Brand Development Manager

1 Month ago • All levels • Product Management • Game Production

Job Summary

Job Description

The Brand Development Manager will drive project delivery for the Total War team, facilitating planning and estimation. Responsibilities include marketing planning, ensuring timely deliverables, managing a brand Jira, supporting work estimation, goal setting, budget tracking, problem-solving, and team motivation. The role requires exceptional organizational and project management skills, experience in creative environments, problem-solving abilities, strong communication, and proficiency in MS Office and Jira. The ideal candidate will have shipped an AAA title and understand marketing disciplines and agile/waterfall methodologies.
Must have:
  • Exceptional organizational skills
  • Strong planning & project management
  • Experience in creative environments
  • Excellent problem-solving skills
  • Strong communication skills
  • MS Office & Jira proficiency
Good to have:
  • Shipped AAA title
  • Marketing discipline understanding
  • Agile/Waterfall methodology knowledge
  • Advanced MS Office skills
  • Total War franchise knowledge
Perks:
  • Work from Anywhere (temporary)
  • Enhanced holiday allowance
  • Flexible core hours
  • Private medical & dental insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Relocation package
  • Wellbeing support
  • Community activities

Job Details

Description

We have an excellent opportunity for an experienced and passionate specialist to join our Total War team as a Brand Development Manager.  
Based at our well-established studio in the heart of Sussex in the UK, you will be working with key members of the team on our Total War titles, to help bring to life immersive strategy titles from the world renowned franchise.

Key Responsibilities   
As a Development Manager, you will drive the project delivery for the team, facilitating the planning and estimation process across the team.

On a day-to-day basis, you will:  

  • Drive the marketing planning process keeping the Brand Team on track and on time to deliver project strategy and taking responsibility for driving wider teams to provide their discipline plans. 
  • Be the driver to ensure the marketing deliverables for internal milestones are provided in a timely fashion.  
  • Supporting the Brand Team transition to and overseeing a brand Jira, working out how that might feed into wider development tracking to give constant visibility on the overall status of plans and the team. 
  • Helping the Brand Team with estimating work and manage available resource when new requests come into the team. 
  • Support with goal setting for a PI / QTR to create better visibility of our planned work and put things into an appropriate backlog. 
  • Work with the team to facilitate them delivering their goals. 
  • Brand marketing budget tracking inclusive of Comms, Community and Influencers. 
  • Help solve problems and challenges with project / leadership teams. 
  • Keeping meetings on track and productive with agendas. 
  • Define and continuously improve our processes using the best methodology possible to predict, and deliver on time, and on quality. While creating and maintaining long term roadmap of deliverables and budget. 
  • Help to manage and motivate the team, ensuring that milestones are adhered to, communicating progress, and providing a detailed analysis on team performance, risks, and areas for improvement. 
  • Plan and execute the short and long-term schedules and reporting. 
  • Liaise with the project and company leadership in defining the deliverables, goals and KPIs to provide visibility, and status updates 
  • Broadcast key project dates, goals, KPIs and processes to the team 
  • Identify, communicate, and support resolving any risks that may prevent the team from completing deadlines 
  • Anticipate and solve problems independently, and collaboratively with the project leadership. 

Knowledge, Skill and Experience  

Essential 

  • Exceptional organisational skills. Driven and self-motivated 
  • Strong planning and project management skills. An instinct for coordinating and focussing on separate moving parts at one time 
  • Experience delivering projects in a creative and dynamic environment while working to strict timelines 
  • Ability to utilise knowledge of multiple project management methodologies to best suit the team and project needs 
  • Excellent problem-solving skills. You will be aware of potential and current issues and formulate pragmatic plans to solve them 
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English 
  • A team thinker - able to work within a team and to actively work to make the team perform cohesively 
  • Excellent knowledge and experience using MS Office applications especially Excel and JIRA. 

Desirable

  • One shipped (AAA) title 
  • Understanding of or interest in any marketing disciplines 
  • Good understanding of agile and waterfall methodology 
  • Full production cycle experience 
  • Experience with scaled agile 
  • Advanced MS Office skills 
  • Avid gamer 
  • Knowledge of the Total War Franchise.

About Creative Assembly
Creative Assembly crafts deep and detailed games that last, entertaining millions of players across the globe for decades.
 
We are all game makers and we care deeply about the experiences we create. We empower our teams to make significant contributions to our games, supported by skills development and growth opportunities.
 
We are located in Horsham, UK in Newcastle, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria.
We offer many benefits to support you and your family including:

  • Work from Anywhere for a temporary period each year (restrictions apply such as VISAs)
  • Enhanced holiday allowance, maternity and paternity breaks, flexibility with our core hours, and no-notice holidays
  • Bespoke relocation package for you and your dependents
  • Private medical and dental insurance, life insurance, permanent health insurance, critical illness cover and free health care screening
  • Generous holiday allowance plus full studio closure over the Christmas and New Year period, and all Bank holidays
  • Join our Diversity and Inclusion Network – an employee-led group
  • Season ticket travel loans and cycle to work scheme with free bike servicing and discounted car valet service on site
  • Wellbeing support and virtual confidential counselling
  • Community activities including parties, football and more.
  • Our studio sites have disabled access.

We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.
 
Note to Recruitment Agencies: SEGA Europe Limited and our studios do not accept unsolicited candidate introductions from unauthorised third parties. For the avoidance of doubt, SEGA Europe is not liable for any fees, compensation or any other costs associated with the introduction of a candidate or recruitment services unless and until an agreement has been duly executed. Further details can be found here.

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