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Who we are

IMG is a global leader in sports, fashion, events and media, operating in more than 30 countries. The company manages some of the world’s greatest sports figures and fashion icons; stages hundreds of live events and branded entertainment experiences annually; and is a leading independent producer and distributor of sports and entertainment media. IMG also specializes in sports training and league development, as well as marketing, media and licensing for brands, sports organizations and collegiate institutions. IMG is part of the Endeavor (formerly WME | IMG) network.

As the pioneer in golf, IMG was founded by Mark McCormack in 1960 following a gentleman’s agreement handshake between Mark and Arnold Palmer. This was the start of athlete representation as we know it today. Over the years IMG has extended into numerous sports but its roots are firmly set within Golf, and we are proud to have staged over 800 events since 1960. Our current portfolio includes some of the most exciting and prestigious tournaments in golf, including the Solheim Cup, Saudi International, The Open, Trust Golf Women’s Scottish Open, The Senior Open presented by Rolex, AIG Women’s Open, Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, Asian Tour International Series in Egypt, Morocco, Singapore and Korea, Chevron Championship, Honda Classic, PNC Championship, HSBC Women’s World Championship, Honda LPGA, Blue Bay LPGA, Buick LPGA, BMW Ladies Championship, HSBC WGC Champions, Swinging Skirts LPGA, Women’s Amateur Asia Pacific and Asian Amateur Championship.

Who we are looking for

We are hiring a driven, experience and passionate Senior Marketing Director to lead all aspects our Golf Division’s consumer, sponsorship and partnership marketing strategy and activity, globally. You’ll be responsible for direct and indirect revenue generating activity across our international portfolio of world-class golf events ensuring we maintain a significant competitive edge in a robust competitor landscape while helping to build brand affinity, attendance, and advocacy of our golf properties. The right candidate will help us grow the prestige, profile, and long-term positioning of each event, as well as support the long-term growth of the Division.

Responsibilities Include But Not Limited To

Brand & Marketing Strategy & Planning

• Working under our regional SVPs of Golf and as part of the wider marketing organisation you will drive and develop brand, consumer and partnership marketing strategies as part of our go-to-market process that establish and grow our live events.
• Working with cross-functional groups (including the analytics team, marketing team, event operations, sponsorship sales, PR, creative, ticketing, legal and finance) to create best-in-class marketing strategies and plans.
• Optimise, evolve, and fully integrate strategic marketing processes including partner objectives and rights integration, creative, content and GTM (go-to-market) processes.
• Provide industry insight and knowledge on wider trends and behaviour.
• Deliver, maintain, and evolve our brands’ strategies, identities and messaging recommending and executing brand enhancements and extensions where necessary.

Marketing Campaigns & Activity

Oversee the day-to-day delivery of all aspects of the marketing strategy and plan – not limited to, but including:

• Create and deliver event marketing strategies relevant to the property and market, including ticket modelling, tactical campaigns, audience segmentation and targets,
• Support the consumer and partnership marketing sales process, including B2B marketing, research creative processes
• Oversee the planning, management and delivery of all creative assets and content required before, during (on-site) and after our events ensuring a creative, efficient, story-telling team which rolls into our overall marketing approach for events, new business, and commercial opportunities.
• Provide support to Comms and PR teams to deliver PR narratives in line with agreed upon brand, partner and consumer objectives.
• Liaise with other internal business units to ensure alignment and efficiency across all departments.
• Manage performance monitoring, optimization and reporting of all marketing activity, and action adjustments where necessary to ensure optimization for maximum performance, reach, and return on investment.
• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure sponsor and partner marketing requirements are fulfilled.
• Oversee existing digital and social platforms and work with internal and external digital resources; identify new platforms and routes to market and integrate consumer-marketing strategy where relevant.
• Oversee and deliver outstanding on-site marketing efforts across owned channel content capture (photography, videography etc) consumer engagement and supporting sponsor activations.
• Deliver robust post-event reports that include management of the post event survey process, analysis of media value, campaign results and development of recommendations for the next cycle.

