Senior Marketing Manager - Creative

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 7 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

This a unique opportunity to join the award-winning Sky Ireland marketing team. This fast-paced department is responsible for developing market leading strategies and campaigns that build brand awareness, consideration, and demand across the Sky TV product portfolio (Sky Stream, Sky Glass) and our Triple Play offering, making sure Sky is top of mind for consumers.

This role would suit someone with experience in brand & direct response advertising, with commercial savviness. This is a hybrid role, requiring three days in the Dublin office.  

What you'll do:

• Lead the Sky TV brand and trading creative strategy, delivering world class creative to push brand metrics and deliver on commercial targets

• Hold responsibility for the creative delivery of all Sky Ireland's TV annual plans, on time and within budget

• Lead and empower a dedicated team of 2 to effectively plan, develop and deliver marketing campaigns across all media channels, while ensuing campaigns are fully evaluated with objective of continually optimising campaigns, plans and strategies

• Work collaboratively with wider teams in the business (Media, Insights, Commercial, PR) to ensure creative strategy and messaging hierarchy reflects campaign & business objectives

• Build out and be responsible for the relationships with internal and external creative agencies, sharing knowledge, insights and ways we can drive efficiencies

What you will bring:

• Extensive marketing experience either client or agency side, ideally a passion for brand and direct response marketing and proven ability to analysis insights, brief creative agencies, manage creative process end to end to deliver ATL campaigns.

• Be a collaborative, highly creative person, with strong creative eye & who has a passion for campaigns.

• Experience leading and managing a team, working in a fast-paced team, with business and commercial acumen.

• Excellent communicator with impeccable attention to detail, alongside being highly organised to manage multiple projects at once.

• Strong stakeholder management skills. You’ll be working with internal and external agencies as well as cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders, so the ability to build and maintain relationships, confidently manage upwards & presenting to senior stakeholders, ability to negotiate and provide clear feedback is crucial.

Encompassing Senior Management, HR, Legal, Finance, Operations and Marketing, Sky Ireland employs over 1,000 people in Dublin. We deliver an exceptional service, ensuring our customers across Ireland are able to experience unrivalled entertainment, unmissable live sport and breaking news.

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 TV, 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

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our outstanding 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.

Our striking Ireland HQ has an A-list location on Burlington Road, walking distance from central Dublin. Grand Canal Dock and Pearse train stations are both around 1.5km away, and we’re a short stroll from the buses of Baggot Street, Leeson Street and Waterloo Road. There’s plenty of parking for cyclists and drivers, too!

We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.

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.

And we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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. A job you love to talk about.

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.