Brand Marketing Manager

Description:

Brand Management / Strategy Support:

Support the Head of Brand(s) with Brand Management for the theme park/attraction(s) brand(s) and Brand Guidelines, responsible for the development, assurance, continuity, IP usage, content creation, and compliance with foundational brand standards across internal and external communication. 
Support the Head of Brand(s) to develop and execute a Brand Strategy across the theme park/attraction(s), to maintain positive brand integrity and perception across all marketing initiatives.
Support the Head of Brand(s) to develop an audience segmented content strategy with the objective of increasing brand strength (salience, awareness, consideration and brand buzz) across the theme park/attraction(s).
Conduct regular audits of all B2C/B marketing material to ensure all assets are in line with brand guidelines, ensuring all B2C/B parties adhere to contractual IP rules and regulations and internal brand standards.
Support the Head of Brand(s) manage the relationship with relevant IPs, including the ownership of the approval process, ensuring all internal and external parties adhere to contractual IP rules and regulations.
Deep understanding of customer insights, using data to drive positive marketing outcomes.
Constant focus on competitor movement, locally, regionally and globally.

Creative Agency Support (Internal/External): 

Support the Head of Brand(s) manage the external creative agency relationship, ensuring that delivery deadlines are adhered to and creative concepts are developed in-line with campaign objectives, targeting the right market/relevant consumer and compliant with IP rules/regulations and internal brand standards. 
Develop external creative agency briefs, ensuring that the objectives of each marketing campaign is defined and supports the annual content strategy. 
Work closely with the Head of Brand(s) and Legal/Procurement team(s) to manage the creative agency financial relationship, including retainer and third-party production fees and usage rights are in-line with contractual obligations.
Utilize both agencies to development/maintain of the theme park/attraction(s) Brand Guidelines, to set the foundational brand standards and expectations of all creative execution. Distribution external parties including Miral group, partners and sponsors.
Work closely with the Head of Brand(s) to roll-out the agreed content strategy using a collaborative approach between the internal/external creative and external media agencies. 
Support the Head of Brand(s) manage all third-party production shoots with the external creative agency. 

Campaign Management:

Develop and execute cross-platform audience engagement and owned channel marketing programs for relevant theme park/attraction(s) to help drive conversion. Utilize a data-informed approach that considers audience behavior to optimize campaign performance.
Own the annual B2C Marketing Calendar(s) for relevant theme park/attraction(s) to ensure campaign drivers are meeting expected business revenue/attendance targets and delivered within agreed time-frame to support.
Work with the Head of Brand(s) to ideate campaign concepts.
Plan and execute communications and marketing campaigns with a key focus on achieving positive return on investment against campaign spend. Responsible for compiling the full campaign roll-out from supporting Head of Brand(s) across all segments, ensuring all elements meet the set objective and are delivered on time.
Ensuring high quality and consistency across all communication channels with a 360 integrated approach to delivering marketing campaigns. 

Brand Content Support: 

Support the Head of Brand(s) create content for all marketing initiatives (B2C/B), ensuring quality communication that is compliant with IP rules/regulations and in-line with internal brand standards. Responsible for the full roll-out/adaptation of the creative across all mediums, ensuring each execution meets the creative objectives and all assets delivered on time. 
Support the Head of Brand(s) develop in-facility marketing communication across the theme park/attraction(s), ensuring all signage is clear, collateral, digital screens etc have contextual and brand relevant content with the objective of improving brand exposure and increasing in-facility spend.
Ensure high quality and consistency across all visual and written communication utilizing a 360 integrated approach to curating marketing content.
Assist with copywriting and translations across the theme park/attraction(s) brand(s) ensuring consistency in multilingual tone-of-voice and compliant with IP naming conventions. 
Work closely with the social media Agency to approve all content concepts ensuring compliance with IP rules/regulations and the creative in-line with internal brand standards.
Support the wider Farah Experience business with creative requests via the internal creative agency. 

Online Consumer Journey / Portals: 

Support the Head of Brand(s) manage the Online consumer journey, content creation and approvals for all digital channels (website, apps, and portals), ensuring all content is kept up to date and compliant with IP rules/regulations and in-line with internal brand standards. Developing/maintaining guest/partner communication with the objective of incrementally increasing conversion and revenue generation. 
Support the B2B marketing team with management of the B2B content portal, ensuring all assets are kept up to date and compliant with IP rules/regulations and in-line with internal brand standards.

Qualifications:

Educated to degree level or equivalent in Marketing.

Years of Experience:

Minimum 5 years of Marketing experience

Desirable:

Worked in theme parks, attractions or entertainment venues
Worked in the UAE or GCC countries in a marketing environment
Experience with leading regional or global brands 

Skills:

Excellent knowledge of Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
Strong copy-writing skills
Very personable and an excellent communicator
Commercially astute, data-driven and results oriented
Highly deadline driven
Resourceful, pro-active and innovative thinker
Strong organizational skills
Good multi-tasking abilities
Ability to navigate a busy and challenging environment
Solid attention to detail
Analytical in thinking and able to manipulate data in Excel

Desirable: 

Agency management
Media planning and buying