Department: Marketing
Team: Brand and Content
Location: London (Hybrid 2 days in the office)
Position type: Fixed Term Contract until July 2026
What the hiring manager says
As Senior Brand Manager, you’ll be joining a high-performing, multidisciplinary team passionate about delivering creative excellence across brand, design, video, copy, email, social, and data. You will lead our Production team –a group of talented, efficient people who manage the day-to-day flow of tasks from across the business. Working closely with the wider Brand & Content team, the Production team ensures briefs are actioned smoothly and delivered to the highest standard.
About the Team
Our mission, in the Brand & Content Strategy team, is to unleash the GSMA’s collective imagination, united by a single brand story. The Brand & Content Strategy team are reimagining how the GSMA unlocks innovation across our business and the mobile industry.
From this brand purpose, we create awareness, engagement, and trust through compelling content that makes people think, pause, laugh, or reflect.
We work in a nimble, highly collaborative way, blending creative excellence, data insights and a strong purpose into every project.
About the Role
We have a fantastic 12 fixed term contract for a Senior Brand Manager who is experienced in the Design and Digital Marketing Production processes, from brief to applause. You’ll work with our in-house team as well external agencies and freelancers.
Key responsibilities
You will be:
responsible for the smooth management and delivery of brand projects and execution of the GSMA and MWC Brand roadmaps
recognise a strong brief from a loose one and be able to create and/or hand over clear, accurate briefs to designers or external agencies while managing stakeholder expectations, and socialising current status to the team leads
input into the resource plan, production schedule and manage budget forecast for events, ensuring we deliver to expected deadlines and budgets
manage and develop a small in-house production team, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning
be the conduit between the Head of Brand & Content Strategy, Global Brand Director and stakeholders across the GSMA
able to project manage projects and team operations including budget forecasting, streamlining and socialising processes
ensure the adoption of and knowledge around brand assets and guidelines.
About You
Required skills and experience, you will
be a proactive problem-solver who can manage multiple work streams from resource planning to budget tracking
demonstrate confidence and clarity when managing stakeholder expectations
be responsible for managing the brand roadmap resource plan, and associated budget tracking from outsourced design projects
manage print production process, ensuring quality proofs from the printers and working closely with printers around deadlines and delivery
create briefs for agencies and/or ensure briefs are to a high standard
have your finger on the pulse of design projects to understand to intervene where necessary and be the single point of contact for tracking project status
along with the Traffic Manager and Brand Manager, manage the makelist, daily resource plan, weekly report, and budget tracker
work with and help onboard external suppliers and resources, including admin
flag project risks and resource needs, while developing contingency plans with the Global Brand Director.
To succeed in the role, you will be:
a team player with the ability to engage in a hybrid environment
able to solve challenges proactively or suggest solutions for discussion
tenacious and able to proactively unblock bottlenecks
confident and able to develop good working relationships
results-oriented with the ability to prioritise deliverables.
Contract type
Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)Worker type
EmployeeWhat We OfferWorking at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.
In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.
To learn more about the GSMA, visit our career site, our LinkedIn page and our Twitter page.
Being You at the GSMA
We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We're keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The sucess of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.
GSMA Values
Our values not only drive our culture – they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.
Passionately driven
We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.
Insightful leaders
We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight and creativity so that we’re always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility and nuance.
Stronger together
We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us, embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own, fuelling each other’s successes and constantly asking how we can help.
Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we’re at our best – we are collaborative, considerate and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we aren’t at our best and the pressure is on – we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.
