Market Planning & Operations Manager (UCAN) - Commercial Planning

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As the Commercial Planning Manager on the MP&O team, you will be responsible for the regional business planning and the orchestrator for critical commercial initiatives. This is a high-impact, individual contributor role designed for a strategic operator who can translate high-level vision into rigorous, executable market plans. You will also be organizing complex workstreams, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring our advertising business scales with a high-performance operating rhythm and data-backed decision-making.

* Lead the annual and in‑year commercial planning cycles for UCAN Advertising.

* Drive planning processes across all UCAN Ads teams (Sales, Account Management, Sales Solutions, Measurement, and MP&O).

* Act as the coordinator and integrator of UCAN inputs into global product and policy planning, ensuring our regional priorities are clearly articulated, sequenced, and reflected in global roadmaps and long‑range plans.

* Develop recommendations for the commercial approach for key programs and drive consensus within the UCAN Leadership team.

* Work closely with Sales Operations and Pricing to ensure learnings (forecast, pipeline, win/loss, deal performance) are fed into the weekly/monthly/quarterly and annual planning of the business.

* Partner with internal cross functional teams to ensure our reporting and operations are operationally compliant.

* 7+ years of experience in planning, sales operations or commercial enablement within a digital advertising environment.

* Deep understanding of Direct Sales deal cycles and buying behaviors

* Direct experience working with Programmatic advertising

* Deep familiarity with the US advertising landscape, including agency and advertiser dynamics and the operational models required for digital media execution.

* A strategic mindset with the ability to think big-picture while diving into granular details.

* Experience with AI tooling (e.g. Claude), including custom skill development, workflow design, AI-assisted dashboarding, and prompt engineering.

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $220,000.00 - $350,000.00.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more details about our Benefits here.

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