Manager - Marketing communications at Visa

Job description

Job Summary

A fantastic opportunity to gain experience on a major consumer brand in an evolving and exciting sector. The marketing comms team is accountable for developing, implementing and measuring national, client and merchant campaigns in line with marketing objectives. This role will be focussed on developing innovative industry leading B2C campaigns and promotions and reports into the Senior Comms Manager.

Key Responsibilites

Candidate Summary:

• Implementing and supporting on UK marketing communication activities e.g. national product campaigns and promotions, leveraging Visa sponsorships and partnerships across sports and music in particular amongst progressive millennial audiences
• Supporting in developing communication plans based on defined objectives and briefing and feeding back to agencies as relevant
• Managing and implementing campaign creative development, production and implementation, obtaining legal approvals, executing on time and to budget
• End to end delivery from brief to implementation of local and tactical communication activities, delivering across traditional and digital channels, particularly across digital and social
• Managing and guiding the development and implementation of media plans, ensuring optimal budget deployment across channels and optimal target audience reach and impact
• Measure campaigns and prepare reports for key internal and external stakeholders
• Writing and delivering strategic and compelling presentations for internal stakeholders and relevant external audiences

Accountable For

• Managing local media and creative agencies and/or other suppliers to ensure they deliver consistently high levels of service on time and on budget
• Developing and implementing communication plans, ensuring they are delivered on brief, on time and on budget
• Defining, managing and optimizing media plans
• Measuring the effectiveness of the communication activities by setting targets and putting in place adequate metrics and tools
• Managing substantial budgets and negotiating with agencies and suppliers to ensure the company gets value for money

Qualification Summary

• Educated to a degree level or equivalent, the successful candidate is to have previously worked in brand/marketing client roles, and/or as an agency account manager agency experience is a plus
• Strong experience in marketing communications development from planning, briefing, creative development, media planning, implementation, measurement and reporting.
• Global consumer brand experience is a plus
• Demonstrable experience in the main disciplines of B2C marketing communications, but in particular digital, social and content, Experience in the delivery of high-volume, multi-channel campaigns.
• Strong multi-project management skills, ability to multi-task, cope under pressure and deliver to tight deadlines
• Highly numerate and able to analyse and use metrics appropriately
• Strong understanding of traditional and innovative media/communications channels
• Strong interpersonal, negotiation, presentation and influencing skills
• Strong budget management skills
• Creative mind-set and passionate about communications
• Ability to interact at senior management level, and operate in a matrix organisation
• Self-starter with a 'can do' attitude and determined to make things happen
• Takes responsibility and ownership of own and other projects as relevant
• A team player and open communicator