VP, Commercial Strategy & Partnerships

News Corporation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 210,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Reasonable Accommodation

Job summary

News Corp is seeking a Vice President, Commercial Strategy to lead enterprise relationships and commercialize data and audience capabilities across News Corp units. Reporting to the SVP, this role functions as a senior business development leader enabling partnerships with agencies and holding companies.

The position sits in News Corp Commercial Strategy with responsibility for expanding relationships, driving innovation, and building a unified strategic advertising proposition.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Strategy or Business Development in a scaled media, technology or platform business; consulting or investment banking with a media focus is a 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 and produce high-impact narratives.
• 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 in a matrixed, fast-moving environment.
• Deep, current relationships across agency holding companies, including with 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, and emerging agentic buying.

Responsibilities

• Map global agency and holding company relationships and unlock access points.
• Maintain and grow relationships with central agency leaders, digital and data teams, and global client organizations to complement BU sales activity.
• Produce agency strategy updates for each major holding company and share intelligence with the business units.
• Support the development of scalable advertising product strategies, incorporating market trends and BU requirements.
• Translate the global Advertising Technology vision into actionable workstreams and materials for BU adoption.
• Evaluate market trends, competitive shifts and emerging technologies to inform product strategy and partnerships.
• Partner with agencies to determine data needs and enable them with News Corp ad tech and operations teams.
• Evaluate the uplift value of News Corp’s targeting capabilities and build business cases for partnerships.
• Support the Platform Partnerships team on implementation and revenue growth.
• Leverage internal/external data platform knowledge (Snowflake, Permutive, MadConnect, GCP, AWS) to enable collaboration with agencies.
• Provide thought leadership in councils and forums on formats and platform trends.
• Manage multiple strategic projects with clear objectives and timelines.
• Coordinate across Analytics, Operations, Engineering, Finance, Product and BU teams for alignment and execution.
• Enable global transparency through structured communication and documentation.
• Prepare materials for executive leadership including quarterly board updates and partnership reviews.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Relationship management

Communication skills

Project management

Analytical skills

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Finance/Economics

Tools

Snowflake

Permutive

MadConnect

GCP

AWS

Job description

News Corp is seeking a Vice President, Commercial Strategy to lead enterprise relationships and commercialize data and audience capabilities across News Corp units. Reporting to the SVP, this role functions as a senior business development leader enabling partnerships with agencies and holding companies.

The position sits in News Corp Commercial Strategy with responsibility for expanding relationships, driving innovation, and building a unified strategic advertising proposition.