Global Media Manager, Action/Adventure

Requisition Number: 172426

Position Title: Buying Lead

External Description:

Global Media Manager, Action/Adventure

 

ENTERTAINING IS OUR PASSION:

We’re Electronic Arts - the world’s best video game publisher. You’re probably familiar with many of our titles—Madden, FIFA, The Sims, Need for Speed, Apex, Battlefield and Star Wars, to name a few. We are a community of artists, storytellers, technologists, and innovators working in one of the most dynamic industries today. We’re building a company that thinks about the player experience at every step. We are transforming for a digital future and work as one team. We take risks and we dream big. And together, we are inspiring the way millions play every day. What does that mean for you? It means more opportunities to unleash your creative genius, be inspired by those leading their fields and ignite your path in any direction you choose.

 

OVERVIEW:

EA’s global media team crafts attention-grabbing experiences that take our stories into the lives of all players globally. We balance the art of broad media with the science of performance-based media to deliver against short and long-term objectives informed by data and shaped by creativity.

 

The Global Media Lead, Action/Adventure is the primary media lead for our action-adventure oriented titles, acting as a key strategic partner to Brand, Creative, and Analytics. This position will report into the Director of Media Strategy as a part of a newly formed Global Media Strategy team structured by franchise.

 

The Global Media Manager, Action/Adventure is responsible for translating the global media strategy into a focused brief to guide the planning process with the media agency and regional teams responsible for creating country plans across the Americas, APAC, and Europe. From planning to post campaign analysis, the Global Media Manager will maintain a simplified view of the global media approach to share with stakeholders. The Global Media Manager has a thorough understanding of the media landscape with the ability to advocate for its role within the broader marketing campaign and effectively project manage across a global cross functional team. 

 

 

What a Global Media Manager does at EA:

 

• Serves as Media's POC for Brand: Guides our senior brand partners through media objectives and opportunities to facilitate campaign goals, briefing, and flighting for Action/Adventure titles. Champions the media approaches and ongoing work to CFX partners, globally.

 

• Title Media Brief & Campaign Framework: Translates the global strategy and brand materials into a focused brief defining the audience and direction on when to invest for Planning, Activation, and Agency teams to build the media mix and tactical plans. Responsible for keeping teams informed as inputs from Brand evolve. Manages the timeline for planning and activation processes, ensuring deadlines are met, while keeping stakeholders informed of key deliverables.

 

• Global Media Roll-ups and Media Reporting: Leads the roll-up view of global media plans and timely, accurate and insightful reporting to the business on global campaign performance, in partnership with Analytics. Remains informed of ongoing campaign optimizations to ensure this is fed into reporting.

 

• Global Finance Oversight: Partners with Finance and Regional Planners to ensure budgets by country and quarter align to the latest plan while flagging risks and opportunities for incremental and potential budget cuts.

 

• Global Media Partnerships: Oversees planning of larger media partnerships spanning multiple markets.

 

• Connections Planning Matrix: Deliver optimal experiences with our content by maintaining a flighting matrix mapping message, channel, and asset variation, at a global level.

 

• Title Expert: Provide product/franchise expertise including in-depth knowledge of business priorities at a franchise level pertinent to media and be able to share up/down and across the organization.

 

• Evangelize for Paid Media internally at EA: Senior advocate for paid media as a key growth driver for the portfolio. Arms stakeholders with opportunities and considerations for paid media by franchise to continually drive growth for the business.
  
  
• Develop Media Artifacts: Manage Global Media Brief, the Campaign Strategic Framework, Global Campaign Budget Oversight and Global Media Reporting and ensure all media teams are kept up to date.

 

• Manages the Global Media Agency in overseeing the planning and execution efforts across regional planning and activation teams for FIFA.

 

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

 

• Multiple years of experience in media, either in strategy or cross channel planning roles, with an understanding of the planning process, brand and DR KPIs, audience planning, optimisations, and reporting.
• Proven success in delivering results for past media
• Proven track record of building relationships and trust with senior stakeholders in Marketing, Creative, and Analytics roles.
• Interest in the evolving world of data, attribution, and media testing.
• Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ideal candidate has experience operating across multiple markets, with knowledge of global and local regulations.
• Ability to effectively communicate with confidence and act as a cross-functional connector; experience advocating for the role of media across a global marketing organization
• Experience across short- and long-term measurement approaches, the strategic use of first-party data, and the next generation of attribution.
• Thorough understanding of the international football landscape.

 

WHO YOU ARE:

• A smart problem solver: intelligent, asks smart questions to understand root issues, develops new and creative approaches and solutions, solving problems in a real-world way.
• Collaborator: Ability to accomplish a lot through teamwork in a highly matrixed environment. Effective relationships and influencing skills are key to getting work done.
• Adaptable: Must be nimble to address new opportunities, to deal with the changes we face, to adapt to new expectations and things that aren’t obvious, clear, or easy.
• A Media Expert: A passion for paid media, the continuously evolving landscape, and the creative application to reach brand objectives.

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Company Profile:

We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

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EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.