Director, Partnerships Strategic Planning

About the role

The DTC Content Planning & Partnerships team is seeking a Director, Partnerships Strategic Planning. This leader is responsible for informing global SVOD content partnership strategy through insights, analysis, and cross-portfolio perspective. Reporting into the VP, Partnerships Strategic Planning, this role leads a high-performing team and serves as a trusted thought leader for the entire DTC Content Planning & Partnerships organization, ensuring partner decisions, portfolio investments, and our increasingly complex content partner models translate into durable value at scale.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role

• Global Partner Strategy
  • Own and maintain a consolidated SVOD partnerships and DTC portfolio repository, including a clear narrative of strategic intent, history, performance, and forward-looking opportunities.
  • Develop and distribute a monthly executive-level partnerships update, synthesizing movements, performance, risks, opportunities, and strategic implications.
  • Lead partner opportunity and risk assessments, evaluating strategic, financial, and operational impacts across current and prospective partners.
  • Provide partner insights and decision support, leveraging internal performance data, market intelligence, and research to inform deal strategy and prioritization.
  • Lead partner and contract forensics, identifying points of alignment through spend concentration, portfolio dependency, and relative strategic value.
  • Own SVOD partnerships market intelligence, including competitive dynamics, distribution trends, and emerging partnership models across DTC competitors.
• P&L Assessments & Strategic Analysis
  • Lead end-to-end business case development for opportunistic and emerging SVOD content initiatives, including opportunity identification, framing, sizing, and executive-level recommendations.
  • Own P&L impact assessment and financial sizing for SVOD initiatives, translating content and distribution concepts into clear financial outcomes.
  • Develop and maintain content licensing models and analytical frameworks to evaluate incremental value, trade-offs, and long-term implications of SVOD content decisions.
• Budget Planning
  • Lead global budget planning and investment oversight, including tracking investment levels, forecast movements, and financial impacts to inform near- and long-term decision-making.
  • Partner closely with Content Finance and CP&A teams to ensure alignment between content strategy, capital allocation, and operating plans.
  • Serve as the GE content liaison for CSLO, Content Finance, and valuation teams for our 1P portfolio, ensuring consistency in assumptions, methodologies, and strategic intent.
• Influence & Team Leadership
  • Act as a strategic advisor to senior Content/Partnerships and DTC leadership, influencing decisions through insight, clarity, and structured analysis.
  • Lead and develop a high-impact team, setting clear priorities, goals, and success metrics aligned to DTC and Content Partnerships objectives.
  • Coach and mentor team members to deepen financial acumen, and executive-level storytelling, raising the overall quality and influence of the team’s output.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent relevant experience
• 10+ years of experience in strategic planning, business operations, investment analysis, or related roles, ideally within media, streaming, or consumer subscription businesses.
• Experience as a people leader, with proven history of developing, leading, or mentoring others.
• Deep understanding of SVOD economics, content licensing models, and DTC financial frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience owning complex business cases, P&L analyses, and investment decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and operate as a strategic thought partner.
• Proficient in Google Suite and Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong synthesis and executive storytelling skills (memos and slides) with the ability to distill complexity into actionable insights

Nice to Haves

• Experience working closely with content, finance, and distribution organizations in a streaming or media context and familiarity with wholesale, platform partnerships and hybrid distribution models
• Proven ability to operate effectively in highly cross-functional, fast-moving environments