Global Vendor Marketing Lead

Who is the Global Marketing Lead?

As Global Marketing Lead you own the global marketing relationship between Ingram Micro and the vendor. You work closely with your sales counterparts, including Global and Regional Business stakeholders, Vendor Business Managers and Market Development in local countries, to create strategic, data-driven marketing plans to grow the vendors’ share of wallet. You have an understanding of Ingram’s strategy and the vendors business objectives and strike a balance to achieve both. Your business acumen is strong, you stay up-to-date with category trends, and provide data to demonstrate the effectiveness of marketing plans. You have a solid understanding of Agency Ingram Micro’s portfolio and actively promote programs and services. You build relationships within Agency Ingram Micro and work closely with global marketing resources to ensure timelines are met and plans are executed to achieve business outcomes.

Who is a Successful Global Marketing Lead?

As a Successful Global Marketing Lead you adapt easily to change, you’re resourceful, and hold yourself accountable for results. You understand the bigger picture with sales and marketing, and consistently demonstrate results against KPI’s, the business plan and strategies. You’re innovative, and are an expert in business verticals, industry trends and solutions. You are customer centric and are razor focus on ensuring that we deliver top notch experience for our customers through targeted marketing. You make it a priority to ensure that your marketing plans deliver Ingram Micro solutions and services that will accelerate our customers’ business. You help uncover incremental marketing investments and ensure that you are working with regional and country teams to drive their business with it. You’re a culture ambassador, you champion significant projects, programs, and business initiatives using demonstrated creativity and ingenuity. You’re highly organized and proactively problem solve. You’re a sought-after team member, a change agent with strong interpersonal skills, you perform duties with accuracy and with a strong degree of urgency, prioritize and require minimal supervision.

What experience, knowledge and skills does a Global Marketing Lead need?

Knowledge of: marketing, business management, technology or distribution. Understanding of Ingram Micro marketing capabilities, products, solutions and services. Possess excellent communication skills: written and verbal required. Moderate selling skills necessary to identify opportunities, position solutions and sell marketing plans. An understanding of business acumen and how marketing contributes to the bottom line. Strong organizational skills and problem-solving agility also required. Moderate knowledge of Excel and Word required. Ability to: partner effectively with others, multi-task, respond to rapid change, perform duties with accuracy and with a strong degree of urgency, prioritize and perform work with some supervision. Able to handle large quantities of information while maintaining a high level of accuracy. Must be able to manage marketing budgets, lead and affect country/regional marketing plans through a cohesive marketing strategy.

Typically, the level of experience and education required to demonstrate these key elements of knowledge/skills/experiences are: • A high school diploma (or equivalent) required, a Bachelor’s degree preferred. Minimum of two years previous marketing/vendor management experience (preferably in a related industry) or one year of technology or distribution experience in a vendor management, marketing or sales. These timeframes may vary based on the candidate’s proven track record of successfully performing and demonstrating the level of knowledge/skills/experiences and delivering the results required of this role.