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Society of Manufacturing Engineers Marketing Manager in Southfield, Michigan
The Manager, Marketing is responsible for leading a team of Marketing and Digital Marketing Specialists that are responsible for developing, implementing, and executing strategic marketing plans for SME Business Units in order to attract potential customers and retain existing ones, engage target audiences, build awareness and support SME's position as a leader in the manufacturing industry.
This position provides direction and leadership to the marketing team and internal clients providing counsel on strategic marketing services, collaborates to establish goals and objectives, identifies target audiences, determines key performance indicators, creates annual budgets, manages resources, and ensures maximum return on marketing investment.
This role is expected to translate business goals into successful marketing campaigns and has oversite of the implementation from ideation to execution. Provides influential leadership to Marketing, IT, Sales, and Management, as well as outside agencies and vendors, in order to achieve this objective.
The position has direct management responsibilities, monitors, and reports on team members' performance.
MAJOR FUNCTIONS:
Build, lead and mentor a high-performing engaged marketing team to support the business unit's objectives.
Develop annual performance goals, metrics and incentives; track performance metrics and conducts annual performance reviews.
Report on team performance against objectives.
Develop and execute integrated marketing strategies and cross-channel communication in support of SME's business units.
Represent the marketing team within cross-functional groups including senior leadership, product/event management, business development, sales and customer service.
Update senior leadership on the progress of marketing activities and reporting on the results of significant initiatives/campaigns.
Lead research efforts for insights into the viability and application of new marketing strategies.
Analyze data to evaluate the success of marketing efforts and come up with new ideas to improve awareness and exposure within the manufacturing industry.
Identify opportunities for applying new technologies, products and services to both offline and online channels.
Brainstorm new, creative ideas for campaigns and business growth.
Oversight of a collective annual marketing budget in the $1,000,000 - $3,000,000 range.
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