Manager, Central Region International Marketing

**Reports To**:
Senior Manager, Central Region International Marketing

**Role Purpose**:
Manager, Central Region International Marketing (East Malaysia) is accountable for leading the development and execution of marketing strategies and initiatives in Central region with primary focus on East Malaysia initiatives. The role is responsible to be part of marketing team to drive business growth, increase revenue and market leadership; working closely with the Central Region Marketing Lead to bring marketing campaigns to live, drive business growth and increase revenue aligned to commercial team goals.

**Key Accountability**:

- Fully own end-to-end marketing initiatives and lead cross-functional collaboration to deliver success for the accountable markets including East Malaysia and any initiatives within the Central region.
- Strategize, develop, plan, and lead integrated marketing communication initiatives aligned to business objectives, both financially and non-financially, given clear targets and KPIs.
- Develop and execute the annual marketing plan, go-to-market plan, and strategy in collaboration with other teams, both external and internal teams.
- Drive strategic business partnerships aligned to business objectives, ensure partnerships continuity and measure impact of the partnerships.
- Lead and work with internal cross functional team and external parties in integrated marketing communication initiatives to achieve the set objectives by ensuring the right media touchpoints to reach the right audience at the right time with the right content.
- Work with Senior Manager to design effective integrated marketing communication plans that translate into achieving business objectives. This includes ensuring briefing to internal and external team are done adequately, setting campaign objectives and measurements, identifying target audience, budget allocation, planning and implement marketing campaigns, optimizations, and post campaign review.
- Collaborate with the Marketing Leadership Team to design and improve current ways of working, including set processes and ensure process are adhered to deliver marketing initiatives success.
- Build strong working relationship and be the liaison with internal stakeholders and external partners including (but not limited to) creative team, digital team, media agency, creative agency, social media agency, PR agency, corporate communication team, and more.
- Foster continuous improvement and lead change through a combination of planned and ad-hoc campaigns.
- Monitor and deliver weekly, monthly, and quarterly targets in a timely manner.

**Qualifications & Working Experience**:

- Degree in Marketing, Business Management or a related field would be preferable.
- Minimum 7 years of experience in marketing; preferably in travel, tourism, or aviation industry.
- An added advantage to have a track record of driving purchase conversions through performance marketing.
- An added advantage to have the following certifications:
- Meta Blueprint: Media Planning Professional, Media Buying Professional, Marketing Professional, Business Manager.
- Google Ads Certifications: Search, Display, Video, Shopping, Analytics.

**Areas of Experience**:

- Has experience in East Malaysia consumer and marketing landscape with strong understanding of the local market landscape in East Malaysia.
- Experienced in integrated marketing communication strategy and implementation.
- Comfortable and competent in integrated marketing communication planning across all consumer touchpoints with a good understanding and working knowledge of both traditional and digital touchpoints.