Job Title: Web/Content Development, Marketing and Sales - Marketing Assistant 4

Location: REMOTE (must follow PST hours)

Duration: Up to 18 months

Candidates with previous experience working at Microsoft, either as a full-time employee (FTE) or contractor, are strongly preferred.

Top 3 Hard Skills Required Years of Experience

1. Minimum 3-5 years' experience with Proven success at marketing and execution planning – particularly Retail Marketing with Consumer Technology products
2. Minimum 3-5 years' experience with Retail/Channel Marketing/Marketing/Retail Sales
3. Minimum 3-5 years' experience with data analytics experience

Summary:

We are seeking a Partner Marketing Manager to manage retail partner across both the US and Canada, building full-funnel partner marketing plans and compelling customer experiences, leveraging worldwide guidance and proven omnichannel strategies across digital and physical environments. Partner Marketers have end-to-end responsibility for execution, including landing visual merchandising assets, digital and campaign execution as well as transformation on partner.com sites and demo platform sell-in. You will drive and facilitate strategic decisions about our marketing investment strategy, including marketing development funds management, and our marketing mix across key marketing disciplines.

Job Responsibilities:

The role will consist of:
Strategic Business Planning, Partner Engagement and Management, Execution Excellence and Analytics and Insights

• Act as a trusted advisor and thought leader to the retail partner, building credibility and impact by jointly creating marketing plans and aligning our marketing investments
• Collaborate and drive co-marketing campaigns that involve our ingredient partners and hardware/device partners
• Influence conversion both in-store and online through seamless and synchronized shopper journeys/experiences
• Deliver against timelines, manage investments & land KPI/budget targets, while also capitalizing on innovation opportunities
• Ensure brand consistency and deep understanding of the customer, competitive and marketing landscape
• Analyze performance & results of marketing activities to identify opportunities
• Assess our partner capabilities to identify key opportunities and create a compete strategy
• Incorporate key insights from accounts to drive informed marketing action plans
• Create a culture of learning, encouraging tests and trials that constantly move our marketing execution forward

Candidate Requirements

The ideal candidate must have a previous Microsoft experience in the marketing org. You will act as a thought leader, a trusted advisor to drive strategic decisions about our marketing investment strategy and marketing mix across digital platforms, in-store presence, and retail activation teams. You’ll drive impact by leveraging data and insights in order to create more personalized experiences and maximize ROI. Your passion for our products and our partners will guide the team to execution excellence, a strong focus on ROI and accountability to brand advocacy and sell-through.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or relative work experience in the Retail Sector
• 3 years relevant experience in Retail/Channel Marketing/Marketing/Retail Sales
• Proven success at marketing and execution planning – particularly Retail Marketing with Consumer Technology products
• Adept at building integrated partner marketing plans and campaigns across multiple marketing disciplines
• Direct experience interfacing with partners and a proven track record delivering growth/performance metrics.
• Understand the digital and physical buying journey (omni channel), well-versed in sales channels, commerce platforms.
• Expertise landing and coordinating cross-discipline marketing programs and sales programs.
• Track record of marketing execution excellence and ROI through planning, operations-savvy, creative execution, readiness and analytics/insights
• New product launch experience
• Marketing budget management
• Experience managing ambiguity and rapid change – demonstrate agility and risk-taking
• 3-5 overall years of experience in the field