Manager, Brand Strategy & Communications

Job Description

Responsibilities

NBCUniversal's Peacock is growing, and we're looking for another smart, passionate, and upbeat person to join our team. Peacock is the place to stream thousands of hours of hit movies and shows, exclusive Originals, live sports, news, and pop culture – and we're in need of fearless leaders and creative problem-solvers who work hard and fan hard. We value inclusivity and transparency, and believe that a diverse company is a more successful company when it comes to driving business growth and innovation. So, are you ready to join our flock?

Manager, Brand Strategy & Communications, Peacock

We are looking for a world-class strategist who will help bring every aspect of our brand to life-from go-to-market planning, to IP development, to audience insights. S/he will bring world-class writing skills and killer visual storytelling to ensure the brand comes to life across every project. The Strategy Manager is a pro at delving into the full spectrum of customer/category/cultural insights to develop an overarching messaging strategy, as well as developing campaign messaging that aligns with the overall programming and media cadence over time. The Strategy Manager is an expert communicator and consensus-builder, working across many disciplines to find the strategic through-line and articulating it concisely and memorably. S/he will help produce marketing performance reviews and work in lock-step with brand & insights colleagues to monitor brand health, on-going consumer studies and category trends. S/he should have an uncanny ability to bring insights, ideas and recommendations to life using great storytelling and excellent data visualization skills.
Responsibilities could include, but are not limited to:
• Work with the Sr Director, Brand Strategy on brand/category campaign strategies, pitch decks, and various interdisciplinary projects as they arise. Specific focus on Sports campaigns and individual series/film campaigns likely.
• Develop a comprehensive communications strategy, determining audience, messages, and targets based on evaluation/learnings as well as future insight and business/market context
• Proactively lead re-evaluation of plans throughout the year, making recommendations on revisions or potential challenges and identifying key opportunities to help drive the product's success
• Build and maintain the brand framework model, which outlines our vision, purpose and proposition, working closely with internal stakeholders; own the framing and re-framing of that story as inputs evolve, and how we circulate that to internal stakeholders

Qualifications/Requirements
• At least 6 years of brand planning/marketing strategy experience (Entertainment/DTC) from the entertainment, advertising, or consumer products industry, with demonstrated ability to develop and drive strategic marketing plans for large, complex organizations
• Excellent storyteller with demonstrated visual design and writing skills to help bring strategies to life in simple-yet-exciting ways
• Big picture strategic thinker with the ability to analyze/interpret data and translate research into actionable results, for a range of audiences, through effective presentations
• Demonstrated excellent presentation skills, collaboration and interpersonal skills
• An ambidextrous thinker who is both analytical and highly creative
• Demonstrated track record of success in managing high profile brands and marketing campaigns to include the full spectrum of deliverables from strategic positioning to driving engagement
• Works quickly, nimbly, humbly – a team player who is excited by moving fast and can roll with the punches, as required in a start-up environment
• Willingness to travel as required by the position

Desired Characteristics
• Mastery of PowerPoint, GDocs and Keynote
• Experience with new brand creation and brand architecture
• Proven experience influencing cross-functional teams to come up with ideas that are bigger than the sum of their parts to foster a shared sense of ownership and success.
• Thorough understanding of the complexities of an entertainment/DTC organization and how the disparate parts make up the whole, and their interdependencies
• Ability to sell ideas up, down and across an organization
• Fantastic project manager talents to stay organized and execute numerous projects simultaneously

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d5zw40-3-17-6-75-42 in your application.