As a Senior Acquisition Executive, you will be at the forefront of curating premium content that defines our platform. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape platform’s content strategy by identifying, negotiating, and securing top-tier content that resonates with our audience.

Role description:

• Responsible for acquiring content for all of the company assets;
• Responsible for following the acquisition strategy on the content for the platform, as Programming Director and Head of Acquisition direction;
• Responsible for respecting the acquisition budget based on the needs;
• Responsible for informing the Head of Acquisition and Programming Director whenever a situation involving the library of the channels appears (not enough content, technical and quality problems with the programs etc);
• Responsible for establishing contact and maintaining relations with content distributors;
• Responsible for negotiating with third parties the best conditions for the company, based on the mandate received from the Head of Acquisition and Programming Director; 
• Analyze rights information, current trends, competitor analysis, and market
  intelligence to play a key role in providing insight into the team to support acquisition
  strategies;
• Work with the Acquisition team to ensure a smooth running of the department,
  including coordination of information between the acquisition department and other
  departments (Digital, Finance etc).
• Prepares the commitment budgets for the platform events and ensures that the budget is respected;
• Participates in all stages of the acquisition process together with the Head of Acquisition or alone, whenever gets approval to do so; 
• Prepares financial analysis together with the finance department;
• Prepares buying offers;
• Gives input on the contracts (works with the legal department);
• Knows in detail the platform strategy,  channel schedules and their
  programming needs and makes suggestions for acquisitions;
• Has a clear image of the existing library for the platform events;
• Knows in detail the Company’s policy in terms of amortization and financial behavior;
• Represent the Company in front of external distributors. Participates whenever necessary to meetings, events, and specialized fares;
• Supervises the way the contracts are implemented by the different departments of the stations.

Qualifications:

• University degree;
• Minimum 3 years previous experience in Television/ Aquisition/ Media field area is a plus;
• Experience of working with both creative and commercial contacts at different levels;
• Understanding of digital platforms and their corresponding rights;
• Understanding of linear and non-linear rights within the media landscape;
• A strong interest in TV and digital media;
• Sports understanding and connections in different sports federations represent an advantage;
• Experience working across rights management systems;
• Comfortable working with and communicating with multiple departments;
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office;
• Specific TV acquisition software (MIS);
• Passionate about sports, which represents an advantage;
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills;
• Detailed-oriented, organized, and persistent;
• Capacity to work under stress and under time pressure;
• Advanced English.