Activation & Experiences Manager

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Sky VIP Experiences team as Activation & Experiences Manager. With a passion for entertainment, sport, or film, you’ll secure best-in-class partnerships and activations that enhance customer experience and deliver commercial impact. Customer focused, you’ll be confident with data and agile in approach, able to balance long-term planning with flawless delivery, collaborating across teams to create unforgettable moments for customers.

What you'll do:

• This is a fast-paced role where you’ll design and deliver unforgettable ticket and prize experiences. You’ll be highly organised and able to plate spin like a pro. With a focus on driving engagement, you will work with internal teams and external partners across sport, film, and entertainment, creating standout activations that deliver commercial impact.

• Delivering Standout promotions, owning the development and execution of promotion planning, securing and creating standout experiences for customers, year-round, working with internal and external partners to identify & scope opportunities.

• Managing Partnerships, building high-impact collaborations with leading brands in sport, film, and entertainment. Unlocking exclusive access for our customers, with confident negotiation & strong commercial acumen. You will deliver valuable promotions that deliver against ours and our partners objectives.

• Planning for Sky VIP Experiences, own the full lifecycle of each experience—from opportunity scoping and proposition development to customer journey design, commercial negotiation, and flawless execution. Creating short term and longer range plans, you will be able to juggle multiple partnerships and promotions with precision and attention to detail.

• Strategic planning support, applying a commercial mindset and analytical approach to use data and insights for future planning.

• Budget management & commercial tracking; support month-end finance processes, contribute to overall budget tracking and reporting for the team. Regularly communicating updates, results and key insights

What you'll bring:

• Experienced in creating and managing partnerships & activations with a proven ability to deliver high-impact partnerships and experiences. You will be a strong negotiator and  experienced in using a creative approach to create customer facing activations. You will have worked with sports, film or entertainment brands and be able to confidently talk through the commercial impact of partnerships you have negotiated.

• You will have experience in creating customer facing promotions, and have experience working with brands to ideate, create & execute these promotions. You will be able to demonstrate experience of using value exchanges to secure partnership activity.

• Strong planning skills with experience in leading & managing multi-stakeholder projects and balancing strategic short- and long-term planning cycles. Comfortable handling multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment, you’ll have exceptional organisational skills, to manage multiple promotions & partners simultaneously.

• You will be able to demonstrate strong experience in managing promotions end to end – from briefing through to execution, highlighting strong skills in quality control.

• Expert in building cross-functional relationships, excellent communication skills & demonstratable ability to use great storytelling to both Director & HoD level.   

• You will be confident in using insights & analytics to inform strategy and optimise performance with experience in managing budgets, tracking complex spend and reporting results accurately.

Team overview

This role sits in the Sky VIP team. Sky VIP is our loyalty programme creating thousands of extraordinary experiences and rewards for over 10 million customers

The Rewards:

There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place

• A generous pension package

• Private healthcare

• Discounted mobile and broadband

• Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you'll work:

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

Your office base:

Osterley:

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion:

At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we're happy to discuss flexible working.

We are a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all, and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.