Streaming Content Merchandising Specialist

Streaming Content Merchandising Specialist

📍 Hybrid – London

📅 12-Month Contract

💷 £235/day (Inside IR35)

We’re partnering with a leading global streaming and entertainment business to hire a Content Merchandising Specialist to support dual-market merchandising execution across the U.S. and UK streaming platforms.

This role plays a key part in strengthening executional capacity across both markets, supporting platform transition priorities, and ensuring a consistently high-quality merchandising experience for subscribers.

🎯 The Role

The Content Merchandising Specialist will primarily support U.S. in-app merchandising execution while also maintaining business-as-usual operational continuity across the UK platform. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to drive engagement, improve content discovery, optimise viewership performance, and support major content campaigns across streaming surfaces.

🔹 Key Responsibilities

U.S. Market Ownership (Primary Focus)

• Own day-to-day execution of the U.S. merchandising strategy across the streaming platform

• Manage promotional placements across Homepage Hero, Featured Rails, and Genre Page Heroes

• Support the merchandising of medaled titles and elevate high-performing library content

• Partner with Programming, Product, Marketing, Operations, and U.S. Network teams to support launches, campaigns, and tentpole moments

• Apply performance data, audience insights, and testing learnings to continuously optimise merchandising decisions

• Maintain editorial quality and consistency across major lifestyle, factual, and entertainment franchises

• Coordinate with wider merchandising teams to align execution for shared tentpole events and campaigns

UK Market Support (BAU & Operational Continuity)

• Execute business-as-usual merchandising across key UK platform surfaces

• Support operational stability during a major platform transition period

• Maintain reliable merchandising execution to enable broader teams to focus on wider transformation initiatives

• Track, analyse, and report on content performance to improve engagement and discovery outcomes

• Collaborate with UK stakeholders on market priorities, campaign execution, and planning

• Support merchandising calendars and market-level planning processes

• Assist in managing platform video channel merchandising presence

🛠 Platform Video Channels Ownership

• Support backend operations for platform video channels, including builds, updates, QA, and troubleshooting

• Maintain accuracy and consistency across workflows and merchandising systems

• Partner with internal stakeholders to resolve operational and platform issues

• Help ensure continuity of merchandising operations during organisational and platform changes

✅ Experience Required

• 4–6+ years’ experience within content merchandising, streaming, digital media, or related industries

• Hands-on experience executing in-app merchandising or content curation across streaming or digital platforms

• Strong understanding of data-led decision making, audience behaviour, and performance analysis

• Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, Programming, and Operations teams

• Ability to manage multiple priorities across complex stakeholder environments and multiple markets

• Familiarity with CMS tools, merchandising systems, and streaming platform workflows

• Experience supporting Platform Video Channels or similar environments is highly desirable

• Strong communication, organisational, and stakeholder management skills

• Highly detail-oriented with the ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-volume execution environments

🌟 Why Apply?

This is an exciting opportunity to join a globally recognised streaming environment at a pivotal time of growth, transformation, and platform evolution. You’ll play a visible role in shaping content discovery experiences for millions of users across international markets.