Join The Walt Disney Company as the leader of DCP brand and Creative Marketing, where you will drive innovative campaigns and shape the creative direction across EMEA and global teams. In this pivotal role, you will respond to marketing briefs from brand, retail, and partnership marketing teams, delivering imaginative solutions through in‑house production for DCP marketing content, licensee partnerships, and other business lines. You will sign off on creative output, collaborate with directors to plan and refine creative requirements, and identify opportunities for cross‑company synergy. You will operate with creative leadership, ensuring every project is culturally sensitive, aligned with TWDC strategies, and pushes the boundaries of innovation. Your responsibilities include budget and quality control, managing relationships with external suppliers and freelancers, and supporting diversity and inclusion within a robust creative team. You will service global campaigns, maintain legal compliance and training standards, and uphold the highest creative standards.
This is a fixed‑term contract role, and will be based in our London Hammersmith office, 4 days a week, with either a Monday or Friday working from home.
You’ll join a team grounded in our Disney values, acting with Integrity, welcoming everyone through Inclusion, embracing boundless Creativity, working together through Collaboration and caring deeply for our Community. These values shape how we work and how we support one another every day.
Responsibilities
- Respond to marketing briefs from brand, retail and partnership marketing teams by ensuring the creative team provides ideation and in‑house production solutions.
- Create DCP marketing content that drives consumer affinity with TWDC brands, raising awareness and consideration to ultimately increase product sales.
- Generate meaningful branded content campaigns for licensee partnerships that maximise the effectiveness of TWDC’s media offering and reach new audiences for the franchises and categories.
- Support marketing for other lines of businesses (LOBs) on an ad‑hoc basis (e.g., PR, communications and corporate social responsibility).
- Sign off the creative output of the team for key briefs and high‑profile campaigns.
- Liaise with directors across the business to identify, refine and plan their creative requirements, both short‑term and long‑term.
- Identify cross‑company opportunities where creative needs are aligned and resources can be pooled to create larger opportunities for partners to invest in content creation.
- Operate with creative leadership responsibility across EMEA and global teams, ensuring assets created by the team are culturally sensitive, innovative and aligned with TWDC strategies and brand guidelines set by DCP franchise and leadership as well as other LOBs (such as studios).
- Ensure all creative output and ideation is achievable within budget, is quality controlled and complies with internal and external guidelines.
- Manage and maintain relationships with external suppliers, creative vendors, agencies and a network of freelancers to ensure TWDC obtains the best quality output/product.
- Operate within diversity and inclusion initiatives when sourcing freelancers and talent to establish accurate representation and inclusivity.
- Provide service to the DCP businesses primarily for campaigns that serve the global business.
- Work with the contingent workforce team to build and develop a robust and agile creative team through a combination of freelance and agency resources, mentoring, and developing creative skillsets.
- Operate within legal parameters, ensuring appropriate training is provided to the team, including pertinent legal and brand training, and that the team operates within legal parameters.
Qualifications
- Significant experience in advertising production, either agency or in‑house.
- Creative background beneficial (copywriter, art director, shoot director, producer, editor or designer).
- Experience in leading production teams on pan‑regional and global campaigns with global budgets, understanding cultural sensitivities and creating content that can be understood and repurposed across many different languages and territories.
- Experience working with creative teams across the globe and building a network of resources across different time‑zones to drive efficiencies with production turnaround times.
- Proven experience working and thriving in a matrix organisation.
- Proven experience of building effective relationships, leading and managing change and collaboration across departments to achieve financial targets and joint goals.
- Proven experience of managing and working within allocated budgets.
- Proven experience of developing the performance of a team.
- Strong leadership capabilities, including strong people‑management skills.
- Financial acumen with the ability to manage projects within a set budget.
- Commercial awareness.
- Strong project‑management skill.
- Ability to manage a broad scope of work while maintaining a keen eye for detail.
- Ability to thrive and deliver end solutions within a large corporate environment, understanding the dynamics and challenges of working in a matrix organisation.
- Ability to collaborate effectively in a team while working well under pressure to meet tight deadlines and prioritize across multiple objectives and deadlines.
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to pitch ideas to stakeholders at all levels on a global scale.
- Ability to understand and work within the legal guidelines provided by the legal department.
- Computer literate, including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Keynote.
- Written and spoken English for business use, essential; other European languages beneficial.
- Strategic mindset, with the ability to take industry trends and translate them into something that drives growth for TWDC.
- Cultural sensitivity and an understanding of local markets across EMEA.
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave.
- Private medical insurance & dental care.
- Free Park Entry: you will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free.
- Disney Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing.
- Excellent parental and guardian leave.
- Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney Mosaic, Disney PRIDE, ENABLED (our disability & neurodiversity focused group) and the Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.
The Walt Disney Company Limited is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion or belief, sex, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, disability or pregnancy or maternity. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, and create the best stories and remain relevant in a rapidly changing world.
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