Marketing Operations Manager

Summary of Position

The STARZ Marketing & Creative Operations team offers long term campaign and creative planning, end to end project management and tracking, and cross-functional support to ensure cohesive, integrated workflows, communication, and strategies throughout the business. As a Campaign Manager, you will be responsible for managing the production process & project management for all promotional asset needed by our cross-functional Global & International teams. This means that you are a nimble, solutions-oriented, production & creative operations expert, and thrive in a fast-paced environment that requires you to bridge contesting priorities amongst global cross-functional stakeholders. All while and allowing and providing marketing and creative teams the room needed to focus on strategy and creative media asset development.

Responsibilities

• Lead all aspects of campaign workflows from green light to post-finale responsibilities for original series and acquisitions marketing and promotions for both worldwide and internationally distributed content series.
• Support and manage the workflow and logistics of strategy development, asset creation, media localization and delivery to distribution. Coordinate communication and assets across internal teams and agency partners; Assist in the trafficking and organization of all international and global asset-related requests.
• Ensure Creative have all the information and resources required to start a project prior to kickoff, following up with and arranging communications with stakeholders as needed.
• Coordinate communication and assets across internal teams and agency partners and helping to manage expectations across global efforts.
• Maintain Campaign Project Management tools with the latest campaign and project milestones, direction and strategy, and production status as resource for the business.
• Set, track, and distribute campaign and production timelines based on established workflows and individual project needs to help manage teams toward key milestones – adjusting to avoid time- sensitive bottlenecks and enable pivots as needed.
• Process and manage stock, music and font licenses as needed.
• Prepare and distribute weekly status reports. Manage budget, invoice tracking and processing and accruals.
• Manage and track deliverables across all internal & external partners through creative, approval, AV, localization and finishing ensuring all assets are delivered on time, on budget.
• Develop and maintain key relationships with internal & external partners, driving a culture of collaboration to create obtainable and measurable project plans.

Qualifications & Skills

• 5+ years of creative project management and creative production experience, preferably at an entertainment studio, network, or agency.
• Experience working with various roles across internal teams and agency partners, shepherding a project from intake through delivery
• Knowledge of production management, workflow, project life cycles and methodologies
• Eager to participate in developing scalable, reliable systems for stakeholders to design global marketing campaigns
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with project management tools (ex. Workfront, Asana)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and GoogleDocs
• Understands a strong operational foundation is at the core of great creative
• Bi/Multilingual a plus
• Production/Project Management for International workflows a plus

About the Company

STARZ (www.starz.com), a Lionsgate company, is a leading global media streaming platform committed to delivering premium content that amplifies narratives by, about and for women and underrepresented audiences. STARZ is home to the highly rated and first-of-its-kind STARZ app that offers the ability to stream or download STARZ premium content, as well as the flagship domestic STARZ® service, including STARZ ENCORE, 17 premium pay TV channels, and the associated on-demand and online services. In 2018, STARZ launched its international premium streaming platform STARZPLAY, now LIONSGATE+, to provide subscribers access to bold, curated storytelling. LIONSGATE+, coupled with the STARZPLAY ARABIA joint venture in MENA and Lionsgate Play in South and Southeast Asia, has a footprint that extends across the globe. STARZ and LIONSGATE+ are available across digital OTT platforms and multichannel video distributors, including cable operators, satellite television providers, and telecommunications companies around the world. In February 2021, STARZ launched #TakeTheLead, a multi-faceted and innovative inclusion initiative expanding its existing efforts to improve representation on screen, behind the camera and throughout the company.

Business Unit Overview

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With the Company aligning its studio operations behind the growth of its streaming business, STARZ has become one of the pre-eminent modern premium global streaming platforms. Offering subscribers more than 7.500 television episodes, including STARZ original series and provocative documentaries, along with a broad catalogue of first-run movies, STARZ is taking the lead in delivering relatable premium content that makes it the platform of choice among a wide spectrum of female, African-American and other historically underrepresented audiences. Its focused brand, premium content and freedom from legacy relationships position STARZ at the forefront of the new bundles emerging throughout the media ecosystem, a compelling value proposition to complement virtually every kind of subscription platform.

Distinguished by its successful and focused content strategy, top programming, exceptional curation and speed to market, STARZ has quickly scaled its platform to become one of the most widely distributed and fastest-growing OTT services in the world, with OTT subscribers making up more than half of its global subscriber base. The company’s international premium subscription service, LIONSGATE+, offers subscribers access to bold, curated storytelling around the world. LIONGATE+ has a footprint that extends across the globe and continues to expand its network of distribution partners. In addition to its LIONSGATE+ markets, it reaches audiences in the Middle East and North African region through STARZPLAY ARABIA and in South and Southeast Asia with Lionsgate Play. The proprietary and highly-rated STARZ app, a proven hit with U.S. audiences, continues to roll out internationally.

Our Benefits

• Full Coverage – Medical, Vision, and Dental
• Work/Life Balance – generous sick days, vacation days, holidays, and Impact Day
• 401(k) company matching
• Tuition Reimbursement (up to graduate degree)

EEO Statement

Lionsgate is an equal employment opportunity employer. All employees and applicants are evaluated on the basis of their qualifications, consistent with applicable state and federal laws. In addition, Lionsgate will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Lionsgate will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and federal law.

Annual Salary: $85,000-$95,000

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