Sr. Specialist, Brand Communications - Golf Brand
PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANISATION:
Coordinate and support overall brand communications activities to ensure effective local implementation of Global GTM process aligning with the company target.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
OVERALL
- Support and drive overall brand comm. marketing strategy and activation across all touchpoints (advertising, creative production, PR, digital, social, events (consumer and customer), sponsorship, retail, account, CRM, etc.)
- Inject creative ideas to amplify brand heat and ensure the brand stays relevant to the target consumer
- Orchestrate the localization of global marketing assets while ensuring consistency in brand voice
- Deliver information to every related department with timely manner and right tools including all agencies
BRAND MARKETING MEDIA PLANNING & STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
- Support to create the local brand marketing plan and calendar based on Global and input from country commercial needs
- Collaborate with media buying agency (Mediacom) and support more on strategic media planning (especially digital) and execution
- Work with CTC team in coordinating the strategic seasonal, quarterly range plan to align with company target
- Set weekly & monthly detailed digital social activity plan for TEAMADIDAS IG postings, influencers and youtubers aligning with the seasonal plan
Digital Marketing Plan and execution
- Develop Digital marketing plan which is aligned with Marketing strategy
- Support eCom with the consolidated assets and messages thru digital marketing
- Develop local contents /new digital marketing tool
- Report weekly / monthly / quarterly recap
Social marketing execution, management
- Align with seasonal ATL & PR plan, set weekly & monthly detailed social activities for IG (Set best combination with global and local communication timing)
- Communication co-ordinate with related department for communication product (Product, Sports marketing, Retail marketing and sales)
- Manage influencer & creator ecosystem (TEAMADIDAS) including strategic seeding, content co-creation, and performance analysis
- Leverage social listening and monthly analytics to optimize Social Engagement and ROI. Report monthly or seasonal social analysis for better execution
PR/Consumer Event & Promotion management to align with overall plan
- Manage samples and proactively communicate with PR agency for PR related issue
- Align with planned events and promotion, coordinate detailed execution working with line manager & others related department
- Coordinate agency communication for every execution based on planned activities
- Deliver information to every related department (incl. store managers) with timely manner and right tools
- Drive revenue growth by spearheading creative initiatives and trend-setting marketing ideas
- Provide every promotion analysis report for result sharing for better execution
Support Asset Creation & Operation
- Support the brief and production of assets relevant to key account or Retail activations
- Communication with related department for asset development (Product, Sports marketing, Retail marketing and Sales)
- Manage and operate marketing inventory and minimize the year-end stock
- Support local trade meetings with sell-in tools
- Manage end-to-end marketing operations such as budget, invoice, order tracking, delivery follow-up and follow up documents, etc.
KEY RELATIONSHIPS:
- Internal (main) - aGolf CTC, Sports Marketing, Retail MKT, and Sales
- Internal (Sub) - Operation, Finance
- External - agencies such as Creative agencies, PR Agencies, Media buying Agency, Event Agencies
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- High degree of knowledge of the full marketing mix (advertising, events, sponsorship, retail, PR, digital) with a major brand or retailer
- Ability to develop local marketing strategies following global guidelines
- Strong presentation skill to internal and external stakeholders
- Advanced user of MS Office suite of products
- Photoshop, Design and video editing skill preferred
- Good sense of marketing trend and contents development skills
- Experience in both, market and regional marketing organization preferred
- Fluent English in both Speaking and Writing
REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- University degree in Business or equivalent professional experience
- At least 5 years’ experience in relevant Marketing fields
- Golf Industry experience preferred
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