Director, Luxury Brand Marketing, APEC

Job description

JOB SUMMARY

·  Manages the forward planning with agile execution of marketing initiatives to drive audience awareness and engagement across all Luxury Brands, markets, and multi-channels in APEC
·  Orchestrate brand creatives connected with insightful thought leadership, systematic frameworks, as well as unparalleled storytelling for brands at the right time, right audience, right market, right channel
·  Lead and collaborate for effective marketing and transparency of efforts across continent to drive brand awareness, preference, market share and topline performance
·  Interface with the loyalty marketing team to drive for association our Brands with affiliation to Marriott Bonvoy loyalty program
·  Partners with respective cross functions including Global, regional, area, property teams as well agencies to localize the expression of our brands 
·  Promote connectivity of full funnel efforts, not limited to digital, social, PR, advertising, communications, publications etc. in the respective markets of APEC
·  Manages assignments with efficient and effective plans seamlessly to ensure brands’ presence both online and offline to target consumers
·  Instill a culture of hypothesis testing, measurement and insight driven approach as well as business case justifications
·  Lead and collaborate on the execution of destination marketing programs for APEC with a focus on leisure travel
·  Brand asset management consistently updated into Marriott eco-system and communicate on access to rest of organization 
·  Represent as the subject matter for designated marketing initiatives to support the APEC Luxury Brand team

SCOPE

·  Planning and execution of marketing initiatives and programs that supports the Luxury Brands in the continent.
·  Destination marketing, focusing on leisure travel, partnering with Area teams to deliver desired results. 

CANDIDATE PROFILE 
Education, Experience & Requirements 

·  Twelve or more years of multi-brand marketing operations experience at scale for APEC market focus is required.
·  Ensure consistent brand audience awareness, engagement, recognition and trust connected through Marriott as well as partner eco-systems
·  University degree required.
·  Agency experience is required.
·  Marketing project planning experience is required.
·  Hospitality or digital/social marketing experience is strongly preferred.
·  Languages: Proficiency in English required; proficiency in other Asian languages strongly preferred.
·  Experience briefing and managing the work related to agencies and vendors is required.
·  Demonstrated ability to take complex projects and efforts from conception to successful execution.
·  Demonstrated ability in creative content development and management is required.
·  Acumen to solve problems quickly, think creatively, and satisfy speed-to-market requirements.
·  Acumen to simultaneously manage multiple projects with critical path planning to budget.
·  Team player and contribute to a positive as well as engaging culture.
·  Knowledge and experience in working on Adobe platforms is desirable
·  Knowledge of destination marketing and love for travel and lifestyle experiences.

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES 

Brand Strategy & Planning

·  Set, communicate and ensure smooth execution of vision and strategy for brand and destination marketing
·  Work with internal and external partners on key brand messaging including new openings to promote in multi-channels.
·  Understands clearly the brand strategy, positioning, voice, strategic pillars and competitive environment.
·  Lead and collaborate with the work related to strategic Brand partnerships through criteria rating to deliver desired outcomes.

Brand Localization & Development

·  Responsible for the effective pull-through of brand marketing programs or partnerships initiatives relevant for local markets in APEC
·  Localizes global brand marketing messaging while ensuring alignment to APEC or country/market specific objectives.
·  Ability to develop and manage multi-language creatives, copy and content

Operations & Culture

·  Responsible to partner with Brand Leaders and Area Director of Marketing for regular brand marketing communication with the field and hotels
·  Provides new hotel openings and/or conversions marketing support are communicated on brand 
·  Constantly monitors and shares industry and cross industry trends with suggested actions to achieve brand and continent objectives

Marketing & PR 

·  Responsible for executing effective brand marketing programs that achieve/surpass brand and continent performance goals.
·  Responsible for executing customer-facing brand communications, not limited to brand-voice copywriting, use of the various assets and materials to ensure an on-brand communication style.
·  Partners with the APEC PR/Communications team and the area/field marketing teams to develop and execute buzz for the brands in APEC.

