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About the Role
The Manager, Sales Initiatives is a key partner to the Global Content Sales organization, helping turn complex internal and external projects into thoughtful, well-executed commercial strategies. This individual will help scale the commercial organization by ensuring strategic deliverables are executed with clarity, accountability, and momentum. The ideal candidate will act as a self-starter and “swiss army knife” professional while displaying sound judgment, discretion, and a proactive, solutions-oriented approach.
Responsibilities
- Develop polished presentations, client-facing materials, senior leadership updates, and internal communications that translate commercial priorities, client needs, and support insights into clear, compelling narratives.
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, Creative, Programming, and Operations to ensure high-quality deliverables are generated and iterated on time to meet organizational and client needs.
- Lead project and program management for strategic sales initiatives, ensuring clear ownership, milestones, risks, decisions, and follow-through.
- Create visibility into project health through clear reporting cadences, dashboards, status updates, and executive-ready summaries.
- Ensure collaborative communication between International and US teams and serve as the project manager on cross-functional projects.
- Support planning and execution for client events, industry conferences, presentations, and other high-priority commercial initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
- 5 or more years of experience in television / media with 3 or more years of experience in sales operations, revenue operations, commercial operations, program management, or supporting a sales organization.
- Understanding of media sales methodology and digital media formats such as AVOD/SVOD, FAST, etc.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information into concise executive-ready updates.
- Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional projects from planning through execution, with clear milestones, ownership, risks, decisions, and follow-through.
- Comfortable working with sales data, reporting, dashboards, and performance insights to support decision-making and execution.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced commercial environment.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trust and influence across Sales, Marketing, Creative, Content, Operations, and leadership teams.
- Self-starter with sound judgment, discretion, and a proactive, solutions-oriented approach.
Skills
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Teams/Zoom
- Collaboration tools
- Project management tools
- AI
- Airtable
- CRM tool
Location
- New York City
- Los Angeles
- Chicago
- Stamford, CT
Work Type
- Hybrid (office 3 times per week)
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience in television/media
- 3+ years of experience in sales operations, revenue operations, commercial operations, program management, or supporting a sales organization
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
Salary/Compensations
- $89,907 - $105,191
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- 401k matching
About the Company
- A+E Global Media is a joint venture of the Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company.
- Fourteen straight years of double digit growth.
- Specializes in taking US hits and making them global hits.
- Manages 76 channels around the world with staff offices in London, Rome, Tokyo, Seoul, Munich and Singapore.
- Fluent in at least 42 languages.
Equal Opportunity
- A+E Global Media proudly provides equal employment opportunity for all employees and job applicants, and makes employment decisions consistent with this principle.
- The company’s employment actions and decisions – including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, demotion, compensation, transfer, layoff, and termination – are made without regard to an employee’s race, color, religion, creed, age, national origin, ancestry, sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, alienage or citizenship status, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, family and medical leave status, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- We are proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans.