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Mars UK • CHN-Shanghai-Shanghai-Xuhui | China

Marketing Communication Lead

Employment type:  Full time
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Job Description

Job Description:

Responsibility:

Brand Communication

  • Own communication strategy and calendar for Royal Canin Brand.

  • Lead creative and execution of brand-level communication plans (umbrella messaging), and brand communication strategy across the Pet Owner Journey.

  • Build strong brand equity and drive brand awareness through brand communication, marketing strategy, and integrated marketing activities.

  • Local point of contact with the global on RC brand communication

  • Manage related budgets, and keep improving investment effectiveness and efficiency through driving one-demand collaboration and resource synergy

Digital Assets Management

  • Build a digital Hub and manage all brand and digital assets, including but not limited to Weibo, WeChat, and other social media platforms.

  • Champion the global Media Key Beliefs and be able to implement them in the local market effectively.

  • Create a cross-functional understanding of media developments, issues, and trends that inform and influence Mars’ perspective

  • Lead development of optimal brand-specific media strategies and plans

  • Drive improvements in ROI on brand media investment

  • Lead the setting up of the digital assets management governance process, such as video.

Social Media Operation

  • Own communication strategy in social media

  • Lead creative and execution of social media operation, including brand account, PGC social recommendation, UGC, negative buzz mitigation, and platform collaborations

  • Innovate ways of working and methodology to win over young pet owners for precise nutrition category building and RC brand health equity accumulation

  • Lead social content strategy development and planning

  • Social influencer management

  • Incubation of associate ambassadors, professional KOLs, and KOS, etc.

  • Brand social profiling creation and amplification

Requirement:

1. Bachelor's degree or above in Marketing, Business, or related field.

2. At least 12 years+ experience in marketing function in MNC, with expertise and skill set in brand communication and leading-edge understanding of new media opportunities.

3. Excellent interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills; ability to collaborate with different stakeholders, including pillar marketing, global/regional stakeholders, and external agencies.

4. Ability to think strategically and drive sales and marketing alignment to a vision.

5. Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, comfortable with change, and able to navigate through ambiguity and conflicts.

6. At least 5+ years of experience in managing teams; proven ability to engage, motivate, and develop people.

7. Good English communication in both written and spoken.

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay
Enhanced paternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay
24 days annual leave + bank holidays
“Pawternity” leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Bank holiday swaps
Shared parental leave
Adoption leave
Family health insurance
Pregnancy support
Neo-natal leave
Faith rooms
Meditation space
Dog friendly office
Dog friendly co-working space
Annual bonus
Employee discounts
Cinema discounts
Referral bonus
Joining bonus
Cycle to work scheme
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Theme park discounts
Lunch and learns
In house training
Learning license
Studying sabbaticals
Open to part time work for some roles

Working at Mars UK

Company employees:

4,000 In the UK

Gender diversity (m:f):

57:43

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