Senior Manager, Marketing & Communications - Australian Media & Sport Business

Job Description

Senior Manager, Marketing & Communications - Australian Media & Sport Business - 48026

Marketing and Communications - Australia Macquarie Park, New South Wales

As a business partner and trusted advisor to our Australian Media & Sport Business, you will actively collaborate with the leadership team as well as key internal stakeholders to help drive commercial growth opportunities through digital marketing initiatives; and by leveraging external press relationships to promote our research and media measurement services.
Your role will include a healthy mix of both (out-of-the-box) strategic thinking and hands-on execution and you will report directly to the Pacific Marketing and Communications Leader with a dotted line to the Australian Managing Director for Media and Sports.
Key responsibilities
Commercial Support: Create and execute marketing and communications initiatives that support the business priorities of the Nielsen Media & Sport Commercial, Product and Operations teams.
Product launches and event planning: Responsible for overseeing product launches and events and building creative marketing opportunities for the Commercial team to connect with potential customers.
Press relationships: Organise press briefings to announce and promote Nielsen solutions to market.
Build and develop relationships with mainstream and trade press and work with them to promote our latest insights and initiatives. Ensure the Nielsen brand is protected to minimise any negative press or revenue impact.
Thought leadership: Develop valuable insights and formulate strategies that enable Australian publishers, agencies and advertisers to better connect with their audiences. Work closely with Nielsen’s analysts to produce regular insights articles, reports, perspective pieces and press releases.
A little about you
In this role, it is essential to drive alignment across different business functions, think quickly and act decisively in a fast-paced environment while responding to continuous shifts across the business. You are an excellent relationship manager to constituents across teams and functions. You champion new, creative ideas through well structured, well-supported, and clearly articulated points of view.
You must be able to generate new ideas and lead and persuade others in a highly matrixed, analytical environment. You are level-headed and know how to articulate your vision, while challenging the status quo to keep content fresh.
Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, HR, Business or a related field or 2 years of additional experience in lieu of a degree.
• 6+ years of professional work experience.
• Ability to influence and drive positive change as an effective business partner.
• Creative problem-solver.
• Excellent project manager.
• Skilled in communications, media relations, event execution.
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• Strong writing skills across a variety of formats with keen attention to detail.
• Effective communication skills with peers and with senior-level stakeholders.
• Google Suite proficiency (Slides, Docs, Sheets, etc.) as well as PowerPoint.
• Excellent Organisational skills.
  

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Job Type: Regular

Primary Location: Macquarie Park , New South Wales

Travel: No