As the Vice President of Content Acquisitions, you will be responsible for evaluating, acquiring, and managing licensed programming for NBCUniversal鈥檚 Television & Streaming portfolio (Peacock, NBC, and Bravo). The Content Acquisitions team licenses SVOD, AVOD, and linear rights to entertain and delight our priority audiences. After negotiating these licensing deals, the VP is responsible for communicating critical deal terms to stakeholders across the company. The ideal candidate is proactive, meticulous, organized, solutions-oriented, and passionate about television series, films, and emerging content formats.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Identifying potential acquisitions via synopses, scripts, trailers, and finished product. Managing the process of tracking available programming opportunities including current and former TV series and films, as well as emerging formats.
- Negotiating programming deals for NBCU that drive customer growth, engagement, and retention.
- Working with the Head of Content Acquisitions to oversee budgets, ideate possible acquisition scenarios, and propose innovative new partnerships and deal structures.
- Effectively managing distributor relationships, interfacing with distributors at studios, agencies, and independent production companies.
- Assisting in managing inventory management across NBCU networks and platforms.
- Evaluating content performance to inform acquisition and renewal decisions.
- Managing acquisition team members, supervising tasks including financial analyses, deal flow, inventory management, and competitive tracking.
- Serving as an expert on new distribution rights, and effectively interpreting and creating legal language to ensure NBCU is at the forefront of the business.
Updating boilerplate deal memos, by studio, to reflect current marketplace, as needed. - In close partnership with Legal, finalizing acquisitions contracts to signature.
Supervising the population of our content rights management system (Compass), or equivalent system, with all relevant information, for content to be programmed properly. - Creating and presenting various reports to help manage the acquisitions process.