Financial Management:

• Maintain and optimize the marketing campaign budgets.
• Process any marketing related invoices which have been pre-approved.

Stakeholder Management:

• A core member of the golf team you will help us maintain strong relationships with partners and sponsors. You’ll attend, contribute to, and sometimes lead on these importance stakeholder meetings & relationships, assisting with coordination and delivery of presentations and proposals where required.
• Guide partner and sponsor account management and digital servicing of partners while being the voice of the consumer and marketing throughout.
• Liaise with and represent IMG when engaging with journalists, broadcasters, talent, suppliers, high net-worth individuals, fans, and supporters as required.
• Report and communicate wins, progress, and learnings to key stakeholders internally and externally, helping to continue to build the strong reputation of the golf division.

Business development:

• Identify and nurture key parties who could collaborate with golf to enhance our product and brands as well as identify opportunities to deliver additional revenue streams or NPD both across the IMG and Endeavor network and externally.

Leadership & Team Management:

• Grow and nurture a team of marketing managers, marketing R&R’s and designers), motivating them through tough periods and empowering them to establish themselves as go-to marketing experts in each region.

Key Results Areas

• Increase revenue for Golf portfolio of events with a focus on owned /at risk properties
• Grow the prestige, profile, and long-term positioning of each event in keeping with IMG’s position as a global, trusted and premium golf event management group
• Manage marketing spend within agreed budgets to maximizes stakeholder results
• Grow customer and sponsor retention within and across Events
• Provide tangible thought and action leadership across the Division and geographic regions – help build a learning organization with engage and knowledgeable consumer marketing teams.

You Will Have The Following Strengths

• Extensive experience in hands-on multichannel marketing, with proven success in customer segmentation, pricing and promotions, brand communication, digital media planning and analytics, and social platform and content marketing (organic and paid)
• Extensive experience leading change in a matrixed, geographically distributed organization with proven business results
• Experience in a senior executive level role
• Understanding of the Golf landscape
• Excellent contacts within marketing and PR agencies and media partners
• Brand management experience
• Technical understanding of digital acquisition techniques such as SEM, SEO, CRM, and emerging social targeting tools
• Working knowledge of revenue management and pricing, packaging and channel strategy
• Creative experience – oversight or practical

We’d Love If You Also Have These

• Established and effective leader with strong people management skills and ability to excel in a fast paced environment
• Working knowledge of MS Office software, including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to build long lasting working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to self-direct and motivate and work with minimal supervision
• A strong team player that is flexible dependent on business demand
• Excellent time management skills, ability to work calmly under pressure whilst meeting deadlines
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to multitask and prioritise
• Excellent copywriting skills
• Highly numeric, commercial disposition

Our Values:

• We are fueled by Persistence, adapting and seeking solutions in the face of challenges.
• We support and elevate diverse voices, promoting equity and Inclusion within our company, industries and community.
• We operate with a spirit of Entrepreneurialism, a willingness to take risks and mindset that is built to disrupt.
• We rely on Collaboration across our network to power culture and unite people around the world.
• We hold ourselves to the highest standards of Excellence in every aspect of our work, including how we interact with one another, our clients and our partners.

Working Conditions

• This is a permanent position.
• This role will be based at Chiswick Park, London.
• Working hours are 9:00 – 17:00, Monday to Friday
• Occasional travel and weekend work may be required
• Regular weekend work where you may be required to travel to events in line with the Golf portfolio.
• Outside of event travel there will be a requirement to travel abroad for meetings to capture content and consumer marketing activity.

Equal Opportunities Statement

IMG is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief.

IMG

The Global iProspect Team in Paris & London is hyper-growing. Following the award of a key Luxury global account to our agency starting in 2022, the team is welcoming new talents to work for a number of prestigious fashion brands.

A key position in our team is the Global Display & Video Account Director.

This role is working with brand teams to manage the display and video media for client’s brand campaigns across the world.