Integrated Marketing Planning and Execution

·  Ensure consumer messaging is clear as well as compelling across omni-channels and multi-touchpoints
·  Lead and collaborate the continent brand and destination marketing strategy
·  Focused on key source markets, leisure destinations and KPIs planned in advance 
·  Develop presentations and accurate reporting to ensure stakeholders are well informed with brand marketing updates and results.
·  Engage agencies, as required, to deliver the creative design and execution process by budget and scope
·  Develop and update specific initiative toolkits for multi-team and property use
·  Responsible for ensuring outcomes of a project are aligned to the vision of the key stakeholders
·  Review program critical path and performance in real time and modifies as needed

Partnerships

·  Manages the brand partnerships planning and execution to ensure win-win synergy 
·  Partner with teams to ensure proper tracking, reporting, and communication of all programs

MANAGEMENT COMPETENCIES 

Leadership

·  Mentorship –  Manage manager and coach senior managers with a growth mindset to ensue credibility, effectiveness, and efficiency of the team
·  Adaptability - Maintains performance level under pressure or when experiencing changes or challenges in the workplace. 
·  Communication - Conveys information and ideas to others in a convincing and engaging manner through a variety of methods.
·  Problem Solving and Decision Making - Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; obtains and compares information from different sources to draw conclusions, develops and evaluates alternatives and solutions, solves problems, and chooses a course of action.
·  Professional Demeanor - Exhibits behavioral styles that convey confidence and command respect from others; makes a good first impression and represents the company in alignment with its values. 

Managing Execution

·  Planning and Organizing   - Gathers information and resources required to set a plan of action that is robust but agile for self and/or others; prioritizes and arranges work requirements to accomplish goals and ensure work is completed.
·  Building and Contributing to Teams - Participates as a member of a team to move toward the completion of common goals while fostering cohesion and collaboration among team members.
·  Driving for Results - Sets high standards of performance for self and/or others; assumes responsibility for work objectives; initiates, focuses, and monitors the efforts of self and/or others toward the accomplishment goals; proactively takes action and goes beyond what is required.
·  Content Management  – Ensure content assets with respective usage rights are well managed in the Marriott Asset Library and accessible for organization

Building Relationships

·  Coworker Relationships - Interacts with others in a way that builds continual openness, trust, and confidence in the pursuit of organizational goals. 
·  Customer Relationships - Develops and sustains relationships based on an understanding of customer/stakeholder needs and actions consistent with the company’s service standards.
·  Growth Mindset - Supports employees and business partners with diverse styles, abilities, motivations, and/or cultural perspectives; utilizes differences to drive innovation, engagement and enhance business results; and ensures employees are given the opportunity to contribute to their full potential.

Generating Talent and Organizational Capability 

·  Talent Management - Provides support and feedback to help individuals develop and strengthen skills and abilities needed to accomplish work objectives.

Learning and Applying Professional Expertise

·  Applied Learning - Seeks and makes the most of learning opportunities to improve performance of self and/or others.
·  Business Acumen - Understands and utilizes business information to manage everyday operations and generate innovative solutions to approach business and administrative challenges.
·  Technical Acumen - Understands and utilizes professional skills and knowledge in a specific functional area to conduct and manage everyday business operations and generate innovative solutions to approach function-specific work challenges.
 ◦ Brand Management-The ability to generate marketing strategies that create brand recognition and differentiation and ultimately have a positive impact on customer relationships and business profitability.
·  Basic Competencies - Fundamental competencies required for accomplishing basic work activities. 
 ◦ Project Management – Ability to scope and plan end-to-end critical path, project mapping, dependencies, funding, and thoughtful communication 
 ◦ Photoshop & Design Software – Fluency to use photoshop & design software
 ◦ Computer Skills - Uses basic computer hardware and software (e.g., personal computers, word processing software, Internet browsers, etc.).
 ◦ Mathematical Reasoning - Adds, subtracts, multiplies, or divides quickly, correctly, and in a way that allows one to solve work-related issues.
 ◦ Oral Comprehension - Listens to and understands information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
 ◦ Reading Comprehension – Understands written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
 ◦ Writing - Communicates effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

 

 

 

 

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