Marketing Assistant

Our client, a global lifestyle brand is looking for a Brand/Marketing Assistant. This is a two year contract (40 hours a week) that is onsite in Portland.

Key Responsibilities:
• Be a partner to all members of the Brand Communications team in the execution of product and event marketing activations • Support the team’s collaborations with brand experience, trade marketing, agency partners and other marketing channel teams to effectively guide the creation of cohesive, multi-channel product and event marketing activations that achieve each respective project’s objectives; foster and maintain strong relationships cross-functionally • Support feedback collection from local channel teams when necessary, partnering with them to identify any content gaps, and participate actively in team feedback requests • Where necessary, support the local creation of toolkits and other marketing collateral to support key product marketing priorities, in close partnership with local team members • Become the product expert on the team; own product ordering, promo forecasting and the creation of the corresponding tracking documents to ensure the orderly and timely tracking of product distribution • Regularly audit the competitive landscape and stay up to date on industry trends to educate/inspire the wider brand comms team on trends and learnings • Support the creation of marketing activation post-mortems on behalf of the team to assess communication effectiveness using KPIs and analytics tools

What we are looking for: •Deep personal knowledge and/or professional experience in sport and/or fashion/lifestyle categories. • Fluent in English (writing and verbal) • A team player with strong interpersonal skills • High level of organization with a structured, methodical way of working • Advanced skills across all Microsoft office software • Good at building relationships across a variety of levels • Strong negotiation skills

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree (B.A.), with an emphasis in Communications/Marketing/Business preferred, and • 2 years sports or other product marketing or related experience in the Sporting Goods Industry • Equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be substituted for degree

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