
- 5-7 Years
- Comcast is 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, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
The Desired Profile
Programmatic Expertise: A solid understanding of the programmatic video landscape, including header bidding, and the mechanics of an SSP.
Analytical Rigor: Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, complex formulas, data modeling) and experience with Business Intelligence tools, specifically Looker.
Strategic Mindset: The ability to translate raw data into clear, commercial narratives for the Sales team.
Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English are mandatory, as you will collaborate with teams across multiple countries daily.
Detail-Oriented: A methodical approach to troubleshooting delivery issues and optimizing complex auction environments.
Industry Experience: Several years of hands-on experience in yield management, ad operations, media planning, or a related programmatic advertising role.
Why Join Our Team?
We value transparency, agility, and data-backed decision-making. Our team operates on the principle that every data point tells a story about our business health.
Joining us means:
Working at the forefront of global video advertising technology.
A collaborative environment where the Yield team is viewed as a strategic partner, not just a support function.
The chance to manage a global footprint of inventory, providing exposure to diverse markets and ad tech challenges.
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's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality—to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.
Please visit the benefits summary on our careers site for more details.
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.
Certifications (if applicable)
Relevant Work Experience
5-7 Years
Comcast is 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, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree
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