Director - Business Strategy and Planning

. Growth Strategy & Portfolio Opportunities

• Identify strategic growth opportunities across content, distribution, partnerships, consumer engagement, and emerging business areas
• Drive portfolio-level interventions to improve scale, efficiency, and long-term business outcomes
• Evaluate market shifts, competitive trends, and evolving consumer behaviour to shape strategic priorities
• Support leadership teams to improve growth, monetization and operating efficiency across businesses

Expectation: Shape strategic growth priorities across the portfolio, beyond current operating plans

2. White Spaces & Strategic Interventions

• Identify structural gaps and whitespace opportunities across the entertainment ecosystem
• Develop business cases for new opportunities, partnerships and expansion opportunities
• Partner with cross-functional teams to unlock opportunities across linear, streaming, studios, and emerging platforms
• Drive high-impact strategic initiatives requiring enterprise-wide alignment

Expectation: Identify and unlock future growth opportunities across the portfolio

3. New Growth Engines & Scaled Initiatives

• Work with leadership teams to conceptualize and scale new growth initiatives (e.g., IP extensions, consumer experiences, new formats, partnerships)
• Support execution and scale-up of high-potential initiatives across platforms and markets
• Define success metrics and track performance of new initiatives against business objectives
• Drive problem-solving and course correction to ensure scalability and sustainability

Expectation: Enable new growth engines from concept to scalable business opportunity

4.  Cross-Functional Leadership & Alignment

• Work across multiple teams to drive alignment on strategic priorities and enterprise-wide initiatives
• Enable collaboration between business, content, product, distribution, finance, and partnership teams
• Facilitate execution of high-priority initiatives through stakeholder alignment and governance mechanisms
• Bring together diverse inputs into cohesive strategic recommendations for leadership

Expectation: Deliver complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives with strong execution discipline

5.  Leadership Narratives & Executive Communication

• Develop high-quality strategy decks, executive briefs, and business narratives for senior leadership
• Synthesize market, consumer, competitive, and business insights into clear strategic recommendations
• Support leadership communication around business priorities, growth opportunities, and long-term direction
• Build structured narratives to support key decision-making forums

Expectation: Deliver clarity, insight, and rigor in all strategic communications

Success Metrics

• Measurable impact on revenue growth, audience expansion, or new business initiatives
• Number and quality of new growth opportunities identified and validated
• Successful execution and scaling of strategic initiatives
• Strength of cross-functional alignment and delivery timelines
• Quality and influence of strategic recommendations in leadership decision-making