We are seeking a Product Marketing Planner to join our Home Entertainment Pan-European Marketing department (HE PPM) and drive effective marketing communication, activities, and asset creation, for our exciting Home Entertainment product category across all EU Markets.
You will lead vital end-to-end marketing projects, with exposure to a broad range of activities, including collaborating and influencing in-country teams for local execution, partnering with agencies for creative content and asset development, reporting and presenting to senior management, and working with our Area Business Managers (ABMs) to ensure strategy alignment.
You should be someone who comes from a consumer product marketing background, with great self-motivation and organisation skills, a when partnering with designers to develop product marketing content. You should also enjoy speaking publicly to external audiences i.e. at events, demos and product launches.
You will:
Launch Planning
1. Support the Brand & Product Communications Manager in leading launch timelines, milestones, and creative frameworks.
2. Manage launch plans: Build comprehensive product launch timelines, milestones, and checklists that align with launch roadmaps.
3. Track progress and mitigate risks: Monitor deadlines, identify bottlenecks, and proactively solve issues to keep launches on schedule.
4. Continuously optimize: Refine launch processes, templates, and best practices to improve efficiency and repeatability.
5. Facilitate and support effective information flow between headquarters (Tokyo) and European markets to ensure alignment and consistency.
6. Ensure go-to-market alignment: Collaborate with marketing and product teams, ABMs, web teams, customer marketing & local markets to synchronize messaging, assets, and timing.
Content Development and Asset Management
7. Support establishment of product messaging hierarchy with Brand & Product Comms Manager & Product Planning.
8. Lead the development of creative briefs and run the end-to-end process for asset creation – aligned to launch plans.
9. Analyse feedback from local markets, & product communications manager to provide actionable recommendations, and refine communication strategies to increase content effectiveness.
Consumer Research and Analysis
10. Review available reporting (log data, brand tracker etc) to gather insights on product and brand positioning.
11. Work with local markets to gather market feedback & consumer insights.
12. Conduct ad-hoc research projects to understand customer behaviour and preferences.
13. Share data-driven insights with the Brand & Product Communications Manager - Translate findings into recommendations for product positioning & content development.
Event support (Dealer/Media/Management)
14. Work as part of the HE PPM team to support the overall execution of dealer & media events.
15. Deliver product demonstrations for HAV clearly communicate product features and benefits to dealers/media/management.
You will bring:
16. Excellent understanding of product marketing, brand management, or communications, ideally within consumer electronics, entertainment, or FMCG.
17. Strong project management skills, and able to run multiple workstreams, timelines, and stakeholders simultaneously.
18. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; comfortable working cross-functionally and across different cultures
19. Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and transform insights into actionable recommendations.
20. Comfortable presenting to small groups and larger audiences, adjusting style and tone as needed.
21. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word & SharePoint).
Your new office
Based at the Weybridge office, you will enjoy a vibrant and friendly working environment. We have an onsite canteen with a wide range of options available, and a barista style coffee shop. There is a well-provisioned onsite gym run by our own Sony Wellbeing Coordinator, with classes on set days in the mornings, at lunch and after work hours. We have a staff car park which includes electric charging points, an undercover and secure bike rack (useful if you’ve made the most of the Cycle-to-Work scheme), or if you will use public transport we have a shuttle bus service that regularly runs between train station and the office at peak times.
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Life at Sony
We ensure competitive salaries and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies. We are a positive community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture.
We like to celebrate our colleagues who make a real difference using our recognition platform. We also provide access to numerous services and platforms for all aspects of wellbeing. We listen to our people through conversations and surveys, respect their suggestions, then act on them. We also provide allowances for volunteering days so that our staff can support the causes they are most passionate about.
You can build your career around you with our fantastic range of learning & personal development programs to enhance your skills. We also encourage our staff to try exciting new roles, in a wide range of countries, with a supportive mobility team to support you if you take that leap!
Bring your uniqueness to Sony
We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity, and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that will stimulate innovation and have a direct impact on our creation of social value to fulfil Sony’s purpose – ‘to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology’. We want you to bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.
We are Sony Europe
Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity, and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique.
With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contributes to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale.
Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together.
Equal Opportunity
Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics.
Disability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Europe
Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individuals with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at or by mail to: Sony Europe Limited, Human Resources Department, the Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK. When contacting us please indicate the position you are applying for, and the accommodation required.
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