Go-To-Market Brand Manager

Posted by Shimano North America Holding, Inc. on 11/05/2024

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Go-To-Market Brand Manager Job Basics

Industry Sector: Action/Adventure, Fishing, Hunting/Shooting, Outdoor
Job Type: Full-Time
Job Categories: Management - Sales, Management - Team, Manufacturing, Retail - Sales, Sales - Company Rep
Salary: -
Required to Relocate: No
Required to Travel: Yes
Employee May Telecommute: No
State: Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Washington
Job Seeker Must Live Within: -
City
Required Experience: 5 - 7 years

Go-To-Market Brand Manager Job Description & Requirements

Go-To-Market Brand Manager

Fish

Shimano North America Holding, Inc. is a global company that produces products for bicycling and fishing markets. Our fishing division produces and sells products under the Shimano, G. Loomis and Power Pro brands.

We are seeking a Go-To-Market Brand Manager to join our Fish team!! At Shimano, we welcome your talent, innovation, and enthusiasm.

We offer an exceptional array of employee benefits and incentives and are proud to support our employees' health and happiness. We offer paid time off, medical, dental, vision, employer-matching 401k, wellness incentives, a fully equipped onsite gym, rideshare program, and much more.

Job Summary:The Go-To-Market Brand Manager represents Shimano's brands and produces all dealer and consumer promotional efforts. This role oversees the product marketing team to drive content creation and strategic mar/com distribution. Success in this position is to drive demand by working with the sales, supply chain, product, and eBusiness teams while closely interacting with key retailers.

Job Level:

Manager/Supervisor

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

Creative Management

· Execute all consumer-facing marketing efforts and brand messages of the Shimano brands for the U.S.

· Support and create global marketing promotions and creative requests from corporate headquarters.

· Conceptualizes and implements design solutions that meet marketing strategies from concept to completion.

· Develop and manage the content map that displays existing content assets and highlights content needs by buyer segment and funnel stage.

· Implement the creative development process, including brief development, reviews, and production.

· Effectively execute the brands' positioning, identity, and marketing messages. Collaborate with product and brand marketing teams and outside vendors to ensure that product positioning and messages are aligned with other products, corporate strategy, and brand identity.

· Review work performed to ensure consistency across all media channels.

· Manage a rich content/editorial calendar to match marketing initiatives. Deliver new content to support demand gen campaigns, including emails, landing pages, thank you pages, etc., and new content assets.

· Oversee additional marketing content development, including PR, press releases, catalog content, and sales tools.

· Assist in the development of Merchandising/Fixture/POP collateral/ Event support

Project Management

· Effectively plan and lead projects working directly and collaboratively with cross-functional teams, internal key stakeholders, and external partners.

· Own and organize the Go To Market marketing campaign plans and calendars

· Communicate new content initiatives and operating results throughout the organization

· Interact with other Shimano offices to coordinate all marketing efforts.

· Ensure content marketing efforts support SEO and keyword targeting.

· Manage marketing budgets to maximize exposure while controlling budget to set goals.

· Monthly Budget tracking of all marketing funds and accounts.

· Oversee and record all advertising payments and invoices monthly.

· Coordinate and attend dealer camps and writer events.

· Constantly develop new media relations to expand our consumer reach.

· Represent Shimano as the lead contact with all media, online, web, social and vendor relations.

· Plan Social Media programs and content yearly for maximum exposure.

· Coordinate website updates, content, and consistent look with other forms of media.

· Manage event selection, planning, and logistics. Create an event and trip reports for continual process improvement.

Data-Driven Analysis

· Evaluate different channels and mediums (including interactive elements, video, and infographics) to determine the best opportunities to engage target audiences.

· Drive effective strategies for content creation and lead generation with a focus on data and metrics-focused decision making

· Exercise a data-centric approach to gather user insights and use data to improve engagement

· Ability to effectively toggle between strategic thinking and tactical execution

· Conduct research to benchmark best practices, and understand consumer marketing dynamics to target the consumers/customers effectively. Analyze digital and traditional marketing trends and development of marketing plans that meet strategic goals.

· Manage financial resources assigned to all marketing efforts and optimize return on the marketing spend. Collaborate with leadership to prepare and monitor budget assumptions within each product category.

· Support and enhance social media marketing efforts with focused content management and measure effectiveness.

· Analyze web metrics and dashboards emphasizing measuring demand thru content traffic and conversion.

Team Management

· Effectively manage projects and employees to achieve maximum efficiency and results.

· Leads team members to ensure the effectiveness of messaging and integrity of the brand to all internal and external audiences, communicating expectations and standards of work quality.

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