International Marketing Manager - APAC Job at Columbia Sportswear Company, Portland, OR

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  • Columbia Sportswear Company
  • Portland, OR

Job Description

This role requires weekly, onsite collaboration at Columbia Sportswear's headquarters in Portland, Oregon.

ABOUT THE POSITION

The international team is looking for an International Marketing Manager to be the lead contact for International Distributors in the APAC region, ensuring the Columbia brand's global marketing strategies are understood, relevant and implemented consistently across the APAC distributor regions.

In this marketing generalist role, you will provide strategic marketing and retail direction for Columbia through continuous partnership with Global, Regional and International Distributor cross-functional teams. Here you'll focus on full funnel strategies, including building brand awareness and driving brand equity though a mix of online and offline marketing methods with local relevancy.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

  • Be the regional and brand expert, advocating with global partners and providing insights into distributor marketing plans, opportunities, investments, and provide brand and marketing direction ensuring alignment in region

  • Partner with Columbia IDR and Global Marketing teams to develop strategies to successfully launch and grow Columbia in distributor APAC markets

  • Drive process and support retail store development with distributor and global retail teams to ensure brand experience is upheld and meets local needs

  • Advise on retail and marketing activations for distributor markets, working closely with IDR cross functional teams on alignment with business and consumer targets, addressing challenges and identifying opportunities

  • Collaborate with Global Columbia Marketing teams to understand brand campaign strategies and local relevancy, protecting brand equity and ensuring execution excellence in APAC distributor regions

  • Align regional digital and social media activations and strategies based on brand guidelines, leveraging local influencers to authenticate and capture consumers, and build brand awareness

  • Ensure the communication guidelines and seasonal strategies are implemented in the distributor markets through effective and targeted advertising, Public Relations, promotions, and Cooperative activities

  • Establish seasonal marketing calendars, track marketing KPIs and evaluate performance of campaigns, activations and promotions, providing recommendations and setting objectives for respective regional growth

YOU ARE

  • Entrepreneurial and enterprise minded, driving brand and marketing results

  • Able to conduct interpersonal interactions with internal Columbia and external distributor teams both over the computer, phone and in face-to-face situations, operate independently and with discretion, and work effectively under pressure

  • An adept collaborator with interpersonal and communication skills, confidence to approve, push back and amend content to ensure brand alignment

  • Motivated and enthusiastic while balancing the demands of the market

  • A multitasking extraordinaire, proficient in project management balancing multiple projects at a time with high attention to detail, organization and prioritization

YOU HAVE

  • 5-8 years' experience in online and/or offline marketing, brand management, international marketing, or region-level marketing executions

  • Experience working with international regions; multilingual is a plus

  • Proven experience communicating corporate marketing strategy to cross-functional and external partners

  • Demonstrated analytical ability to turn consumer, marketing and retail insight into action

  • The ability to make and facilitate weekly evening calls and travel internationally approximately two or more times per year

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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.

Columbia Sportswear is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. The Know Your Rights poster is available here: The pay transparency policy is available here: Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please notify your recruiter.

At Columbia Sportswear Company, we're proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding. Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical, social/emotional, financial, career and community. Benefits that can protect your family's financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services). In addition, Columbia offers EAP + which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services. We have extensive wellness benefits, employee discounts and a generous time off program available.

If you need an accommodation/adjustment to successfully complete and submit your application, please reach out to AskHR@columbia.com with the Subject: Applicant Assistance Requested. Columbia Sportswear Company

Job Tags

Full time, Seasonal work, Local area, Flexible hours, Afternoon shift,

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