Marketing Executive

**Marketing Executive - SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium + WILD LIFE Sydney Zoo**

Admin Building (at rear of Aquarium), 1-5 Wheat Road; Darling Harbour
Sydney, NSW, 2000
Australia

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**Job Highlights**
- Unique opportunity to work across two of Sydney’s top attractions - including an iconic global brand, SEA LIFE, and WILD LIFE.
- Gain experience working on large and exciting projects, national marketing campaigns and innovative PR plans
- Join a global industry leader and take advantage of great staff perks, development opportunities, and fun team events
- Work in an office full of experienced Marketing professionals, right next door to cuddly koalas, amazing marine life and A-list celebs.

**Who are Merlin Entertainments?**

Merlin Entertainments is the company behind iconic brands like SEA LIFE, Madame Tussauds, LEGOLAND, and Peppa Pig World of Play. We operate in over 120 attractions across 25 countries, delivering memorable experiences to nearly 65 million visitors a year. We’re the leading operator of visitor attractions in Australia and New Zealand, with 10 attractions, including SEA LIFE, Wild Life, Madame Tussauds, and the Fly Treetop Adventures, amongst others.

**About the role**

If you share our passion, then we have **two** fantastic opportunities to join our team as a **Marketing Executive at SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium and WILD LIFE Sydney Zoo.**

Based in our Business Support offices at our Darling Harbour attractions (including Madame Tussauds) you will be reporting to the Marketing Manager for SEA LIFE and WILD LIFE, supporting the execution of the attraction marketing campaigns and activities.

You will be diving deep into a unique marketing role where no two days are quite the same. Whether that be working alongside our curatorial teams to produce adorable content with our incredible creatures, sharing amazing stories about our conservation projects or launching awesome new products and campaigns at our two iconic attractions - a fast-paced but incredibly fun challenge awaits

On a day to day basis you will be:

- Working across exciting marketing campaigns and other activities such as competitions, local promotions, website management, signage production, etc.
- Creating engaging content for our social media channels, including Tik Tok.
- Ensuring marketing activity is delivered consistently with brand guidelines.
- Working with and alongside the Marketing Executives across ANZ, as well as other functions such as Design, Trade, PR, Events, Digital and Operations.

**About You**

You are a passionate, digitally savvy marketeer who is looking to build their marketing career. A love for visitor attractions, travel, and tourism for any of our roles, and you will need to have passion for delivering truly magical experiences to our guests, and to truly shine in this position you will also have:

- A Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Advertising, Communications or a related field
- Experience working within a Marketing environment
- A passion for animals, aquariums/zoos and conservation
- Social media and digitally savvy
- Strong spelling, grammar and copywriting skills
- Ability to multitask effectively in a fast-paced environment with strong communication and organisational skills
- A love for all things Marketing and a willingness to learn

**What we can offer you**
- Flexible working policy
- Corporate benefits such as free entry to all our attractions WORLDWIDE
- Other external and internal discounts such as 25% off in our stores and cafes
- Additional Leave, including birthday, wellbeing, and volunteer leave to give back to a cause you care about
- Domestic and global opportunities to expand your skills and grow your career, including internal and external professional development courses

Perhaps the biggest benefits of joining us, however, are the amazing opportunities to advance your career. Merlin is a large, global, expanding business, so for a high-reaching and dedicated individual looking to go much further with their career, we can provide the opportunities and the support to help you realise your potential.

**Our culture & values**

Merlin Entertainments is driven by a strong social responsibility with the vision to create a world where the global community respects, conserves, and sustainably manages our precious aquatic habitats, wildlife, and natural resources. We strive to achieve this goal through our 3 charities: Merlins Magic Wand, the SEA LIFE Trust, and the WILD LIFE Conservation Fund.

We are a business built on FUN, and a role with Merlin is unlike a job anywhere else. Every day we work our magic in a variety of wonderful ways, whether it’s counting penguins, crafting the perfect celebrity eyebrows or offering vital support behind the scenes, each of us are focused on creating magic memories for our guests every day, and it’s fair to say we love what we do

We may be a fast-moving global business, but we’re proud to say we’re a down-to-earth, caring and suppo