Job Description :Role- Vice President, Commercial Strategy
Location - New York 1211 6th Avenue
In Office 4 days a week
Pay Range: 245,000 + Bonus
Primary ResponsibilitiesAgency & Holding Company Relationships- Map global agency and holding company relationships, unlocking new access points and identifying underserved client groups.
- Maintain and grow relationships with central agency leaders, digital and data teams, and global client organizations to complement and amplify BU sales activity.
- Produce agency strategy updates for each major holding company and share gathered intelligence with the business units throughout the year.
Data Commercialization & Capability Enablement- Support the development of scalable advertising product strategies, incorporating market trends, partner feedback and BU requirements.
- Translate the global Advertising Technology vision into actionable workstreams and materials that support BU adoption, monetization growth and consistency.
- Evaluate market trends, competitive shifts and emerging technologies; provide insights that inform product strategy and global tech partnerships.
- Partner with agencies to determine their data needs and collaborate with the News Corp ad tech and operations teams to enable them.
- Evaluate the uplift value of News Corp's targeting capabilities and build the commercial and analytical case that support agency and holding company partnerships.
Platform Partnerships & Industry Development- Support the Platform Partnerships team on the advertising implementation of platform relationships, ensuring they drive sustainable revenue growth.
- Leverage knowledge of internal and external data platform and agentic ecosystem (Snowflake, Permutive, MadConnect, GCP, AWS, etc.) to further enable collaboration with agencies.
- Provide thought leadership as part of global councils, innovation forums and cross-business working groups, presenting perspectives on emerging formats (e.g., AR, video, audio) and platform trends.
Cross-Functional Leadership & Project Delivery- Manage multiple concurrent strategic projects, ensuring clear objectives, timelines and deliverables.
- Coordinate across Analytics, Operations, Engineering, Finance, Product and BU teams to ensure initiatives are aligned, well-executed and measurable.
- Enable global transparency through structured communication, documentation and stakeholder management.
- Support Corporate Strategy leadership in preparing materials for executive leadership, including quarterly board updates, partnership reviews and strategic outlooks.
Qualifications & Experience- 10+ years in Strategy, Advertising Strategy, Commercial Strategy, or Business Development within a scaled media, technology or platform business; consulting or investment banking experience with a media focus is a strong plus.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics or a related field; advanced degree preferred but not required.
- Proven experience developing and managing senior agency, holding company, advertiser and platform relationships.
- Strong ability to evaluate market and technology trends and translate them into actionable commercial recommendations.
- Exceptional strategic, analytical and project-management capabilities.
- Outstanding communication skills-able to influence senior leaders, simplify complexity, and produce high-impact narratives for executive audiences.
- Strong understanding of the evolving media, advertising and consumer technology landscape.
- High commercial acumen and experience developing business plans, financial models or opportunity sizing analyses.
- A self-starter comfortable operating in a matrixed, fast-moving, unstructured environment.
- Deep, current relationships across agency holding companies, including with their data, strategy, investment, and C-suite leaders.
- Fluency in ad tech, data, and identity, including first-party data, audience targeting, data clean rooms, programmatic buying/selling, publisher inventory, and emerging agentic buying.
Base Pay Range: $210,000 - $245,000 + Bonus
We're committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate's experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors.
For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions.
For benefits-eligible roles, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.
