Digital Accounts Executive
Job Summary:
About the Role & Team
The Digital Accounts Executive is a skilled and proficient commercial and publishing specialist who partners with the Digital Accounts Manager to manage core digital publishing accounts within Disney Consumer Products. This role drives revenue growth, supports strategic digital initiatives, and solves complex problems while maintaining Disney’s high brand standards across consumer-facing digital products.
In this role, you will manage and grow a portfolio of digital publishing licensees, ensuring effective account stewardship, product development, and commercial performance across multiple projects in a fast-paced, consumer-focused environment. You will act as a problem-solver and trusted partner to internal and external stakeholders, using data-driven insights, strong communication, and meticulous planning to deliver high-quality digital products and campaigns. Manage relationships with assigned digital publishing licensees, responding to requests, guiding publishing plans, overseeing product approvals, and maintaining clear, effective communications.
This role is based in our London Hammersmith office, with an expectation to work onsite four days per week.
Values
You’ll join a team grounded in our Disney values, acting with Integrity, welcoming everyone through Inclusion, embracing boundless Creativity, working together through Collaboration and caring deeply for our Community. These values shape how we work and how we support one another every day.
What You Will Do:
- Oversee the licensing development process for key accounts, including leading meetings, executing publishing plans, and coordinating marketing activities to support revenue and growth objectives.
- Liaise with editorial and global operations teams to secure timely product approvals, manage OPA-related queries, ensure GTL accuracy, refine product descriptions, and support merchandising, PR, and marketing plans.
- Prepare compelling product presentations - such as internal line reviews, showcases, and licensee pitches - ensuring adherence to Disney brand guidelines and effective visual storytelling.
- Drive product planning discussions with accounts, leveraging franchise information and editorial content to grow the business and meet communicated commercial targets.
- Assist in identifying, analysing, and executing new business opportunities with existing and new partners, supporting strategy and business planning through POS, market trend, consumer insight, and accrual analysis.
- Build and deliver effective presentations in Keynote and PowerPoint for line reviews, business and strategy updates, greenlight approvals, licensee briefings, concept pitches, and retail buyer presentations, using data for impact and maintaining brand standards.
- Update assigned accounts on franchise developments and relevant marketing activations to maximise commercial and consumer-facing opportunities across digital channels.
- Support the digital team and country managers with contract and amendment input flows, collaborating with accounting, finance, and legal to ensure timely administration and accurate documentation.
- Monitor the competitive landscape, analyse market and consumer trends, and provide recommendations for new business leads and emerging digital publishing opportunities.
- Operate as a results-oriented, independent worker who may lead small projects, offering new perspectives on existing solutions and acting as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
- Demonstrate cultural sensitivity and a customer-focused, team-oriented approach when collaborating across regions and functions to support global emerging business development in the digital space.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret POS data, market trends, consumer insights, and sales forecasts to inform publishing and commercial decisions.
- Financial, business, and commercial acumen, including experience working with forecasts, budgets, and accrual information for digital publishing accounts.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and relationship-building skills, with proven experience managing stakeholders and cultivating productive global relationships in a complex organisation.
- Effective planning and organisational skills, with the ability to multi-task, prioritise workload, and deliver on multiple projects while maintaining attention to detail and brand standards.
- Proactive, results-orientated and decisive approach; able to work independently with minimal supervision and act as an intuitive problem-solver across changing priorities.
- Critical eye and creative flair for product, with comfort in client-facing environments and a strong focus on visual storytelling in presentations.
- Computer literacy with working knowledge of Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Keynote, and the ability to build compelling, data-led presentation decks.
- Ability to work under pressure and within deadlines in a fast-paced, multi-project environment, maintaining accuracy and high-quality output.
- Strong team player with cultural sensitivity and the ability to operate independently while contributing to an inclusive, collaborative team culture.
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in a relevant field.
- Extensive experience in digital publishing, account management, or a closely related commercial role, including stakeholder management and exposure to consumer products or content-driven environments.
The Perks
- 25 days annual leave
- Private medical insurance & dental care
- Complimentary admission to eligible Disney Theme Parks, giving you the opportunity to experience the magic we create and make memories of your own. Admission is subject to availability, capacity restrictions, applicable rules, block-out dates, and eligibility requirements.
- Access to a wide range of Disney discounts on Disney merchandise, Disney Food & Beverage, Disney Resort Hotels, Disney Cruise Line, Adventures by Disney, National Geographic Expeditions, and more. Offerings are subject to availability and may be seasonal, and subject to applicable rules, restrictions, and eligibility requirements.
- Excellent parental and guardian leave
- Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney Mosaic, Disney PRIDE, our disability & neurodiversity focused group - ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.
The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
About Disney Experiences:
Disney Experiences brings the magic of Disney stories and franchises to life through theme parks, resorts, cruise ships, unique vacation experiences, products and more around the world. Disney shines in the travel industry with six resort destinations in the United States, Europe and Asia; a top-rated cruise line; a popular vacation ownership program; and an award-winning guided family adventure business. Plus, Disney's global consumer products operations include the world's leading licensing business; the world's largest children's publishing brands; one of the world's largest licensors of games across all platforms; and Disney store locations around the world and on the web.
About The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.
This position is with The Walt Disney Company Limited, which is part of a business we call Disney Experiences.
The Walt Disney Company Limited is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion or belief, sex, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, disability or pregnancy or maternity. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.
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