Project Manager-Branded Content Strategy

Full Time Job
Discovery, Inc., the new global leader in real life entertainment with powerful brands such as Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel, is searching for a Project Manager in Knoxville, TN to join our Digital Studios Group.

In this mid-level role, you'll lead Ad Sales activations for branded content social video and creative services for a subset of our business. Spanning all Discovery Inc. brands, this role is critical for ensuring effective communication with clients and managing priorities of internal stakeholders. Those who possess strong organizational and multi-tasking skills, and who can solve challenges related to meeting deadlines and managing client expectations, would be well-suited.

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Responsibilities

What You'll Be Doing
• Managing multiple team priorities related to social video and creative services executions
• Effectively solving challenges related to potential issues such as unresponsive clients or pushed timelines, and addressing those with either the client or internal teams quickly to ensure the project remains on-track
• Providing post-sale activation support for social video and non-social video, including:
• Working directly with the Ad Sales Account Executive
• Managing activation orders from Ad Sales
• Developing and managing timelines with production and creative services teams
• Coordinating product orders/deliveries and asset collection for the production and creative services teams
• Securing social post copy from production or brand social teams
• Co-managing social video calendar with Ad Sales Marketing teams
• Managing project submissions for social video posts and select social ads
• Serving as primary client contact for select social video and non-social video activations, including:
• Attending all client calls
• Obtaining client production forms and all required assets
• Securing approvals from client
• Providing links to live content once launched
• Collaborating with the Social Insights team to understand what’s working and what’s not for social video, for better communication and management of expectations with Ad Sales and clients during post-sale activations

Requirements

Who You Are
• 3 years project management experience
• Agency experience including traffic or account management preferred
• Degree in marketing/advertising/communications preferred
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills
• Superior organizational skills with the ability to manage timelines and multiple deliverables and assets

Want to Learn More?

Learn more about our company culture and life at Discovery, Inc. at https://corporate.discovery.com/

About Discovery, Inc.

Discovery is the global leader in real life entertainment, serving passionate fans around the world with content that inspires, informs and entertains. Discovery delivers over 8,000 hours of original programming each year across deeply loved content gnres.

Available in 220 countries and territories and 50 languages, Discovery is a platform innovator, reaching viewers on all screens and services, from linear, free-to-air and pay–TV channels to digital products and streaming services, to social and mobile-first content and formats. Discovery’s portfolio of premium brands includes Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, Travel Channel, Turbo/Velocity, Animal Planet, and Science Channel, as well as OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network in the U.S., Discovery Kids in Latin America, and Eurosport, the leading provider of locally relevant, premium sports and Home of the Olympic Games across Europe.