Manager, Regional Marketing SouthMBCL (S&M)

Location: Guangzhou Posted date: 2011-02-24
Recruiting No.: 1 Job type: Full-time Regular
Objective of job
To align and implement regional marketing activities with national marketing activities.
To plan, co-ordinate and execute all marketing activities for all the company's products and services at the regional level.
To support the Regional Sales & After-Sales teams to fully exploit market potentials, a high level of customer satisfaction and high yields for the department.
To steer dealers' marketing activities to ensure proper Mercedes-Benz brand image at the local level and to ensure dealers' marketing department generate maximum sales leads and After-Sales Services business.
Job designation
1 Planning
• Supporting the management to align and adapt the national/wholesale marketing plan at a regional /dealer level
• Calculating the costs of marketing measures and evaluating their benefit to provide the supervisor with a basis for decision-making.
• Supporting the supervisor with the creation of the annual communication and media plan under consideration of the wholesaler's marketing activities

2 Communication & Execution
• Advertising and direct marketing
- Supporting the supervisor and the manager for sales and after-sales to draw up briefings for external service providers and to evaluate submitted concepts.
- Supporting the external partners to execute all activities preparation using guidelines provided by the Wholesale Company
- Co-ordinating advertising agencies with the implementation of local advertising presence.
- Maintaining contact with the advertising departments of the local media and processing press leads.
- Maintenance of an accurate and up-to-date customer database by which various analyses by target groups are possible ,
- Implementing mail shots/direct mailings on a local level.
- Implementing centrally/nationally organised marketing and customer relations management (CRM) measures in cooperation with the wholesaler.
• Sales promotions and events
- Ensuring that all sales promotion materials used are maintained and updated.
- Understanding central wholesale concepts, providing feedback on regional adaptations in consultation with Regional Head
- Planning, preparing and organising events and conducting negotiations with service providers
- Supervising external service providers during events.
• Dealer communication and steering
- Communicate central marketing strategy and plan with dealers and ensure aligned marketing efforts.
• Steer dealers' marketing activities to meet MBCL standards, ensure proper Mercedes-Benz brand image, enough number of sales leads, high level of customer satisfaction, and help to push short-term sales when needed.

3 Monitor & Control
• Monitoring to ensure that the marketing budget is being adhered to and informing the supervisor on the budget status.
• Analysing all marketing communications measures to see if objectives have been met.
• Checking the invoices of all service providers in the marketing activities and event to ensure that they are accurate and that the services rendered are correct.
Qualification required
Education:
- University Degree majored in marketing, public relations and/or business administration

Experience:
- Minimum 3 years working experience in marketing, PR field in automotive, luxury goods and/or service industry
- Minimum 1 year working experience in supervisory position
- Experience in Market Research will be an advantage.

Specific Knowledge:
• Language & Computer Skills
- Proficient in written and spoken English
- Well-versed in MS-Office applications

• Technical Knowledge/Hard Skills
- Profound knowledge of marketing communications
- Profound knowledge of project management
- Solid knowledge of the local market and competitors
- Solid knowledge in business management
- Solid knowledge of consumer behavior
- Basic knowledge of public relationship management

• Other Generic Competency
- Communication Skills
- Interpersonal Skills
- Entrepreneurial spirit
- Creativity
- Organization Skills
- People Management Skills
- Customer Oriented Mindset

Application procedure:

This job is regular.

Please send your application to following email:
mbcareer@daimler.com

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