Yield Planning Analyst (Remote)

The Athletic; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

The Athletic seeks a Yield Planning Analyst to join its remote-based Commercial Team. This role involves managing digital pricing and yield strategies, partnering with sales teams, and analyzing ad products to optimize sales efforts. Candidates should possess strong analytical skills and at least two years of relevant experience.

Benefits

Employer-contributed insurance plans

401k retirement savings plan with employer match

Paid time off including vacation and sick leave

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience in sales support, operations, or analytics.
• Strong analytical skills to synthesize large datasets.
• Experience in digital advertising preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage digital pricing and yield planning strategies.
• Oversee daily inventory and pricing requests.
• Conduct ad hoc analysis to guide sales support.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Time Management

Education

BA/BS

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About Us

Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic brings sports fans the most comprehensive stories about the teams, sports and athletes they love. The Athletic’s newsroom of 500+ full-time staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across more than 47 North American markets and all 20 football clubs in the English Premier League, as well as many Championship clubs.

About Us

Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic brings sports fans the most comprehensive stories about the teams, sports and athletes they love. The Athletic’s newsroom of 500+ full-time staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across more than 47 North American markets and all 20 football clubs in the English Premier League, as well as many Championship clubs.

About The Role

The Yield Planning Analyst will serve the Commercial Team by managing digital pricing responsibilities, lead yield planning strategy, and assist in analyzing our suite of ad products and packages to provide insights to help innovate and optimize our sales efforts and ad product offering. They will play a critical role in creating sponsorship and other strategic media packages and be the resident expert on these offerings. They will also be responsible for careful review and approvals of discounting and other price-related requests. This analyst will partner with sales, sales planning, and ad operations teams for pricing support and trend insights.

Responsibilities

• The Yield Planning Analyst strategizes and partners with sales planning and sales teams to ensure every proposal meets both client and internal objectives.
• Manage daily inventory and pricing requests from Sales, and Sales Planning teams, providing product recommendations, queue management, inventory trends, or alternative options.
• Manage the daily rate card responsibilities, which includes updating and improving rate card adjustments within advertising systems (order management and ad server)
• Engage broader operational teams and inventory suppliers on issues, trends, and potential issues
• Work with Operation teams to proactively optimize product pricing
• Create and troubleshoot various targeting needs in both the Ad Server (Google Ad Manager) and create relevant products within the Order Management System (AdPoint)
• Partner with the Programmatic Team to enhance product catalog to accomplish parity with direct
• Help oversee digital ad product catalog, by partnering with the Ad Product Team by creating new or optimizing current ad products.
• Conduct ad hoc analysis to provide guidance to sales support teams and help advise on best practices in pricing
• Browse the content on our site regularly and frequently to ensure our client’s ads are delivering as expected
• Assist in pricing-relevant conversations with Finance and Audit teams, when applicable
  
  
  

Requirements

• Education: BA/BS preferred
• 2+ years post-collegiate work experience in a sales support, sales operations, or analytics role.
• Previous product analytics experience in digital advertising preferred
• Candidates with experience in top-tier online advertising or marketing analytics organizations with strongly preferred
• Strong analytical skills and ability to clearly synthesize large dataset into key insights
• Excellent time management and attention to detail
• Comfortable in fast-paced and changing environment
• Excellent written and communication skills
• This is a remote-based position in the United States or Canada
  
  
  

The annual base salary range for this role is $70,000- $80,000 USD. The total compensation offered for this position may vary based on factors such as education, experience, skills, and location. It may also include non-cash rewards and benefits. The base salary range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

The Athletic offers unique perks and benefits to all full-time employees based on their country of residence. Our comprehensive US benefits package includes:

• Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans
• Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses
• 401k retirement savings plan and employer match
• Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
  
  
  

For international candidates: Our global benefits packages offer similar benefits and perks, competitive to the local market.

The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Business Development and Sales

• Industries

  Online Media

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