Role purpose

The purpose of this role is to work closely with the brand teams and channel teams to create best in class display and video campaigns that are optimised for the outcomes set by the brands in the portfolio. In addition, the successful candidate will support the brand leads in defining the correct approach to campaign moments, whether that be direct, IO based implementation or a more biddable/programmatic route (where activation of this media will be done via biddable team). The successful candidate will work with the manager and executive on the account to define the route of display and video for Kering and its Maisons.

An expert knowledge of media principles in the display and video space will be needed as well as being able to provide an integrated media response, project managing the Go Live of the campaign gathering and analysing the campaign response for learnings and constant improvement.

Key Accountabilities

• Oversee and support on providing high quality recommendations and innovative media solutions in response to briefs from brand team and/or clients
• Full understanding of display planning tools and confidently interpret the data provide to form robust rationales that ladder back to clients’ objectives/KPIs.
• Responsible for the correct management of Display Investment and billings across your clients
• Implement innovative and creative ideas to the Display & Video planning process for your clients and share with wider the brand teams and/or clients
• Work closely with the programmatic team to rationalise the best approach to display and video
• Be a subject matter expert in luxury fashion media and build strong relationships with key partners
• Build strong relationship with clients so that you become a trusted member of the Global iProspect team and Kering team.
• Confident at interpreting data to track progress of campaigns live for display and video using both proprietary and 3rd party solutions.
• Articulate campaign results through post campaign analysis reports and quarterly business reviews and present to key external stakeholders
• Work with manager and executive to build a strong central team and develop their skills in the day to day running of display and video campaigns.

Professional Skills

• Luxury Media experience is desirable
• Highly numerate and analytical
• International/Global Advertising Knowledge
• Used to working under pressure and able to deliver work to deadlines.
• Decision maker & Problem solver
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong negotiator
• Good communication across all levels with Programmatic team, external media owners and internal dentsu teams.
• Great attention to detail – Ability to ensure 100% accuracy across all planning and commercial processes.
• Ability to prioritise workloads across you and your team
• IT literate – competent in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and able to pick up new systems as necessary
• Flexibility to work outside of contractual hours as and when required

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.

Working with us

Joining dentsu international, you’ll join a team of 46,000 people. It’s an opportunity to produce career-defining work. Along the way, you will team up with inspiring colleagues and encounter a richness of clients, cultures and experiences. We offer exciting challenges, memorable experiences and opportunities to shape your future.

Inclusion and Diversity

We’re proud to be different and that starts with our people. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone. We will not define people by their race, gender, sexual-orientation, age or disability. Individuality is what makes us great, we want everyone to bring their full self to work and create something amazing. That’s what we care about.

So, whether you’re joining us, or looking to move to a different part of the business, we work hard to make sure we create equal opportunities for everyone.

Our 8 ways

We are dentsu. As champions for meaningful progress, we help our clients to win, keep and grow their best customers with best-in-class services and solutions in media, CXM, and creative.

With more than 46,000 dedicated specialists teaming across 145 markets, our ‘8 ways’ shape and guide the way we do things here, so that, together, we can achieve the ‘never before’ for our clients, for society and for each other.

We dream loud.

We inspire change.

We team without limits.

We all lead.

We make it real.

We climb high.

We choose excitement.

We are a force for good.

We are dentsu

Keeping connected

Please visit our website to find out more and connect with us on social.

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Part of dentsu, dentsu international headquartered in London operates in over 145 markets worldwide with more than 48,000 dedicated specialists. We help clients to win, keep and grow their best customers and achieve meaningful progress for their businesses. With best-in-class services and solutions in media, CXM, and creative.

www.dentsu.com

iProspect

Casting Call

Sophie Holland Casting

We’re looking for a brilliant young actress for a supporting role in a 6-part episodic series for Paramount.

Susie

• 8 – 12 to play 8 to 10 years old, US accent
• (4/6 episodes)
• Sassy, snooty girl scout Susie is the epitome of Yuppie Larvae (the child of middle-class parents with white collar jobs and a sense of entitlement). Invincible and superior to anyone and everyone else because her dad will totally sue your dad. Convinced everyone wants to hear her opinion, she overly confident and her array of insults ready to be flung at any unsuspecting victim that crosses her path, is something to be admired. Veruca Salt meets Erica from Stranger Things. A fun role for a brilliant and spirited young actress.

