Sr. Manager Advertising Inventory, Yield & Pricing

As the Sr. Manager Advertising Inventory, Yield & Pricing you will lead and contribute to an analytics function that focused on driving revenue optimization and monetization strategy across Best Buy Ads' offsite, programmatic and direct-sold inventory. You'll play a critical role in maximizing the value of our digital media supply through data-driven pricing, inventory optimization, analysis, and automation. This role will help define the future of our programmatic media capabilities and ensure Best Buy Ads remains a performance-driven, supply-smart Retail Media Network.

This role is remote eligible, which means you would work virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location.

What you'll do

• Lead the Yield & Inventory team, owning strategy, execution, and performance optimization across on and offsite supply, with an emphasis on programmatic channels across DSPs and SSPs.
• Develop scalable yield and pricing models for audience monetization and offsite supply, including header bidding, private marketplaces (PMPs), and programmatic guaranteed.
• Implement real-time analytics and decisioning to manage supply allocation and floor pricing across demand channels.
• Partner with Ad Product, Engineering, and Data Science to evolve dynamic pricing, targeting, and delivery algorithms based on performance and demand elasticity.
• Support sales in negotiating and pricing supply deals for agencies and advertisers
• Analyze fill rates, bid density, win rates, and revenue-per-impression across O&O and offsite supply to drive tactical and strategic optimizations.
• Collaborate with Sales, Media Strategy, and Account Management to identify monetization opportunities and manage risk due to traffic fluctuations or demand shifts.
• Build and maintain forecasting, pacing, and inventory health models to ensure efficient and effective use of digital media inventory.
• Establish benchmarks and KPIs to measure programmatic performance, pricing effectiveness, and partner yield contributions.
• Evaluate and implement yield management and pricing technologies, including integrations with SSPs, ad servers, and clean room environments.
• Manage third-party platform and vendor relationships with a focus on improving automation, transparency, and monetization outcomes.

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in marketing or retail media, programmatic media and advertising with advanced level of experience in ad server technology"
• 6 years in advertising yield, analytics, pricing, or programmatic operations
• 4 years leading teams or cross-functional projects
• 2 years or fluency in tools such as BigQuery, SQL, and data visualization platforms like Tableau
• 2 years of experience managing inventory and monetization strategies across display, video, native, or emerging programmatic channels
• 1 year of expertise in programmatic platforms and ad tech (e.g., Google Ad Manager, DV360, The Trade Desk, SSPs, DMPs, CDPs)
• 1 year working in agile environments and partnering with product and engineering teams
• 1 year in programmatic pricing or demand and supply analysis

Preferred qualifications

• MBA or advanced degree in a quantitative or business field
• Experience in Retail Media, eCommerce, or publisher ad monetization
• Familiarity with clean room measurement frameworks and incrementality testing
• Knowledge of machine learning models used for price optimization and bid prediction

What's in it for you

We're committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life.

Our benefits include:

• Competitive pay
• Generous employee discount
• Physical and mental well-being support

About us

As part of the Best Buy team, you'll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life - in our stores, online, and in customers' homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We're committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.

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Location Number 100024 Remote - Minnesota

Address Remote$91392 - $163302 /yr

Pay Range $91392 - $163302 /yr