The Manager, Integrated Marketing (Exhibitions and Festivals Marketing) plays a key role in shaping and executing high-impact marketing strategies to drive visitation, engagement, and ticket sales for the Gallery's exhibitions and festivals. This role requires a strong strategic mindset, leveraging data-driven insights to define target audiences, craft compelling marketing campaigns, and optimise multi-channel engagement.
Responsibilities
- Develop and drive high-impact marketing strategies for exhibitions and festivals that enhance brand positioning, maximise visitation, and increase ticket sales across local and international.
- Work closely with internal teams to co-create the exhibition or festival's title, identity, and key messaging, acting as a brand guardian to ensure a compelling and consistent narrative across all touchpoints.
- Define and execute data-driven audience engagement strategies, leveraging insights to identify high-potential segments and craft compelling, personalised marketing campaigns across multiple platforms.
- Oversee the planning, execution, and optimisation of paid media campaigns, ensuring maximum return on investment through innovative digital, social, and traditional media strategies.
- Own and enhance the Gallery's marketing ecosystem, optimising website, social media, email marketing, environmental branding, and onsite touchpoints to build audience engagement and loyalty.
- Cultivate strategic alliances and cross-promotional opportunities with cultural institutions, tourism bodies, and commercial brands to amplify campaign reach and deepen audience.
- Manage and allocate budgets strategically, balancing investment across channels to maximise impact while maintaining cost efficiency.
- Define clear KPIs to measure campaign effectiveness, track performance rigorously, and apply data-driven recommendations to refine marketing strategies.
- Conduct market research to identify trends, audience preferences, and competitive landscapes for more effective decision-making.
- Collaborate with internal teams, external agencies, and partners to align marketing efforts and maximize.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, Business, Communications, or a related.
- Minimally 6 years of relevant experience in Marketing, with a strong track record in developing and executing integrated campaigns, preferably in arts, culture, tourism, or lifestyle.
- Proven success in audience segmentation and data-driven marketing, with the ability to translate insights into impactful marketing strategies.
- Proven expertise in digital marketing and paid media, with hands‑on experience in managing campaigns across social, search, programmatic, out‑of‑home, and traditional advertising.
- Experience in managing owned marketing channels, such as websites, social media, email marketing, and environmental branding, with a focus on audience engagement.
- Demonstrated ability to build and manage strategic partnerships, leveraging collaborations to extend campaign reach and impact.
- Strong analytical skills, with experience in tracking and optimising marketing performance through key metrics and KPIs.
- Excellent project management and organisational skills, with the ability to lead multiple campaigns simultaneously while meeting deadlines and budgets.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience collaborating across departments, agencies, and external partners.