Filming in the UK from April – June 2023.

Paid in line with industry standards.

We are committed to inclusive, diverse casting. For every role, please submit qualified performers, without regard to age, sex, ethnicity, disability, race, color, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity or any other basis prohibited by law unless otherwise specifically indicated.

An award-winning London based marketing and Partnerships agency is looking for a Partnerships Executive to join them. Ideal role for any junior marketing professional looking work in partnerships…

The Agency

One of the UK’s most well-established promotional marketing and Partnerships agencies, this award-winning integrated outfit has been responsible for multiple iconic campaigns on behalf of many industry giants in Entertainment, Technology, FMCG, Retail and more. Their close-nit team are passionate about the brands they represent, and they benefit greatly from a varied workload, some excellent workplace perks (flexible and home working included) and a true commitment to staff wellbeing and career progression. A well run, respected and stable agency with a ‘staff first’ culture and some incredible clients!

The Role

This is an ideal role for any Junior Marketing professional or graduate who’s looking to start their career in brand partnerships. You’ll get to work with an iconic film and entertainment studio and work on highly creative campaigns with the support of an excellent senior team. It’s a role that would suit anyone comfortable presenting creative ideas and pitching out to potential partners. Responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the Partnerships team with partner research, campaign ideas and outreach
• Building strong and lasting relationships with what is a very long standing client
• Build and develop and excellent understand of the Film entertainment sector, picking up on trends and knowledge that can be used to enhance campaigns

The Opportunity

If you’re interested in working Partnerships then this stable, well respected and award-winning agency should definitely be on your radar. The role offers the chance to work with and iconic global film studio on campaigns with creativity at their core. You’ll get the opportunity to work with and learn from a highly experienced team and the agency has a very real commitment to staff wellbeing, development and fostering an inclusive and enjoyable culture…

Stonor Recruitment

A multi-award-winning brand partnerships consultancy is looking for a Partnerships Account Director to take the lead on international campaigns for giants in the entertainment sector (Film and Gaming)…

The Agency

One of the longest standing Partnerships agencies in the UK, this outstanding boutique agency have won countless awards for their campaigns and have built up a truly enviable client base in the Film, and Gaming sectors. Their diverse and welcoming team are based Across the UK, Europe and further afield and benefit from a strong focus on flexibility, trust and diversity of work. The agency manages global campaigns covering multiple regions and are about to embark on a truly exciting period. As a result, the agency has need of an experienced partnerships professional to join them and oversee some of these global campaigns…

The Role

This is a senior role within the Partnerships team and will see the successful candidate leading multi-regional campaigns and helping to manage and mentor junior staff. You’ll be working with high profile and often iconic brands and Ips in the Film and gaming sectors and will be responsible for cultivating strong and truly consultative relationships with clients. The role will report directly into the senior leadership team and the ideal candidate will:

• Have previous expereince overseeing Partnerships campaigns within the Entertainment sector – ideally with a global remit
• Have a serious passion for the entertainment sector and a strong understand of it’s cultural impact and current and past trends
• Be comfortable developing relationships with senior stakeholders, presenting creative ideas and acting a true consultant
• Have a strong track record for successfully pitching ideas to potential partner brands
• Be able to effectively manage and mentor junior colleagues.

The Opportunity

If you’re looking to join an established and respected agency where the focus is firmly placed on delivering best in class campaigns rather than chasing every lead, then this should be one for you. You’ll be joining in a senior position with plenty of scope for development and will be working with top tier Film and Gaming ips from fully retained, long standing clients. The agency offers infinite flexibility to work from where you choose (though they do have an office space) and offer a no politics, relaxed culture in a team who’re passionate about what they do.

Stonor Recruitment

Who We Are:

Seven League is a fast-growing digital sports agency. The company was founded in 2011 and has since grown to over 50 full-time staff with additional associates in 14 European countries. Seven League is part of the Endeavor Group which is a global sports business and includes companies such as IMG, UFC and 160/90.

