Director Of Marketing Jobs

ECHO Incorporated is an industry leader in developing and manufacturing high-performance, professional-grade, handheld outdoor power equipment. With distributors and thousands of dealers across North and South America, ECHO is constantly anticipating the future of the outdoor power equipment industry and the need for environmental sustainability. Working for ECHO means joining a team of people who are committed to collaboration, innovation, creativity, and high-quality products that make us a globally competitive brand.

ECHO is hiring a Director of Marketing to lead, guide, and mentor the Channel, Digital, Brand, Communications, Public Relations, and Creative departments. The Director of Marketing will be instrumental in implementing and executing ECHO's marketing strategies to ensure visibility and brand awareness. This is a highly collaborative role that will consistently interface and interact with many departments including Product Development, Sales, Service, and Engineering.

This is a hybrid position that will offer the flexibility of working from home and on-site at our Lake Zurich facility.

Some of our benefits include:

• Paid PTO
• 11 paid holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Extremely affordable medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 5% 401K match

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Manage assigned budgets with emphasis on maximizing value received for advertising and promotional monies spent.
• Oversee marketing services to support marketing/sales initiatives and ensure strong and effective product launches and commercialization to create demand and drive product sales.
• Identify and work closely with target end-users to understand buyer behavior, product application and user needs to develop key brand messaging and execution.
• Develop and implement commercialization plans for product launches through Marketing elements including, advertising, promotions, PR, user experience, events, and various media.
• Oversee the brand portfolio management and implementation of brand strategies, marketing initiatives, packaging initiatives, brand campaigns, and media to increase brand awareness, grow market share and ensure consistent messaging.
• Work with Product Management and Sales to define product category strategies and identify business needs.
• Enhance the User Experience (UX).
• Oversee and guide marketing communication team with PR, trade advertising, and social platforms including the networking platform (EMB) and advisory participating members (UAG).
• Create and execute channel marketing strategies and plans to drive brand positioning and growth through co-op/field advertising programs, merchandising strategies and distribution and dealer direct initiatives.

Job Experience/Skills:

• Logical thinker with strong analytical skills.
• Microsoft Office suite experience.
• Excellent leadership and management skills.
• 7+ years Customer Marketing experience.
• Product Marketing experience a plus.
• Results-oriented.
• Exceptional communication skills.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in marketing or business-related discipline is required.

Equal Opportunity Employment:

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and celebrate our employees' differences, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or Veteran status.

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