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Affiliate Sales & Marketing Assistant, EMEA (London, UK)

Blue Ant Media
Full-time
On-site
London, England, United Kingdom

TELLING CAPTIVATING STORIES TO AUDIENCES EVERYWHERE

Blue Ant Media is a privately held, international production studio and rights business and channel operator. The company's studio creates and distributes a premium slate of programming, in all content genres, for streaming and broadcasting platforms around the world. Blue Ant Media also operates free streaming and pay TV channels under several media brands internationally, including Love Nature, Cottage Life, Smithsonian Channel Canada, BBC Earth Canada, HauntTV, Homeful, Drag Race Universe, Total Crime, Declassified, Love Pets and Love Drama. Blue Ant Media is headquartered in Toronto, with six international offices in Los Angeles, New York, Singapore, London, Washington and Sydney. blueantmedia.com⼁Instagram⼁LinkedIn⼁X⼁


Our employees are passionate experts in all of our business areas. They are fanatical about creating outstanding content and experiences, and about delivering them on new and evolving platforms. We actively seek new employees who embody our core values. We want them to think big, act with purpose, celebrate creativity, do the right thing, respect one another, and succeed together. We attract creative talents who are optimistic about the evolving future of content and who take pride in recognizing opportunities where others see challenges. At Blue Ant Media, we give them the flexibility to think like entrepreneurs, take ownership of their projects, take risks, and embrace innovation in a rapidly evolving media landscape. Our team members excel at collaborating with internal and external partners by building trusting, respectful working relationships.

Affiliate Sales & Marketing Assistant, EMEA (3-Month Contract)

 

The position is for an Affiliate Sales & Marketing Assistant, supporting the VP of EMEA and the Affiliate Marketing Manager, EMEA. 

 

A junior/entry level role, the individual will be keen to learn, highly collaborative, they must work extremely well with others, building strong relationships externally with affiliate platform contacts across EMEA and internally with BlueAnt teams around the world.

 

Candidates must be highly skilled multi-taskers; the environment is fast paced with an all-hands-on deck approach to working. 

 

The successful candidate will be someone who isn’t afraid to “get their hands dirty”, is detail-oriented, organised, passionate about TV and has a keen interest to learn about the pay-tv broadcast and FAST streaming industry.

 

What You’ll Be Doing…

 

  • Support the Affiliate Sales & Marketing Coordinator with general client and affiliate relationship management and brand partnership marketing activities:

 

Love Nature:

 

  • Handle general partner requests such as logos, images, and file delivery with promptness and professionalism.
  • Collaborate closely with the central marketing team to develop comprehensive marketing toolkits for Love Nature’s monthly highlights emails.
  • Support the Affiliate Sales & Marketing Coordinator in sourcing programming and marketing assets for media brand partnerships to enhance Love Nature's visibility and reach.

 

FAST Channels:

 

  • Serve as the primary point of contact for promotional asset requests for Blue Ant Media’s portfolio of FAST channels.
  • Efficiently coordinate the distribution of monthly highlights and promotional assets to affiliate platforms, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to brand guidelines.
  • Manage the input of monthly highlights data into platform partners' channel highlights portals (Samsung TV Plus & Rakuten), maintaining accuracy and consistency.
  • Liaise effectively with internal creative teams to communicate briefs, facilitate asset development, and ensure timely delivery of promotional materials to platforms.

 

General Marketing & Sales Administration:

 

  • Maintain and update the affiliate marketing contacts database and email distribution lists for Love Nature and FAST, ensuring accurate and up-to-date information.
  • Assist in coordinating and delivering brand assets (including sizzle/loop reels & merchandise) for trade events such as PIKE, NEM & CABSAT.
  • Take ownership of maintaining and updating the channel sales database, subscriber tracker and various administration documents to support marketing and sales activities effectively.
  • Assisting with general admin; calendars, shipping, travel, accommodation and restaurant bookings, completing team expenses, office administration & coordination, tax certificate fulfilment, filing (digital & non-digital), invoicing support, meeting room bookings.

 

What You’ll Bring…

 

  • Ideally work experience in International Television in a Sales Support or Affiliate Marketing role (ideally both).
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Excellent written skills
  • Extremely high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Excellent project management and organisational skills; adept at applying new knowledge and learning to create and improve processes.
  • A self-starter, motivated by fast paced, constantly changing and complex environments; is excited at the idea of taking a proactive approach, and not scared to get “their hands dirty”.
  • Ability to work in an informal & entrepreneurial environment
  • Ability to work independently and remotely, demonstrating self-motivation, discipline and managing time effectively.
  • Equally adept at collaborating with teams across departments, regions, time zones and levels; believes in transparency and has an & all hands-on deck approach to teamwork.

 

Here’s What You Can Expect In Return… 

 

  • Hybrid work environment
  • A team that trusts and wants to win together
  • Leadership that supports your development and long-term career goals at Blue Ant Media
  • Work hard/play hard culture 
At Blue Ant Media, we believe promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion is everyone's responsibility. We can all contribute. As a global media company, we recognize our platform and opportunity to influence change and promote a more inclusive world.  We know what we create, distribute, and produce is better with a diverse workforce.  In recruiting for our teams, we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds (who are eligible to work in Canada) and welcome the unique contributions each person brings. 
 
If you have most of the qualifications listed in our posting, but are not sure whether to proceed with your application, we still encourage you to apply. We thank all candidates for their interest in Blue Ant Media and we will reach out to those candidates that are under consideration. If you are contacted for an interview and require an accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please email our Human Resources team at hr@blueantmedia.com.

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