We have a wide range of clients, national and international, reaching all sectors of the sports business including the NFL, FIFA, Spurs, LCFC, the NBA, the NHL, Sport England and England Netball.

What You’ll Do:

As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for driving brand presence via content and community building through digital channels. This role requires creation of strategic programmes to engage with digital communities, partners and athletes to grow content distribution and syndication, looking for trends and insights, and growing overall digital revenue streams. The right candidate will be able to work across different stakeholder groups to proactively research, plan and identify content syndication opportunities and negotiate and deliver on these opportunities, whilst proactively developing, implementing, tracking and optimising content distribution programmes across various digital channels.

Key Responsibilities Include But Not Limited To:

• Identify, cultivate and maintain meaningful relationships with a broad spectrum of digital content partners across all channels to drive content distribution and revenue growth.
• Create strategies to build, grow and manage online communities.
• Lead the end-to-end syndication of our content to key media partners and manage the ongoing development of optimised content syndication workflows
• Work closely with colleagues across marketing, production and commercial teams to ensure that syndication and distribution of content is considered at the ideation and planning stage
• Research and build relationships with media partners and content creators across the world of sport and entertainment more broadly (these could include publishers, creators, streamers, podcasters, bloggers, influencers etc)
• Initiate, negotiate and close distribution agreements with key media partners across web, mobile, apps, streaming services and connected TVs
• Work closely with the internal marketing and content teams to develop initiatives designed to increase content views and engagement levels
• Work closely with broadcast delivery team to help deliver more value for rights holders through content and liaise with them on delivery formats
• Working with proprietary software to manage content distribution
• Onboarding and managing stakeholders to guarantee commitment and investment in the tools and project
• Liaising with sports teams, athletes, broadcasters and sponsors for day to day content management
• Reporting on campaign metrics
• Presenting ideas, campaigns and strategies to clients of all levels of digital maturity
• Understanding the latest digital trends, and reporting this back to the wider team and clients
• Other duties that are within the scope of the role may be required.

You Will Have The Following Strengths:

• Experience in a digital content distribution role.
• A keen understanding of digital technologies, social media platforms, websites, apps and content production
• Experience working with post production houses and understanding of types of media.
• Experience with reviewing content licence agreements
• Experience of building relationships and creating commercial opportunities through 3rd party publishers and outlets
• Prior experience working with key decision-makers in the content distribution system is an asset
• A passion for digital culture and sport.

We’d Love If You Also Have These:

• Solid experience in digital content, social media, marketing or commercial roles
• Technically savvy and passionate about the latest digital trends and developments
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Demonstrable ability to learn new skills with a readiness to share those skills among other members of the team
• Strong initiative with a ‘can do’ attitude and willingness to be flexible in approach to achieve desired outcomes
• Enthusiasm for the opportunities presented by digital technology
• Hard-working, flexible and adaptable
• Customer or client-focused approach

Our Values:

• We are fueled by Persistence, adapting and seeking solutions in the face of challenges.
• We support and elevate diverse voices, promoting equity and Inclusion within our company, industries and community.
• We operate with a spirit of Entrepreneurialism, a willingness to take risks and mindset that is built to disrupt.
• We rely on Collaboration across our network to power culture and unite people around the world.
• We hold ourselves to the highest standards of Excellence in every aspect of our work, including how we interact with one another, our clients and our partners.

Our Work Ethic:

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We’ve adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You’ll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process, but we are currently excited to have our employees experience our office culture as much as possible.

Endeavor unites and brings people together in our love of sport, culture, and entertainment. We understand this can only be accomplished when we harness the entirety of our company and lead with a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. It means that we engage in anti-racism and ally-ship the way we do anything. Fiercely and fearlessly. As a global company that drives culture we endeavor to reflect the world’s diverse voices both internally and externally to ensure success in our mission.

If you require reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please let us know. We will work together to best meet your needs.

