Sr. Manager, Marketing Strategy & Planning

Job Description

Disney Streaming Service is looking for a Senior Manager, Marketing Strategy & Planning to lead short and long-term strategic planning for ESPN+. The Sr. Marketing Planning Manager will play a vital role in developing the cross-channel promotional roadmap aligned to key content moments and conversion events.

The ideal candidate should be proficient in long-term business planning & marketing analysis, with the goal of growing an engaged, high LTV userbase. Our ideal candidate is experienced in marketing direct-response campaigns and subscription-based products.

Responsibilities:
• Play a leadership role in developing the strategic promotional roadmap that aligns ESPN+ content strategy with marketing executions, including performance marketing, retention and owned channel tactics.
• Execution of Marketing-related assignments
• Ability to draft integrated marketing plans, strategies and forecasts. Define KPIs to measure roadmap success and forecast performance to inform accurate planning
• Partner with Media, Lifecycle, Product Development, Analytics, and Design teams to influence key growth areas, campaign strategy, and messaging
• Imagine, test, and iterate new conversion opportunities across owned platforms, email, search, social, display, affiliate, and emerging platforms
• Drive optimizations based on analytical insights and data to show positive return on marketing efforts, continuously improving user lifetime value
• Ongoing cohort analysis and profile development to plan targeted messaging, thereby driving cohort engagement.
• Lead multiple projects involving cross-team deliverables and accountability.
• Manage a team of 1-2 people.

Basic Qualifications:
• 7+ years in investment banking, management consulting, strategic planning, and/or corporate strategy, ideally in the sports or digital subscription space
• 2 years of management experience
• MBA from top tier business school preferred
• Multi-channel marketing experience with a thorough understanding of engagement, retention, and analytics, comfortable with organic and paid disciplines
• Excellent decision-making skills with the ability to identify, prioritize, and articulate high impact marketing initiatives
• Collaborative leader comfortable with complex, cross-functional projects across teams
• Clear understanding of full funnel marketing, digital media KPIs and attribution.
• Strong analytical skills including the ability to analyze data, prepare and interpret reports and communicate actionable results, findings and recommendations.
• Balance of creative and analytical thinking
• Sports fan a must

Preferred Qualifications:
• Proven track record of delivering on growth and strategy within a direct-to-consumer or digital subscription business; comfortable executing key analyses with minimal supervision.
• Experience leading cross-functional team alignment and strategic planning
• A self-starter capable of working independently but also as part of a team
• A strong communicator comfortable navigating complex and highly matrixed businesses.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r12ebv-18-188-175-182-42 in your application.