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Marketing Leader (Silicon Valley)

Responsibilities:

• Identify, develop, or evaluate marketing strategy, based on knowledge of establishment objectives, market characteristics, and cost and markup factors.
• Formulate, direct, or coordinate marketing activities or policies to promote products or services, working with advertising or promotion managers.
• Evaluate the financial aspects of product development, such as budgets, expenditures, research and development appropriations, or return-on-investment and profit-loss projections.
• Develop pricing strategies, balancing firm objectives and customer satisfaction.
• Compile lists describing product or service offerings.
• Direct the hiring, training, or performance evaluations of marketing or sales staff and oversee their daily activities.
• Consult with product development personnel on product specifications such as design, color, or packaging.
• Use sales forecasting or strategic planning to ensure the sale and profitability of products, lines, or services, analyzing business developments and monitoring market trends.
• Negotiate contracts with vendors or distributors to manage product distribution, establishing distribution networks or developing distribution strategies.
• Coordinate or participate in promotional activities or trade shows, working with developers, advertisers, or production managers, to market products or services.
• Initiate market research studies or analyze their findings.
• Confer with legal staff to resolve problems, such as copyright infringement or royalty sharing with outside producers or distributors.
• Conduct economic or commercial surveys to identify potential markets for products or services.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Sales and Marketing— Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
• Administration and Management— Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
• Customer and Personal Service— Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Communications and Media— Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
• Persuasion— Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.

• Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
• Fluency of Ideas — The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic

Qualifications:

•  Bachelor and/or Masters degree
• Several years of related work experience

Requirements:

• Leadership— Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
• Integrity— Job requires being honest and ethical.
• Initiative— Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
• Stress Tolerance— Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
• Dependability— Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.

For immediate consideration, please forward a copy of your current resume to info@profrecruiters.com referencing job #1532 or a link to this job.

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