Seven League is part of Endeavor, a global entertainment, sports and content company, home to the world’s most dynamic and engaging storytellers, brands, live events and experiences. The company is comprised of industry leaders including entertainment agency WME; sports, fashion, events and media company IMG; and premier mixed martial arts organization UFC. The Endeavor network specializes in talent representation; marketing and licensing; content development, distribution and sales; event management; and a number of direct-to-consumer offerings.

Benefits:

• Income protection
• Life insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Pension contribution
• 23 days holiday + x-mas week off + bank holidays
• Dental insurance
• Green car scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eye Care
• Endeavor Wellness – lunch and learn events
• EAP – range of practical and emotional support services
• Dependent care – 5 days subsidized emergency child, pet, elder care
• Subsidized gym membership / Class-pass
• Health Screening
• Dynamic office environment with great people!
• Regular team and company networking events/celebrations
• Access to free tickets to sporting and entertainment events

The Process:

We appreciate the time take to apply for the role and your recent interest in IMG. We will review all applications within five working days and be in touch with those who have been shortlisted to the next stage. Unfortunately, due to volume we are not able to get back to everyone individually so if you have not heard back from us unfortunately you have not been successful on this occasion and wish you all the best in your search.

Endeavor LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/endeavor-co/mycompany/

Endeavor Website – https://www.endeavorco.com/

IMG Media LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/img-media/

IMG Media Website – https://img.com/expertise/media/

Seven League

Job Role: Brand Partnerships Executive (Influencer Marketing/PR)

Location: London, UK

Salary: up to £25K

Start: ASAP

ABOUT THE JOB

A dynamic & disruptive influencer team are currently looking for a commercially minded individual to join in this commercial role. In this role as Brand Partnerships Executive you’ll utilise your passion for negotiating for solidifying talent focused brand partnerships.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Identifying and reaching out to fresh new potential clients and brands from various entertainment categories on behalf of the company’s talent.
• Negotiating new clients & brands partnerships/deals, to ensure the best maximisation of opportunities for the agency’s growth & success.
• Working closely with the talent roster, building innovative strategies, to ensure the understanding of brand partnerships goals and objectives.
• Managing the effective running of unique package deliverables for brands, negotiating talent fees.

MAIN REQUIREMENTS

• 1+ years’ experience within a talent/influencer focused
• Excellent negotiation skills
• An impressive knowledge of the influencer world

COMPANY PERKS

• Flexible working options
• Leisure & Retail discounts
• On-going training and development

SUMO London

Locations: London (On Site)

Who YOU Are

Do you have an affinity for tech and an eye for detail? Do you thrive managing competing priorities? Are you obsessive about all things TV and Film? If so, this may be your dream job. BEN is seeking a Content Coordinator to play an important role on our UK Content and Integration team. The ideal candidate is detail and data oriented self starter with strong organizational and research skills with experience in, and passion for the TV and Film Industry. No two days at BEN are alike! Candidates must be comfortable working in a high-energy, deadline driven environment with the ability to prioritize tasks and effectively manage their workload. BEN is looking for a strong candidate who is committed to supporting a team of passionate professionals.

Who WE Are

BEN Group, Inc. connects global brands to consumers through the power of popular entertainment. From the world-leading product integration platform, to the global leader for rights clearances and representation (Greenlight), to the best in class Influencer channel optimization solutions (TubeBuddy), BEN Group helps elevate projects, amplify brands, and captivate audiences. Our team is global, with offices in Los Angeles (headquarters), New York, London, Shanghai, and Provo.

