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LISA DOHERTY

Auckland

Summary

Kia Ora! I'm currently the Marketing Lead for NEON TV, a premiere streaming and entertainment service in New Zealand offering exclusive rights to global shows from international studios and partners.


With over ten years of brand and marketing experience, I have led high-profile, customer-centric brand and advertising programmes across large organizations in the UK and NZ, employing both cross-functional and agile methodologies.


I am passionate about driving commercial and customer outcomes through insight-driven strategies that meet emerging customer needs with impactful creative and media.


My leadership style is open and empathetic, fostering collaboration and effective communication to influence and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders and team members.


Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Marketing Lead

NEON (Sky TV New Zealand)
05.2022 - Current


Key achievements:

  • Creating impactful campaign strategies and activation plans to support premium TV series / movies from global studios, contributing to a 15% growth in customer acquisition and positive tenure trends 2022-2023. Promotion of key shows such as Yellowstone, The White Lotus, Handmaids Tale, Barbie.
  • Execution of global show launch House of the Dragon S1 with high impact $1mill spend across experiential, live TV, ATL formats to create local talkability and hype - achieving 21% above acquisition targets
  • Development of the NEON brand strategy to grow the brand through key metrics - YoY growth of key metrics (awareness, consideration).
  • Partnership management with strategic local partners Spark, 2 Degrees, Flicks, Pizza Hut to support 25% revenue contribution
  • Innovative collaborations with Samsung, PlayStation, Amazon to amplify NEON's content and support wider business goals.
  • Annual budget management of $4mill+ for creative and media.

Brand Manager

The University of Auckland
08.2020 - 04.2022


Key Achievements:

  • Led a team of 5 reports across marketing, events, sponsorship, design with mentoring and support
  • Undertook brand modernisation with the revitalisation / integration of Māori tikanga; qualitative and quantitative research to create an evolved brand positioning, TOV, visual style to connect with audiences
  • Managed the development / delivery of data-led marketing strategies and communications in collaboration with academic stakeholders, to support acquisition of undergrad / postgrad students
  • Achieved 15% YOY application uplift with 50% conversion rates 2020-2021; maintained 95% awareness
  • Brand lead for tactical partnerships with TVNZ, Auckland Writers Festival, Q Theatre
  • Launched the UoA TikTok channel with organic growth to over 2k+ followers in 3 months.

Partnerships Marketing Manager

O2
05.2018 - 09.2020


Key Achievements:

  • Awarded high performer – consecutive years 2018 and 2019
  • Managed one marketing direct report
  • Executed an innovative integrated brand marketing strategy for O2 x NSPCC based on insight, trebling social impact, and increasing partnership awareness by +25% in 2 years
  • Hero partnership campaign with Amazon maximising a new skill on the Amazon Echo, Alexa - ‘Parents vs Kids' won 7 industry awards and delivered the highest marketing ROI in 2019 for O2
  • Contributed to the 2020 marketing strategy to reposition O2's Corporate Responsibility brand strategy to focus on Climate Change and creating a 'greener' network for 33+million customers.

Sky Mobile Brand Marketing Manager

Sky UK
12.2017 - 05.2018


Key Achievements:

  • Managed the development and delivery of a £5mil+ Sky Mobile brand re-launch and strategy across TVC, outdoor, radio, social, digital.
  • Collaborated with research partners to understand emerging customer needs / insights and opportunities a simplified Sky Mobile brand and value proposition for customers, following initial launch.
  • Managed budget allocation for various marketing initiatives, ensuring maximum return on investment.

Senior Account Manager

Sky UK
07.2015 - 05.2018


Key Achievements:

  • 30+ brand and marketing campaigns executed to support customer acquisition, premium pay upgrades and retention against a base of +12 million customers across Sky Sports and Sky Entertainment. Key channels included: A/V, Outdoor, Digital, Social, Radio.
  • Key Sky Sports campaign: Lions Tour 2016, Six Nations Rugby, Formula 1, Tour de France, Masters, US Open
  • Key Sky Entertainment campaigns : Studio management for global shows: Big Little Lies, Billions S1 +2, Game of Thrones

Account Manager [Global Markets]

Adam&Eve DDB
06.2013 - 10.2014


Key Achievements:

  • Client: Cisco Technology [US-based client]
  • Relationship lead with international marketing teams located in India, China, Japan, and Brazil
  • Executed / delivered global integrated campaigns with high volumes of TVC, social, digital channel channels to create global alignment and consistency.

Education

Mini MBA in Marketing Certificate

Marketing Week - Mark Ritson
05.2020

Bachelor of Communication - Marketing Communications & PR

Auckland University of Technology
12.2009

Timeline

Marketing Lead

NEON (Sky TV New Zealand)
05.2022 - Current

Brand Manager

The University of Auckland
08.2020 - 04.2022

Partnerships Marketing Manager

O2
05.2018 - 09.2020

Sky Mobile Brand Marketing Manager

Sky UK
12.2017 - 05.2018

Senior Account Manager

Sky UK
07.2015 - 05.2018

Account Manager [Global Markets]

Adam&Eve DDB
06.2013 - 10.2014

Mini MBA in Marketing Certificate

Marketing Week - Mark Ritson

Bachelor of Communication - Marketing Communications & PR

Auckland University of Technology
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