Spark New Zealand Looking for Brand Manager (Brand Partner) at Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Full Time

Are you a passionate brand marketer, wanting to work on one of New Zealand’s most iconic brands? Are you highly creative and have an eye for developing exceptional work? Do you love working with creative agencies to develop meaningful brand experiences for customers?

As New Zealand’s largest telecommunications and digital services company, Spark’s purpose is to help all of New Zealand win big in a digital world. We provide mobile, broadband, and digital services to millions of New Zealanders and thousands of New Zealand businesses.

We operate in an exciting and constantly evolving industry, where the pace of change brings new and unique challenges every day, so we operate using Agile ways of working to allow us to meet the fast-changing needs of our customers.

Join a fun, hard-working, international award-winning team to utilise and develop your brand marketing skills to deliver world-class work that grabs the hearts and minds of those around you.

About The Role

This role sits within the Brand & Partnerships Business Squad, which leads out world class events such as Spark Lab Future State and delivers large scale business brand campaigns and platforms – from SME through to Enterprise and emerging technology. You will be supporting the Business and Enterprise brand leads to deliver and execute on these exciting projects.

We are looking for someone who has a passion for business, technology, and entertainment, and creating meaningful brand experiences. You will become a brand ambassador across all the Spark brands. As we work in Agile – we often move our Brand Partners around to work on different portfolios. You may start out on business brand but may also move into consumer brand depending on the business need. So, you need to be highly adaptable and excited by change.

You will be a part of a high functioning, high pace environment. You will need to have a growth mindset, be able to adapt to change easily and have exceptional brand marketing skills.

You’ll need to be able to run a project from writing briefs, budget facilitation, managing internal and external stakeholders and then completing post-campaign measurement.

You’ll be working closely with our agency partners so will need excellent relationship management skills.

We are looking for someone who?

• Has 3 – 5 years’ experience in brand marketing role or other marketing function
• Is highly creative and proactive with the ability to bring new ideas
• Has worked closely with creative agencies to build brand campaigns
• Can confidently write an agency brief and manage a project end to end
• Has excellent written and oral communication skills – can confidently present to others
• Has great stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to work within a complex corporate environment, as well as with external stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, market research, and consumer insights.
• Is highly organised, has great time management with the ability to handle multiple projects at once

What do you need to be able to bring?

• Team player and open to an agile way of working
• Happy to work on their own online and in a busy office also
• Ability to work under pressure and to sometimes tight deadlines
• Happy to call for help when needed
• Is well organised
• Has a desire to learn
• Doesn’t mind getting stuck in
• Open to trying new things
• Doesn’t mind a fluid environment where change happens often

WHY CHOOSE US:

Diversity and Inclusion: Te Kanorau me te Whakawhāiti mai

At Spark, we are constantly looking for ways to build a more inclusive culture. Our vision is for diversity and inclusion to be “how things are done at Spark”, embedded into our day-to-day activities, standards, and business practices. We want you to feel totally comfortable bringing your whole self to work regardless of your gender, ethnicity, orientation, age, or ability.

Sustainability: Toitū

Sustainability is a key focus for us. We are dedicated to supporting Aotearoa New Zealand’s recovery and economic transformation. The principle of equity is at the very heart of our approach, and we remain committed to working in partnership to make a positive contribution to digital equity in line with our focus on Diversity and Inclusion.

Benefits: Awhina

People matter and we make sure we look after them. As a valued employee of Spark, we’ve got our people covered with a range of leading benefits including:

Wellbeing – Comprehensive medical insurance, life and income protection. Access to wellbeing coaches, EAP and in-house Specialist Clinical support through our leading Mahi Tahi Wellness programme.

Hybrid ways of working – for most teams at Spark this means being in the office for 3 days a week, and 2 days being flexible

Leave – in addition to four weeks annual leave, we offer purchased leave, enhanced parental leave payments & support, and study leave.

Spark Credit – We provide permanent employees with $120 monthly Spark credit to use on any of our amazing products.

Spark Share scheme – periodically we offer the opportunity to buy into our share scheme.

Career development – access to an internal marketplace that connects employees with experiential, on the job learning across Spark.

Due to the nature and urgency of this role, we are only considering applicants that are based in New Zealand with permanent residency, citizenship, or a valid work visa (with at least 18 months remaining).

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