At BEN, we recognize that our employees are the key to the company’s success and work hard to maintain our incredible company culture. While BEN is a well-established organization and a recognized industry leader with a rich history of integration and licensing success stories, we have not abandoned our start-up mentality. BEN continually evolves branding strategies through artificial intelligence and predictive modeling to meet the unique needs of our clients. To that end, BEN is results-oriented, client-centric, and highly creative organization which offers candidates the opportunity to learn from the best and the brightest in this dynamic industry. BEN offers a competitive benefits package and promotes an environment which supports our core values of Passion, Accountability, Teamwork, Inclusion, Empowerment and Balance.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for scanning assigned television, film and streaming content; capturing clips & screenshots and recording data on all client integrations
• Successfully navigate and maintain competency within internal BEN platform
• Keep internal project management tools up to date and accurate
• Request audience data from third party vendors and accurately input data into the BEN platform
• Stay up to date with UK, EU and global television, film and streaming news, contributing to internal and external trend and thought leadership pieces
• Responsible for consistently researching, collating and entering accurate and timely content related information into BEN platform
• Track upcoming content opportunities, ensuring they are accurately entered into the BEN platform, keeping line manager and wider team up to date
• Collaborate with global scanning team to ensure smooth data input process and distribution of work
• Support line manager with day-to-day requests and activities
• Support global content team where required
• Communicate key placement wins to client team leaders and relevant stakeholders
• Participate in all requested company meetings with line manager
• Maintain ongoing education and understanding of BEN clients’ campaign and placement criteria, brand values and sensitivities
• Support the team and represent the company at industry and networking events when requested
• Carry out administrative tasks as delegated, including, but not limited to:
• Meeting attendance, participation and minuting
• Providing administrative support to team leads
• Calendar and workflow tool management
• Assigned research on entertainment industry topics
• Support team with product preparation, deliveries and returns

Skills, Education & Experience Required

• Entry Level
• Demonstrable passion for the tv and film industry and a strong work ethic
• Self-starter with strong organizational skills
• Keen interest in Television, Film and Streaming content
• Comfortable viewing content from any genre
• Very strong computer skills, both Mac and PC literate
• Some previous experience with video editing software desirable
• Perfectionist with a keen eye for numbers and detail
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Strong problem-solving skills and use of initiative
• Good personal time management skills, with ability to schedule and prioritize tasks
• Ability to manage complex and multiple assignments simultaneous
• Ability to assist and support others with enthusiasm and a can-do approach

BEN

Right at the heart of our Marketing org, and sitting in the Culture and Conversations Centre of Excellence (working in close partnership with Brand Communications and Partnerships, and dovetailing with our Marketing Activation Centre of Excellence). This role will lead all community and social media efforts for the King portfolio of Mobile Games, with a particular focus on the Candy Crush Franchise.

This person will be responsible for developing and driving strategies for each platform on King’s social channels; in support of our brand strategy, new feature releases, partnerships, in-game events, and content-led campaigns.

This person is a digital storyteller with a voracious appetite for popular culture, brings a passion to connect the community of players to our games, and serves as the voice of Candy Crush, Farm Heros Saga, and our portfolio of new and existing games.

With a deep understanding of global markets, influencer culture, content creation, and digital media, you will define and lead the vision for our channels and develop the overarching social media community strategies for King’s social channels – such as Instagram, Snap, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tik Tok, Reddit, and Discord.

You will lead the team in the ideation and execution of social campaigns to support product initiatives, partnerships, and comms campaigns, drive new players into the game, re-engage our huge lapsed audience, and retain and excite our core players.

You will develop platform strategies to increase and propel channel growth, engagement, and additional KPIs month over month.

A deep understanding of analytics and reporting of social media programs is a must, and you will craft and maintain seasonal reporting to key collaborators and the leadership team.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Culture and Conversation, you will directly lead and develop the Social Media team members to execute social media campaigns, lead all aspects of the implementation, content, and growth of social channels and oversee the creative pipeline and be a great partner with internal and external partners, working cross-functionally with product marketing, content, product, and live ops teams.

You will keep an eagle eye on the social media landscape across gaming, entertainment, and social, and cultural trends Identify and develop strategies to establish a relationship with our huge community of players.

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience in social media marketing, and/or combined with community engagement in a professional capacity.
• In-depth experience using all major social media platforms.
• Strong understanding of analytics, project management, relationship management, and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of social media analytics tools.
• Gaming, entertainment, or tech experience is strongly desired
• Be familiar with the latest industry trends, news, issues, and sensitivities
• Team leadership
• Paid media strategies
• Understanding the wider marketing mix is a bonus

About King

King is the game developer behind the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as mobile game hits including Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch and Pet Rescue. Candy Crush is the top-grossing franchise in US app stores, a position it has held for the last two years, and King’s games are being played by 245 million monthly active users as of Q3 2021. King, which is part of the Activision Blizzard group since its acquisition in 2016, employs nearly 2,000 people in game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Malta.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar. It’s what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid- core and casual. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players – and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you. There has never been a better time to join us. We’re dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!

