Marketing Partnerships Creative Manager - Japan

Be a creative leader and director. Setting creative strategy, ensuring business objectives are met and the narrative throughout the campaign reflects the key strategic intent. Managing the end-to-end creation and development of multiple concurrent campaigns. Manage and partner with agencies to develop highly innovative and effective content-driven solutions that extend our brand and title marketing efforts through partners, beyond advertising. Being a creative thought partner. Leading creative workshops, presentations, briefings and owning the feedback loop and output with partners and agencies. Uncovering creative opportunities on our titles to develop creative briefs, concepts and presentations to pitch to partners. Owning the production and execution of creative output. Owning and directing design, curation, and delivery of creative assets for partners while working closely with creative & design agencies. Executional oversight and coordination of all creative sales enablement materials (presentations, video, print, talent/legal, social media/content, activations/events, PR, etc.) Manage any bespoke AV productions/shoots. THE BASICS: 10+ years of track record in brand or consumer marketing at advertising agency, or in-house Creative team. Experience in Entertainment or Ads Marketing Creative is a plus. Extensive experience of creative marketing communications in Japan and understands the impact of cultural relevance in the market. STRATEGIC PLANNING: Connector of dots, able to scan through data, behaviours, comms plans, consumer research to find partner insights and content insights and bridge them in the right sweet spot to create the most fertile territory for great ideas to flourish. CREATIVE THINKER: A media-agnostic thinker who can ideate for any space and impact the right audience. Knows how to get to great work and brings a fresh perspective to the way people connect with culture, content and brands. CREATIVE LEADER: A selfless creative leader & strong storyteller who can shape and pitch creative concepts. Lead the thought process with the partner and agencies in all aspects of the program - from initial briefing, creative strategy, big idea and production. PROJECT MANAGEMENT: A creative shepherd and problem solver who is able to drive multiple projects from start to finish and turn cool ideas into reality. Knowledge of production with the ability to execute flawlessly. Doesn't hesitate to get into the details, and does not lose sight of the broader strategic intent. CLEAR & CONCISE COMMUNICATOR: We are looking for a fluent English & Japanese speaker with excellent communication skills, who is comfortable collaborating with multiple internal cross-functional teams and confident in influencing external senior stakeholders. Knowledge of other Asian languages is a plus.