Vice President of Business Operations

This is a Full Time Job

The VP, Business Operations reports to the EVP, Business Operations and will be responsible for the following key areas:

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Strategic Vision and Planning: Work closely with Strategy, Business, and Corporate colleagues to develop and execute comprehensive growth plans for SPE's core businesses (Motion Picture, SPT, SPNI, Crunchyroll, and Alamo Drafthouse/Experiences), ensuring alignment with the company's overall vision and objectives.
• Collaborate with members of company and divisional leadership to evaluate existing plans (and performance) in comparison to opportunities in the marketplace.
• Drive refinements, shifts, and transformations to ensure optimal allocation of resources against the most attractive risk-adjusted strategic bets.
• Business Formation: Identify and develop new profit streams, by advancing/evolving existing businesses or supporting the company's expansion into new ones.
• Evaluate and implement sourcing, deal-making, financing, development, production/execution, and monetization strategies that align to the company's existing capabilities and resources or make the case for adding new ones.
• Build robust financial and business cases/plans for new initiatives, including revenue projections, cost analysis, and risk assessments.
• Collaborate with key creative, business, operating, and financial stakeholders to determine key risks and opportunities related to the overall effort and execution of it.
• Identify and recruit, and/or work with Corporate Development to acquire, top talent and other assets to support the execution of strategic initiatives and enhance business operations.
• Market Analysis and Opportunity Identification: Conduct in-depth market assessments to identify growth opportunities, competitive dynamics, and emerging trends in the media and entertainment industry.
• Promote a culture of critical thinking and curiosity through pursuit (and collection) of key market intelligence and performance data.
• Leverage this information and perspective across all SPE businesses to analyze audience behavior, content consumption patterns, and technological advancements to inform decision-making.
• Partnership and Alliance Building: Identify and cultivate high-impact strategic and commercial partnerships with key industry players, including talent, IP owners, networks, streaming platforms, consumer brands, and technology providers.
• Evaluate connectivity and points of overlap with our existing businesses, enabling effective integration and positive-sum collaboration across SPE.
• Prioritize arrangements that can lead to differentiated strategic position, outsized profits, or inexpensive access to high-value capabilities.
• Collaborate with key internal stakeholders to negotiate high-impact deals that maximize value and drive profitable growth.
• Operational Excellence: Foster a culture of collaboration and coordination across the company by demonstrating intentionality, innovation, and information sharing.
• Take time to learn how our businesses work, including first and second order influences.
• Push for continuous improvement modeling behaviors that promote a culture of accountability including humility, vulnerability, and rigor.
• Work with corporate and business teams to streamline operational processes without oversimplifying or implying uniformity of creative, teams, processes, or outcomes.
• Stakeholder Communication: Outline, draft, revise, and deliver material communications to the team, executive leadership, corporate and operating colleagues, and external stakeholders.
• Communicate progress, challenges, and opportunities effectively to ensure alignment and support across the organization.

CORE COMPETENCIES AND BEHAVIORS

Biz Ops has a ''C.H.E.C.K. Yourself'' philosophy, necessary to building trust with colleagues and peers, subject matter expertise, and critical thinking skills:
• CURIOUS: Desire to learn – both about specific topics and how to grow as a professional. Willingness to ask questions and to question one's own thinking/experiences. Team members approach challenges and opportunities with an open mind about how to tackle them, not with the conclusions already in hand.
• HUMBLE: One's knowledge relative to others is tiny relative to all available knowledge. Recognition that outcomes are some combination of skill, circumstances, and luck – not always in the same proportion.
• EMPATHETIC: Working effectively with others requires an understanding of where they see themselves relative to others, including you. Priorities, planning, and actions are informed by incentives, context, and individual experience – they operate in a feedback loop that is unlikely to be effectively altered by evaluating outcomes without understanding process.
• CONFIDENT: Trust in one's intentions and abilities should affirm contributions to a project. Skills can always be honed, and expertise can gained, but only with the self-assurance that participation is warranted. It takes just as much confidence to ask a question admitting a lack of knowledge as it does to make an informed declaration. Arrogance is confidence without humility and curiosity.
• KNOWLEDGEABLE: Expertise, information, and insight are valuable inputs to informed decision-making. Critical judgments should be made with the benefit of both evidence and perspective, which is separated from opinion by the pattern recognition developed through experience and reflection.

EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• 12+ years of experience in strategy/Corp Dev, strategic planning, business operations, operations, or a similar role within the media and entertainment industry.
• Proven track record of developing and executing successful business strategies that drive growth and profitability.
• Direct experience refashioning or pivoting an existing business or developing, building, launching, and scaling an entirely new business line.
• Strong operational expertise with the ability to translate strategic plans into actionable initiatives.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated history of intellectual curiosity and open-mi

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