Job Summary:
The Director of Marketing is a visionary leader who blends legacy thinking with forward‑looking strategy to elevate the Mi-T-M brand, accelerate demand, and unify all marketing disciplines into a cohesive, high‑performance department. This role translates business objectives into clear plans, KPIs, and initiatives while inspiring excitement, motivation, and cross‑functional alignment across the entire organization.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership & Planning
- Leverages legacy thinking and past experiences to propel the company forward with modern marketing direction.
- Translates business objectives into clear marketing plans, KPIs, and measurable initiatives.
- Leads integrated planning across brand, digital, product, and channel functions.
- Inspires enthusiasm, alignment, and motivation across all departments.
Brand Leadership & Storytelling
- Owns the company's brand identity, messaging architecture, and storytelling.
- Ensures consistent communication across digital, product, dealer, and corporate channels.
- Drives ideation and sets website direction, ensuring the digital experience reflects brand strategy.
Demand Generation & Growth
- Creatively drives demand generation activities that support product adoption and channel sales.
- Oversees multi‑channel campaigns that elevate awareness, engagement, and conversion.
- Builds and manages a network of outside agencies to broaden workload capacity and accelerate execution.
AI Experience
- Leverages emerging AI tools to modernize marketing operations, enhance creativity, and accelerate execution.
- Implements AI‑driven analytics to improve forecasting, segmentation, and KPI visibility.
- Uses AI‑powered content generation and optimization tools to scale messaging and storytelling.
- Identifies opportunities for AI automation across content management, customer insights, search techniques and digital personalization.
- Guides responsible, strategic adoption of AI technologies aligned with business objectives and brand standards.
Product Marketing & GTM Execution
- Leads product positioning, demographic messaging, and competitive differentiation through a marketing lens.
- Oversees launch planning, go‑to‑market execution, and cross‑functional readiness.
- Manages packaging implementation for both commercial and retail uses
- Ensures product stories are clear, compelling, and aligned with customer needs and market opportunities.
Digital & Content Leadership
- Finds, controls, and directs the company's content management software initiative, ensuring scalable content operations.
- Guides digital strategy across web, email, paid media, SEO, and social.
- Ensures digital experiences are modern, intuitive, and aligned with brand and product priorities.
Team Leadership & Development
- Leads, mentors, and develops a multi‑disciplinary marketing team across brand, digital, product, and channel.
- Builds a culture of creativity, accountability, and cross‑functional collaboration.
- Elevates team capabilities through coaching, training, and clear role expectations.
Overall Marketing Activities
- Manages operational and administrative activities such as invoices, quoting, purchase/print orders and ECR reviews
- Copywriting and proofing
- Overall analytics review and reporting
- Corporate campaign performance tracking
- Corporate initiatives such as advertising, partnerships, influencers, sponsorships, email marketing, newsletter, training modules
- Overall departmental budgeting
Qualifications:
- 7-10+ years of progressive marketing leadership experience, ideally in industrial, manufacturing, or omni-channel environments.
- Proven success leading brand, digital, product, and channel marketing teams.
- Strong understanding of dealer networks, distributor models, and field‑sales dynamics.
- Demonstrated ability to build integrated GTM plans and manage complex product launches.
- Experience with content management systems, digital platforms, and agency partnerships.
- Exceptional communication, leadership, and cross‑functional collaboration skills.
- Experience working with retail packaging and point-of-purchase signage, and planogramming when applicable
- Creative thinker with a data‑driven mindset and strong business acumen.