Sr. Manager Advertising Inventory, Yield & Pricing

Best Buy; Saint Paul (MN); Remote; USD 91,000 - 164,000; Full time

Job summary

Best Buy is seeking a Sr. Manager for Advertising Inventory, Yield & Pricing. In this role, you’ll drive revenue optimization and define the future of programmatic media capabilities. This fully remote position involves leading teams, developing pricing models, and leveraging analytics for strategic decision-making while fostering partnerships across departments.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Generous employee discount

Physical and mental well-being support

Qualifications

• 6 years in advertising yield, analytics, pricing, or programmatic operations.
• 4 years leading teams or cross-functional projects.
• 1 year working in agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Yield & Inventory team with strategy and performance optimization.
• Develop scalable yield and pricing models for audience monetization.
• Analyze fill rates, bid density, and win rates for optimizations.

Skills

Analytics

Pricing Strategy

Data-Driven Decision Making

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in marketing or retail media

Tools

BigQuery

SQL

Tableau

Job description

Job Description

As the Sr. Manager Advertising Inventory, Yield & Pricing you will lead and contribute to an analytics function that focused on driving revenue optimization and monetization strategy across Best Buy Ads’ offsite, programmatic and direct-sold inventory. You’ll play a critical role in maximizing the value of our digital media supply through data-driven pricing, inventory optimization, analysis, and automation. This role will help define the future of our programmatic media capabilities and ensure Best Buy Ads remains a performance-driven, supply-smart Retail Media Network.

This role is remote eligible, which means you would work virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location.

What you’ll do

• Lead the Yield & Inventory team, owning strategy, execution, and performance optimization across on and offsite supply, with an emphasis on programmatic channels across DSPs and SSPs.
• Develop scalable yield and pricing models for audience monetization and offsite supply, including header bidding, private marketplaces (PMPs), and programmatic guaranteed.
• Implement real-time analytics and decisioning to manage supply allocation and floor pricing across demand channels.
• Partner with Ad Product, Engineering, and Data Science to evolve dynamic pricing, targeting, and delivery algorithms based on performance and demand elasticity.
• Support sales in negotiating and pricing supply deals for agencies and advertisers
• Analyze fill rates, bid density, win rates, and revenue-per-impression across O&O and offsite supply to drive tactical and strategic optimizations.
• Collaborate with Sales, Media Strategy, and Account Management to identify monetization opportunities and manage risk due to traffic fluctuations or demand shifts.
• Build and maintain forecasting, pacing, and inventory health models to ensure efficient and effective use of digital media inventory.
• Establish benchmarks and KPIs to measure programmatic performance, pricing effectiveness, and partner yield contributions.
• Evaluate and implement yield management and pricing technologies, including integrations with SSPs, ad servers, and clean room environments.
• Manage third-party platform and vendor relationships with a focus on improving automation, transparency, and monetization outcomes.

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in marketing or retail media, programmatic media and advertising with advanced level of experience in ad server technology"
• 6years in advertising yield, analytics, pricing, or programmatic operations
• 4years leading teams or cross-functional projects
• 2years or fluency in tools such as BigQuery, SQL, and data visualization platforms like Tableau
• 2years of experience managing inventory and monetization strategies across display, video, native, or emerging programmatic channels
• 1yearof expertise in programmatic platforms and ad tech (e.g., Google Ad Manager, DV360, The Trade Desk, SSPs, DMPs, CDPs)
• 1yearworking in agile environments and partnering with product and engineering teams
• 1yearin programmatic pricing or demand and supply analysis

Preferred qualifications

• MBA or advanced degree in a quantitative or business field
• Experience in Retail Media, eCommerce, or publisher ad monetization
• Familiarity with clean room measurement frameworks and incrementality testing
• Knowledge of machine learning models used for price optimization and bid prediction

What’s in it for you
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life.

Our benefits include:

• Competitive pay
• Generous employee discount
• Physical and mental well-being support

About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online, and in customers’ homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.

Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.

Remote Eligibility

This role is fully remote eligible, but you must reside in one of the states approved for remote work.
If you are hired and are not working from one of the states listed, you may be subject to corrective action up to and including termination.

Req #

989389BR

Brand

Best Buy

Job Category

Marketing Group

Job Level

Manager

Minimum Pay

91,392.00

Maximum Pay

163,302.00

Store Number or Department

100024 Remote - Minnesota

Address Line 1

Remote

City

Saint Paul

State

Minnesota

Search Categories

Corporate

Zip

55101

Benefits

Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being, as outlined in the Benefits Guide. Eligibility may vary.