Brand Manager

**Brand Manager**

**Location**: Chessington World of Adventures Resort, Surrey, KT9 2NE
**Hours**: This role is full time, permanent, averaging 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday with the occasional weekends and bank holidays when required.

**Benefits**: Competitive annual salary of £30,000-£33,000, ongoing training & development opportunities and a Merlin Magic Pass -free tickets for you, your family and friends to enjoy all of our Merlin Attractions across the world, plus much more

Chessington World of Adventures Resort is the UK's wildest adventure With our Theme Park, Zoo, spectacular Hotels, and Go Ape Courses, there are plenty of ROARingly exciting career paths available. We're also a part of the Merlin Entertainments family -associated with attractions like SEA LIFE, LEGOLAND Parks, Madame Tussauds and more

**About the Role**

We are currently recruiting for a Brand Manager.

In this role you will work closely with the Head of Marketing and Assistant Brand Manager, and play a key role in developing and executing the marketing plan for the Chessington World of Adventures Resort brand across the Theme Park & Zoo, Short Breaks &Resort Accommodation, and Go Ape.

You will be responsible for all owned media channels across the Resort including signage, mobile app and website, ensuring consistent, accurate and timely content supporting the overall marketing strategy and Resort KPI targets.

As our brand guardian, you'll be accountable for ensuring that everything that carries our logo inside or outside the Resort is compelling, consistent and aligned to our essence of Wild Adventure. You'll constantly champion the consumer perspective, alwaysspotting opportunities for new products and markets.

In addition to this, you'll draw on your commercial acumen by getting the best out of agency relationships, keeping a close eye on how well marketing activity is hitting performance targets and making recommendations to drive our continued success.

?**About You**

We are looking for the following skills and experience:

- A graduate with a strong track record with around 4 years’ experience across all the key marketing disciplines - ideally including advertising, media, creative design, print, project management, online and customer insight.
- A proven people manager, whether it be an internal team or agencies, support functions or suppliers.
- As well as successful campaigns, you’ll know how to present your ideas convincingly - successfully winning others round to your point of view.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills.
- Highly self-motivated, able to work alone or with teams.

**The Perks**

We strive to ensure we offer our employees a great place to work. Alongside a fun and friendly environment, a competitive annual salary of £30,000- £33,000 and 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) you can look forward to enjoying a great benefits packageincluding a Group Personal Pension Plan, Life Assurance, Employee Assistance Programme, and of course a Merlin Magic Pass which gives you and your friends and family free admission to all of our attractions worldwide, as well as 25% discount in our retailshops and 40% discount on LEGO, and much more Perhaps the biggest benefit of joining us, however, is the outstanding opportunities for career development across the expanding group.
- **Everyone Matters at Merlin.**
At Merlin we welcome the world to our magical attractions and resorts every day and we want to reflect that same multicultural mix inside our business too. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse workplace where people can be themselves, have the sameopportunities and thrive together. Because at Merlin, everyone matters Together, we work to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, no matter their age, race, gender, disability or sexual orientation. Although we understand that we'll always be learningand growing, we aim to be the most inclusive and flexible employer in our industry._