Business Head - TV Channel - South

Role Title: Business Head - South

Location: Chennai / Kerala/ Bangalore / Hyderabad

Job Purpose:

The Business Head is responsible for providing strategic, financial, and operational leadership for Live TV Channels of South and will closely coordinate and work with the senior leadership team. The role involves forward planning, making strategic decisions, managing the P&L, overall operations, and resources of the LIVE TV channels.

Key Accountabilities:

- Envision business, strategy, long term, and short-term goals, with a view to ensuring future business relevance, credibility and viability. Convert long term vision into strategy and further to long term and short-term goals of the company

- Achieve the business results agreed upon with respect to top line and bottom line. Installs a governance mechanism of the highest standards

- Manage Key stake holders. Including relationship with CEO / CRO / CBO / Editors of all the channels and corporates

- Build and strengthen relationship with advertisers and media buying houses.

- Promotes programs and services that are produced in a cost-effective manner, employing economy while maintaining an acceptable level of quality. Oversee the fiscal activities of all South LIVE TV Channels including budgeting, reporting and audit.

- Facilitates the integration into the fabric of the community by using effective marketing and communications activities.

- Listens to clients, volunteers, and the community to improve services and generate community involvement

- Prepare, review weekly, monthly, quarterly annual operating plan and revenue generation

- Design strategies to achieve these plans.

- Ensure profitability by managing the cost through different streams of revenue generation including subscription model

- Develop and implement performance metrics, incentive structure, sales promotion schemes and processes to monitor key input parameters to increase the overall productivity of the team.

- Build creative capabilities in house and to structure teams to be able to deliver different types of content

- Manage sales and creative teams and the flow of deliverables

- Build review and analytics around platform content

Desired Candidate Profile:

- Incumbent with strong understanding of sales, business, client servicing for digital content and who can manage sales as well as creative teams.

- Expertise in building strong client relationships for the company for content and revenue partnerships

- Strong understanding of cost and P&L management.

- Good Understanding of Digital space like video, stories etc, social media and other content

- Must have good understanding of South Market in terms of Business and Content

- Strong leadership ability

- Strategic mindset

- Professional business acumen

- Outstanding problem-solving skills

- Excellent ability to lead and manage

- Continually drive effective results

- Communicate effectively at all levels

Functional Competencies -

- General news awareness

- Subject Matter Expertise

- Quick information processing

- Effective presentation and communication skill

- Ready to take on challenges and remain balanced in triumph and failure

- Ability to motivate and align people

- Ability to take risks

- Ability to work under pressure

- Accountability and transparency in working

Behavioral Competencies -

- Customer touch: understand and anticipate customer needs

- Business acumen

- Envision big picture

- Global mindset: boundary-less behavior

- Change agent: bold in decision making

- Self-confidence with humility

- Excellent communicator

- Help others succeed/ Problem Solving/ Empathy

- Lifelong learning