Manager, Creative Marketing Partnerships

The Manager, Marketing Partnerships & Creative will be responsible for the management, strategic alignment and creative development for the global promotions division of the Walt Disney Studios. The manager will be the department resource to illustrate creative ideas in order to secure new partners and help improve and manage current partner creative for upfront pitching presentations and campaign execution for our largest franchises: Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Disney Live Action, Lucasfilm, Hulu Originals, Disney + and 20th Century Studios. The role requires a high level of skill in visual creative thinking and technical expertise to bring these multi-million-dollar promotional campaigns to life. Ability to generate pitch ideas and activation strategies are also key to this role. The manager will directly engage with top-tier brands, agencies, and senior creative executives at the Walt Disney Studios.

This role is ideal for a candidate with a strong eye for visual design and a passion for the Disney brands, is able to conceptualize and enhance high-level partnerships with major partners across retail, auto, tech, etc. and is looking to grow their career in creative marketing or advertising.

Job Responsibilities:

• Be able to create expanded pitches from limited assets
• Problem-solve solutions when there is a lack of assets for early pitches and early partner creative
• Illustrate creative through graphic design for sales and execution teams
• Create visual art for partner campaigns

• Work on proactive concepts for TV commercial scripts
• Create layouts to illustrate notes from brand teams back to the partner
• Produce concepts to pitch new and returning partners
• Generate and illustrate solutions for creative challenges between internal and external partners
• Work with brand leads on proactive creative ideas and opportunities that to tap into pop culture trends, creativity, executional approaches & techniques to share with partners
• Ability to build strong internal organization and external relationships, be a team player, and proactively provide assistance whenever/wherever needed. The desire to learn and grow is a must.
• Work directly with brand teams to facilitate creative approval process along with the execution team
• Brainstorm incremental business opportunities and pitches to new and existing promotional partners
• Create visual layouts to showcase how brands can be integrated with Disney IP

Proficient in:

• PowerPoint
• Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, Premiere Pro
• Keynote

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree

The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is $92,077 to $123,518 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.