Applications need to be in English.

King

Creative Director – Performance Marketing

ITV Creative

Permanent, Full time

Office Location: Gray’s Inn Road (Relocating to White City 2023)

Closing Date: 31st January 2023

Why you should join us…

We connect with millions of people every day, make content they can’t get enough of and reflect and shape the world we live in… and we do all this through the power of creativity.

We will be a digitally led entertainment and media company that creates and brings brilliant content to audiences, wherever, whenever and however they choose.

The Team

ITV Creative is the in-house agency for ITV, responsible for delivering 360 campaigns to promote ITVX and ITV content, as well as the entire ITV brand portfolio.

We also produce work for external clients and brands, working closely with the Commercial team.

We are made up of creatives, writers, editors, producers and directors underpinned by campaign management and strategy. In addition we have a post production team comprising editors, dubbing mixers, graphics and a post production management team.

We live within the Marketing function and so work in close collaboration with marketing, media, continuity and research & planning.

The Role

The Creative Director leads the creative output for performance marketing and manages the Imagery team for ITVX and ITV. They work with the marketing and media teams and use data to guide creative decisions. They also oversee the development and quality of automated creative and imagery assets for the company. The role requires an understanding of digital formats and the ability to overcome limitations.

Key responsibilities

The role will include, but will not be limited to…

• Managing, inspiring and leading a team of creatives and designers.
• Creatively leading the performance marketing/Always On/Conversion and retention creative, working from briefs from the marketing team. This would include paid social, display, programmatic display and CRM ensuring these are strategically and creatively connected to the wider campaign where relevant.
• Develop a deep understanding of our consumer target’s mindsets, attitudes, & behaviors and use these to inform innovative creative.
• Understand media objectives and goals to ensure optimal ad performance.
• React to research and effectiveness of advertising & develop strategies for improving performance based on this data.
• Assessing data and looking for creative opportunities to target audiences via programmatic advertising and CRM.
• Overseeing these assets for bespoke campaigns working to reactive and data driven briefs.
• Overseeing edits and video assets for digital content (not traditional promos).
• Collaboration with the wider Creative team to create innovative and head turning campaigns that attract an audience.

Minimum criteria

• Experience within e-Commerce/streaming platforms/DTC marketing (either agency or brand side)
• Proven record/examples of performance marketing campaigns.
• Extensive experience in performance marketing (display and programmatic advertising), working with and understanding performance data to fuel and inform decision making.
• Experience in art direction, and deep understanding of the power of photography and imagery within a digital context.

ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people and as a Disability Confident Leader if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we’ll guarantee you’ll get to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).

*There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.

Key criteria

• Experience of working with numerous stakeholders, within an agency and also other areas of the business.
• Proficient in copywriting for performance marketing.
• Experience of creating assets, from stills, dynamic to moving image and video.
• Experience of collaborating with other areas of an agency to get the best results.
• Ability to react and adapt to data, research and analytics to create the most effective campaigns.
• Experience working with DAM/MAM systems preferable
• A love of content and TV.
• A solid knowledge of social, paid media, CRM, data and analytics.
• Experience of building and managing a team.

What we can offer

We’re happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application process as part of our reasonable adjustments approach. Our email is [email protected].

Find out more about our benefits https://www.itvjobs.com/why-join-us/benefits/

A leader of flexible working in media and entertainment. ITV’s Smart Working enables us all to do brilliant work. It’s about agreeing how we work together to deliver our More than TV strategy.

We reach millions of people everyday, that’s why having diverse talent and being an organisation where colleagues feel included is crucial to us. We have various networks that celebrate and support our colleagues. We try to embed an inclusive mindset in everything we do.

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