Staff Manager, Global Partner Marketing - PC Compute

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As a Staff Manager of Partner Marketing, you will develop and oversee the annual OEM funding strategy for PC OEM partner marketing activities – launch and MDF funding programs. Your role is the marketing “quarterback” to support PC OEMs through launch and beyond - in collaboration with WW and regional mktg teams. Responsibilities will also include overseeing MDF record keeping, brand compliance and program performance with readouts to the leadership team. Additionally, you will be able to manage budgets coordinate other operational functions such as scheduling regular meetings and checkpoints with partner marketing teams and key internal stakeholders. The individual must be available to travel in support of partner meetings and training events, and key skills include relationship management, facilitation of meetings, PowerPoint presentation development and maintaining good communication with key internal stakeholders.

Skills
•    The Compute OEM Partner Marketing Lead must have customer-facing partner relationship management skills and be a “can-do” person with a high degree of creativity, collaboration and teamwork.
•    This person will also be highly organized with great on follow-through and comfortable presenting to customers and internal stakeholders.
•    Candidates should have at least 10 years in a marketing role and at least 3 year of direct relevant experience overseeing partner relationships and managing MDF investments. PC OEM (Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, ASUS, Samsung) experience a huge plus.

Competencies
•    Building Trusting Relationships - The ability to build trusting, collaborative relationships, and rapport with different types of people and businesses. This includes delivering on commitments and maintaining confidential information, as well as being approachable, and relating well to people regardless of personality or background.
•    Communication - The ability to convey information clearly and accurately, as well as to choose the most effective method of delivery (e.g., email, phone, face-to-face) for technical and non-technical information.
•    Creating the New and Different - The ability to be creative. This includes the ability to produce breakthrough ideas, being a visionary, managing innovation, having broad interests and knowledge, and gaining support in order to translate new ideas into solutions.
•    Decision-Making - The ability to make quick, accurate decisions. This includes the ability to weigh alternatives and take into account the impact of the decisions on people, equipment, or other resources.
•    Getting Work Done - The ability to be organized, resourceful, and planful. This includes the ability to leverage available resources to get things done and lay out tasks in sufficient detail. This also includes the ability to work on multiple tasks at once without losing track, and foresee and plan around obstacles.
•    In summary, the Marketing Manager must have customer-facing skills and be a can-do person with a high regard for creativity, collaboration and teamwork. This person will also be highly organized with an eye for detail and can support PowerPoint presentation development.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
•    Develop and oversee the annual OEM funding strategy for PC OEM partner marketing activities – launch and MDF funding programs.
•    Marketing “quarterback” to support PC OEM through launch and beyond - in collaboration with WW and regional mktg teams.
•    MDF record keeping, brand compliance and program performance with readouts to the leadership team.
•    Coordination of other operational functions such as scheduling regular meetings and checkpoints with partner marketing teams and key internal stakeholders.

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