Responsibilities and Duties:
Manage the Account Team’s Marketing budget, including but not limited to
- Consolidate marketing program details, such as program structure, background, business and financial details from program owners and deliver overall Account-level view.
- Manage and forecast budget plans, reconcile between planned budget and actuals and lead month-end closing with variance reporting
- Categorize the marketing spending, keep the track record of the historical the spend, and provide MoM, QoQ and YoY comparisons.
- Coordinate between Marketing, Sales and Finance Teams on marketing budget allocation process based on priority and business needs.
- Coordinate the program owners to prepare quality documentation for approval process.
- Validate final deliverables against contract, communicate issues with the stakeholders (if any), develop solutions and recommendations and lead payment process.
Background/Experience Required:
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance or business-related field
- 6+ years of work experience (mobile or CPG industry preferred)
- Strong understanding of traditional and digital marketing, the principles of driving audience relevance, budget management but ultimately the need to drive sales
- A proven self-starter, they must be a highly motivated individual with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Outstanding interpersonal and problem-solving skills for both internal and external discussions
- Work independently and in a team environment in order to achieve business objectives, personal and team goals, and complete assignments within established timeframes and specifications
Necessary Skills and Attributes:
- Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with all assigned levels within and outside the company
- Plan, organize, and prioritize multiple assignments and projects
- Review detailed product development, marketing documents and media materials
- Advanced Excel functions, such as pivot tables, various lookups, sumifs, sumproducts, index/match, concat.
- Demonstrated competency in both oral and written communication modes for both internal and external personnel at various levels.
- The ability to develop tasks and work assignments, based on sometime vaguely defined objectives
Physical/Mental Demands:
The position requires the ability to perform the essential duties and responsibilities in the following environment:
- Work is generally performed in an office environment
- Operate a computer keyboard and view a video display terminal 50% of work time, including prolonged periods of time
- The movement and transportation of equipment, most of the time under 25 pounds
- Performs work under time schedules and stresses which are normally periodic or cyclical, including time sensitive job stress, fatigue, unpaid over-time, intellectual challenge, constant technical data feedback, language barriers, and business management stress
- Machines, tools, equipment, and work aids representative and commonly associated with PCs, printers, and office work areas