Job Description Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.
Calling all cinephiles and film industry buffs. The Sky Cinema Comms team has a rare opening to work in a hybrid Social and PR role, supporting the Senior Comms Manager on film releases. We are an intellectually curious, agile team, who live and breathe internet culture and emerging comms trends. In this role, you will be working on campaigns for Sky Original films and Sky’s biggest acquired film IP, as well as supporting on social campaigns for select TV series. Your day to day would include managing agencies for content creation, campaign planning for both social and PR, copy writing, press release writing, stakeholder updates and production and talent comms with Sky Cinema’s biggest stars. You will be a key contributor to the @hellosky TikTok and @skytv channels, with the guidance of the Senior Manager in the team, balancing community management and posting in an engaging way that resonates with target audiences.
What You’ll Do
- Help manage global Original PR and Social film campaigns from start to finish, providing logistical and administrative support including social posting, media monitoring, agency management, event coordination, community management and reporting.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with press to help increase coverage of Sky’s Original Films.
- Work closely with talent and their reps to relay press requests and pitch bespoke-for-social content for junkets, premieres and shoot days.
- Collaborate with teams across the business (Influencer, Marketing, Awards, Sky Studios and more) to help drive holistic Sky Original Film campaigns that drive talkability and showcase some of the best entertainment content that Sky has to offer.
- Help drive innovation across Comms campaigns for movies, executing big digital ideas that cut through to target audiences.
What You’ll Bring
- Experience within the film industry, ideally at a studio or streamer, working as a core part of a cross functional Comms team on global film releases.
- Experience of working with A-list talent and their management, understanding approval processes and collaboration.
- Theatrical film experience preferred, with an understanding of the awards landscape.
- An intuitive knowledge of what will work well on Social Media and how the industry is evolving, specifically in relation to press. Must have a genuine interest and passion for films, as well as wider pop culture.
- A confident communicator with stakeholders and external production companies, A-list TV and film talent and showrunners.
- Proficient in Sprinklr, Excel and Microsoft Powerpoint.
- Experience planning and executing paid social media campaigns across multiple platforms in collaboration with a media agency.
- Experience managing content capture on set with talent.
Team Overview
Sky Entertainment Comms exists to make Sky’s new shows and films famous, inside and outside the business, for consumers and informed audiences. Our work showcases the value of Sky’s service through the content we make and acquire and helps drive viewing which underpin Sky’s commercial success. We deliver strategic, high-impact campaigns using tactics ranging from premieres, bespoke screenings, broadcast and talent activity, industry-facing panels, creative stunts and on-set content capture. We have a broad mix of media and creators as advocators across entertainment, consumer, trade, TV and film critics, podcast hosts and cultural commentators.
The Team Works In An Integrated, Genre-agnostic Way
- Our campaign teams run unified PR, social and influencer activity for priority titles, bringing all disciplines together under one strategic approach.
- Our AV unit works with production and talent on-set to create bespoke photography and video assets that support our shows across every touchpoint in the UK and internationally.
- A dedicated Front Desk manages listings, What to Watch comms, programme materials, episodic photography and production-company servicing, ensuring all assets meet the highest standard and can be deployed quickly when needed.
Our aim is to create standout, insight-driven campaigns that cut through a crowded media landscape and help Sky’s content travel further.
The Rewards
- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
- The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
- A generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband
- A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
How You’ll Work
We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home. We’ve adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You’ll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.
Your Office Base
Osterley
Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There are also plenty of bike shelters and showers. On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed, and even get pampered at our beauty salon.
Inclusion
At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working. We are a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can.
Why wait?
Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you. To find out more about working with us, search on social media.
Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.
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