Brand, Culture & Partnerships Manager - Guinness Open Gate Brewery
Guinness Open Gate Brewery London
Location: Covent Garden, London
Full time: Full time
Closing Date: April 26, 2025
About Us
The Guinness Open Gate Brewery London (GOGBL) is a new Guinness neighbourhood in London that will inspire the best in brewing, food, retail, and culture. Consisting of 52,000 square feet of heritage buildings and a central courtyard in the historic brewing quarter in Covent Garden, GOGBL will become a key growth driver for Guinness, placing the brand in culture and driving relevancy and brand saliency amongst a new generation of drinkers.
You will be responsible for:
* Defining the GOGBL culture, influencer, and events strategy. Building this out, briefing, and end-to-end execution with our selected agency partner.
* Managing the GOGBL culture/PR agency.
* Driving talkability, relevance, and excitement. Ensuring GOGBL is positioned as a 'must-visit' destination in the UK.
* Consistently bringing the external in. Tapping into trends and bringing to life well thought out and on-brand partnerships.
* Working closely with the Guinness marketing and culture teams to ensure GOGBL is considered in plans and opportunities are maximised.
* Ensuring all plans fit well with the Guinness brand and comply with the Diageo Marketing Code (DMC).
* Working with the Marketing Manager on the delivery of best-in-class partnerships, collaborations, and local community campaigns.
* Working with the Digital Marketing & Performance Manager to ensure partnership/collaboration communications are accurate and to develop the affiliate program.
Key Stakeholders
The role reports into the Head of Sales & Marketing, GOGBL. The role holder will need to build a relationship and work closely with not only the Sales & Marketing team but also key contacts within the wider Diageo business.
Qualifications and Experience Required
* Must have proven experience in PR, events, and influencer strategy for a high-profile brand.
* Great experience delivering earned media value to a brand/business and the ability to present this back through insight-driven reporting.
* Demonstrable experience of coordinating successful brand events.
* Excellent relationship-building skills.
* Well-connected with a network of contacts built through experience working with outlets, influencers, and talent.
* Experience in managing campaigns of varying scale - from national to hyper-local.
* Great leadership with the ability to steer multiple projects across different stakeholders at any one time.
* Agency and budget management.
Working with Us
Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our people work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don't let anything stop you from applying.
* We offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including: Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities.
* Annual merit increases (performance-based).
* Annual bonus (performance-based).
* Subsidized gym membership.
* Contributory pension scheme.
* Share options.
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and listened to, is a crucial part of this.
Join us, and you'll be part of an organisation that embraces diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of - and help build - an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
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