Job description
Yamaha employees are committed to helping everyone progress, express and connect through music and sound. We offer innovative, finely crafted and award-winning products for the entire journey.
As the world’s largest musical instrument manufacturer, we are known for our quality, customer service and innovation.
We are looking for a Marketing Coordinator III to support marketing initiatives that will deliver on the department and company goals and objectives. This role is responsible for a wide range of marketing projects and activities for the Consumer Audio department and is based in our corporate office in Buena Park, CA and will be on a hybrid schedule (Tuesday/Wednesday at office).
Key Accountabilities Include
- Assists and facilitates the movement of marketing materials, assets, and other key documents through the Category/Vertical marketing team and YCA cross-functional team (as required)
- Ensures that expenses for assigned product categories are align with the marketing budget guidelines
- Ensures marketing meetings and projects are scheduled, coordinated, tracked, feedback captured/uploaded, and approvals provided on time and within budget
- Ensures creative and production projects are started and complete on time and on brief
Primary Responsibilities Include
- Provides internal and external stakeholders with up-to-date marketing materials, promotional content, new product information, and dealer assets
- Coordinates with in-home agency project management and account teams
- Supports execution of approved marketing promotions, including rebates, spiffs, fulfillments, packouts, notices, etc.
- Processes department invoice/billing and participate in periodic expense and inventory reviews
- Maintains communications/content calendar and keep records of marketing content up to date
Core Functional Competencies
- Business Acumen: Understand how the business works, including how YCA makes money and achieves goals
- Customer Insights (ADD): Ability to understand and interpret customer data, behaviors, and feedback into conclusions that can be used to make marketing decisions
- Digital Asset Management (DAM): Catalogue, manage, and protect digital assets
- Market Understanding: Knowledge of market and Yamaha's position in it, as well as prospective customer base
- Project Communication Management: Link people (including team members and stakeholders), ideas, and information throughout the project life cycle; include timely generation and collection of information along with its proper dissemination and archival process
- Project Integration: Ensure that all of a project's work elements are coordinated, including project planning and execution processes
- Sales Alignment and Support: Align marketing work with, and support, sales efforts
Core Behavioral Competencies
- Yamaha Way (Will, Integrity, Initiative, Challenge, Commitment)
- Customer Focus
- Value Differences
- Action Orientated
- Communicates Effectively
- Self-Awareness
- Being Resilient
Ideal Qualifications
- Provide history of meeting deadlines and accurate reporting
- Demonstrates success working in a fast-paced and dynamic working environment, collaborating across multiple internal and external teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience coordinating promotional marketing assets and approvals
- Experience working cross-functionally in Marketing Operations and/or Creative Services with management of calendars and process
- Advance experience and demonstrates express working within a project management platform
Compensation
- Up to $29.00/hour
- The posted compensation is the base pay. This is the hiring range and does not include bonus potential or the value of benefits. The hiring range does not reflect total earning potential over time.
- Final offers within the posted compensation range are based on qualifications, skills and experience required for the role.
Here’s What We’ll Bring
- Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Vision, Dental, LTD, Life-Insurance and 401k with match AND automatic contributions
- Performance based bonus program
- Robust employee wellness programs including free music lessons
- Gym and wellness reimbursement program
- Tobacco cessation reward program
- Free concerts from award winning artists
- Discounted hotel, travel, entertainment, and other attractions
- Employee product purchase program
- Flexible work options (including hybrid schedule)
- Casual dress
- Vacation, sick-time and personal floating holidays
- Inclusive and passionate culture