Business Development Manager, Content & Services

What we can offer:

A crafted employee experience designed to foster professional growth, a focus on health & well-being and an internal community that will set you up for success.

We offer an environment that enables colleagues to demonstrate their capabilities, focus on their work and create value.  At LG, you're encouraged to take a creative and individual approach to challenges with strong emphasis placed on performance and skill—and equal, merit-based opportunities across the board. We want our colleagues to grow with our global business.  That's why we deliver sure rewards for exceptional performance and offer industry-leading benefits. Come join the team!

The Opportunity:

As a Manager, Content Business Development you will maintain, establish, and expand business relationships with a wide variety of North America-based content, media, and entertainment companies to integrate and distribute their services on our products. To be successful in this role, you will negotiate multiyear partnerships for distribution on our Smart TVs. Which include our advertising video on demand service "LG Channels", our app store called "LG Smart World", and our "ThinQ" artificial intelligence platform. As a key member of a high performing team, you will be able to influence content related innovations to integrate into our webOS Smart TV operating system.

• Negotiate and execute agreements with major entertainment companies to present their service on LG devices.
• Manage the launch of the premium applications on LG devices.
• Negotiate, coordinate, and advertise inventory from advertising-based content for integration into LG Channels.
• Provide quarterly revenue review reports to executives and major partners to drive revenue growth.
• Manage and lead a cross functional team.
• Lead discussions on business, marketing, and technical with business partners during quarterly business reviews.
• Negotiate business terms for transactional video on demand distribution on LG Smart TVs.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of advanced and progressive skills in over the top (OTT) content, business development focused on negotiating content distribution deals; MBA preferred.
• Strong preference for direct experience with at least two of the following content categories: TV, movies/film, sports, music/audio.
• Knowledge and experience negotiating contract terms for the partnership.
• Knowledge of content and media distribution ecosystem preferred.
• Strong presentation skills for internal and external stakeholders.
• Contract, negotiation, and drafting experience preferred.