Trade & Partnerships Marketing Specialist

Job Description

Contract Term: 12 month fixed-term

Your Platform

Activision Blizzard plays a centralised role in the creation of epic entertainment by supporting our interactive gaming brands and studios with a diverse range of career opportunities across Franchise product management, corporate functions such as Marketing, Communications, Legal, Human Resources, Finance and Supply Chain.

Based in Soho, the cultural heart of London's West End with a vast array of classic record shop and leading film companies, media offices and great restaurants. Regent's Park is close enough for a lunchtime run, as are the delights of Piccadilly Circus and the shopping mecca of Oxford Street. It is conveniently walking distance from a number of London tube stations and mainline train stations.

To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on Twitter at @ATVI_AB.

Your Mission

We are looking for a Trade & Partnerships Marketing Specialist to join the team. In this position you will act in a supporting role across the Franchise(s) and Franchise Team. Working cross functionally to aid the team in delivering commercial results as well as growth goals, optimising the teams outputs by supervising project actions and as the need arises, program manage large pieces of work and departments results.

In a company that serves and engages millions of players across EMEA, you will contribute to building the most sophisticated data-driven and player-centric marketing practices, and to reinventing communication with players by extending their epic entertainment experience with us beyond our games.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

EMEA Trade Marketing:

Support the Distribution Manager in Trade marketing development and implementation through EMEA territories
• Asset management & retail implementation – handle the retail marketing toolkit
• FSDU design and retail launch
• Digital at retail project management
• Evaluation of retail campaigns

Franchise Brand Partnerships program delivery:
• Centrally support discussions with 3rd Party brand partners across all territories for Activision and Blizzard franchises and support development and execution of Brand Partnership marketing campaigns with brand partners at a global, regional, and local level.
• Collaborate with EMEA territories and cross-functional teams to implement compelling integrated campaigns that broaden audience reach to achieve brand and commercial objectives via Brand Partnerships
• Support 3P team to project manage and co-ordinate campaigns with new and existing brand partners as well as agencies across the EMEA region: supervising GTM activation as well as being responsible for the asset development and approval process
• Co-ordinate cross functional support globally and regionally across Brand, Product, PR, Legal, Digital / Social, Creative Services, Marketing Technology to ensure effective planning and execution
• Co-ordinate and implement Brand Partnership campaigns in collaboration with the 3rd Party Partnerships team that crossover into Commercial Retail partners to unlock incremental Commercial opportunities
• Own the development of the Brand Partnership Toolkit for regional and partner teams
• Support with collating presentation decks for global review, partnerships meetings, or agency pitches
• Handle the collation of partnership campaign evaluations/case studies with global and regional teams

Player Profile

Experience:
• Hold a bachelors degree or equivalent work experience
• Gained professional work experience since graduating
• Able to give examples of project / campaign implementations.
• Trade marketing experience with national retailers is crucial
• Additional experience with Brand Partnerships is preferred but not essential

Knowledge & Skills
• Data driven with a keen eye and ability to turn data into insight. Working with many different data points and reporting requirements
• Experience of working in a matrix organisation
• Previous knowledge of the gaming or entertainment industry, either gained through previous work experience or through experiencing ours and other gaming products from a player perspective is a bonus.

Attributes
• Shown experience of being a self-starter. Due to the multifaceted nature of this role it's important that the right candidate can demonstrate they work on their own initiative
• Ability to work across an organisation. This role is not for someone who likes hard lines and will be important that this individual is able to play a cross team role
• Effective time management and prioritisation skills needed
Our World
Our mission, to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment has never been more important. Through communities rooted in our video game franchises we enable hundreds of millions of people to experience happiness, thrill and achievement. We enable social connections through the lens of fun, and we foster purpose and a sense of accomplishment through healthy competition. Like sport, but with greater accessibility, our players can find purpose and meaning through competitive gaming. Video games, unlike any other social or entertainment media, have the ability to break down the barriers that can inhibit tolerance and understanding. Celebrating diversity is at the core of our culture and ensures we can build games for players of a diverse group of backgrounds in the 190 countries our games are played.

As a member of the Fortune 500 and as a component company of the S&P 500, we have an outstanding track record of delivering superior shareholder returns for over 30 years.
Our enduring franchises are some of the world's most popular, including Call of Duty®, Crash Bandicoot™, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Hearthstone®, Diablo®, StarCraft®, Candy Crush™, Bubble Witch™, Pet Rescue™ and Farm Heroes™. Our sustained success has enabled the company to support corporate social responsibility initiatives that are directly tied to our franchises. As an example, our Call of Duty Endowment has helped find employment for over 80,000 veterans.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rj8w1w-18-219-112-111-42 in your application.