Scheduling Intern

The Walt Disney Company offers an internship in Lisbon as a Scheduling Intern starting in September.

The role will consist of:

Responsible for creating the final TV linear schedules for Portugal’s Entertainment & Factual channels (STAR brands, National Geographic & 24Kitchen) in OnAir, assuring strong coordination with all stakeholders involved in the process to deliver high-quality schedules on time and within guidelines and local regulations.

Main Responsibilities:

• Delivers the channels final TV lineal schedules in What´s On.
• Includes secondary events (static & animated graphics, credit crunches, bumpers…) and any other required elements on assigned logs with the supervision of the Scheduling Supervisor as per defined strategy.
• Provides any transmission reports to Scheduling Supervisor when required.
• Coordinates with AdSales, Media Planning, Operations’, Technical, Creative and Programming teams to assure a smooth broadcast/delivery of the channels linear plans.
• Execute and interprets the multiplatform media plans in order to maximize the effectiveness of the communication campaigns.
• Reviews on a constant basis the makelist with the Scheduling Supervisor guidance to assure all promos are delivered on time and with the correct messaging and monitors the channels output on a daily basis.
• Interprets daily audiences and other analytical data to understand competitors and channels performances to suggest programming tactics and improvements.
• Takes responsibility on the double-check of all on-air elements to assure there are no mistakes on key messaging.
• Maintains up to date knowledge of market place and competitor activity.
• Collaborates and participates on team’s brainstorming coming with ideas for upcoming plans & campaigns.
• Communicates effectively with team members and managers to ensure successful delivery of plans and schedules in line with department requirements and timings.
• Comes up with creative ideas to contribute to the continual improvement of plans/schedules.
• Ensure that all sponsor commitments (owned media, synergies…) are executed as planned.
• Collaborate with research for planning and post-analysis purposes.
• Covers sickness/Holidays leaves for other channels schedulers when required.
  
  
  

The skills we are looking for are:

• High level of pro-activity and ability to work under pressure.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to manage own time and projects with skill and maturity.
• Ability to spot and solve problems.
• Confidence in own opinion and ability to challenge upwards.
• Able to work effectively in teams.
  
  
  

The necessary qualifications of the position will be:

• Studies related with Marketing, Communication or Media like television or cinema. [It is essential to have completed the studies and no more than 2 years have elapsed since the completion of it]
• Good level of English
  
  
  

We offer a 1 year (6 months + 6 months) internship program starting in September.