Director, Partnerships Marketing

The Director, Partnerships Marketing is responsible for shaping and seeing through innovative Partnerships and Promotions strategies for Illumination’s IP. Working directly with a wide range of brands, agencies, and our partners at Universal. The ideal candidate is detail oriented and understand the intersection of brands, audience, and culture for the future of collaboration and brand marketing. An organized creative thinker, driver of ideas, with an existing brand network will bring the perfect mix of experience to this high paced new role. Responsibilities include identifying opportunities to break into new categories and unlock relationships, driving partnerships that unlock the trend setting audience, participating in the development, strategy, and execution of Partnerships and Promotions within Illumination, partnering with Universal on early in a film’s development to properly plan and execute an effective Partnership and Promotions strategy, continually monitoring and reporting on the latest emerging brands and industry trends, organizing large amounts of workflow, detail, and assets, collaborating on promotional program information and creative assets, working with Universal on pitch materials, idea generation and organizing pitch meetings, developing and maintaining strong relationships with other Marketing leaders, reviewing partnership opportunities, managing related vendors and marketing agencies, presenting ideas and updates to the CEO and executive leadership, driving and tracking the progress on each campaign, and assessing performance in relation to established goals and KPIs.