Assistant Brand Manager

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**Position Title**: Assistant Brand Manager**

**Division**: Marketing**

**Location**: Auckland**

**Reports to**: Senior Brand Manager OR Brand Manager**

**General Summary**:
**Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ: WBD) is a leading global media and entertainment**

**company that creates and distributes the world’s most differentiated and complete portfolio**

**of content and brands across television, film and streaming. Available in more than 220**

**countries and territories and 50 languages, Warner Bros. Discovery inspires, informs and**

**entertains audiences worldwide through its iconic brands and products including: Discovery**

**Channel, discovery+, CNN, CNN+, DC, Eurosport, HBO, HBO Max, HGTV, Food Network,**

**Investigation Discovery, TLC, TNT, TBS, truTV, Travel Channel, MotorTrend, Animal Planet,**

**Science Channel, Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim,**

**Overview**

**In Australia and New Zealand, WBD operates a portfolio of premium brands across pay-TV, free-to-air and streaming platforms, including Discovery, TLC, Investigation Discovery, Three, Newshub and ThreeNow. We are a leading entertainment brand on Foxtel and Sky, and the largest free-to-air commercial broadcaster in New Zealand.**

**We have an exciting opportunity for two new marketing stars to join our talented, fun and inclusive Marketing team. The role of the Assistant Brand Manager is to support, implement and execute marketing campaigns; working closely with the Senior Brand Manager or Brand Manager, to drive the marketing strategy across the ANZ portfolio.**

**The role will work closely with multiple departments and stakeholders, so a collaborative mindset, an ability to problem solve and a drive to deliver to the highest quality is essential. You will assist with building compelling and popular brands, deliver first-class consumer campaigns for tentpole content over both linear and digital, driving live and on demand viewership and will also support non-brand consumer marketing efforts as required.**

**The ANZ wider marketing team includes Publicity, Digital, Social, Affiliates, Franchise**

**and Partnership.**

**As a global media business, this role will require regular communication with international colleagues in Australia, US, UK, APAC and beyond, so flexible working hours will be required.**

**Requirements**:
**Desired Skills & Experience**:

- ** At least 1 years’ experience within a marketing role - media industry experience preferred but not essential.**
- ** A strong interest in news and current affairs.**
- ** A love for entertainment and reality shows.**
- ** Independent thinker with a strategic mindset. Able to think creatively, highly driven and self-motivated.**
- ** High attention to detail.**
- ** Exceptional levels of commitment and passion.**
- ** Analytical skills and fluency in the use of data to deliver insights and inform decision making.**
- ** Facilitates and encourages innovation and improvement in the workplace.**
- ** Influential approach to problem solving.**
- ** Able to work readily and easily with many different personalities in a highly matrixed and international structure.**
- ** Dynamic personality, adaptable, a high-degree of professionalism.**
- ** Comfortable with ambiguity and working in a fast-paced environment.**
- ** Excellent interpersonal skills; a team player able to work with colleagues across multiple locations and timezones.**
- ** Copy writing skills would be advantageous.**
- ** Must have the legal right to work in New Zealand.**

**Responsibilities**:
**Brand Management**
- ** Deliver brand inspiration and instill brand discipline for Entertainment and News across all business functions.**

**Brand Development**
- ** Support efforts to grow ANZ licensing business.**

**Marketing**
- ** Assist with Consumer Marketing requirements and execute marketing campaigns for the wider WBD portfolio.**
- ** Brief and execute OOH, radio and digital media planning requirements.**
- ** Assist with delivering high-return contra arrangements across ANZ.**
- ** Assist with delivering high-return marketing partnerships across ANZ.**
- ** Partner effec