A Day in the Life of a Business Operations Manager at NBC Universal
A Business Operations Manager at NBC Universal starts each day with a "stand up" with their boss to align on priorities, which "can change pretty frequently". The remainder of the day involves project status updates, strategic alignment meetings with senior leadership, and process improvement initiatives, showcasing the dynamic and collaborative nature of the role.
Project Management, Communication, Strategic Alignment, Process Improvement, Leadership
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Hallie Greenawalt
Business Operations Manager
NBC Universal
University of Arizona
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Anthropology, Sociology
Arts, Entertainment & Media
Operations and Project Management
Took Out Loans, Worked 20+ Hours in School, First Generation College Student
Video Highlights
1. Daily priorities are discussed and can change frequently.
2. Collaboration with the boss and other team members is essential for project updates and alignment.
3. Strategic alignment meetings with senior leadership to ensure projects meet their goals are important.
Transcript
What does the day in the life of a business operations manager look like?
A day in the life can change pretty frequently, like with most jobs. For the most part, you log in and have a stand-up with your boss. We go over our priorities for the day or for the week, depending on what day of the week it is.
Priorities can always change too, so it's nice to connect and make sure we're working on the correct things. After that, we'll typically follow up with people about projects, striking it on status. We're working to update the slide deck so that we're not doing it last minute before review meetings.
We also have a lot of strategy alignment meetings. Those will be with our senior leadership, just to make sure that we're tracking what they want to see as well. If new projects are getting prioritized, we'll kick those off. We'll have some different process improvement projects as well that the business operations team works on.
So, instead of having other people do things for us, we will normally have some tasks that we work on in order to achieve those goals.