Director, Growth Media & Creative

Warner Media, LLC.; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global media company in the UK is seeking an experienced media strategist to lead paid media campaigns for subscriber growth across EMEA. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in media strategy, strong analytical skills, and financial acumen. Key responsibilities include managing the marketing budget, driving data-driven decisions, and leading a creative team. This role offers a hybrid working model and the chance to work with a dynamic team across various markets.

Benefits

Career defining opportunities

Thoughtfully curated benefits

Qualifications

• 10+ years of paid media strategy experience required.
• Strong financial acumen to evaluate marketing initiatives.
• Experience in fast-paced, direct-to-consumer environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead Growth Media and Creative Strategy for subscriber growth.
• Manage marketing budget across EMEA markets.
• Own EMEA streaming sales forecasts for HBO Max.
• Responsible for planning media investment levels.
• Drive data-driven decisions across the marketing team.
• Lead creative strategy specialists for digital campaigns.

Skills

Paid media strategy

Creative and analytical thinking

Strong financial acumen

Relationship management

Team leadership

Job description

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Your New Role…

Part of the EMEA Growth & Partner Marketing team, this role will play a key part in helping the team drive subscriber growth and revenues across our streaming services HBO Max. This leadership role is responsible for leading efforts to define the strategy for our subscriber acquisition across the EMEA region. This role is crucial to delivering against our growth targets and will be responsible for managing the overall marketing budget, delivering the gross adds forecast, working with the local EMEA marketing teams to collaborate campaign planning as well as campaign or title investment. You will be accountable for our media acquisition strategy and coordinating the media planning process to deliver on our gross adds, Blended SAC (as % of lifetime value), ROAS and revenue targets. Alongside this, your role is also to ensure we have the right creative and biddable campaigns to deliver the maximum return for digital spend.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about television, movies, entertainment, and digital marketing. They will have a strong understanding of D2C marketing and will be comfortable with data analytics, financial models, budgeting processes and an eye for digital creative. This candidate will lead a team that believes in working fast, being accountable, collaborative, and learning from mistakes. The role is highly cross functional and will require collaboration with a large number of teams on a global level including Data Science, Finance, In-house Media Buying, Creative and Go to market teams.

Your Role Accountabilities…

• Lead Growth Media and Creative Strategy (team of 6) to drive subscriber growth and maximise revenues by delivering a comprehensive full funnel paid media and creative strategy across streaming for EMEA
• Manage the marketing budget across EMEA markets, coordinating with Global counterparts, defining a clear and rigorous budgeting process
• Own the EMEA streaming sales forecasts for HBO Max, collaborating with EMEA Growth planning & strategy, data science and content teams to define gross adds targets at a title and campaign level
• Responsible for planning the media investment levels across the region through media mix modeling, allocating budget based on media efficiency and incrementality at title, funnel and channel level
• Accountable for the EMEA full funnel media strategy, working with the in-house media investment team on digital performance and planning and collaborating with the regional go-to-market teams for offline and local inventory performance and planning
• Drive data-driven decisioning across the EMEA marketing team through evidence-based evaluation of marketing campaigns and initiatives with a focus on return on ad spend and cost per incremental gross adds KPIs
• Lead creative strategy specialists who plan and brief creative for all upper and lower funnel digital campaigns working closely with internal creative agency including DCO and ad trafficking team
• Maintain a creative testing and optimisation plan to maximise the impact of creative whilst also pushing the boundaries of dynamic creative optimisation can offer
• Interface with global acquisition & growth strategy teams on one hand and regional / local marketing teams on the other hand to ensure a balance between global priorities and local representation

Qualifications & Experience…

• Self-starter with 10+ years paid media strategy experience who is both a creative and analytical thinker to drive subscriber growth
• Strong financial acumen in order to evaluate the efficiency of marketing initiatives and support the overall corporate financial objectives
• Prior experiences leading media strategy within fast-paced, direct to consumer, subscription environments that deliver results
• Proven ability to manage significant budgets at scale and prioritise investment based on the commercial and financial context
• Strong relationship management with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
• Experience working in a multinational organisation and within a complex global matrix environment
• Experienced people manager with a track record for driving successful team sentiment and mentoring junior team members

Hybrid Working - This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in-office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at the guiding principles page at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

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