Sr. Brand Manager Jobs

POSITION SNAPSHOT:
Are you a sports junkie who loves to stay up to date on all of the scores & top ten highlights?
Maybe you have a group chat with your friends trash talking about your fantasy league, and/or are always looking for the best place to watch your team play? Want to join a dynamic team and make a big impact at a rapidly growing company? Ready to spend your workday thinking about how to create the ultimate sports watching experience for our 50MM+ annual guests? If so, we’d love to talk to you!
Dave & Buster’s is seeking an experienced Watch Sr. Brand Manager who is passionate about sports, current on sports industry trends, excited about building a watch experience strategy, and has creative side that isn’t afraid to push the bounds of entertainment & come up with big, bold ideas. With how popular sports are in our target guests’ lives, it is critical that D&B finds a compelling, ownable, relevant way to be a part of that space in a meaningful way. That’s why we need someone like you to come in and own our sports watch experience & partnerships strategy from beginning to end!
Day in the life…

• Work with Media, Creative & Digital teams to ensure go-to-market strategy is focused and supports program goals.
• Manage cross functional execution of programs to ensure flawless rollout.
• Work with Director of Brand Marketing to define sports watch strategy including overarching experience vision & partnership marketing tactics to build awareness and relevance.
• Recommend & manage marketing calendar programs that combine national calendar messaging, local activities, and culturally relevant moments in sports to elevate the D&B sports watching product.
• Create business briefs for sports watch programs that help creative, media, and digital teams to create strong go-to-market marketing campaigns.
• Negotiate and manage sports partnerships with teams, leagues, athletes, sports betting brands, and more to build relevance and loyalty with our guests.
• Work with insights team to understand watch promotion performance and its impact on the overall business.

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, & ABILITIES

• Strong problem-solving abilities; works well with ambiguity
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Demonstrates the ability to balance immediate and long-term priorities. Seeks to meet critical objectives while considering the impact of those decisions and activities on the ability to achieve long-term goals.
• Ability to sell new ideas to leadership team.
• Highly creative with strong skills in organizing teams into action.
• Ability to work in fast-paced environment; accountable and flexible.
• Attention to detail – ability to flawlessly manage multiple programs.
• Strong foundation of marketing and marketing fundamentals.
• Strong organization, planning and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Experience working with sports/athlete partners required.
• 5+ years of experience in a brand manager role within a client organization or at a sports marketing agency.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Non-traditional office work environment. We have games in the lobby, a billiard table in the break room, and we get everyone together for “Parties on the Patio” where we relax and catch up over ice cold “refreshments”.

We work hard, play hard and have FUN!